The European Commission-United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) reflects the acceptance of and growing interest in the strong links between migration and development. The UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in 2006 and the subsequent Global Fora on Migration and Development underscored international migrants’ contribution to destination countries, where they meet labour shortages and enrich local cultures.
The programme, which is implemented by the UNDP Brussels Office in partnership with the EC, also represents a major innovation - and may come to function as a template - as far as inter-agency collaboration is concerned. Four agencies - UNHCR, UNFPA, ILO and IOM - are directly engaged in the management and direction of the programme and contribute their institutional knowledge, expertise and extensive networks to ensure its success.
The overall objective of the Joint Initiative is to support civil society organizations and local authorities seeking to contribute to linking migration and development. The Joint Initiative also aims to 1) set up and reinforce networks of actors working on migration and development and 2) identify good practice in this field and share information on what actually works at the local and international level among those who are active in this field with a view to 3) feeding into policy-making on migration and development.
The JMDI’s Migrant Advisory Board, composed of six experts with recognized academic and hands-on expertise in the field of Migration and Development, provides substantive advice to the Joint Initiative.
The Call for Proposals is now closed. 54 projects have been chosen to be funded under the Call. Click here to learn more about the projects. The Call was launched on 1 December 2008 and closed on 27 March 2009. It provides approximately 10 million Euro in funding to support concrete interventions in four priority areas: Migrant remittances; Migrant communities; Migrant capacities; Migrant rights. The projects are being implemented by consortia of non-state actors linking migrant host, transit and sending countries. Each consortium includes a partner based in the European Union and one in one of the sixteen target countries:
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt; Cape Verde, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Ethiopia; Ecuador; Jamaica; Georgia; Moldova; Sri Lanka and the Philippines. More…
Annual Stakeholder Fairs bring practitioners together, virtually and physically, to further develop networking and partnerships, and the sharing of lessons learnt. The next Migration for Development Knowledge Fair will be an online event held on this website during the Civil Society Days at the 2009 Global Forum on Migration and Development, 2-3 November 2009.
The first Migration for Development Knowledge Fair, supported by UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Maria Sharapova, was held on 1–4 December 2008 and saw hundreds of members of diaspora groups and representatives of NGOs, local authorities from developing and European countries, the EU institutions and UN agencies gather in Brussels to share information and ideas based on their experiences in the field of migration and development. The 1st M4D Virtual Fair was held on 2nd-3rd November 2009 in parallel with the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Athens, 2-5 November). Visit the Virtual Fair >
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