Concept note: African regional consultative meeting on the global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration

Abstract

The global compact is expected to be guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, and is informed by the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development adopted by the General Assembly in October 2013 in its resolution 68/4. The objective of the global compact is to respond to target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda, in which member States committed to cooperate internationally to facilitate safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people; its scope is defined in annex II of the New York Declaration. The main objectives of the African Regional Consultative Meeting are to provide a forum for Africa to identify and articulate key migration issues, challenges and priorities; identify actionable commitments and recommendations; means of implementations; and identify mechanisms at national, sub regional and regional levels to ensure coherence and effective follow-up; To prepare African countries to articulate their own narratives on migration.