Jamaica

Official Name
Jamaica
ISO2 Code
JM
ISO3 Code
JAM
Longitude
18 15 N
Latitude
77 30 W
Geolocation
POINT (-77.3 18.15)
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No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Summit
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No Financial Contribution

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No Participation

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Attended Summit
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No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Mainstreaming migration into development planning- key actors, key strategies, key actions" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Policy and Institutional Coherence - Latest Data and Research Findings" 
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Attended Summit
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No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

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Attended Summit
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No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.3. "Global Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Migrant Domestic Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development: Action to Expand Good Practices" on 7-8 September 2011 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Supporting Migrants and Diaspora as Agents of Socioeconomic Change" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Supporting National Development through Migration Mainstreaming Processes, Extended Migration Profiles and Poverty Reduction Strategies" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.3. "Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers - Enhancing their Development Potential" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
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Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Operationalizing mainstreaming and coherence in migration and development policies" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Enhancing the development impacts of labour migration and circular mobility through more systematic labour market and skills matching" 
  • Team Member 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

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDFs"
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the 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

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • 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" 
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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 Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

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"
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for mirgation-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Fostering the development impact of returning migrants"
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

Government Team Member in RT 1.2 "Migrants' engagement with public services: from basic access to co-production", RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development", and RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Labour Migration and Skills" and "Children and Youth on the Move: Implementing Sustainable Solutions"

Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level

Submitted by Ms. Laurence BRON on

Mainstreaming migration and development issues into national development planning is strategic for Jamaica as it aligns the national priority in the country’s first long-term development planning framework Vision 2030 Jamaica — National Development Plan. The Plan seeks to enable the maximization of the benefits of migration while minimizing the negative impacts.

Vision 2030 Jamaica - National Development Plan

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

Vision 2030 Jamaica is a plan designed to guide Jamaica towards a developed country status. Under the vision “Jamaica – the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business”, the plan is designed “to ensure that international migration is adequately measured, monitored and influenced to serve the development needs of Jamaica”.

 

Jamaica

The types of migration included in the profile are: immigration of foreign-born nationals and return of Jamaican nationals, emigration; the international outward and inward movement of students, visitors, refugees and asylum-seekers, and irregular migrants. The period under review is 2000–2010.

Not a minute more: Time to Protect the Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers - A Check List and Policy Tool Kit to Protect the Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

Given the practical action oriented focus, the agreed checklist will be launched by the governments of Jamaica, Ghana and others at GFMD 2012 in Mauritius as a migration and development practice. The launching governments will initiate a "call for action" for governments to identify which provisions in the checklist are already being implemented in their countries and send in these good practices to UN Women. With the help of partner agencies, responses will be collected and an analytical inventory of protection initiatives by GFMD governments developed.

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