At the 3rd Meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Working Group on Migration Statistics, EMM4 presented the following areas in which data are required and which provide opportunities for collaboration: - Migration Governance (MG) - Legal Migration and Labour Migration - Migration & Development - Irregular Migration - International Protection and Asylum

1. Recent approaches & possible orientations for future
cooperation under EUROMED Migration IV
MEDSTAT IV – Migration Statistics
3rd Meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Working
Group on Migration Statistics (EMWGMS)
UN, Palais des Nations, Room XXVII, Geneva
17-18 May 2016
Brahim El Mouaatamid, ICMPD
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2. OUTLINE
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 Objective of the EUROMED Migration IV
 Key thematic areas where data are envisaged
 Related capacity-building actions
 Focus on recent approaches
 Migration Governance Process (MGP) and MG Tool
 Migration Interactive Map (i-Map)
 Cooperation between EMM4 and MEDSTAT

3. Briefly, the Programme aims …
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… to support EU Member States and ENI Southern Partner
Countries in establishing a comprehensive, constructive and
operational dialogue and co-operation framework, with a
particular focus on reinforcing instruments and capacities to
develop and implement evidence-based and coherent
migration and international protection policies.
(2 pillars and 4 thematic areas)

4. Key thematic areas where data are envisaged
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 Migration Governance (MG)
 Legal Migration and Labour Migration
 Migration & Development
 Irregular Migration
 International Protection and Asylum

5. Related capacity-building actions
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• Inventory of training needs of countries
• Migration Governance Process and Tool (MGP and
MGT)
• Interactive Migration Map (i-Map) platform and
traineeship programmes
• Small Scale Actions

6. Focus on recent approaches
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The Migration Governance Process (MGP)
 Origin: need for reliable mechanism to nationally govern migration in a
fast evolving context
 Migration Profile (static)  MPP (put into context)
 MGP (monitoring and institutional memory building)
 5 Principles: Understanding , Willingness, Leadership, Ownership,
Responsibility
 Outcome-oriented mechanism built on inter-institutional cooperation
and coordination
 to ensure evidence based and sustainable governance

7. Focus on recent approaches
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Supporting tools : PMT & MGT
 Multiple interfaces (MGP, cooperation and coordination,
migration news monitoring, etc.), including the
Migration Dashboard
 The Migration Dashboard is meant to incorporate the
key indicators identified by SPCs
 MGPs ongoing in Algeria, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia
and open to other countries (e.g. Egypt and Lebanon)

8. Focus on recent approaches
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Interactive Migration Map (i-Map)
 EC supporting the launch of i-Map 3rd generation
 as Knowledge and Communication platform
 more Thematic/Geographic focus, new Indicators
 i-Map traineeship programme
 i-Map to include city profiles by MC2CM programme

9. Cooperation EMM4 & MedStat
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Cooperation of key importance
 EMWGMS work placed into the bigger picture of
Migration Governance in view of:
 establishing evidence based migration policies
 implementing MGP and MGT
 Other capacity building activities are supported by the
MIEUX programme of the ICMPD

10. Thank you!
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Contact
Brahim El Mouaatamid
Euromed Migration IV, ICMPD
Brahim.ElMouaatamid@icmpd.org
More information
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