 I have the great privilege and honour of chairing this afternoon's session, which will focus on measuring impact of capacity development in migration. How do we measure the impact of capacity development? What are the challenges and lessons learned? And how do we move forward jointly? I welcome you all, and I specifically welcome the distinguished guests and panellists that we have around the table for this afternoon, and I'd like to introduce them to you right away. Mr. Hernandez Vazquez is the sub-director general from the Director General for Migration and Immigration in Costa Rica. Mr. Vazquez has long-standing experience in migration issues and we're very happy that you could join us this afternoon. Mr. Slobo Djenuk is the deputy director of the diaspora relations bureau in the State Chancellery of the Republic of Moldova, and in his role he coordinates various initiatives for the capacity development of diaspora communities abroad and plays a key role in developing the public policy framework on diaspora migration and development in Moldova. Last, but certainly not least, we also have Ms. Ann Dao Chau, who is the chief capacity development coordinator at the African Development Institute. The African Development Institute is the African Development Bank's unique shop for capacity development, and Ms. Dao Chau is in charge of the design of the bank in a wide framework and toolkit for capacity development. But of course, among the key guests here is also all of you who sit here with us today, and we were discussing earlier how rich it is to have this exchange with civil society, migrants, governments, and more in participating in this joint reflection around the themes on our agenda today. So I very much hope that after the presentation from our panellists we'll be able to welcome questions from all of you. Before giving the floor to the first panellist, I would also like to take the opportunity to say a few words on the capacity efforts undertaken by the organization that I represent. For us at Terre des Hommes, it is crucial that all work with migrant children is governed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A child is a child irrespective of the migration, legal, or other status. It is not always easy, however, to implement that fully on the ground, and we have observed that many actors involved in migration processes are in fact not sufficiently aware of what the rights of the child actually means for their daily activity. We have noticed such weaknesses in migration authorities, but also in child protection actors when involved in cross-border cases. Moreover, and we've heard a lot about that this morning, in many contexts, we see that services for migrant children are also provided by civil society organizations, which might not necessarily have the knowledge and expertise on child rights, or by informal actors, including host communities, who also play a crucial role and need the right skillset to understand what is at stake. For change to be systemic, capacity development means working with all these actors, whose mindsets, behaviors, and attitudes increase the protection of children, or can increase the protection of children. So allow me before I give the floor to the panelists to give a few examples of how capacity development work is undertaken at Terre des Hommes. One, during the peak movements along the Western Balkan route in 2016-2017, Terre des Hommes with UNICEF and national partners provided ongoing training and support to frontline workers in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia on issues such as safeguarding, cultural sensitivity, psychological first aid, and more. Another example comes from West Africa, where following an assessment of capacity building needs, Terre des Hommes worked together with local child protection authorities to train members of the diaspora to adequately assist and protect children arriving from their country of origin. A third example comes from Asia, where we trained 144 members of the law enforcement community in 2016 in dealing with child trafficking cases, in child protection and child interviewing techniques. Currently in El Salvador, Terre des Hommes and la asociación de la capacitación e investigación para la salud mental are starting an initiative to train journalists to adequately report on immigration of children from the country. In Egypt, Terre des Hommes is running a program of social inclusion through sports for children and young people, and we train members of the host community on how to coach children while enhancing their life skills. So these are just a few examples of the way in which Terre des Hommes supports capacity development to improve the protection of children in migration. The diversity of such initiatives and the variety of actors involved is both the richness of the initiatives and the challenge in measuring progress and results. To address the challenges in measuring results, members within Terre des Hommes have developed a general framework of capacity development. The framework includes an extensive list of indicators breaking down the outcomes in very detailed learning and evaluation questions. There is also an indicator monitoring plan. Important information to measure the indicators is provided by the baseline study. However, these studies are costly and resource intensive. We have also developed 12 data collection tools including an actor and questionnaire and a children focus group guide. We seek to ensure that the data we collect is fit for purpose, well-protected and secure, easy to be analyzed and used for learning processes. We do this together with the actors involved including migrant children and their communities. All of this is a learning process and we are progressing. Capacity development is always multi-dimensional and we understand that to make it right, we have to work in partnership. This year, as many of you and as many of us, we have closely followed the negotiations by states on the global compacts for safe, orderly and regular migration. The initiative for child rights in global compacts, which brings together 30 civil society organizations and UN agencies and is co-chaired by Terre des Hommes, contributed to the process both