Migration Topics

GMPA Activities and Services

GMPA conduct activities and provide expertise in cooperation with governments, international bodies, social partners and civil society.
Main areas of services include:

• Research and analysis on international migration-related issues and trends
• Identifying current and future governance challenges and responses
• Technical assessments of national and regional situations
• Elaboration of policy options and recommendations
• Advisory work on policy, legislation, administration and good practices
• Design and implementation of technical cooperation and capacity building
• Assessment, advice and assistance on institution building
• Design and implementation of training activities
• Organization of conferences, workshop and seminars on migration
• Guidance on public awareness and news media communications on migration

GMPA ACTIVITIES

2024 - Current Activity  - What we’re working on now:

• Co-preparing and co-editing a forthcoming special issue Social Justice in the Contemporary World of the academic-scientific journal RTE-Revista Tecnologica ESPOL, published under auspices of the Polytechnic University of Ecuador.  (The full Call for Papers is posted online; See in English; en Español.)
• Participating in consultations and activities of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, which GMPA joined as partner.
• Conducting a comprehensive Global literature review on Social Justice, over 700 titles listed, 220 pages at mid-year.
• Doing new research to rewrite and update the forthcoming Handbook on Welcoming Cities for migrants and refugees
• Monitoring sessions of and interceding at side-events to the UN Human Rights Council
• Providing inputs for CERD and C(R)MW UN Treaty Bodies and for Special Procedures reports.

• Newly posted!  GMPA supported the organization, participated in, contributed expert presentations and co-moderated opening and closing sessions at the ISMUN (International youth & Student Movement for the United Nations) Summer School on Human Rights and Development “Towards the Summit for the Future and Beyond” held in Geneva 15-19 July 2024. Associate Olga Kadysheva spoke on Social development and the role of cities and also co-moderated opening and closing sessions along with ISMUN Secretary-General Jan Lönn. Associate Jane Aeberhard-Hodges presented on Gender Equality, Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Search for Social Justice. Associate Emel Zerrouk spoke on The Right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the Right to water. Associate Patrick Taran led an extended session on contemporary migration features, challenges and law and policy emphasizing the international normative framework. (Jane, Olga and Patrick had also each led sessions at the 2023 summer school.) GMPA Research Associates Eda Düzgün and Hiya Sharma were full time participants in the course. See posts on Linkedin: Jane's session, Patrick's session, Emel's session.

2023

• 10 October. A GMPA team completed research and preparation of a comprehensive regional Practical Manual on Admission and Post-Admission Migration Policies and Tools: Guidance for SADC main Countries of Destination of migrant workers.  The 160 page draft was prepared for the joint ILO-IOM SAMM - Southern Africa Migration Management project; it goes now for review and vetting by tripartite constituents –government, employer and union experts-- in SADC (Southern African Development Community) countries concerned: Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and others. The manual content includes chapters on (Admission provisions and policy tools): labour shortage lists/critical occupation lists, labour market tests, numerical limits/quotas, point based systems, employer sponsorship schemes, expression of interest systems, job search visa   programmes, work/study visa programmes, low skilled admissions and temporary migration schemes, bilateral labour migration instruments, fair and ethical recruitment; (Post-admission provisions and policy tools): decent work conditions including occupational safety and health, fair remuneration and wage protection,  labour inspection of working and living conditions, freedom of association and collective bargaining rights, protection of women migrant workers including against violence and harassment, access to justice for migrant workers, social protection/social security provisions and their portability, employment mobility for migrant workers,  skill development and skills recognition for migrant workers, family reunification for migrant workers, regularization criteria and practices for migrant workers in irregular status.  Piyasiri Wickramasekara was lead researcher-writer with Chandima Arambepola, Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva.  Just published in August 2024: Technical Capacity-building Manual. Admission and Post-Admission Labour Migration Policies and Tools: Guidance for main Countries of Destination in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region. International Labour Office, ILO, Pretoria, 2024. (184 pages) (See Linkedin post here)

