United Nations Network on Migration Workplan
Workplan 2022 - 2024
Workplan 2021-2022
Core Working Group 2.1: Stronger UN system for GCM implementation
Co-leads: IOM, UNDP
Members: ILO, OHCHR, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNODC, UNU, WHO, ACT Alliance; Action Committee represented by Migrant Forum in Asia; International Organization of Employers (IOE); Overseas Development Institute (OD)I; Development Center, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).
- Finalization and pilot of training for UNCTs to incorporate GCM into relevant development frameworks and COVID-19 recovery plans in countries (CCAs, UNSDCFs, VNRs, UNCT Joint Work Plans (JWPs), amongst others). The training package can be found here.
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Roll-out of guidance and tools from CWG 2.1
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Develop tools and guidance for UNCTs to ensure the inclusion of migration considerations in national development planning and budgeting, Common Country Analysis documents, UNSDCFs, and other relevant planning frameworks.
Timeline: 2021 and 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Core Working Group 2.2: GCM National Implementation Plans
Co-leads: IOM, OHCHR, UNDP
Members: ILO, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNODC, WHO, UNU, ACT Alliance; Action Committee represented by Alianza Americas and Platform for International Cooperation for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM); Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI); International Organization of Employers (IOE); Development Center, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO); United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).
Finalization of guidance to develop GCM national implementation plans. Guidance material can be found here.
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Roll-out of guidance and tools from CWG 2.2
Timeline: 2021- 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Organise capacity building and information workshops
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Support Member States, where requested, in mainstreaming the GCM into their voluntary national review reports to the High-Level Political Forum.
Timeline: 2021 - 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 1: Ensuring inclusion of migrants and the GCM in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts
- The Network issued a statement on equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for migrants. It is accessible here.
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Network Policy Brief on COVID-19 and migrants drafted and disseminated at country, regional and global levels
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Practical framework for inclusion of migrants in national COVID -19 vaccination programmes and other public health and recovery measures
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Technical support to countries through National UN Networks, Champion Countries and UNCTs, including webinar and technical briefings on promoting the inclusion of migrants in national vaccine deployment and vaccination programme:
The group have informally briefed a group of Member States in Geneva
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Support UNCTs in including migration/GCM in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- As recommended by the Deputies Committee, addressing forced returns during the COVID-19 pandemic, including through an advocacy strategy and drawing on tools produced by TWG on returns and reintegration
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Implementing joint initiatives to foster the socio-economic (re)integration of migrants in COVID-19 recovery efforts and beyond.
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 2: Utilizing the GCM to realize the SDGs and reduce inequalities
- The Network issued a statement on the GCM and sustainable development for the HLPF. It is available here.
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Network paper on migration and inequalities
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 3: Operationalizing the recommendations from the Network policy brief on “The impact of COVID-19 on family remittances”
- Support the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion in the review of their national remittance plans and on the impact of COVID-19 on remittances, through linking with the Remittance Community Task Force (RCTF)
Timeline: 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Support the Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID) summit in June through Network Coordinator and members’ engagement
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Support the International Day of Family Remittances (IFDR) campaign 2021 through Network statement on June 16 and engagement in the campaign. View here
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 4: Support to the implementation of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and GCM Commitments on climate change and migration
- Develop technical guidance for the country-level and regional Networks in their support to governments for COP 26
Timeline: 2021 - 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Establish dialogue on practices, knowledge and enhanced collaboration with stakeholder and state led initiatives in coordination with external stakeholders/initiatives working on other forms of human mobility (i.e. displacement and planned relocation)
Timeline: 2021 - 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Ensure cross fertilization of messages on climate change and migration, including with GCM Champion countries.
Timeline: 2021 - 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 5: Ensuring migrant protection through strengthened responses to migrant smuggling
- Network Statement on “Ensuring migrant protection through strengthened criminal justice responses to migrant smuggling, in line with the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol and Objective 9 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” (17 May – Opening of the CCPCJ). View here
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Network Side event at the ECOSOC Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on: “Ensuring migrant protection through strengthened criminal justice responses to migrant smuggling, in line with the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol and Objective 9 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration”.
Timeline: Q2 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 6: Enhancing the application of anti-discrimination dimensions, including against racism, xenophobia and intolerance into the work of the Network
- Statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. View here
Timeline: Q1 2021 and Q2 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Hold an Anti- discrimination Events Series including discussion space on Migration Network Hub and Listening Sessions on anti- discrimination, including issues based on racism xenophobia and intolerance, in GCM implementation to identify challenges, develop priorities and gather promising practices
Timeline: Q2 and Q3 2021 and ongoing
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Develop policy and knowledge products among Network members and stakeholders, and support dissemination of existing ones
Timeline: Q2 and Q3 2021 and ongoing
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Support GCM Champion countries to act as champions of non- discriminatory GCM implementation, refer, either in action or in statement, and promote a model for exchange of anti-discrimination practices
Timeline: 2021 - 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Promote the non- discriminatory implementation of the GCM through capacity-building trainings in pilot countries or regions
Timeline: Q1 and 2 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Thematic Priority 7: Enhancing the application of anti-discrimination dimensions, including discrimination based on gender into the work of the Network
- Hold an Anti-discrimination Events Series including discussion space on Migration Network Hub and Listening Sessions on anti- discrimination, including issues based on gender in GCM implementation to identify challenges, develop priorities and gather promising practices
Timeline: Q2 and Q3 2021 and ongoing
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Develop policy and knowledge products among Network members and stakeholders, and support dissemination of existing ones, such as UN Women’s Policies and Practice Guide on gender-responsive GCM implementation
Timeline: Q2 – Q4 2021
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Support GCM Champion countries to act as champions of gender-responsive GCM implementation, refer, either in action or in statement
Timeline: 2021- 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
- Promote the gender-responsive implementation of the GCM through capacity-building trainings in pilot countries or regions
Timeline: Q1 and 2 2022
- Yet to start
- Ongoing
- Completed
Workplan 2019-2020
*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).
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