Documents

Documents

Below is a list of background and preparatory documents for the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and GFMD Civil Society Days, starting from 2011, and preparatory documents to the II High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development 2013. All documents are in English unless otherwise mentioned.

Index

• 2018 GFMD Civil Society Days | List of Registered Participants 
• 2018 GFMD Civil Society Days | Government Days
• 2017 GFMD Civil Society Days  | Common Space | Government Days
• 2016 GFMD Civil Society Days  | Common Space | Government Days
• 2015 GFMD Civil Society Days  | GFMD Government Days
• 2014 GFMD Civil Society Days
• 2013 II High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development
• 2012 GFMD Civil Society Days
• 2011 GFMD Civil Society Days

GFMD Civil Society Days organizing

Information brochure English | French | Spanish

2018 GFMD Civil Society Days

• ​International Steering Committee paper on timeline of GFMD Civil Society Days 2018

Government Days of GFMD 2018

• Final Concept Note of the GFMD Government Days

Friends of the Forum

• 2 May: Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum by Stephane Jaquemet 
• 5 February: Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum, by Stephane Jaquemet

2017 GFMD Civil Society Days

• Recommendations and Highlights English | French | Spanish, including the Snapshot 
• Results of the evaluation among participants English | French | Spanish
• Civil Society Concept Note English | French | Spanish
• Programme of the Civil Society Days 2017 - English | French | Spanish
• Women's Bridging Paper - English | French | Spanish
• Child Rights in the Global Compacts: Summary of Recommendations- English
• Child Rights in the Global Compacts: Working Document- English
• Convergence Matrices - English | French | Spanish
• General Practical Information
• List of all registered participants 2017 (updated 24 June)

​Reports from Working Sessions

• Theme 1: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for Children on the Move and other Migrants in Vulnerable Situations
• Theme 2: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms to create welcoming societies for Migrants in the face of growing Xenophobia
• Theme 3: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms in return and reintegration
• Theme 4: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms of migration in the context of work, including Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers, Labour migration and Regularization

Reports from Special Sessions

• Special Session 1: Green room on civil society baselines, redlines and common messages towards the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
• Special Session 2: Mechanisms for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration where work is not the principal driver – focus on resettlement, private sponsorships and family reunification
• Special Session 3: Climate and environmental change and migration

Special Rapporteurs

• Speech of the Rapporteur on Children- Commitments Day
• Speech of the Rapporteur on Women- Commitments Day
• Report of the Rapporteur on Women
• Report of the Rapporteur on Children

2017 GFMD Common Space

• Speech by Civil Society Chair Wies Maas
• Speech by Civil Society Children Rapporteur Milena Franke
• Common Space Programme

Reports from Framing Sessions

• Framing Session A: What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of children on the move, migrants in other vulnerable situations, xenophobia and return and reintegration?
• Framing Session B: What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of people moving across borders for work?
• Framing Session C: What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of people compelled to flee across borders from conflict, persecution, climate change or to join family?

Reports from Focus Sessions

• Focus Session 1: Mechanisms for children on the move
• Focus Session 2: Mechanisms for other migrants in vulnerable situations
• Focus Session 3: Mechanisms for migrants in the face of growing xenophobia
• Focus Session 4: Mechanisms in return and reintegration
• Focus Session 5: Mechanisms for Labour Mobility and regularization
• Focus Session 6: Mechanisms for Ethical Recruitment of Migrant workers
• Focus Session 7: Mechanisms for complementary pathways for Refugees and Migrants

2017 GFMD Government Days

• Final Concept Paper (as of 20 March)
• Speech by Civil Society Chair Wies Maas at Opening Ceremony

Friends of the Forum

• Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum, 1st of February 2017

2016 GFMD Civil Society Days

(8-9 December 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

• Highlights and principal Recommendations - English | French | Spanish
• Snapshot of the GFMD Civil Society Days 2016
• Overview: Results of the participants' evaluation
• 2016 Civil society Report to the GFMD Government Days - English | French | Spanish
• Programme (version 6 December)- English | French | Spanish
• Civil society Concept Paper - English | French | Spanish
• Working Sessions Reporting Template - GFMD Civil Society Days 2016
• Women's Bridging Paper - English | French | Spanish
• Child Rights Bridging Paper Summary (see all papers below, 2nd edition) English | French | Spanish 
• Question and Answer Session with 2016 Civil Society Day Chair, Colin Rajah - English
• Civil society ISC letter to the GFMD Steering Group (3 February, with signatories as of 22 March) – English | French | Spanish