• 22 September. A GMPA team completed research and preparation of comprehensive national migration profiles for 6 Western Balkan Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. The profiles have been submitted to ITUC - International Trade Union Confederation for its RecruitAdvisor program and may later be more widely available.  Victoria Castillo, GMPA Associate was lead researcher-writer with research assistance by Desiree Mortenson, GMPA Research Associate, and contributions and editing by Patrick Taran.
• Patrick Taran, GMPA President, conducted a mission to Chile in August, invited as speaker at the University of Chile - FASIC (Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas) conference Human Rights 50 years since the coup d’etat, Contemporary Perspectives, in Santiago de Chile on 9 August.  He also engaged in consultative meetings with executives of CUT national trade union federation; CTC Confederation of Copper Workers national union; INCAMI-Catholic Institute on Migration; staff of FASIC, Lutheran and Methodist church refugee agencies and a Maipú community service for migrant and refugee children and youth; and a documentation center executive of the national Memorial and Human Rights Museum.  See Radio Universidad de Chile video-interview;    Universidad de Chile Noticias article ;   Interview on El Ciudadano (‘the Citizen’) news site.
• The GMPA Assembly of Members 2023 was held in Geneva on 13 June. As summarised in the Report on Proceedings,  the Assembly provided a forum for lively discussion and assessment of key current challenges in the world of migration, through member round-table reports, general discussion and the Executive Report.  Induction of eight new members --6 Associates and 2 Affiliates-- was approved, as were prior year GMPA Activity Reports and Financial Statements. This Assembly reconfirmed GMPA as a unique collective place and space for independent, rights-based, multi- and interdisciplinary research, analysis, knowledge-creation and policy formulation with global participation.
• Final revision and updating text of  Handbook on Cities Welcoming Migrants and Refugees: Rights, Inclusion, Integration, Sustainability.

2022

• March 2022: COVID-19, Migrants, Refugees, Mobile Workers: Global Assessment and Action Agenda The article co-authored by Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva and published in the RTE journal is arguably the most comprehensive overview to date of the impact and consequences worldwide of COVID-19 –and ill-considered reactions to it– on migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and mobile workers. More than a global problem survey, it compiles the full, rights-based action agenda package of policy and practical measures essential to roll back the coronavirus pandemic, sustain economies, communities and human well-fare with reference to people on the move and immigrant origin communities.

• March 2022: Special Issue Global Migration Challenges and Remedies: An interdisciplinary review of the open access academic-scientific journal RTE –Revista Tecnológica ESPOL, Polytechnic University of Ecuador produced in cooperation with Global Migration Policy Associates and GSD --Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Several articles authored by GMPA Associates; many GMPA Associates and Affiliates served as peer-reviewers for articles submitted. GMPA President Patrick Taran was the Guest Editor, working in cooperation with RTE Editor-in-Chief Nayeth Idalid Solórzano Alcivar (based in Guayaquil).  The volume pulls together content concerning all world regions—Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, Eurasia, and Oceania. Authors and peer reviewers represent regional and national diversity across the globe; gender balance; multiple disciplines; and a range from migrants to young women scholars to veteran international specialists to accomplished academics. Articles are also individually accessible here. The ten rigorously peer reviewed articles peer review discuss: policy for rights, decent work and well-fare of women migrant workers; health and risks facing migrants and refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic; small island country mitigation and adaptation to global warming; impeding climate-change displacement of indigenous pastoralist communities; preventing discrimination and promoting equality of treatment; common approaches of cities welcoming migrants and refugees; and the key role of international migration in sustaining economies, development, and human welfare worldwide. Articles also explore consequences of anti-migration discourse by populist ethno-nationalism, lessons from ancient history for contemporary international refugee law, and an innovative approach to including human rights and migration in university education. (See Linkedin post here)

• Final revisions, updating data, additional topical research for numerous chapters of Handbook on Cities Welcoming Migrants and Refugees: Rights, Inclusion, Integration, Sustainability (total 30+ chapters) by Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva, incorporating 'peer-review' comments and suggestions from colleagues at UNESCO, UN Habitat, UNICEF, UNODC, OHCHR, as well as academic colleagues and city practitioners. 

