Date: 28 November 2011
Venue: Conference room 6, UN Headquarters
Summary
The IOM 2010 World Migration Report defines “mainstreaming migration into development planning” as the “process for integrating migration issues in a balanced manner into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in any sphere related to development and poverty reduction.”
While the concept of mainstreaming migration into development planning has increasingly been recognized as an efficient policy and institutional approach to maximizing the benefits of migration and reducing its negative impacts, the gap between this theoretical concept and the action undertaken at the national and local regional levels remains considerable. In fact, despite sporadic cases, migration is rarely considered a relevant factor in national development strategies.
This seminar will analyse organisational, coordination and consultation mechanisms needed to implement the mainstreaming migration process. It will present measures proved to be effective in fostering inter-ministerial coordination, gaining political support, committing relevant stakeholders and guaranteeing its proper assessment and sustainability. Finally, it will provide an opportunity to explore perspectives and cross cutting issues to be included and further developed in the mainstreaming migration exercise.
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Introduction
Barbara Affolter
John Lonnback
Sarah Rosengaertner
Q&A
Additional information
Information Note
Agenda
Speakers' Biographies
Presentations
H.E. Mr. Sorreta, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the UN
Ms. Toni-Shae Freckleton, Planning Institute of Jamaica
Ms. Sarah Rosengaertner, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Background material
GFMD Switzerland 2011; Cluster III
Summary Report "Tools for evidence-based migration and development policies"
GFMD Mexico 2010;
Report of Roundtable 3 "Policy and institutional coherence to address the relationship between migration and development"
GFMD Mexico 2010;
Background paper, Roundtable 3 "How can Regional Consultative Processes (RCPs) and Inter-Regional Fora (IRF) best include the migration and development nexus"
Useful Links
Working language: English
Summary of discussion
