Civil Society Programme 2017
Global Forum on Migration and Development, Berlin, Germany
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Now:
Mechanics of a Compact worth agreeing to
Civil Society Days: 29 June & 1 July
Common Space: 30 June
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2017 Global Forum on Migration and Development
Civil Society Days 29 June & 1 July; Common Space 30 June Berlin, Germany
Safe, Orderly, Regular Migration Now: Mechanics of a Compact Worth Agreeing to
Civil Society Chair 2017: Wies Maas – Coordinator, Civil Society Action Committee for UN Summit for
Refugees and Migrants 2016
Civil Society Co-Chair 2017: Berenice Valdez Rivera - Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración
Rapporteur Children: Milena Franke - Youth Delegate from the Initiative on Child Rights in the Global Compacts
Rapporteur Women: Carolina Gottardo - Women in Migration Network Grand Rapporteur Commitments Day: Rex Varona – Migrant Forum in Asia Outreach Rapporteur: Vincent Tournecuillert – Terre Des Hommes
Prelude:
Wednesday 28 June 2017 Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, Berlin
18:00 – 19:00
‘Breaking down Walls’: Prelude at the Gate (attendance optional – participants get there on their own) Action: Open invitation for GFMD civil society participants to share a short poem, song, story, reflection, dance (two-minutes each) on the theme of “Walls”
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Official GFMD Civil Society Days Programme 2017*
Civil Society Day 1, Thursday 29 June 2017: Recommendations Day Hotel Palace, Budapester Str. 45, Berlin
7:30 – 8:30 Registration & welcome coffee
8:30- 9:15
Opening Ceremony: Bordeaux I - II
- Wies Maas - Civil Society Chair - Berenice Valdez Rivera - Civil Society Co-Chair - Beate Grzeski – GFMD 2017 – 2018 Co-Chair, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, German
Federal Foreign Office - Elke Löbel - Commissioner for refugee policy, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Directorate for
displacement and migration; crisis prevention and management, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Bernd Bornhorst - Chair of the Board, VENRO Civil society theme, moment and methodology – Sophie van Haasen, International Catholic Migration Commission
9.15 – 9.30 Inspirational speaker: Noah Sow, ‘An Afrodeutsche Address’
9:30 - 10:50
First Panel and debate [Davos style]: Bordeaux I - II Updates on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
- Laura Thompson - Deputy Director General, International Organisation for Migration - François Crépeau - UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants - Gregory Maniatis - Director, International Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations
Interaction
10:50 – 11:10
Starting with the ‘Why’? - Blanca Areli Gómez de Melgar - Comité de Familiares de migrantes desaparecidos de El Salvador - Louise Arbour – UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on International Migration
11:10 -12:30
Second panel and debate [Davos style]: Bordeaux I - II Action Now on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
- Aligning ourselves: shared civil society baselines and redlines - Gibril Faal, Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform
- Asserting voice: Common civil society messages - Ignacio Packer, Terre Des Hommes - Achieving change: a Compact that works - Michele Levoy, Platform for International Cooperation on
Undocumented Migrants Interaction
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Special session 1: Green room on civil society baselines, redlines and common messages towards the Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Burgund I
Moderators John K. Bingham, International Catholic Migration Commission
Efrain Jimenez, Federacion Zacatecana A.C.
Rapporteur (to be decided in the session)
Special session 2: Mechanisms for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration where work is not the principal driver
– focus on resettlement, private sponsorships and family reunification Burgund II
Moderator Kevin Appleby, Scalabrini International Migration Network
Rapporteur Emeka Obiezu, Augustinians International
Discussion starters Petra Hueck, International Catholic Migration Commission Europe
Marla Conrad, Iniciativa Kino
Special session 3: Climate and environmental change and migration Burgund III
* There will be simultaneous interpretation to English, French and Spanish in all sessions of the CSD programme. All plenary sessions in Bordeaux I-II will be livestreamed and available on our website.
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Moderator Christian Wolff, ACT Alliance
Rapporteur Sarnata Reynolds, OXFAM
Discussion starters Samir Abi, Visions Solidaires/West African Observatory
Sebastian Moretti, International Federation of the Red Cross
14:30- 16:45
Parallel working sessions
Theme 1: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for Children on the Move and other Migrants in Vulnerable Situations
Bordeaux I-II
Moderators Junita Calder, International Detention Coalition Eva Sandis, NGO Committee on Migration in New York
Rapporteur Christian Wolff, ACT Alliance
Discussion starters Evan Jones, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network Behshid Najafi, Agisra e.V Joshua Hofert, Terre des Hommes
Theme 2: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms to create welcoming societies for Migrants in the face of growing Xenophobia
Burgund I
Moderator Claudia Lucero-Mead, Durango Unido en Chicago/Alianza Americas
Rapporteur Monami Maulik, Global Coalition on Migration
Discussion starters Doros Polykarpou, KISA-Action for equality, support, antiracism Lara Arabian, The Cross Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants Mayor/local authority (tbc)
Theme 3: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms in return and reintegration
Burgund II
Moderators Ahmed Bugre, Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants Eiri Ohtani, The Detention Forum
Rapporteurs Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Bikash Chowdhury, BASUG – Diaspora and Development
Discussion starters Mayor John Bongat, Naga city, Philippines Lariza Dugan, Central American Resource Center / Alianza Americas
Theme 4: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms of migration in the context of work, including Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers, Labour migration and Regularization
Burgund III
Moderators Tatcee Macabuag, Migrant Forum in Asia Charlie Fannning, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Rapporteurs Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute Mi Sun Kim, Migrant Health Association in Korea/ Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea
Discussion starters Pathma Krishnan, Education International/Migrant Forum in Asia Franklin Owusu Ansah, Health Services Workers Union of TUC (Ghana) Rodrigo Borrás, Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina
16:45 – 18:00 Travel to Government reception (buses leave at 17:00 - access only for 200 pre-notified delegates)
18:00 – 20:00
Reception hosted by the Moroccan Co-Chair at the German Federal Foreign Office Unterwasserstraße 10, 10117 Berlin
[Space limitations permit participation only for the 200 civil society delegates who were pre-notified]
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GFMD Common Space, Friday 30 June
German Federal Foreign Office Unterwasserstraße 10, 10117 Berlin
[Busses leaving from Palace Hotel between 7.15 and 7.30am - access only for 200 pre-notified delegates]
[Space limitations permit participation only for the 200 civil society delegates who were pre-notified and whose names have been communicated to the German government]
7h00 9h00
Participants arrive
9h00 9h45
Opening Plenary
• Opening of the GFMD Common Space by the German Chair: Ambassador Götz Schmidt-Bremme
• Address of Welcome by Civil Society Chair: Ms Wies Maas – Coordinator, Civil Society Action Committee for UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants 2016
• Keynote speaker: UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on International Migration: Ms Louise Arbour
• Report of the 4th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development: Mayor Armand Roland Pierre Beouinde, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Introduction to methodology of the day: Ambassador Götz Schmidt-Bremme Plenary in Weltsaal (500) with simulcast in the Europasaal (200)
9h45 10h15
Coffee and move to Framing Sessions
10h15 11h30
Framing Session A – What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of children on the move, migrants in other vulnerable situations, xenophobia and return and reintegration? Moderator: Mr. François Crépeau - United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Rapporteur: Ms. Catherine Tactaquin – National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NIRR) Discussion starters:
• Ms. Milena Franke – GFMD Civil Society rapporteur on Children
• Mr. Ignacio Packer – Terre des Hommes
• Ambassador Mehmet Samsar, Director General for Consular Affairs, Turkey, GFMD 2014-2015 Chair
• Mrs. Liduvina Magarin, Vice Minister for Salvadorians Living Abroad, El Salvador
Framing Session B – What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of people moving across borders for work? Moderator: Mr William Gois – Migrant Forum in Asia Rapporteur: Ms. Milka Isinta, Pan African Network in Defense of Migrants Rights Discussion starters:
• Ms. Annelie Buntenbach - Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund
• Ms. Linda Kromjong - International Organisation of Employers
• Ms. Nahida Sobhan, Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs, Gov’t of Bangladesh, GFMD 2016 Chair
• Mr. Ola Henrikson, Director General for Migration and Asylum, Sweden
Framing Session C – What does “Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” mean in contexts of people compelled to flee across borders from conflict, persecution, climate change or to join family? Moderator: Gregory Maniatis - International Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations Rapporteur: Ms. Sophia Wirsching, VENRO Discussion starters:
• Mr. Kevin Appleby – Centre for Migration Studies
• Mr. Gopal Krishna Siwakoti - Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN)
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Weltsaal (380 participants)
Europasaal (200 participants)
• Ms. Elisabeth Claverie de Saint-Martin, Deputy Director for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
• Mr. Ahmed Skim, Director for Migration Affairs, MFA, Morocco
Library (120 participants)
11h30 11h50
Coffee break + move to focus session
11h50 13h50
Focus session 1 Mechanisms for children on the move Moderator: Ms.Julia Hahn – Deutsche Welle Rapporteur: Mr. Dominik Kalweit – KOPIN Discussion starters: - Mr. Hofert, Terre
des Hommes - Ms. Farah Abdi
Adbullahi – former child migrant and young refugee
- Dr. Erasmo Lara, Director General for Human Rights and Democracy, government of Mexico
Focus session 2 Mechanisms for other migrants in vulnerable situations Moderator: Mr. John K. Bingham – ICMC Rapporteur: Ms. Cecilie Kern – NGO Committee on Migration Discussion Starters - Ms. Sarnata
Reynolds, Oxfam International
- Ms Sabine Heck, German Red Cross
- Ms. Elena Masi, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
Ministersaal 1 (40-50 participants –
(no interpretation)
Focus session 3 Mechanisms for migrants in the face of growing xenophobia Moderator: Mr. Oscar Chacon – Alianza Americas Rapporteur: Mr. Thibault Chareton, UN Alliance of Civilisations Discussion starters : - Ms Monami Maulik,
Global Coalition on Migration
- Ms. Giovanna Tipan, Provincial Government of Pichincha, Ecuador
- Mr. Pietro Mona, Deputy Head, Global Program Migration and Development, SDC
- Ms. Lynn Shotwell, executive director, of Council for Global Immigration
Library (120 participants)
Focus session 4 Mechanisms in return and reintegration Moderator: Ms. Michele Levoy – PICUM Rapporteur: Ms. Claudia Leon – INMD Discussion starters - Mr. Ahmed Burge,
Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants
- Ms. Anne Dussart – Caritas Belgium International
- Ms. Samantha Jayasuriya, Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UNOG
Weltsaal (180 – 220
participants)
Focus session 5 Mechanisms for Labour Mobility and regularization Moderator: Mr. Axel Boysen - Fragomen Rapporteur: Mr. Charlie Fanning – AFL – CIO Discussion starters: - Mr. Rodrigo Borras,
Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina
- Govt Mauritius (tbc) - Mr. Ciriaco Lagunzad,
Undersecretary, Dept of Labour and Employment, Philippines
Ministersaal 2 (40-50 participants)
(no simultaneous interpretation)
Focus session 6 Mechanisms for Ethical Recruitment of Migrant workers Moderator: Mr. Dennis Sinyolo – Education International Rapporteur: Dr. Huiyao Wang, Center for China and Globalization Discussion starters - Ms. Mi Sun Kim, Joint
Committee with Migrants in Korea
- Ms. Bev Jack, Adcorp - Dr. Omar Al Nuaimi,
Assistant Undersecretary for Communication and International Relations, UAE
Ministersaal 3 (40-50
participants) (no simultaneous
interpretation)
Focus session 7 Mechanisms for complementary pathways for Refugees and Migrants Moderator: Ms. Anna Crowley – Open Society Foundations Rapporteurs: Ms. Karina Saramiento, Asylum Access Discussion starters: - Ms. Petra Hueck, ICMC
Europe - Mr. Emeka Obiezo, Emeka
Obiezu, Augustinians International
- Mr. Gary Slaiman, Morgan Lewis/Talent Beyond Boundaries
- Mr. Onek Hillary, Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda
- Dr. Julian Rössler, Desk Officer for Migration Issues, Germany
Ministersaal 4 (40-50 participants)
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Europasaal (200 participants)
(no simultaneous interpretation)
13h50 – 14h45
Lunch + move to plenary session
14h45 – 15h30
Wrap-Up and Reports back
• Grand rapporteur Common Space: Mr. Gibril Faal – Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform and GCM Rapporteur Team: Dr. Kathleen Newland – Migration Policy Institute Closing of Common Space
• Ambassador Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN in New York, representing GFMD 2017-2018 Co-Chair Morocco