2021

• GMPA-ILO (International Labour Organization) /JLMP (Joint Labour Migration Programme for Development and Integration in Africa) project "Preparation of AU (African Union) Guidelines on Bilateral Labour Agreements". Research by the GMPA expert specialist team (Patrick Taran, Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Marius Olivier, assisted by Olga Kadysheva and Hiral Hirani) under ILO auspices and preparation of: Inception Report; AU Guidelines on Bilateral Labour Agreements (endorsed by the African Union Specialised Technical Committee (STC) on Social Development, Labour and Employment, Addis Ababa) and AU Guidelines Manual on BLAs, Final revised edition,  incorporating comments from AU-ILO-IOM JLMP partners. The research was based on review of secondary sources and consultations and inputs from key stakeholders including: the AUC, ILO, IOM LMAC, the RECs, Member States and other relevant experts and stakeholders such as Private Recruitment Agencies, Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU), ITUC-AFRICA and other organisations dealing with the rights of migrant workers and the employers.

• Ongoing research on COVID-19 & Migrants, Refugees and Mobile Workers; preparing an article (in Spanish) by Patrick Taran with Nayeth Idalid Solorzano Alcivar for publication in a peer-reviewed journal Revista Compendium, Ecuador; preparation and submission of an article by Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva to Revista Tecnológica - Espol;  conducting a study of Return and reintegration challenges and policy responses in Asia following the COVID-19 pandemic by Piyasiri Wickramasekara for ADBI – OECD – ILO publication. 

• Further revisions, updating data, figures and actions in cities examples, additional topical research, expanding and re-writing numerous chapters of Handbook on Cities Welcoming Migrants and Refugees: Rights, Inclusion, Integration, Sustainability by Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva, incorporating numerous comments and suggestions from UNESCO colleagues. Ongoing research on cities responses to COVID-19 pandemic related to migrants and refugees across Europe in different areas of providing services and protecting rights.

• Design and preparation of Special Issue Global Migration Challenges and Remedies: An interdisciplinary review (published March 2022) of the open access academic-scientific journal RTE –Revista Tecnológica ESPOL, Polytechnic University of Ecuador produced in cooperation with Global Migration Policy Associates and GSD --Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. GMPA President Patrick Taran was the Guest Editor, working in cooperation with RTE Editor-in-Chief Nayeth Idalid Solórzano Alcivar (based in Guayaquil). Developing the TORs, identifying key topics, doing publicity via mass mailings and social networks, soliciting articles/papers from GMPA members and other experts on specific migration topics. Preparation of articles by Associates August Gachter, Eivind Hoffmann, Olga Kadysheva, Patrick Taran. Review of articles submitted, identification of peer-reviewers.

2020

• GMPA-ILO project “IGAD regional guidelines for a rights-based approach to bilateral labour agreements” under the joint IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development)/ILO Project “Free Movement of Persons and Transhumance in the IGAD Region: Improving Opportunities for Regular Labour Mobility”, supported by the European Union.  GMPA Team (Patrick Taran and Piyasiri Wickramasekara, assisted by Olga Kadysheva and Marubini Muswede) researched, prepared and produced 2 books (each nearly 100 pages, with and initial draft, peer reviews and three revisions over course of the year): a thorough comprehensive Background Report and complete Guidelines, published jointly by IGAD and ILO in 2021. The project included grueling 4 week mission by Patrick Taran and Piyasiri Wickramasekara   to Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti, and virtually visiting Somalia and South Sudan for multi-party tripartite consultative meetings. In total, the team had consultations with 160 senior government, employer and trade union officials, migrant workers, international organization officials, and technical experts in 7 countries.

• Background Report (IGAD-ILO, 2021) (EN/FR), researched and written by Patrick Taran and Piyasiri Wickramasekara, assisted by Olga Kadysheva and Marubini Muswede.
• IGAD Regional Guidelines on Rights-Based Bilateral Labour Agreements  (IGAD, 2021),  drafted by Piyasiri Wickramasekara and Patrick Taran.

