"MADE is a channel through which we can foster our vision for a world with diminishing asymmetries among countries and regions, declining social inequalities, and sustainable human development."
Raúl Delgado Wise, INMD
"Through MADE, we want to strengthen public policies that protect and provide rights for migrants, and we promote the right to migrate as a central focus in our campaigns."
Idenilso Bortolotto, SIMN-Fundación Scalabrini Chile
Activities in the Americas are coordinated by the International Network on Migration and Development (INMD) based in Mexico and Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN) with assistance from Fundación Scalabrini in Chile.
Activities in MADE Americas aim to foster safe migration, human security and human development across the region in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, linking with the diaspora in North America.
All civil society organisations working or with an interest in the field of migration, migrant rights and development in the Americas are welcome to join and participate in upcoming regional events, advocacy actions and other activities.
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Get in touch with Fundación Scalabrini /visit SIMN's website
Priorities 2016
- Organise a regional meeting in in Paraguay to influence the Conferencia Sudamericana sobre Migraciones (CSM)
- Foster the protection of migrants in transit and migrant workers in Honduras and Costa Rica (through the MADE Pilot Fund)
- Organise a national multi-stakeholder meeting on citizenship in the Dominican Republic.
- Implement the agreements of the regional meeting of 2015, in particular foster the networks and organizations to link the CSD & GFMD outcomes with the follow up activities around UN Committees, specifically with the CMW and CEDAW.
- Organise an event on how we can move forward in the Mexican case to start developing ideas around this issue.
- Publish a regional situation report that showcases the main discussions of that event.
- Map and engage with existing networks and civil society organizations that work promoting migrants’ rights and human development in the region.
- Publish advocacy papers on migration and development.
Activities 2014-2015
- Regional civil society networking meetings in Mexico, Buenos Aires, and Lima
- National civil society-government consultations on immigration reform in Chile and Brazil
- Collective Statement on the Rights of Haitians (in Spanish) following the annual meeting of the Migration Collective in the Americas, held in Mexico City in March 2014
- Declaration from civil society organisations (in Spanish) attending the Regional MADE Americas meeting in October 2014, which presented to governments attending the XIV South American Conference on Migration, held in Lima, Peru the same week
- Americas Regional Migration and Development Report 2015 (in Spanish) consolidating perspectives and recommendations from civil society in the region around the protection of women and children in migration, diaspora, safe labour migration, regional governance and citizenship
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Civil society delegates gather in Costa Rica to discuss how best to protect migrants in crisis
1 March 2016
On 16 February 2016, the MADE Global Coordinating Office, together with its regional partner MADE Americas, led by INMD and SIMN, the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM), Alianza Americas and ACIDEHUM with the support from CAMMINA coordinated a one-day regional civil society consultation in San José to discuss challenges and needs of migrants in crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of its ongoing work around the Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative.
Rights, ideas and solutions
23 October 2015
Civil society experts from the Americas gathered during a MADE regional meeting in Mexico City last August, give their view regarding migration issues in the region in a series of video interviews
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