Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA)
Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA)
Type: Regional Consultative Proces on Migration (region covered: Africa)
Association with regional or multi-stakeholder organization: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Established: 2000
Objectives
The Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) creates a framework for a regular migration dialogue among the Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to enhance inter-state cooperation in an effort to improve migration governance through:
- Discussion of migration issues among SADC Member States in an informal seeting, sharing experience and challenges, and finding solutions collectively, to improve migration management in the SADC region.
- Promotion of the positive aspects of migration among SADC Member States; and
- Development of regional institutional capacities to improve migration governance while strengthening the capacity of Governments to meet their migration challenges in a comprehensive, interactive, self-reliant and, ultimately, sustainable way.
-
Border management
-
Combatting human trafficking
-
Combatting migrant smuggling
-
Irregular migration
-
Plow migration
-
Migrant health
-
Migrants' rights
-
Migration and development
-
Return and readmission
-
Migration governance
-
Unaccompanied migrant children / separated children
![]() |
Angola |
![]() |
Botswana |
![]() |
Comoros |
![]() |
Eswatini |
![]() |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
![]() |
Lesotho |
![]() |
Madagascar |
![]() |
Malawi |
![]() |
Mauritius |
![]() |
Mozambique |
![]() |
Namibia |
![]() |
Seychelles |
![]() |
South Africa |
![]() |
Tanzania |
![]() |
Zambia |
![]() |
Zimbabwe |
Note: Founding Members: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Chairing Country :
Current Chair: Tanzania
Past Chair: South Africa, Namibia, Eswatini
Observers
Observer States (9 States)
![]() |
Australia |
![]() |
Canada |
![]() |
Denmark |
![]() |
Netherlands, The |
![]() |
Norway |
![]() |
Sweden |
![]() |
Switzerland |
![]() |
United Kingdom |
![]() |
United States of America |
Observer Organizations (6 Organizations referred by MIDSA as "partner organizations")
- African Union Commission
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Save the Children International
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Secretariat
IOM provides technical and administrative support to the MIDSA.