Philippines

No Financial Contribution

• Ms. Patricia Sto. Tomas was the General Rapporteur of the RT 1.1 “Human Capital Development and Labor Mobility: Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks”.
• Government Team Member for the RT 1.2 “Temporary labor migration as a contribution to development: sharing responsibility”.
• Ms Rosalinda Baldoz, Administrator of the Philippines Overseas Employment Agency, was speaker for the RT 1.2 “Temporary labor migration as a contribution to development: sharing responsibility”.
• Mr. René Cristobal, President of Manpower Resources of Asia, was panelist for the RT 1.3 “The role of other-than government partners in governing the developmental contribution of temporary labor migration”.
• Co-chair for RT 2.1: “Improving the formalization of transfers and reducing their cost”.
• Marianito D. Roque, Administrator of Overseas Workers Welfare, was speaker for RT 2.1: “Improving the formalization of transfers and reducing their cost”.
• Mr Enrique A. Manalo, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in Geneva was co-chair for RT 3.3: “Operating Modalities (Future of the Forum)”.

• The Philippines hosted the 2008 GFMD Summit

• Co-chair for RT 1.1 “Protecting the Rights of Migrants –A shared responsibility-”.
• Patricia Sto. Tomas, Former Secretary of Labor and Employment and Philippines Chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines was Resource Person for RT 1.1. “Protecting the Rights of Migrants –A shared responsibility-”.
• Fr. Fabio Baggio, Director of Scalabrini Migration Center, was resource person for RT 1.2: “Empowering migrants and diasporas to contribute to development”.
• Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Fostering more opportunities for regular migration”.
• Lawrence Dacuycuy, Chair of the Department of Economics at De La Salle University – Manila, was Resource Person for RT 2.1: “Fostering more opportunities for regular migration”.

No Financial Contribution

• Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Inclusion, protection and acceptable of migrants in society –linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development”.
• Government Team member for RT 2.2:”Reintegration and circular migration –effective for development?”

No Financial Contribution

• Government Team member for RT 1.2: “Joint strategies to address irregular migration”.
• Government Team member for RT 2.2: “Migration, gender and family”.

• Thematic Meeting held in Manila.

• Government Team member for RT 1.1: “Engaging the private sector in labour market planning”.
• Government Team member for RT 1.2: “Lowering the cost of migration”.
• Government Team member for RT 1.3: “Global care workers at the interface of migration and development”.
• Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Addressing Irregular migration through coherent migrant and development strategies”.
• H.E. Esteban Conejos Jr., Undersecretary of Migrant Workers’ Affairs at the Department of
• Foreign Affairs, was co-chair for RT 3.1: “Mainstreaming migration into development planning/migration profiles”.
• Government Team member for RT 3.1: “Mainstreaming migration into development planning/migration profiles”.
• Government Team member for RT 3.2: “Impact assessments of migration and development policies”.

No Financial Contribution

• Government Team member for RT 1.1: “Beyond the Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development”.
• Ms. Carmelita S. Dimzon was sub-session moderator for the RT 1.1: “Beyond the Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development”.
• Government Team Member for RT 2.1: “Supporting National Development through migration mainstreaming processes, extended migration profiles and poverty reduction strategies”.
• Government Team Member for RT 3.1: “Improving Public Perceptions of Migrants and Migration: Challenging Preconceptions and Sharing Perceptions”.
• Government Team member for RT 3.2: “Migrant Protection as Integral to Migration Management”.
• Mr Eduardo M.R. Meñez was chair of break-out session for RT 3.2: “Migrant Protection as Integral to Migration Management”.
• Ambassador Evan P. Garcia was co-chair for RT 3.3: “Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers-Enhancing Their Development Potential”

No Financial Contribution

• Government Team Member in RT 1.1: Operationalizing mainstream and coherence in migration and development policies
• Government Team Member in RT 1.2: Framing Migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda 
• Moderator in RT 2.1: Enhancing the development impact of labour migration and circular mobility through more systematic labour market and skills matching
• Government 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
• Moderator in RT 3.1: Empowering migrants, their households and communities for improved protection of rights and social development outcomes

No Financial Contribution

• Served as a Co-Chair for RT 1.1: “Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration”
• Government Team Member in RT 1.2: “Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration particularly labour migration”
• Government Team Member in RT 2.1: “Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level”
• Government Team Member in RT 2.2: “Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDGs”
• Government Team Member in RT 3.1: “Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants..”
• Government Team Member in RT 3.2: “Private sector-government partnership to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation with a focus on small and medium enterprises”

No Financial Contribution

• Government Team Member in RT 1.1: “Reducing migration costs”
• Government Team Member in RT 1.2: “Connectivity and migration”
• Government Team Member in RT 2.1: “Migration, diversity and harmonious societies”
• Government Team Member in RT 2.2: “Protection of migrants in all situations”
• Served as a Co-Chair for RT 3.1: “Migrants in situations of crises: Conflict, climate change and natural disasters”
• Government Team Member in RT 3.2: “Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration”

• The Philippines contributed financialy to the GFMD 2017 budget

• Team Member in RT 2.1 "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
• Team Member in RT 2.2 "Fostering the development impact of returning migrants" 
• Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the potential of the private sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 

Financial contribution of USD 10,000 non-earmarked

Co-Chair in RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development"

Government Team Member in RT 1.1 "Harnessing the capital of migrants to realise their potential"

Goverment Team Member in RT 1.2 "Migrants' engagement with public services: from basic access to co-production"

Government Team Member in RT 2.1 "South-South mobility: trends, patterns and transferable learning"

Government Team Member in RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"