Belgium GFMD 2007

• Programme of the 1st Summit Meeting

• Report of the Proceedings [ FR | ES ]
• Summary Report [ FR | ES ]
• Final Conclusions and Recommendations of the Chair

Report of the General Rapporteurs:

• Roundtable 1
• Roundtable 2
• Roundtable 3
• Horizontal Issues

• Roundtable Themes Concept Paper [ FR ]

"Human Capital Development and Labor Mobility: Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks"

• Session 1.1 [ FR | ES ]

  Highly skilled migration: balancing interests and responsibilities.

• Session 1.2 [ FR | ES ]

  Temporary labor migration as a contribution to development: sharing responsibility.

• Session 1.3 [ FR | ES ]

  The role of other-than government partners in strengthening the developmental contribution of temporary labor migration.

• Session 1.4 [ FR | ES ]

  How can circular migration and sustainable return serve as development tools?

• Session 1.4: Model Session [ FR | ES ]

  Setting up a model Circular Migration program.

"Remittances and other diaspora resources: Increasing their net volume and development value"

• Basic Fact Sheet on Remittances [ FR | ES ]
• Session 2.1 [ FR | ES ]

  Improving the formalization of transfers and reducing their cost.

• Session 2.2 [ FR | ES ]

  Increasing the micro-impact of remittances on development.

• Session 2.3 [ FR | ES ]

  Increasing the macro-impact of remittances on development.

• Session 2.4 [ FR | ES ]

  Working with the diaspora for development.

"Enhancing Institutional and Policy Coherence and Promoting Partnerships"

• Introductory Note
• Session 3.1 [ FR | ES ]

  Measuring Migration and Development Impacts: Latest Initiatives and Progress

• Session 3.2 [ FR | ES ]

  Coherent Policy Planning and Methodology to Link Migration and Development

Session 3.3 (Future of the Forum)

• GFMD Operating Modalities [ FR | ES ]

• Session 3.4 [ FR | ES ]

  Regional Consultative Processes and Development: Advancing Cooperation

• Annex A: Major RCPs by Thematic Priority
• Annex B: RCPs Development and Policy Coherence by Thematic Priority

• CSD Report of the Proceedings
• CSD Agenda
• CSD List of Participants

CSD Background Papers:

• Session 1 [ FR | ES ]

  Highly Skilled Migration: Balancing Interests and Responsibilities and Tackling Brain Drain.

• Session 2 [ FR | ES ]

  Temporary labour migration as contribution to development: sharing responsibility between sending and receiving countries and the role of other-than government partners.

• Session 3 [ FR | ES ]

  Can Migrants, Countries of Origin and Countries of Destination All Win from Circular Migration?

• Session 4 [ FR | ES ]

  Remittances and Development: issues and policy opportunities.

• Session 5 [ FR | ES ]

  Strategies for building diaspora/migrant organization capacity for development.

• Session 6 [ FR | ES ]

  The value of the “Migration and Development” nexus, and migration out of choice vs. migration out of necessity.

• Session 7 [ FR | ES ]

  Principles and measures to obtain more coherent and collaborative policy making on migration and development.

• Session 8 [ FR | ES ]

  Looking ahead: Developing strategies and partnerships to work on ‘migration and development’ issues.

Global Migration Group:

• Involvement of Participating Agencies in the Preparations for the First Meeting of GFMD
• Matrix of Projects/Activities that Could be of Interest to Participants
• Questions and Issues of Relevance to the Interlinkages between International Migration, Gender and Development
• Results of the Survey Migration and Development Projects Activities

Innocenti Research Centre and UNICEF:

• Children OF International Migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, AND THE Philippines: A Review of Evidence and Policies
• Economic Growth and Child Poverty in the CEE/CIS and the Baltic States
• Making Children Visible at the Brussels GFMD

International Labour Organization:

• Integrating Gender into the Roundtable Sessions of the GFMD
• Rights, Labour Migration and Development: The ILO Approach

International Organization for Migration:

• Integration of a Gender Perspective in the Migration and Development Debate

IOM, ILO and OSCE

• Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies in Countries of Origin and Destination

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:

• Human Rights Perspectives

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• Key Titles on Migration
• Migration, Aid and Trade: Policy Coherence for Development
• Policies for Migration and Development: A European Perspective

UNDESA and UNICEF

• Migration Measurement Challenges

UNDP and UNICEF

• Migration, Human Rights and Sustainable Human Development

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

• Children and Migration
• Children and Migration in Ecuador
• Gender and Migration
• Key Messages on Migration
• Moldova: The Situation of Children Left Behind by Migrating Parents
• Philippines Paper: Increasing the Impact OF Remittances on Children’s Rights
• Remittances and Children's Rights: An Overview of Academic and Policy Literature
• Meeting the Challenges of Migration Progress since the ICPD
• State of World Population 2006: A Passage to Hope -Women and International Migration

• Government Delegates
• Observer Delegates
• Operating Modalities [ FR | ES ]
• Presentation of the Roundtable Sessions
• Programme Governmental Days

Speeches:

• M. Armand De Decker, Ministre de la Coopération au Développement [ FR ]
• H.E. Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
• H.E. Arturo D. Brion, Secretary of Labor and Employment of the Philippines
• H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• H.E. Sir John Kaputin, Secretary-General of the ACP Group of States
• Mr. Franco Frattini, Vice President of the European Commission
• Professor Ernesto Zedillo, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization