Seminar on Building Partnerships

March 7, 2007
Belgium

Seminar on Building Partnerships
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Focus
This seminar on Building Partnerships is catering to the ongoing policy discussions on international migration and development, which gained momentum during the General Assembly’s High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), held at UN Headquarters in September 2006. This dialogue will be continued at the first Global Forum on International Migration and Development to be held in Belgium in July 2007.

The seminar will bring together development and migration experts to share their views and discuss the migration-development nexus in the context of their respective mandates and policy agendas. A look at the historical evolution of this nexus will lead to a discussion on more recent developments. The Seminar will present evidence and experiences regarding the building and functioning of partnerships that bring together the development and migration ‘communities’, including local actors, the private sector, as well as migrants and diaspora organizations.

Objectives
This seminar is intended to:

* increase mutual understanding between migration and development communities;
* look at how migration is taken into account in development cooperation;
* identify good practices in increasing the development impact of migration and, in this context, models of successful partnership between
* different stakeholders;
* discuss the way forward for enhanced international cooperation in this field;
* brief delegates on the state of preparations for the first Global Forum on International Migration and Development to be held in July in
* Belgium, and on the work of the Global Migration Group (GMG).

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