On 24 January 2024, civil society and partners co-hosted a GFMD side event exploring how policy and development on regular pathways can respond to affected communities’ needs, as well as the role of art in providing alternative perspectives and solutions.
Delegates highlight GFMD as space for partnerships and dialogue, and focus on 2021 priorities.
Open Space session celebrates GFMD partnerships from 2020 and highlights lessons for the future.
GFMD side event underlines need to promote positive narratives in time of COVID-19, reach “moveable middle” and prioritize dimension of race.
GFMD central to ensuring rights-based and migrant-centered COVID-19 recovery, states Civil Society Coordinator.
Strategies must prioritize regularization for all migrant workers, include soft and technical skills, and recognize migrant communities as contributors.
Proposal for Concessional Financing Facility for Migration endorsed by most State and civil society delegates.
As countries were hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, they began to withdraw onto themselves, jeopardizing collaborative work for a more just migration system. This unilateralism is one of the biggest challenges for labor migrants today, says William Gois, Regional Coordinator of the Migrant Forum in Asia.
Social protection for all, expanded and improved regular pathways, and strong, inclusive partnerships identified as key to global recovery.
Positive migration narratives, access to services and systemic COVID-19 recovery all key to closing protection gaps.