• Ms. Berenice Valdez Rivera, Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (IMUMI), GFMD Civil Society Co-Chair
Plenary in Weltsaal (500) with simulcast in the Europasaal (200) 15h30 – 16h00
Closing Ceremony GFMD
• German and Moroccan Co-Chairs Plenary in Weltsaal (500) with simulcast in the Europasaal (200)
Tea tables with Governments [by invitation only] 16:30 – 18:00
German Federal Foreign Office Unterwasserstraße 10, 10117 Berlin
30th of June: Parallel afternoon events: Film screenings and side events Robert Bosch Foundation
Französische Straße 32, Berlin
14:00 15:45 Augustinians International / Civil Society National Network on Migration and Development: Valletta Action Plan and Global Compact: Journeys in Same or Opposite Directions
CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE)
Migrants and Diaspora Constituency Migration, Diaspora and
Development Effectiveness
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik (DIE): Current migration realities in Africa:
perspectives, priorities, policies
WIMN/UN Women: Addressing women’s human rights in the
Global Compact on Migration
15:45 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 18:00 Swiss Civil Society Platform / VENRO Strategies of national civil society platforms on influencing the Global Compact on Migration
Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) / Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Human Security at Risk? Capacity Building for Border Management
under Scrutiny
Initiative on Child Rights in the Global Compacts
Child rights and an SDG-like Global Compact on Migration
Film screening: “When I’m there” + Panel discussion on “social remittances” of Moroccan diaspora (starts at 16.30)
Reception hosted by the Robert Bosch Foundation
18:30 – 21:00
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[admission on first come first served basis]
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Civil Society Day 2, Saturday 1 July 2017: Commitments Day Hotel Palace Berlin, Budapester Str. 45, Berlin
09:00 – 10:00
Bordeaux I-II Plenary debate [Davos style]: The Global Compact: prospects for content and shared interests
- Gibril Faal – Africa – Europe Diaspora Development Platform and Grand Rapporteur GFMD Common Space
- Wies Maas – Civil Society Chair - Berenice Valdez Rivera – Civil Society Co-Chair
Interaction
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break and move to working sessions Foyer
10:15 – 12:15
Parallel working sessions Theme 1: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for Children on the Move and other Migrants in Vulnerable Situations
Bordeaux I-II
Moderators Junita Calder, International Detention Coalition Eva Sandis, NGO Committee on Migration in New York
Rapporteur Christian Wolff, ACT Alliance
Discussion starters Daniela Reale, Save the Children UK Lara Arabian, The Cross Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants
Theme 2: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms to create welcoming societies for Migrants in the face of growing Xenophobia
Burgund I
Moderator Kuda Vanyoro, African Centre for Migration and Society
Rapporteur Genevieve Gencianos, Public Services International
Discussion starters Gelson Santana, Workers Union from the Construction Industries of Porto Alegre Jille Belisario, Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers/ Transnational Migrant Platform Pedro Rios, Southern Border Communities Coalition
Theme 3: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for return and reintegration
Burgund II
Moderators Ahmed Bugre, Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants Eiri Ohtani, The Detention Forum
Rapporteurs Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Bikash Chowdhury, BASUG – Diaspora and Development
Discussion starters Victor Aihawu, Centre for Youths Integrated Development Saiful Haque, WARBE Development Foundation
Theme 4: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms in the context of work, including Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers, Labour migration and Regularization
Burgund III
Moderators Tatcee Macabuag, Migrant Forum in Asia Charlie Fannning, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Rapporteurs Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute Mi Sun Kim, Migrant Health Association in Korea/ Joint Committee with Migrants Korea
Discussion starters Jillian Roque, PSLINK/Philippines Rafeek Azeez, Center for Indian Migrant Studies
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
Special session 1: Green room on civil society baselines, redlines and common messages towards the Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Burgund I
Moderators John Bingham, International Catholic Migration Commission
Efrain Jimenez, Federacion Zacatecana A.C.
