This year’s theme is  “Civil society in an era of transforming global migration governance: Strengthening implementation and enriching partnerships for migrants and communities”.

As new processes are established to tackle the challenges presented by migration in this current global context, this year’s GFMD is a crucial moment for civil society to review our collective experience so far, including a consideration of our role as critical stakeholders in these important global processes, and how these developments relate directly to our work. How can we capitalise on our experience and where are the gaps we need to collectively address? And how can we effectively bring this expertise and the lessons learned to governments and other stakeholders to maximise our collective impact on the ground and around the world?

This year’s GFMD Civil Society Day (CSD) theme will allow us to take stock of initiatives that are being implemented around the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) as well as across the spectrum of migration and development: acknowledge successes; identify and learn from the challenges; and channel our knowledge into new or stronger partnerships and advocacy.

Learn more about the structure, the GFMD Summit and the civil society agenda here.