Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)

• Report of the Proceedings [ FR | ES ]
• Annexes [ FR | ES ]

General Reports:

• Roundtable 1 [ ES ]
• Roundtable 2
• Roundtable 3
• Gender Issues [ ES ]
• Future of the Forum: Summary of Discussions

• Roundtable Themes Concept Paper

"Integrating Migration Policies into Development Strategies for the Benefit of All""

• Session 1.1 [ FR | ES ]
  Mainstreaming migration in development planning—Key actors, key strategies, key actions.
• Session 1.2 [ FR | ES ]
  Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs—Their role? Their constraints?
• Session 1.3 [ FR | ES ]
  Addressing the root causes of migration through development, specifically in light of the current global economic crisis.

"Migrant integration, reintegration and circulation for development"

• Session 2.1 [ FR | ES ]
  Inclusion, protection and acceptance of migrants in society—linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development.
• Session 2.2 [ FR | ES ]
  Reintegration and circular migration—effective for development?

"Policy and Institutional Coherence and Partnerships"

• Session 3.1 [ FR | ES ]
  Policy and Institutional Coherence—Latest Data and Research Findings
  • Annex I: Informal Inquiry on Policy and Institutional Coherence—Country Responses
  • Annex II: Integrating Migration into Development Policies
• Session 3.2 [ FR | ES ]
  Regional and Inter-regional Processes and Fora

• Discussion Paper: Future of the Forum [ ES ]

• CSD Report of the Proceedings
• CSD List of Participants
• CSD Program

Global Migration Group:

• ECLAC: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis and Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean
• ESCAP: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Migration in Asia-Pacific
• ESCWA: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis and International Migration in the Arab Region
• ILO: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis and Migrant Workers: Regional Differences
• ILO: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis, Labour Migration and Migrant Employment
• ILO: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Immigration Policies
• IOM: Fact-Sheet on Migrant Integration
• IOM: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Return Migration
• OHCHR: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Human Rights of Migrants
• UNCTAD: Contribution of Migrants to Development: Trade, Investment and Development Linkages
• UNDP: Human Development Report 2009
• UNESCO: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Discrimination and Xenophobia
• UNFPA: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Female Migration
• UNICEF: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis and Migration, Remittances and Children Left Behind
• UNICEF: Fact-Sheet on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Migration and Children’s Rights
• UNODC: Fact-Sheet on the Economic Crisis, Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants
• World Bank: Migration and Remittance Trends 2009
  

Contribution from the GFMD ad-hoc Working Group on Protecting and Empowering Migrants for Development:

• IOM: Migrant Resource Centres: Examining Global Good Practices in Providing Services to Empower Migrants for Development and Protection
• Philip Martin: Reducing the Cost Burden for Migrant Workers: A Market-based Approach
• Willoughby, Henderson: Preparing Contract Workers for Return and Reintegration – Relevant for Development?
  

Other Supporting Documents for the Roundtable Sessions:

• Center for Global Development: Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data
• Handbook on How to Implement a One-Stop-Shop for Immigrant Integration [ FR | ES ]
• Informal Inquiry on Policy and Institutional Coherence, Data and Research
• MIDSA Workshop: Conclusions and Recommendations, South Africa, 21-23 September 2009
• Migrações Journal: Immigrant Entrepreneurship
• Prof. Randall Hansen: An Assessment of the Principal Regional Consultative Processes on Migration
• Report of the International Meeting on Diasporas' Contributions and Knowledge Transference, Mexico, 31 August 2009
• Summary Report of the Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretariats of RCPs, Bangkok, 4-5 June 2009
• Vienna Informal Expert Group Meeting: Final Narrative Report
• Vienna Informal Expert Group Meeting, Conclusions

Contribution from the ACP Secretariat:

• RT 1: How to Make the Migration-Development Nexus Work for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [ FR | ES ]
• RT 2: Migrant Integration, Reintegration and Circulation for Development [ FR | ES ]
• RT 3: Policy and Institutional Coherence and Partnerships [ FR | ES ]

• Government Delegates
• Observer Delegates

Speeches:

• H.E. George Papandreou, Prime Minister, Greece
• H.E. Giannis N. Ragkousis, Minister of Interior, Decentralization and E-governance, Greece
• H.E. Theodora Tzakri, GFMD Chair-in-Office, Greece
• H.E. Esteban B. Conejos Jr., Undersecretary for Migrant Workers' Affairs, Philippines
• H.E. Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Labour, United Arab Emirates
• Hon. Suzanne Sheldon, Head of Delegation, United States of America
• Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Secretary (Junior Minister), Holy See [ ES ]
• H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• H.E. Sir John R. Kaputin, Secretary-General of the ACP Group of States
• Hon. Carlos Lopes, Chair-in-Office, Global Migration Group