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Governments have much to gain by forging strong partnerships with non-state actors such as business and civil society to find ways to successfully manage today’s global and multi-dimensional migration patterns.

Civil society brings an essential human dimension into the development of migration management policies and ensures the voice of migrants is heard. NGOs, diaspora organizations and religious communities can provide networks at local, national and international levels that can further strengthen relations between governments and migrant communities and improve integration processes.

The private sector and civil society also have a key role to play in increasing the development impact of remittances on countries of origin by setting up secure, transparent and low-cost channels to encourage migrants to invest some of their savings in development initiatives through diaspora banks, microfinance institutions, post office networks and credit unions.

Agenda

Tuesday, 28 November 2006

11:00 - 13:00 Special Interactive Discussion with Members of the Global Migration Group (GMG)
  • Brunson McKinley, Director General, IOM
  • António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Current Chair of the GMG)
  • ILO - Ibrahim Awad, Chief, International Migration Branch
  • UNCTAD - Lakshmi Puri ,Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities
  • UNDP - Odile Sorgho-Moulinier, Director, UNDP Geneva
  • UNFPA - Mari Simonen, Deputy Executive Director
  • UNHCHR - Bacre Ndiaye, Director, Human Rights Procedures Division
  • World Bank - Luca Barbone, Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group

15:00 - 18:00 International Dialogue on Migration - Partnerships in Migration: Engaging Business and Civil Society

(i) Opening presentation - IOM Administration

(ii) High-level presentations and discussion

  • Arturo D. Brion, Secretary of Labor and Employment, Republic of the Philippines
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • David Arkless, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Manpower, and member of IOM’s Business Advisory Board
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Thomas McCarthy, President, GhanaCoop (Italy) (Presentation | Bio), and Jerry Oware,Manager, Migrants for GhanAfrica (Ghana) (Presentation | Bio) - co-presentation
  • Rafael Hurtado, President, Federación de Clubes Zacatecanos del Sur de California
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Moderator:  Imogen Foulkes, BBC

Wednesday, 29 November 2006

10:00 - 13:00
(IMDI)
An International Migration and Development Initiative
 

(i) Opening presentation - IOM Administration

(ii) High-level presentations and discussion

  • Konstantin O. Romodanovsky, Director, Federal Migration Service, Russian Federation
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Kan Oye Fong Weng-Poorun,Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister, Mauritius
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Antonio Peñalosa, Secretary General, International Organisation of Employers
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Chairman of the Board for the Executive Committee, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Luca Barbone, Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank
    (Presentation | Bio)

13:00 - 15:00 Special Event: Luncheon at Château de Penthes for Permanent
Representatives to the United Nations and Heads of Delegations
  • Launch of New Counter-Trafficking Modules

15:00 - 18:00 The Year in Review – Selected Highlights
  • Kevin O’Sullivan, Director of Immigration Policy, Irish National Immigration Service, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland, on the comprehensive review undertaken by the Government of Ireland of its migration policy
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • María Elisa Berenguer, Ambassador, Deputy Secretary General of the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB), on Ibero-American Migration Developments
    (Presentation | Bio)
  • Régine de Clercq, Ambassador for Migration and Asylum Policies, Federal Public Service for Foreign Affairs, Belgium on the Migration and Development Conference and Global Forum on Migration and Development
    (Presentation | Bio)
  •  Modérateur: Peter Bosch,Head of Immigration and Asylum Unit, European Commission, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security

 

 

 

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Regions
Office type
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Asia and the Pacific
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas (The)
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic (the)
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros (the)
Congo (the)
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia
Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic (the)
East and Horn of Africa
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Europe and Central Asia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia (the)
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Global Office in Brussels
Global Office in Washington
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
IOM Office at the United Nations
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Manila Administrative Centre
Marshall Islands (the)
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Middle East and North Africa
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
New Zealand
Niger (the)
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Panama Administrative Centre
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines (the)
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova (the)
Romania
Russian Federation (the)
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Subregional Office in Brussels
Subregional Office in Pretoria
Sudan (the)
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic (the)
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
United Republic of Tanzania (the)
UNSC Resolution 1244-Administered Kosovo
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Viet Nam
West and Central Africa
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe