White paper : Mainstreaming migration into local development planning and beyond

The JMDI is an inter-agency initiative led by the UNDP in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC–ILO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and UN Women. [...] This allowed the identification of the key mainstreaming elements for each initiative, which in turn drove the synthesis and the systematization presented in Part 2. From the synthesis, the Steering Committee, after having enriched its content, formulated a series of recommendations, which are presented in Part 3. It should be noted that the authors of the White Paper recognize that the scope of t [...] The nature of these mechanisms can be very diverse, as shown by the examples in Part 4. For instance: In the Philippines, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) ensures the local–national dialogue and sharing of information through inter alia, its National Bureau of Local Government Development, while the Regional Office of the National Economic Development Authority (member of the [...] This is what happened in Kerala, India, where the establishment of the Kerala 2030 prospective plan, as well as the recognition of the importance of in, out and return migration, led to the designation of NORKA as the institution responsible for integrating migration into the perspective plan. [...] Up-scaling/replication/institutionalization of existing initiatives Several of the initiatives analysed in this paper are the result of increasing acknowledgement of the importance of migration and of the progressive implementation of policies aiming to institutionalize this acknowledgement over several years.