​Reports from Working Sessions

• Theme 1: Recruitment and global labour supply chains
• 2.1: Protecting migrants in all crises, in transit and at borders
• 2.2: Development Solutions for forced displacement, including by conflict, disaster and climate change
• 3.1: Creating welcoming societies and ensuring the social inclusion of diaspora and migrants
• 3.2: Migrant and diaspora action for job creation, social entrepreneurship and public policy
• 4.1: Multilateral cooperation and governance of migration and development: institutions and legal frameworks
• 4.2: Implementing and monitoring migration-related aspects of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the role of the GFMD

Reports from Special Sessions

• Session A: Making migration governance work: key considerations for a Global Compact for safe, regular and orderly migration
• Session B: Guiding principles and voluntary guidelines on the treatment of migrants in vulnerable situations – building on existing guidelines and recommendations on vulnerability
• Session C: Creating welcoming societies– how we can connect civil society campaigns in order to change policies as well as perceptions
• Session D: Points of no Return- “first” conversation on return and readmission; what is happening and where are the lines

Reports from Special Rapporteurs

• Report from the Rapporteur on Children
• Report from the Rapporteur on Women

Action Papers of Working Sessions for 2016 Civil Society Days

• Theme 1: Doing Protection of Migrant Workers, Action Paper for Sessions 1.1 and 1.2 - English | French |Spanish
• Theme 2: Doing protection of migrants on the move], Action Paper for Session 2.1 and 2.1 - English | French | Spanish
• Theme 3: Doing inclusive development
  • Action Paper for Session 3.1: Creating welcoming societies and ensuring the social inclusion of diaspora and migrants - English | French | Spanish
  • Action Paper for Session 3.2: Migrant and diaspora action for job creation, social entrepreneurship and public policy - English | French | Spanish
• Theme 4: Doing global governance better
  • Action Paper for Session 4.1: Multilateral cooperation and governance of migration and development: institutions and legal frameworks - English | French | Spanish
  • Action Paper for Session 4.2: Implementing and monitoring migration-related aspects of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the role of the GFMD - English | French | Spanish

Child Rights Bridging Papers (2nd edition)

• Leaving no one behind (French | Spanish)
• Diaspora and migrant associations (French | Spanish)
• Migrants stranded in distress (French | Spanish)
• Migrant women and girls (French | Spanish)
• Migrants’ rights protection (French | Spanish)
• Labour rights for migrant workers (French | Spanish)

2016 GFMD Common Space

(10 December 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

• Common Space Concept Note and Questions (English)
• Common Space Programme (draft as of 29 November) 

2016 GFMD Government Days

(11-12 December 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Theme: Migration that works for Sustainable Development of all: Towards a Transformative Migration Agenda

Chair's Summary delivered on 12 December by Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque

Government Concept Note

• Bangladeshi Chair final concept note

Government Days programme

• Government Days 2016 programme (draft as of 24 November)

• Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum, 5th of February 2016 
• Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum, 17th of May 2016 
• Report of Civil Society Activities at the Meeting of the Friends of the Forum, 20th of October 2016

• Speech by Ignacio Packer, Secretary-General, Terre des Hommes/ Chair of the GFMD Civil Society Days in 2015
• Speech by Emer Groarke, Advocacy and Communications Officer, ICMC / MADE

Speech by Ignacio Packer, Secretary-General, Terre des Hommes/ Chair of the GFMD Civil Society Days in 2015

2015 GFMD Civil Society Days

(12-13 October 2015, Istanbul, Turkey)

Theme: Achieving Migration and Development Goals: Movement Together on Global Solutions and Local Action

Recommendations – Benchmarks – Actions – English | French | Spanish

Evaluation Survey – English

Programme – English | Spanish | French

Civil Society Concept note – August 2015 English | French | Spanish

Choices -Civil Society Chair’s Report – English | French | Spanish

List of participants

Reporting Templates

• Session 1.1 Civil society’s role in fashioning global, national and thematic indicators
• Session 1.2 Civil society’s role in implementing and monitoring the SDGs at home
• Session 2.1 Protecting migrants in crises and transit
• Session 2.2 Development solutions for forced migrants
• Session 3.1 Reforming migrant labour recruitment policies and practices
• Session 3.2 Reforming migrant labour employment policies and practices
• Session 4.1 Beyond xenophobia: materializing social inclusion of migrants and diaspora
• Session 4.2 Diaspora and migrant action on job creation, social entrepreneurship and public policy
• Report from the Rapporteur on Children
• Report from the Rapporteur on Women