• GMPA team Research project on COVID-19 & Migrants, Refugees and Mobile Workers: overview of migration-related policies, practices and measures of various countries during the pandemic, literature review, identifying data, collecting country examples of policy and practice and developing a summary of policy responses. (see publications on Health page)

• Revisions and updating of the draft Handbook on Cities Welcoming Migrants and Refugees: Rights, Inclusion, Integration, Sustainability by Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva. Research on cities responses to COVID-19 pandemic related to migrants and refugees across Europe. Incorporating new examples of actions in cities drawing from responses to an updated questionnaire circulated by UNESCO to ECCAR members.

2019

• Research on Migration and Development in Europe and beyond,  GMPA - Caritas Europa MIND project. In 2019, a GMPA team (Olga Kadysheva, Patrick Taran, Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Tara Thomas) supported finalisation and publication of 11 Caritas national studies in EU countries on migration and development explicitly tying migration to the Sustainable Development Agenda (project January 2018 to September 2019).  In early 2019, the GMPA colleagues final edited revised drafts for publication of all 11 national reports, covering Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden.  From early 2019 to summertime, the GMPA core team researched and drafted Common Home: Migration and Development in Europe and beyond report, as part of Common Home series. The work was under contract with Caritas Europa, as part of MIND – Migration. Interconnectedness. Development project,  financed by the European Commission (DG DEVCO). MIND was a 3-year project (October 2017-September 2020), led by Caritas Austria with Caritas Europa in the co-lead with 10 further Caritas organisations as partners: Caritas Bavaria (Germany), Caritas Bulgaria, Caritas Czech Republic, Cordaid (Caritas Netherlands), Caritas International Belgium, Caritas Italy, Caritas Portugal, Caritas Slovakia, Caritas Slovenia, and Caritas Sweden.

• Common Home: Migration and Development in Europe and beyond. Caritas Europa, Brussels. 2019. 152 pages. Patrick Taran, Olga Kadysheva, Piyasiri Wickramasekara (GMPA); Luisa Fondello, Davide Gnes, and Shannon Pfohman (Caritas Europa).

  

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• Evaluation of the ILO ITC labour migration training activities.  Patrick Taran was Team Leader with support by Olga Kadysheva for a thorough, first time evaluation of the labour migration activities (over a two year period) of the International Ttraining Center of the ILO. The evaluation entailed work over four months in 2019 adapting OECD and ILO evaluation methodology and criteria to this specific programme and content and included interviews/assessment meetings with ITC-ILO executives and trade unionists, analysis of findings, and preparation and revisions of report and recommendations. Independent external evaluation of the ITCILO training and learning activities in the area of labour migration from the beginning of 2017 till mid-2018: Final Evaluation Report.
• Formulation and initiation of large scale project for research and evaluation of Bilateral Labour Agreements (BLAs) and development of guidelines on a common approach for the IGAD–Intergovernmental Authority on Development (among East Africa-Horn of Africa countries Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda). Core team was Patrick Taran and GMPA Vice-President Piyasiri Wickramasekara, supported by Associate Olga Kadysheva with research assistance by Maribini Muswede. The project was proposed by/to ILO in August and initiated in November 2019 and carried through to November 2020.
• GMPA team continued further research and revision of the draft comprehensive City Practitioners Handbook on Welcoming Migrants and Refugees.
• GMPA submitted Quadrennial Report for 2015-2018 to UN ECOSOC as required by NGO consultative status regulations.

