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11/30/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/30/2021 05:40
Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: the regional process
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Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: the regional process
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is the international framework instrument designed to improve cooperation in the field of migration. Germany has supported the project since 2019 and will contribute another five million euro in 2021.
What is the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration?
In adopting the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in December 2018, the international community reached agreement for the first time on a comprehensive framework for improved international cooperation on cross-border migration.
The GCM contains 23 objectives and numerous possible actions to make migration safer and more orderly. These include mitigating the causes of irregular migration and combating human smuggling and trafficking across borders. This comprehensive approach seeks to facilitate secure, orderly and regular migration while reducing the occurrence and negative impacts of irregular migration.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted by consensus on 10 December 2018 at an intergovernmental conference in Marrakech. It was adopted by an overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations General Assembly on 19 December 2018. The GCM expresses the international community's shared conviction that global migration must be regulated and organised in a better way and that migrants' living conditions must be improved. The Member States are responsible for deciding which measures and initiatives to promote and implement politically. Projects and initiatives around the world that help to implement the GCM goals in the Member States are supported through the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF). To mark the 70th anniversary of the International Organization for Migration on 29 November 2021, Germany has announced a further payment of five million euro into the MPTF.
Overall, Germany has funded the project with almost twelve million euro since 2019.
How does the cooperation work?
The first review phase of the implementation of the Compact at regional level took place in 2020. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) support this process.
By 31 October 2020, Germany and other European countries had submitted national reports focusing on the following issues: How are efforts to fight human trafficking organised? What paths of legal migration are there? Which return programmes are available?
The regional review will feed into a global review forum, which will convene every four years from 2022.
Germany will continue to support the goals of the GCM and is making available an additional five million euro for the Migration Multi-Partner Trust to this end in 2021.
Further Information
German contribution - GCM regional ReviewPDF / 252 KBGerman contribution - GCM regional ReviewPDF / 252 KB(download file)
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular MigrationPDF / 596 KB
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