Action and Bridging papers

• Theme 1: Sustainable Development Goals beyond 2015 for migrants and communities – English | French | Spanish
• Theme 2.1: Protecting migrants in crises and transit –  English | French | Spanish
• Theme 2.2: Development solutions for forced migrants – English | French | Spanish 
• Theme 3: Labour mobility, labour rights and decent work –  English | French | Spanish
• Theme 4.1: Beyond xenophobia: materializing social inclusion of migrants and diaspora – English | French | Spanish
• Theme 4.2: Diaspora/migrant action on job creation, social entrepreneurship and public policy – English | French | Spanish
• Bridging paper about Women in contexts of migration – English | French | Spanish
• Bridging papers about Children Rights in contexts of migration
• Children and Post-2015 – English | French | Spanish
• Children and diaspora – English | French | Spanish
• Children in distress – English | French | Spanish
• Rights of women and children – English | French | Spanish
• International mechanisms of protection – English | French | Spanish
• Labour rights and children – English | French | Spanish

Consolidated civil society feedback to 1st Turkish Chair concept note (English)

2015 GFMD Government Days

(14-16 October 2015, Istanbul, Turkey)

Theme: Strengthening Partnerships: Human Mobility for Sustainable Development

Final Turkish Chair concept note – February 2015  English | French | Spanish

Round Table 1: Human mobility and the well-being of migrants

• RT 1.1. Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration
• RT 1.2  Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration, particularly labor migration: Cooperative approaches to fair recruitment practices and lower remittance fees

Roundtable 2: Migration as a factor in development

• RT 2.1  Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level
• RT 2.2  Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDGs

Roundtable 3: Enhancing international cooperation on emerging issues in migration and mobility

• RT 3.1  Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants, who are compelled to cross international borders, through international cooperation on labor market access, educational opportunity, family reunification, and other avenues of mobility
• RT 3.2  Private sector-government partnerships to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation, with a focus on small and medium enterprises

2014 GFMD Civil Society Days

(14- 16 May 2014, Stockholm, Sweden)

Theme: Shaping Migration & Development Goals: global movement, change on the ground

• Programme English | French | Spanish
• List of participants
• Background note- Objectives, working sessions, guiding questions and speaking roles English |  French |  Spanish
• Civil Society Statement  (English)
• Recommendations English | French | Spanish
• Evaluation report 
• Final report – forthcoming

2013 II High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development

(15 July 2013, New York, USA)

• Civil Society proposal for 5 year plan as Negotiated Outcome
• Civil Society Proposal for HLD (Nov 2012)
• Contribution by global HR orgs (Sept 2012)
• FINAL SG report on IM and D (03 Aug 2012)
• Global Unions Statement (Oct 2012)
• Modalities resolution of G-77 (22 Oct 2012)
• NGO Comm Migration talk IOM-CSO Consultation (Oct 2012)
• Presentation for UNDESA 10th Coordination Meeting Feb 2012 (ICMC)

2012 GFMD Civil Society Days

(19 and 20 November 2012, Port Louis, Mauritius)

Theme: Operationalizing Protection and Human Development in International Migration

• Final report
• Evaluation Report
• Programme
• Civil Society Statement 2012 in English | French | Spanish 
• Recommendations and benchmarks English | French | Spanish 

Theme 1: Labour

• Report Working Session 1A – Regulating recruitment   | Report Working Session 1B – Jobs, skills and education matching

Theme 2: Development

• Report Working Session 2A – Diaspora and Development  | Report Working Session 2B – Development and Migration

Theme 3: Protection

• Report Working Session 3A – Protecting Vulnerable Migrants | Report Working Session 3B – Migrants in distress
• Background Note Working Sessions Theme 1 – Labour 
• Background Note Working Sessions Theme 2 – Development
• Background Note Working Sessions Theme 3 – Protection

Side events program

GFMD Civil Society Concept Paper  English | French | Spanish
Concept paper for the Common Space 2012 English | French | Spanish
Civil Society Report to final Friends of the Forum – September 2012
Civil Society Report on UN HLD preparations
Civil Society Report to Friends of the Forum – April 2012
Civil Society Report to Friends of the Forum – February 2012

Input to the GFMD Civil Society Days 2012:

SADC-CNGO: Civil Society Statement on the GFMD
National Recommendations – CSD Mauritius GFMD 2012

2011 GFMD Civil Society Days

(29-30 November, Geneva, Switzerland) 

Theme: Taking action on Labour migration, Development and the Protection on Migrant workers and Families

• Final Report
• Civil Society Recommendations 2011 in English, French and Spanish
• Evaluation Results CSD 2011
• Civil Society Statement 2011 in English, French, Spanish
• Civil Society Concept Paper 2011  in English, French and Spanish
• List of participants