France

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"

France

The MTM Interactive Map on Migration (i-Map) is an online interactive platform in support of the Mediterranean Migration Dialogue.

The country profiles provide factual, non-analytical information and a series of graphs illustrating the main datasets relevant to Migration and Development in the country.

The profiles give access to a plethora of information sources through hyperlinks and they cover the following thematic areas:

France

The immigration situation in France has been strongly influenced to the present day by the legacy of colonialism of earlier centuries as well as the long tradition of recruiting foreign workers. Overall, there has been a steady increase in immigration over the last century, and this has had a strong impact on the nature of French society. Although immigration has been regarded as a success story in economic terms, in the past three decades it has increasingly been perceived as the root of social problems.

Co-development through French Youth Associations

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The French Co-development program introduces the idea of “supporting initiatives by young people of immigrant origin”, a policy that enables youth associations of immigrant descent and youth associations in the parents’ countries of origin to be co-financed for socio-cultural activities that are deployed on both territories.

These projects should foster citizenship and socio-economic integration in France, and contribute to development initiatives in the regions of departure.

The Economic Initiatives and Migration Programme (Programme Migrations et Initiatives Economiques)

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The Economic Initiatives and Migration Programme, or Programme Migrations et Initiatives Economiques (PMIE) in French, aims to facilitate the implementation of economic projects by migrants both in their country of origin and in France.

Bilateral seasonal migration program between France and Morocco

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The seasonal foreign worker programme aims to facilitate circular migration, provides employers with regulations and guidelines on their obligations and ensures the protection of migrant workers' rights. The programme focuses on origin countries with which France has concluded bilateral agreements: Tunisia, Morocco, and Poland.

 

Migration and Development (France - Mali)

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

This practice facilitates the investments of individual Malians or Malian Diaspora associations in France in local community development projects or enterprise creation in Mali. Participation in this programme by Malian migrants in France is not conditional on permanent return.

This programme addresses all aspects of migration, including annual consultations between France and Mali and twinning arrangements between villages.

Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE)

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE) is a competitive grant program aimed at funding innovative, small scale development projects which are profit-making, results-oriented and have the potential to be scaled up or replicated.

The program has two components:

The European Job Mobility Portal (EURES)

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

Launched in 1994, EURES is a European cooperation network of employment services, designed to facilitate the free movement of workers. The network has always worked hard to ensure that European citizens can benefit from the same opportunities, despite language barriers, cultural differences, bureaucratic challenges, diverse employment laws and a lack of recognition of educational certificates across Europe.



This web portal provides information on access to job opportunities in 32 European countries. It also promotes the cooperation amongst national employment agencies.

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