Civil Society Days GFMD 2016

Civil Society Days GFMD 2016

The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2016 was held in Bangladesh from 8 to 12 December.

Working closely with the Civil Society International Steering Committee (ISC), the GFMD Civil Society Coordinating Office of ICMC’s MADE has organized the Civil Society Days of the GFMD, and also the GFMD Common Space, together with Bangladesh, the government 2016 GFMD Chair. The Civil Society Days have taken place in Dhaka 8- 9 December, and Common Space on the 10th.

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Overview

Listen to the delivery of the Civil Society Report given by 2016 Chair Colin Rajah, at the Government Days Opening Ceremony of the GFMD (at 0:33:30).

Watch the Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony of the 2016 GFMD Civil Society Days. 

See also the Opening of Common Space of this year's GFMD, with 2015 civil society Chair for the GFMD Ignacio Packer making an intervention.

View the official Photo Album of the GFMD Civil Society Days and Common Space

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Important documents

• 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)