Migrants Driving Cities' Development Agenda - the Importance of Including Migration in Urban Planning
By Paula Benea and Million Emmanuel
Where people choose to live is a fundamental decision that influences all aspects of their lives. More than ever before in human history, people are choosing to live in cities, where almost all growth in the world population - another 2.5 billion (UN Habitat, 2014) - is expected to take place over the next few decades.
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World Migration Report
By June J. H. Lee
The World Migration Report 2015: Migrants and Cities, New Partnerships to Manage Mobility ─ the eighth report in IOM’s World Migration Report (WMR) series ─ focuses on how migration and migrants are shaping cities and how the life of migrants is shaped by cities, their people, organizations and rules.
The WMR, which will be appropriately launched during the high-level IOM Conference on Migrants and Cities (CMC) – 26-27 October 2015, contributes to the global debate on migration and urbanization in three ways:
- The report takes migration enquiries to the city level and helps improve our understanding of the local political economies of migration, and highlights the close connection between migration and urban development.
- The report draws attention to the livelihood of migrants in the cities of the Global South. The existing discussions on migrants and cities are inclined to concentrate primarily on the Global North and the integration of international migrants.
- The report examines both internal and international migration. Cities across the development spectrum have increasingly mobile and diverse populations to manage.
For more on the WMR go to http://www.iom.int/world-migration-report-2015
Habitat III
By Ioana Popp
Urbanization is a growing trend, with the world’s urban population projected to rise from 54% now to 66% by 2050 (UNDESA 2014). As a consequence of this urban expansion, urban land area is expected to triple between 2000 and 2030 - an enormous challenge and opportunity from the perspective of crisis response, climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk management (DRM) and development.
100 Resilient Cities Initiative
By Ioana Popp
100 Resilient Cities is an innovative project, pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, seeking to select and work with 100 member cities in order to help them confront the increasing number of shock and stresses that challenge an ever-more urbanized world.
The International Organization for Migration and the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative will jointly produce a planning guide and toolbox as guidance for well-managed urban migration. This will help local authorities across the world build or re-design more resilient cities that take into account the dynamics and diversity that migration brings, in both normal times and during crises. This tool will also serve as IOM's guidance to the work of the Habitat III policy units.
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day with the purpose of reflecting on the state of the world’s towns and cities, and on the basic right of all, to adequate shelter. It is also intended to remind the world that we all have the power and the responsibility to shape the future of our cities and towns. World Habitat Day 2015 will be celebrated under the theme Public Spaces for All.
For more details go to: http://unhabitat.org/world-habitat-day/
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More stories about migrants in cities around the world will be featured in the forthcoming World Migration Report 2015.
For more I am a Migrant stories, including Migrant Voices, please go to: http://iamamigrant.org
The Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have developed a White Paper on Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning and Beyond. The paper will be launched at the upcoming IOM Conference on Migration and Cities on 26-27th October in Geneva, Switzerland.
For more information please go here.