Type: Inter-regional forum on migration (regions covered: Africa - Asia - Americas - Europe)
Established: 2000
Formal association with regional or multi-stakeholder organization : African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (as of 2020 renamed into "Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States"); and European Commission
Objectives
The ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration and Development was launched after the 2010 Ouagadougou revision of the provisions of Article 13 on Migration of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000. In June 2010 the ACP-EU Council released a Joint Declaration on Migration and Development, which identified three pillars for increased cooperation and dialogue: migration and development, legal migration and irregular migration.
The Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020. A new agreement is being discussed between the EC and ACP's successor OACPS. Until the new agreement is concluded, the ACP-EU MD is dormant as of 2020.
The ACP-EU MD was supported by ACP Observatory on Migration in 2010-2014 and the ACP-EU Migration Action in 2014-2019. The ACP Observatory on migration developed a reference network of migration research institutions and governmental entities dealing with migration in six ACP regions -- West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. It produced data and research on South-South ACP migration flows. The ACP-EU Migration Action provided technical assistance on the main areas of ACP-EU MD thematic focus.
Current Thematic Focus
Specific areas of discussion include:
- Visas
- Remittances
- Readmission
- Combatting human trafficking
- Combatting migrant smuggling
Chairing Country
- Current Chair: Liberia for ACP and Belgium for EC
- Past Chairs: Seychelles, Germany, Croatia, The Gambia, Finland, Papua New Guinea, Bulgaria, Jamaica, Lesotho, Ethiopia
Secretariat
The ACP-EU Migration Dialogue is supported by the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (as of 2020 renamed into "Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States") and the European Commission (EC).
- Members
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Member States [108 States (including 27 EU Member States, 79 ACP States with all of them, save Cuba, signatories to the Cotonou Agreement, also known as the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement" which binds them to the European Union. There are 48 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, 16 from the Caribbean and 15 from the Pacific.]
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Latvia
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Note: Founding Members: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tomé and Prıncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Meetings
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- 6-8 December, 2019, Nairobi, Kenya, 9th ACP Summit
- July 11, 2019, Brussels, ACP-EU Migration Action – Final Event
- May 23-24, 2019, Brussels, ACP-EU Council of Ministers
- April 3-5, 2019, Port Vila, Vanatu, Regional Thematic Meeting on Visas, Regulated Mobility and Ways to Strengthen National Migration Management Policies int eh Pacific Region
- March 12 – 14, 2019, Georgetown, Guyana, Caribbean Regional Thematic Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants (Joint Meeting with CMC)
- February 19-21, 2019, Accra, Ghana, Regional Thematic Meeting on Remittances
- June 19-20, 2018, ACP- EU Dialogue on Migration and Development - Seminar on Trafficking in Human Beings – Women and Children
- May 22-24, 2018, Lusaka, Zambia, Peer-to-peer exchange meeting on Visas
- May 30 – June 1, 2017, Brussels, ACP- EU Dialogue on Migration and Development - Seminars on Visas and on Return, Readmission & Reintegration
- May 5, 2017, Brussels, ACP-EU Council of Ministers
- March 21-23, 2017, Georgetown, Guyana, Peer-to-peer exchange meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants
- October 17-19, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya, Peer-to-peer exchange meeting on Remittances
- July 13, 2016, Brussels, Belgium, ACP- EU Dialogue on Migration and Development – Seminar on Remittances
- 31 May – 1 June, 2016, Port Moseby, Papua New Guinea, 8th ACP Summit
- April 28-29, 2016, ACP-EU Council of Ministers
- September 28-29, 2015, Brussels, Belgium, ACP- EU Dialogue on Migration and Development – Seminar on Return and Readmission
- May 28-29, 2015, Brussels, Belgium, 40th ACP-EU Council of Ministers
- June 19-20, 2014, Nairobi, Kenya, ACP - EU Council of Ministers
- Documents
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- Recommendations of the ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration endorsed in May 2015
- Report on Dialogue on Migration
- Recommendations of the ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration endorsed in June 2012
- Partnership agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000
- Remittances in ACP Countries: Key Challenges and Ways Forward
- Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants in ACP Countries: Key Challenges and Ways Forward
- Visas in ACP Countries: Key Challenges and Ways Forward
- Implementing ACP-EU Cooperation on Migration and Development: Good Practices and Lessons Learned
- Contact information
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OACPS Secretariat
451 Avenue Georges Henri
B - 1200 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 743 06 00
Fax: +32 2 735 55 73
E-mail: info@acp.int
http://www.acp.int