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 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
• Labour migration
• Migrant health
• Migrants' rights
• Migration and development
• Return and readmission
• Migration governance
• Unaccompanied migrant children/separated children

Members​

​Member States ​(16 States)

 

	Angola
	Botswana
	Comoros
	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Lesotho
	Madagascar
	Malawi
	Mauritius
	Mozambique
	Namibia
	Seychelles
	South Africa
	Swaziland
	Tanzania
	Zambia
	Zimbabwe

Chairing Country:

Current Chair: South Africa

Incoming Chair: Namibia

Past Chair: Swaziland

​Observers
Observer States (9 States)

	Australia
	Canada
	Denmark
	Netherlands
	Norway
	Sweden
	Switzerland
	United Kingdom
	United States of America

Observer Organizations ​(8 Organizations referred by MIDSA as "partner organizations")

• African Union Commission 
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Save the Children International
• Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat 
• 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.