The CARICOM Secretariat and the CARICOM Implementation Company for Crime and Safety (IMPACS), with technical assist from the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM), will host a essential workshop titled “In direction of a Regional Method to a Migration Coverage within the Caribbean—Realizing A Shared Imaginative and prescient” from July 8 – 10 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This initiative marks a major stride within the improvement of a typical regional coverage to strategically leverage migration as a improvement device for the Caribbean Neighborhood.
The technical workshop will carry collectively Nationwide Focal Factors from the CARICOM Member States and representatives of related regional and worldwide organizations. Constructing on IOM’s Migration Governance Indicator (MGI) assessments and different consultations held with nationwide governments of CARICOM Member States in 2023 and ongoing in 2024, members will work to design a migration coverage framework that precisely displays the wants and ambitions of the Individuals of the Caribbean Neighborhood. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement, the World Compact for Protected, Orderly and Common Migration (GCM), and the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas may also information deliberations.
Ms. Alison Drayton, Assistant Secretary-Common, Human and Social Improvement, CARICOM Secretariat, famous that she was inspired by the keenness of Member States concerned within the improvement of the Coverage. “I’m happy that the method has adopted a ‘whole-of-government’ and a ‘whole-of-society” strategy,” said ASG Drayton. “Representatives from our Member States are concerned in each side of the Coverage’s improvement with the overarching purpose of guaranteeing the Neighborhood’s voice resonates deeply within the ultimate end result”.
IOM’s Coordinator for the Caribbean, Patrice Quesada is happy that the group’s work is including worth to the method. “The MGIs have been performed in shut collaboration with Member States; public servants in numerous areas of presidency fed all related info into the assessments, offering knowledge on nationwide insurance policies and practices regarding migration, and figuring out the areas of precedence for enchancment. One of many issues we discovered via the 12 assessments performed within the Caribbean, is that schooling and first well being care are already accessible for non-nationals in most international locations. However, the MGI’s highlighted the necessity to strengthen the coverage approaches to labour migration, to make sure that migration is used to strategically fill gaps within the labour market, with out disadvantaging the residents of the receiving Member State.”
It’s anticipated that on the finish of this workshop, there will likely be a accomplished draft roadmap for Member States and the Area. This doc would come with key milestones for growing and implementing a stable regional migration coverage based mostly on proof and a draft motion plan to advance migration governance within the Area.
The workshop, which is being undertaken with funding from the US State Division and IOM, contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Improvement Aim (SGD) 10, which goals to cut back inequalities between nations and peoples via protected, orderly, and common migration.
