Migration and Development Program MiDE

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Migration and Development Program (MiDE)

• Special Committee on Migration Issues

October 2009
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Mandates
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Permanent Council
Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs
Special Committee on Migration Issues
Inter-American Program for the Promotion and
Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants
Annual work plan
Executive Secretariat for Integral
Development Migration and Development Program
CIM
IACHR
SLA
SMS
IIN
SPA
PAHO
IOM
ILO
ECLAC
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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Objectives

• To create systems to provide timely and
  standardized information on the migration
  phenomenon in the countries of the American
  Hemisphere.
• To promote institutional capacity-building in
  migration-related areas.
• To promote the protection of the human rights of
  migrants.
• To identify and implement cooperation actions and
  the exchange of best practices by means of
  dialogue among states.
• To facilitate the social, cultural, and economic
  inclusion of migrants.
• To introduce migration as a crosscutting theme in
  the relevant activities carried out by the OAS.

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Mission
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• To contribute to the formulation of public
  policy promoting equitable, safe, and orderly
  migration processes by means of systems providing
  precise and timely information, institutional
  capacity-building, cooperation actions, and the
  exchange of best practices.

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Migration as a crosscutting theme in the OAS
SLA
SEDI
SPA
IACHR
CIM
SMS
Human rights
Gender
Overseas voting
Trafficking in persons Consular protection
Legislation Cooperation agreements
Employment Education Social security Development
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CAPACITY-BUILDING
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT-RELATED ACTIVITIES
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

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Special Committee on Migration Issues
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• MANDATES
• To develop a matrix of data for the comprehensive
  analysis of migration flows
• To prepare a document compiling temporary worker
  programs in the OAS member states
• To develop a database of existing regulations,
  policies, and programs on migration, and legal
  frameworks in the OAS member states
• To link OAS efforts with those of regional
  consultation processes in the migration area
• To promote the exchange of experiences and best
  practices in the migration area among the
  countries of the region

• BACKGROUND
• On May 2, 2007, the Permanent Council convened a
  special meeting to analyze and discuss human
  migration flows and their impact on the member
  states.
• On October 24 of that year, the Permanent Council
  established the Special Committee on Migration
  Issues.

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Mandate I
• To develop a matrix of data for the comprehensive
  analysis of migration flows
• Project

Continuous Reporting System on Labour Migration
for the Americas
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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• A system for the generation of precise and timely
  information on labor migration, based on the
  SOPEMI Systeme dObservation Permanente sur les
  Migrations model, created by the OECD for its
  Member countries.
• The information it compiles reflects migration
  trends, and changes in populations, and
  demographic profiles of migrants.
• The information comes from different national
  sources (censuses, surveys, administrative
  records, etc.) and the system organizes it in a
  consolidated and standardized manner.

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
How does SICREMI work?

• The strategy for gathering data, and compiling
  and generating information is to establish a
  network of correspondents at the national level
  supported by the institutions key to the
  production of information on migration (migration
  offices or institutes, national statistics
  offices, civil registry offices, etc.).
• Each year, a request for standardized information
  is sent to the national correspondent
  institutions for the preparation of each
  countrys report.
• The information is fed into the OAS migration
  database SICREMI

SICREMI is only designed to compile and organize
information. It is not designed to generate its
own primary statistics on migration.
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Project stages
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Stage I. Pilot program
• The countries proposed for the pilot stage
  are those with information systems that
  facilitate information organization and
  unification. Their emigration, transmigration,
  and immigration patterns are also typical of
  those phenomena in the region.
• Stage II
• Generation and replication of the Program in ten
  countries.
• Stage III
• Inclusion of the remaining countries in the
  Program.

Currently, Brazil is the only country that has
not confirmed its participation in the first
stage of the project.
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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Mandate II
• To prepare a document compiling temporary worker
  programs in the OAS member states
• Project
• Interactive map of temporary employment programs
  (MINPET)

In conjunction with the Canadian International
Development Agency
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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Interactive map of temporary employment
programs (MINPET)

• Objectives
• To map temporary employment programs within and
  outside the Hemisphere in which Latin American
  and Caribbean nationals participate.
• To describe the terms and characteristics of
  recruitment programs and processes
• To identify the sociodemographic characteristics
  of temporary workers, such as gender, age,
  education, country of origin, etc.
• To exchange information on best practices
• To promote orderly, safe, and regular migration
  geared to labor market needs

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Mandate III
• To develop a database of existing regulations,
  policies, and programs on migration, and legal
  frameworks in the OAS member states
• Project
• Database of legal frameworks, regulations,
  policies, and programs on migration

In conjunction with the Canadian International
Development Agency
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Database of legal frameworks, regulations,
policies, and programs on migration
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• A system for the management of documentary legal
  information whose main objective will be to
  compile and organize national and international
  legislation, legal institutions, and public
  policy on migration in the Hemisphere.
• Stage
• Compilation of existing national and
  international legislation, legal institutions,
  and public policy in the Hemisphere in the
  migration area, the organization thereof by
  subject in a database to facilitate consultation,
  and publication of the database on the web page
  of the Migration and Development Program.
• II. Stage
• Update and utilization of the information
  available in the Migration Information System of
  the Americas (SIMA) to feed the database.
• Stage
• Exchange of specific information with other
  organizations, institutions, and authorities
  specialized in this area.

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Mandate IV
• To link OAS efforts with those of regional
  consultation processes in the migration area

• In February 2009, a meeting of the CEAM was held
  to identify how to link OAS efforts with those of
  regional consultation processes in the migration
  area.
• On April 23 and 24, 2009, the OAS participated in
  the Workshop on Temporary Worker Programs of the
  Regional Conference on Migration.

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MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Mandate V
• To promote the exchange of experiences and best
  practices in the migration area among the
  countries of the region

Consultation forums, seminars, and meetings

• Migration and development (December 1, 2008)
• Emigration and the brain drain (January 13, 2009)
• Migration and disaster situations (January 27,
  2009)
• Seminar on care for migrant communities
  (February 10, 2009)
• Seminar on Consular Assistance and Protection
  Scope and Exchange of Best Practices (March 10,
  2009)
• Gender perspective on migration (April 1, 2009)

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• Thank you very much!