Rapporteur (to be decided in the session)
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Special session 2: Mechanisms for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration where work is not the principal driver
– focus on resettlement, private sponsorships and family reunification Burgund II
Moderator Marco Antonio Castillo Martínez, Instituto de Investigación y Práctica Social y
Cultural A.C.
Rapporteur Emeka Obiezu, Augustinians International
Discussion starters Bikash Chowdhury, BASUG – Diaspora and Development
Gabriela Liguori, Comisión Argentina para Refugiados y Migrantes
Special session 3: Climate and environmental change and migration Burgund III
Moderator Mamadou Goita, Institute for Research and the Promotion of Alternatives in
Development /PANDiMR
Rapporteur Tabitha Sabiiti, All Africa Conference of Churches Liaison to African Union
Discussion starters Atle Solberg, Platform on Disaster Displacement
Raúl Delgado Wise, Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo/ International
Network on Migration and Development
14:00 – 14:45
Bordeaux I-II Plenary: Reporting back and moving forward:
- Consolidated Presentation of main commitments by Grand Rapporteur Commitments Day – Rex Varona
- Presentation of rapporteur on children - Milena Franke - Presentation of rapporteur on women - Carolina Gottardo - Consolidated report back from the Outreach Meetings - Vincent Tournecuillert
Interaction
14:45 – 16:15
Bordeaux I-II International Strategies Concluding Debate, Commitments I [Davos style] Next Steps we will take on Baselines, Redlines and Common Messages
- William Gois, Migrant Forum in Asia - Monami Maulik, Global Coalition on Migration - Pav Akhtar, UNI Global Union
Interaction Regional strategies Concluding Debate, Commitments II [direct interaction between the moderator(s) and the floor]: What are specific regional priorities and particularities for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and what next steps will we take in the regions to make sure that the Global Compact does not lose them?
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30– 17:30
Bordeaux I-II National strategies Concluding debate, Commitments III [Davos style]: Capital Strategies: Next steps we will take to advocate directly with our governments in our own countries and capitals to achieve our recommendations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
- Claudia León Ang – International Network on Migration and Development
- Peter Aeberhard - The Swiss Civil Society Platform on Migration and Development
- Pietro Mona – Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Interaction
17:30 – 18:00
Closing Ceremony Bordeaux I-II
- Götz Schmidt-Bremme, GFMD 2017 – 2018 Co-Chair, German Federal Foreign Office - El Habib Nadir, GFMD 2017 – 2018 Co-Chair, Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation - Berenice Valdez Rivera, Civil Society Co-Chair - Wies Maas, Civil Society Chair
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The Civil Society activities of the 2017 Global Forum on Migration and Development
are being organized by the GFMD Civil Society Coordinating Office, under the
auspices of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) in partnership
with a diverse group of NGOs, labour organizations, migrant and diaspora
organizations, members of the academic community and the private sector.
Principal funding and resources are provided by:
Our Donors:
Danke, Deutschland! And to our local partner:
The GFMD Civil Society Coordinating
Office is part of the Migration and
Development Civil Society Network
