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

• Roll-out of guidance and tools from CWG 2.1
  Timeline: 2021

• 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

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

• Roll-out of guidance and tools from CWG 2.2
  Timeline: 2021- 2022

• Organise capacity building and information workshops
  Timeline: 2021

• Support Member States, where requested, in mainstreaming the GCM into their voluntary national review reports to the High-Level Political Forum.
  Timeline: 2021 - 2022

• The Network issued a statement on equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for migrants. It is accessible here.

• Network Policy Brief on COVID-19 and migrants drafted and disseminated at country, regional and global levels

• Practical framework for inclusion of migrants in national COVID -19 vaccination programmes and other public health and recovery measures

• 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

• Support UNCTs in including migration/GCM in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts
  Timeline: 2021

• 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

• Implementing joint initiatives to foster the socio-economic (re)integration of migrants in COVID-19 recovery efforts and beyond.
  Timeline: 2021

• The Network issued a statement on the GCM and sustainable development for the HLPF. It is available here.

• Network paper on migration and inequalities
  Timeline: 2021

• 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

• Support the Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID) summit in June through Network Coordinator and members’ engagement
  Timeline: Q2 2021

• 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 

• Develop technical guidance for the country-level and regional Networks in their support to governments for COP 26
  Timeline: 2021 - 2022

• 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

• Ensure cross fertilization of messages on climate change and migration, including with GCM Champion countries.
  Timeline: 2021 - 2022

• 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 

• 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

• Statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. View here
  Timeline: Q1 2021 and Q2 2022

• 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

• Develop policy and knowledge products among Network members and stakeholders, and support dissemination of existing ones
  Timeline: Q2 and Q3 2021 and ongoing

• 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

• Promote the non- discriminatory implementation of the GCM through capacity-building trainings in pilot countries or regions
  Timeline: Q1 and 2 2022

• 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

• 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

• Support GCM Champion countries to act as champions of gender-responsive GCM implementation, refer, either in action or in statement
  Timeline: 2021- 2022

• Promote the gender-responsive implementation of the GCM through capacity-building trainings in pilot countries or regions
  Timeline: Q1 and 2 2022