Latest Past Events

Internal Displacement, Disasters and Climate Change

  On December 5th 2023, French civil society organisation, Secours Islamique France (SIF), co-organised an event in partnership with the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the French Ministre de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), at COP28 hosted by the United […]

GFMD 3rd Preparatory Meeting

The 3rd Preparatory Meeting of the 2023-2024 GFMD took place on 25 October in Geneva. Guided by inputs from a prior global civil society consultation, civil society thematic experts made interventions in each multistakeholder roundtable on the 6 thematic priorities of the 2022-2024 French Chairmanship. The final background papers from each thematic roundtable will be presented […]

GFMD Workshop on Engaging Diasporas in Climate Action

On 23 October the UNDP and OECD in Geneva co-organised a thematic workshop on the Practices, Challenges & Opportunities of Engaging Diasporas in Climate Action. Civil society experts working on diaspora-related issues were present at the workshop and shared key insights with government and international intermediaries on current obstacles and ways forward to leverage diasporas […]