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WS1: Measuring progress common pledge

TENTATIVE DEADLINE OF IMPLEMENTATION:
The Network workstream on measuring progress in GCM implementation, established after the first IMRF, committed to conducting a mapping of relevant approaches to measuring the governance of migration in general and with a specific focus on the GCM and to finalizing a proposal for a limited set of indicators, building on existing indicators and data collection processes, including the work of the United Nations Expert Group on Migration Statistics, to be developed in an iterative manner, taking into consideration the feedback received through regional and global consultations with Member States and a wide range of relevant stakeholders.
Pledging entity
International Organizations
Type of pledge
Common (several states/actors making identical or complementary pledges)
Country
Switzerland
Nature of the Pledge
Process oriented (e.g. convening fully consultative processes in preparing national reports for the IMRF)
State/Actor
Workstream 1: Measuring progress: GCM Indicators
GCM Guiding Principles
International cooperation
GCM Objectives
1. Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies
2. Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
3. Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration
4. Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation
5. Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
6. Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
7. Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration
8. Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants
9. Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants
10. Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration
11. Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner
12. Strengthen certainty and predictability in migration procedures for appropriate screening, assessment and referral
13. Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives
14. Enhance consular protection, assistance and cooperation throughout the migration cycle
15. Provide access to basic services for migrants
16. Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion
17. Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
18. Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences
19. Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
20. Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
21. Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
22. Establish mechanisms for the portability of social security entitlements and earned benefits
23. Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).