Official Name
Republic of France
ISO2 Code
FR
ISO3 Code
FRA
Longitude
46 00 N
Latitude
2 00 E
Geolocation
POINT (2 46)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Empowering Migrants and Diaspora to Contribute to Development" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Managing Migration and Minimizing the Negative Impacts of Irregular Migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Policy and Institutional Coherence on Migration and Development within Government" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2. "Regional Consultative Processes, Inter-regional Consulatitve Fora and Regional Organizations and Economic Integration Processes at the Interface of Migration and Development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Mainstreaming migration into development planning - keay actors, key strategies, key actions"
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs - their roles? their constraints?" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Reintegration and circular migration - effective for development?" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Policy and Institutional Coherence - Latest Data and Research Findings" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Regional and Inter-regional Processes and Fora" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • France has supported the 2010 GFMD budget with financial contributions 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.1. "Partnerships for more regular and protected migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Assessing the relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in Cluster III "Tools for Evidence-based Migration and Development Policies" 
  • Rapporteur in RT 3.2. "Impact Assessments of Mirgation and Development Policies" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "The Contribution of Migrant Associations to Development" on 19-22 September 2011 in Taroudant, Morocco.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • France lent financial support to the Mauritian GFMD Chair for the organization of the GFMD 2012 Summit. 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Beyond-the-Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Supporting Migrants and Diaspora as Agents of Socioeconomic Change" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 3,464 Left Over funds from previous GFMD 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" 
  • Rapporteur in RT 2.2. "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • € 15,000 in May 2015 (USD 16,593) non-earnmarked 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration, particularly labor migration: Cooperative approaches to fair recruitment practices and lower remittance fees" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Private sector-government partnerships to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creaton, with a focus on small and medium enterprises" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • France offered financial contributions to the oGFMD 2016 Budget 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1."Reducing migration costs" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Connectivity and migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Protection of migrants in all situations" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Migrants in situations of crises: conflict, climate change and natural disasters" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Harmonious Societies" on 18 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • France offered fresh contribution to the 2017 GFMD Budget 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Tools and Safeguards for Policy Coherence - Finding the right policy mix to balance different interests and objectives" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

USD 24,155 for the Organization of the 11th Summit

RT Participation

Government Team Member in RT 1.2 "Migrants' engagement with public services: from basic access to co-production", RT 2.1 "South-South mobility: trends, patterns and transferable learning", RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development", RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration", and RT 3.2 "Beyond Remittances: leveraging the development impact and promoting the transnational engagement of diaspora and migrants"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshops on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" and "Labour Migration and Skills"

Prague Process Action Plan 2023-2027

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

Making migration and mobility positive forces for development
1. Bring together representatives of diaspora communities and governments of countries of origin and destination for round-table debates on sharing best practices and on recognising the role and needs of diaspora communities in development and investment in countries of origin as well as in integration in the host societies.

Diaspora investment in sustainable rural youth entrepreneurship in Mali

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

Through its Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR), IFAD is working to mobilize Malian migrant investment to encourage economic development entrepreneurism and employment in Mali, and to stimulate the economic inclusion of young Malians and offer them an alternative to migration, particularly in rural areas.

Agence Lyon Tranquilité et Médiation

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

In Lyon, the Agence Lyon Tranquilité et Médiation (ALTM), an agency of mediation promoted by the municipality, helped to decrease social tension in Gabriel Péri square, which plays a central role for migrant populations in the city. This initiative deploys uniformed mediators to promote long-term social cohesion in a specific and ‘problematic’ area of the city. This state-led intervention exemplifies how social cohesion can be strengthened through a collective, holistic approach that aims at building bridges rather than promoting exclusionary security measures.

Temporary Residency Cards for employees and entrepreneurs

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

France issues Temprary Residence permits to non-EU foreign nationals who benefit from an employment contract of more than 3 months concluded following, in particular, the difficulties encountered by an employer in recruiting on French soil of employees already admitted to the labor market.

The temporary residence card (STC) "Temporary worker" is issued for any employment contract of between 3 months and 12 months.

National Remittance Plan (France)

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Since the G20 Summit of 2015, France has adopted a National Plan on Remittances which seeks to: (i) facilitate remittances by reducing their costs; (ii) maximizing the value of remittances by orientating them towards sustainable and growth-generating projects; (iii) improve its knowledge of remittances fluxes to develop a better understanding of migrants’ needs. The improvement of migrants’ access to financial products and services was already one of the axes of a law adopted in 2014.

Adecco Analytics

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Adecco Analytics is an example of a big data analytical programme of skills needs. Adecco Analytics creates ergonomic solutions for decision-making, based on specific algorithms. The objective is to enable decision-makers to better understand the dynamics and challenges of employment in different sectors, occupations and territories, in order to anticipate and increase operational efficiency. It was made available freely to several NGO’s working with refugees in France. 

‘Migration and Development’ Association: Linking communities with their diaspora for local development

Submitted by system admin on

The association ‘Migration and Development’ is a civil society organization which has been engaged in integrated and participative development with migrants in southern Morocco for many years. Its engagement is anchored in the intention of enhancing the synergies between migrants and their territories in their community of origin. As such, the communities of origin are strongly involved in defining their needs and ensuring that migrants’ contributions are factored in when seeking to contribute to the development of communities of origin.

Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project

Submitted by system admin on

The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in partnership with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and UN Habitat, as well as UNHCR as an associate partner, aims to create a network of 10 European and Southern Mediterranean cities in order to facilitate exchange of experience among and to contribute to improved migration planning and governance in these cities.

Supporting diaspora productive investment programmes in Mali

Submitted by Ms. Laurence BRON on

The general objective is to support local development projects and productive investments (collective and individual) of the Malian diaspora in Mali with i) a dedicated support mechanism for entrepreneurs in France and country of origin ii) activities with public institutions and private sector institutions to improve the investment climate in countries of origin
Activities:

Supporting diaspora productive investment” programmes in Senegal and Cameroun

Submitted by Ms. Laurence BRON on

The program intends to foster linkages between migration issues and private sector development, with a specific focus on financial services. Until now, many activities to foster diaspora investment in CoO have focused on capacity building of relevant state institutions and non financial services for migrant entrepreneurs. A major component of this programme is dedicated support the development of financial services that take into account the needs and specificities of diaspora members (remittances transfer, access to loans, savings products).

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