Intersessional Workshop, 11 - 12 October 2016
Palais des Nations, Geneva
Background
The first workshop in the series planned in 2016 on the theme Follow-up and Review of Migration in the SDGs, was held in New York at the beginning of the year and discussed appropriate tools and mechanisms that will help Member States to measure progress on relevant migration-related SDG targets.
Building on the conclusions of the first workshop, the second workshop to be held on 11-12 October 2016 in Geneva will focus on Assessing progress in the implementation process of migration related SDGs, and will discuss the results available of the tools and mechanisms presented in New York, including the IOM-EIU Migration Governance Index and the joint IOM-UNDESA indicator for measuring progress on migration related targets endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission.
Overview
The workshop will open a space for IOM Member States and other stakeholders to share strategies, policies and measures that they are putting in place to reach migration related targets, including good practices, challenges, lessons learned and areas that need support and shared experiences
The key objectives of the workshop are:
to look at baselines on key migration related SDG targets
to gather best practices of countries making progress in achieving migration related targets in the SDGs
to consider how best to act in a collective and coordinated way, both at national, regional and international levels, to implement these goals and to mainstream migration into all the relevant goals and targets
to look at ways to improve capacity building for countries measuring/reporting on progress
to inform International Organizations about how they could contribute to the process of achieving the SDGs