How to make Migration & Development work for the achievement of the MDGs
FOR COMMENTS: GFMD Roundtable 1 Background Papers - How to make the migration-development nexus work for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
The annual Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is fast approaching. The organizers, the Onassis Foundation, have invited us to share with you, the Migration and Development Community of Practice, the background papers for the four roundtable discussions to be held at the GFMD Civil Society days. Please find below and attached the background papers for your comments, beginning with the 1st Roundtable, focusing on how to make the migration-development nexus work for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Please also share examples from your work which illustrate the points made in the papers.
We are beginning with Roundtable 1 as it is closest to the focus of the M4D CoP, however, we will be circulating the background papers to the other roundtables over the next two weeks, in the run-up to the GFMD. These papers, written both by private sector and other civil society stakeholders, will form the initial basis of the roundtable discussion.
Roundtable 1: How to make the migration-development nexus work for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
The aim of this roundtable is to explore the policies and practices that can make migration work for development in both sending and receiving countries. Three sets of topics will be discussed in this roundtable:
The first issue concerns how the migration and development nexus can be made to work for development purposes. In particular, Session 1.1 of this roundtable will discuss how to spread the benefits of migration more widely (source countries); which policies are better suited to strengthen and foster the sharing of the benefits of human development? (destination countries); how to ensure that migration policies are gender-sensitive (to women’s and men’s needs) (source and destination countries).
Session 1.2 will examine the role of diaspora and migration organizations in development policies and programmes, their constraints and their opportunities.
Session 1.3 will concentrate on the current economic crisis and its impact on migration and development. While the interests and needs of migrants need to become integrated into policy responses aimed at economic recovery (e.g., anti-protectionism measures, stimulation of international trade, need for capital and credit etc.), human mobility may be part of the solution, not the problem.
PAPERS:
1.1 - The need for a human-centred approach, Daniel Verger, Caritas France
- Putting migration in development strategies, Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Dhaka
1.2 - Engaging diasporas, Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, AFFORD
- Engagement of African Diasporas, John O. Oucho, University of Warwick
- Annex I: “Best Practices” of engagement of diasporas in development policies and programmes, John O. Oucho
1.3 - Migration and development linkages re-examined in the context of the global economic crisis, S. Irudaya Rajan, Centre for Development Studies, India
- Mobility and national development strategies, Jeni Klugman and Isabel Pereira, UNDP Human Development Report
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