2018

• GMPA team (Olga Kadysheva, Patrick Taran, Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Tara Thomas) contributed research and editorial support to 11 national studies in EU countries on migration and development explicitly tying migration to the Sustainable Development Agenda (published in 2019), as part of Caritas Europa MIND (Migration. Interconnectedness. Development) project. GMPA cooperated in the development of structure/outline of the studies, identifying relevant literature and data sources, revision, editions and comments on drafts of each national report. Team members conducted consultative missions to Brussels and to Lisbon.
• Mid-Term Evaluation of the EU-Africa MMD (Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue) Support Project (October 2017-July 2018). Patrick Taran was Team Leader with evaluation expert Anna Ohannessian Charpin; a thorough mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the European Union funded MMD Support Project implemented by International Centre for Migration Policy Development. The evaluation entailed work over seven months in 2018 (following 3 in 2017) for data assessment, stakeholder interviews, thematic and senior officials meetings, analysis of findings, and preparation and revisions of report and recommendations. The activity included missions by GMPA team members to Addis, Brussels, Khartoum, Rome, and Vienna.
• Program and project evaluation of Expertise France-coordinated MEETAfrica - Mobilisation Européenne pour I'EntrepreneuriaT en Afrique. (April to September 2018). Patrick Taran was Team Leader with evaluation expert Anna Ohannessian Charpin for the External Final Evaluation of the Expertise France/EU MEETAfrica programme, 1^st phase: a 2 year project of Expertise France, IRD (France) and GiZ (Germany) supported by France and EU-Africa MMD, a pilot programme to prepare and support skilled African expatriates in Europe to establish high-tech/innovative start-ups in countries of origin in Maghreb and West Africa. The evaluation was conducted April to September, including field interview missions to Mali and Tunisia, under a GMPA contract with Expertise France.
• Research and evaluation of Bilateral Labour Agreements (BLAs) and development of manuals on minimum standards, assessment and good practices consistent with ILO standards, globally and in the Asia region (2015-2018), by GMPA Vice-President Piyasiri Wickramasekara. Activity in 2018 in cooperation with ITC Turin training courses included: Development of Training Modules for Bangladeshi Labour Attachés (Desk work, August) and Negotiating Bilateral Labour Agreement: development of an interactive online tool (December).
• Research and preparing a Situation Assessment and policy documents on Afghanistan as part of development of comprehensive national migration policy. Research conducted by the Afghanistan CMP expert preparatory team: Patrick Taran, lead international expert, in cooperation with Sayed Askar Mousavi and Mohammad Jawad Shahab, Afghan expert team members, with research contributions by GMPA team Meera Jhogasundram, Olga Kadysheva and Tara Rose Thomas, under auspices of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in cooperation with the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Completed reports on Situation, Relevant Norms and outline of TOR for drafting policy.
• GMPA team additional research, revision, addressing peer reviewers comments on the draft of a comprehensive City Practitioners Handbook on Welcoming Migrants and Refugees, to be published by/with UNESCO.

2017

• Finalization of Promoting a Rights Based Approach to Migration, Health and HIV & AIDS-A Framework for Action, an ILO publication «made in GMPA» (launched in 2018: UN video & IOM news).

• Participation in the OSCE-IOM High level Panel Discussion on International Migrants Day 2017: Perception is not reality; towards a new narrative of migration, Vienna 18 December. Associates Jana Costachi, Irini Ivakhnyuk, Patrick Taran. 
• Lead international expert role, Preparatory Team for a Comprehensive Migration Policy for Afghanistan.
• Panal Presentation at the conference: The Migration and Development Nexus and the Role of Public Policies, Ankara, Turkey 7 December.
• Team leader role for Mid-Term Evaluation of the MMD –Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue—Support Project (2015-2019) implemented by ICMPD -the International Center for Migration Policy Development.
• Participation in the first Mediterranean Parliamentary Conference on Migration, Malta, 16-17 November (Patrick Taran, GMPA President, was conference Rapporteur and panel presenter)
• Research and preparation of a chapter on Engaging the diaspora and migrant workers for home country development by GMPA Associates Evalyn Tennant and Piyasiri Wickramasekara for the forthcoming (2018) ADBI-OECD-ILO publication on Labour Migration in Asia.
• Publication of Proposals for Russia's Migration Strategy through 2035, by the Center for Strategic Research, Moscow; authored by associate Irina Ivakhnyuk. 
• Interactive session presentation and discussion paper at the Oxford Symposium on Irregular Migrants 2017 (at St Hughs College) October.
• Research and preparation of a comprehensive city practioners Handbook on Welcoming Migrants and Refugees; towards inclusive and sustainable cities, to be published by UNESCO.
• Keynote address at the annual European Union conference on Diversity Management, at Tallin (under the Estonian EU Presidency) on 7 November by Patrick Taran (GMPA President)
• Service by Associate Evalyn Tennant as an executive co-coordinator in the secretariat of the Global Coalition on Migration (GCM) (2016 to July 2017)
• Panel Presentation at OSCE Expert meeting «Strengthening resilience of local communities to the presence of migrants” Vienna, 4 July 2017.
• Member participation in four Thematic Consultations and two Multi-Stakeholder Hearings of the preparatory process for the proposed global compact on migration.  Statements: Lisa Simeone & Evalyn Tennant at 2nd Thematic Consultation 22-23 May, New York; Lisa Simeone at 4th Thematic Consultation July 25 in New York.
• Preparation of: Governance Of Migration, A Context Note (by Lisa Simeone, Patrick Taran, Evalyn Tennant), revised June 2017.
• Presentation of papers by Associates Tamirace Fakhoury, Nicola Piper, Patrick Taran at the International Workshop: Regional Approaches in Migration/Asylum Governance: Advancing the International Agenda, University of Geneva, 23-24 June 2017.
• Participation and panel session presentation at the 4th World Forum on Inter-Cultural Dialogue in Baku, Azerbaijan in 5-6 May 2017 (see events page)
• Expert presentations at interministerial training for officials of Government of Afghanistan on migration and development in Istanbul, March, organized by ICMPD.
• Scientific Committee member and Session-Rapporteur in the Second Global Consultation on Migration and Health held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 21-23 February 2017.

