Other Related Activities 2014-2015

Ad hoc GFMD Thematic Meeting
The Mediterranean Crisis in a Global Context: A New Look at Migration & Development Approaches
15 July 2015, Brussels

• Agenda
• Background Note
• Logistical Information
• Participants
• Photos

Contributions:

• Flash Update: Irregular and Forced Migration to the EU
  International Organization for Migration
• Refugees and Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean to Europe: Overview of arrival trends as of 30 June 2015
  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• 10% of refugees from Syria: Europe’s resettlement and other admission responses in a global perspective
  International Catholic Migration Commission

GFMD Side Event on the margins of the High-level Political Forum
Migration and Human Mobility in the Context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from the Global Forum on Migration and Development
1 July 2015, New York

• Key Messages
• Agenda
• Concept Note
• Background Paper

Speeches / Statements:

• H.E. Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
• Opening Remarks by Ambassador Mehmet Samsar, Director General for Consular Affairs of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Remarks by Mr. Gregory Maniatis, Special Advisor to the SRSG on Migration and Development
• Statement by Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Remarks by Mr. Lars Lonnback, Senior Advisor, International Organization for Migration
• Remarks by Ms. Sonia Plaza, World Bank, representing the GMG Chair
• Intervention by Scalabrini International Migration Network

GFMD-GMG Side Event with the G-20 Development Working Group Meeting
3 June 2015, İzmir, Turkey

• Agenda
• Concept Note
• Logistical Arrangements

Contributions:

• How the G-20 Views Migration
  International Organization for Migration
• Leveraging Migration, Remittances and Diaspora for Financing Sustainable Development
  Ms. Sonia Plaza, The World Bank

GFMD Business Meeting
Are businesses fit to compete in the global competition for skills? Strengthening public-private dialogue to rethink labor migration policies and international skills mobility in the framework of the GFMD
15-16 May 2015, Istanbul

• Full Report
• Summary Report
• Proposal on a Future Public-Private Sector Interaction Mechanism in the Framework of the GFMD
• Agenda
• Background Paper
  contributed by the International Organization for Migration
• Participants

Contributions from different organizations:

• Fair migration: Setting an ILO agenda
  International Labour Organization
• Labour Migration Highlights No. 6: Labour migration and skills matching
  International Labour Organization
• Skills mismatch in Europe
  International Labour Organization
• Brochure - International Recruitment Integrity System
  International Organization for Migration
• IOM-MPI series from Dec Updating on the process to facilitating skilled migration in ASEAN
  International Organization for Migration
• Last Autumn's MPP has article on migration, jobs and integration in Europe
  International Organization for Migration
• Position Paper: International Labour Migration
  International Organization of Employers
• What’s in it for Businesses? The Return on Investment for Migration
  The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration
• Lifting Barriers to African Talent Mobility
  World Economic Forum
• The Business Case for Migration
  World Economic Forum

GFMD-GMG Side Event - From Cairo to Addis: Migration, labour mobility and the renewed global partnership for sustainable development
16 April 2015, New York

• Summary Note
• Background Document
• Concept Note and Agenda
• Opening Remarks by Ambassador Mehmet Samsar, Director General for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

GFMD Turkish Chairmanship Event on the margins of the UNGA 69th Regular Session
22 September 2014, New York

• Remarks by H.E. Mr. Guy Ryder
  Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO),
  Global Migration Group (GMG) Chair 2014

GFMD-GMG Side Event on Fair Migration and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
9 July 2014, New York

• Summary Report
• Opening Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Halit Çevik
  Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in New York

The Return on Investment on Migration: What is in it for Businesses?  
(A study conducted by The Hague Process for the Turkish GFMD Chair, 2015)
9 July 2014, New York

• Final Report