Draft recommendations: African regional consultative meeting on the global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration

Abstract

At the United Nations Summit on 19 September 2016, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants was adopted. The declaration, aimed at improving the governance of migration, set out steps towards the achievement of a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in 2018. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the African Union Commission, organized the African regional consultative meeting on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. One of the main objectives of the regional consultation was to ensure that Africa’s narratives and priorities would be adequately reflected in the global compact for migration. the African regional consultative meeting on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration present the following recommendations. The recommendations will serve to guide African member states in the stocktaking and intergovernmental negotiation phases of the process leading to the adoption of the global compact. They will also serve as a reference point for future policy discourses on African migration.