2016

• Preparation of book Welcoming Refugees and Migrants; towards inclusive and sustainable cities, launched at a high level conference in Athens November 22  (See events page)
• Participation in Athens High Level Conference "Welcoming Refugees and Migrants: Promoting Inclusion and Protecting Rights" 22 November and Expert Workshop on cities welcoming migrants 23 November (see events page)
• Athens Expert Meeting "Empowering Cities to Implement an inclusive Urban Agenda for Refugees and Migrants."
• Conducted two-day staff training for FIDH -Fédération internationale des droits de l'homme, on migration in Central Asia, migrants rights and ILO instruments, Paris, 12-13 October
• Presentations of papers/participation at the Conference “Migration Crisis: International Cooperation and National Strategies” co-organized y RIAC (Russian International Affairs Council and RANEPA (Russian Presidential Academy on the Economy and Public Service) in Moscow, 22-23 September, by GMPA Associates and Friends: Olga Gulina, Irina Ivakhnyuk, Olga Kadysheva, Yelena Sadovskaya and Patrick Taran
• Plenary presentation “Review of OSCE Commitments on Migration, Progress in fulfillment and Challenges for OSCE-OCEEA» by Patrick Taran at the 24th OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Economic and Environmental Forum, Prague, 14-16 September.
• Interactive panel participation at MEDEV «Mouvement des entreprises de France» national Employers' Federation regional Université d'été, Strasbourg, 1-2 September.
• Participation by Associates Olga Kadysheva, Gabriela Neves de Lima, and Patrick Taran (panel presentation) at the UNU-GCM (United Nations University Globalization Culture and Migration) programme conference on migration and cities, Barcelona, 13-15 July 2016.  
• Presentation of papers at OSCE Expert Meeting on migration, Vienna, 16-17 June 2016 by Associates Irina Ivakhnyuk, Jana Costachi, Patrick Taran
• Participation in and opening comments at UNESCO launch conference for the UNESCO-ECCAR-Marianna V. Vardinoyannis  Foundation Cities Welcoming Refugees and Migrants initiative, Paris, 9 May. 
• Presentation: Migration, Displacement and the SDGs : A Civil Society Perspective by GMPA Secretary Lisa Simeone at the GMG Multi-stakeholder Meeting, at the United Nations, New York 25 April 2016.
• 'Made in GMPA' book Migrants and Refugees Have Rights; impact of EU policies on accessing protection, published by Caritas Europa, launched at European Parliament in Brussels on 17 March 2017.  (see report on events page)
• GMPA expert presentation "Migration, Globalization and Economic Viability: The Cost of Ineffective Labour Migration Policies" at the Permanent COuncil, OSCE- EEC, Vienna 16 March. 
• Participation in the 14th International/UN Coordination Meeting on Migration in New York 25-26 February by Associates Lisa Simeone, Patrick Taran and Evalyn Tennant.
• Preparation of initial «Migration and SDGs Matrix» revised version