of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, as well as to the consultations for the global compact on refugees, to advocate jointly for the rights of children. We strongly commend the compact's tests and our strongly and believe that their adoption and implementation will further enhance the capacity development results at the benefit of children, regardless of their migration status. So on this note, I very much welcome you again and open the floor for Mr. Hernandez Fasquez, who can tell us more on Costa Rica and capacity development initiatives within the migration field. Thank you. Para las migraciones por facilitar esta participación. Costa Rica es un país de origen, tránsito y destino. Somos un país pequeño, compuesto por siete provincias, cuenta con un territorio de 51,100 kilómetros cuadrados. Está ubicado en América Central, limita al norte con Nicaragua, al sur con la República de Panamá y indicarles que el mes pasado nació el Costa Recense número cinco millones. Históricamente, los flujos migratorios regionales y extra regionales se han convertido en una constante. La naturaleza de los flujos ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años pasando de refugiados por motivos políticos a migrantes laborales en la década de los noventa. En la historia más reciente, en 2008, en el territorio nacional, hemos recibido a miles de personas productos de movimientos humanos, masivos desplazamientos y migraciones de importantes proporciones que derivan en soluciones, que derivan de situaciones, perdón, económicas, sociopolíticas, desplazamientos por desastres, entre otros de todos los países alrededor del mundo. Costa Rica nunca ha podido ser indiferente, y ante esta realidad es por ello que aprobamos la última ley general de migración extranjería en el 2010, y a partir de esta ley hemos venido generando las condiciones necesarias para articular una gobernanza migratoria que permita, además de un control migratorio óptimo, una verdadera integración de la población migrante, dar servicios migratorios de manera ágil, velar por el respeto de los derechos humanos de las personas que ingresan a nuestro territorio. Contamos con una política migratoria, una política de integración de los migrantes y procedimientos al interno para procurar la protección de los migrantes. En procura de brindar un abortaje oportuno e integral en el año 2010, en la fecha de la creación de la ley, creamos también un protocolo para situaciones migratorias especiales donde se establecen los lineamentos generales en cuanto a los mecanismos de operación institucional que debemos seguir cuando nuestros oficiales identifican a personas o grupos de personas vulnerables. Una vez identificadas es posible activar esos protocolos con el fin de evitar que las personas en condiciones especiales de vulnerabilidad no sean identificadas como tales y que, por tanto, reciban un trato diferenciado y que no sean reictimizadas a partir de la aplicación indiscriminada de procedimientos como la detención, el rechazo, la devolución o la deportación. Nosotros como Dirección General de Migración hemos creado un equipo especializado de coordinación y asesoría denominado equipo para situaciones migratorias especiales. Este protocolo de atención a situaciones migratorias especiales tiene como finalidad generar conocimiento y sensibilidad sobre las distintas situaciones migratorias especiales que pueden presentarse, garantizar la identificación de esas situaciones por parte de todos los funcionarios de la Dirección de Migración de Costa Rica así como su abordaje integral de manera profesional, eficaz y homogénea con absoluto respeto de los derechos humanos. Dentro de esas situaciones que aborda este protocolo están niños o niñas adolescentes no acompañados o separados de sus padres, niños y niñas adolescentes acompañados en condición de vulnerabilidad como embarazo, posibles víctimas de violencia sexual, matrimonio forzoso, tráfico y lícito de migrantes o trata de personas, posibles víctimas de violencia sexual o basada en género mujeres embarazadas que viajan solas especialmente adolescentes, náufragos posibles desplazamientos masivos, población LGTBI y referencias de casos por parte de otras instituciones o cualquier situación migratoria especial de carácter urgente o humanitario. En ese mismo sentido posteriormente en el 2013 desarrollamos la ley contra la trate tráfico de personas que a partir de ese año hemos identificado 211 víctimas de trata las cuales han sido identificadas y recuperadas de ese flagelo gracias a la intervención oportuna de las autoridades y de un equipo de respuesta inmediata y sus mecanismos de detección de víctimas además de los aportes de las personas identificadas con esta causa de la sociedad civil. Desde finales del 2015 Costa Rica se enfrentó a la llegada de una oleada de más de 27,000 cubanos que pretendían continuar su tránsito hacia el norte pero permanecieron en nuestro suelo debido al cierre de las fronteras por parte de la República de Nicaragua. El gobierno de la República de Costa Rica dedicó todo su esfuerzo por albergar de la manera más responsable y sanitaria a la gran mayoría de cubanos. Para la atención de esta emergencia abrimos 37 albergues en los cuales se brindó atención médica servicios básicos de limpieza y aceo personal protección policial, atención a menores de edad, atención diferenciada para asuntos de género y muchas otras. Se coordinó la salida con vuelos desde Costa Rica hasta México vía aérea, además de trasladarse vía terrestre por El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala para que luego entrarán a los Estados Unidos con la aplicación de la ley respectiva. Posteriormente el año 2016 se presenta una llegada masiva de migrantes extra-continentales provenientes del continente africano acompañados por migrantes haitianos y a diferencia de las anteriores migraciones en este caso se presentaba una oleada de migrantes de latitudes muy lejanas con lenguajes y culturas y formas de vivir diferentes por lo que el Estado se viera necesidad de contratar servicios de intérpretes y traductores para llevar a cabo de la mejor manera estos procesos de atención especializada. Al principio de la llegada masiva de estos migrantes se da un ingreso al país de unas 2,000 personas por día. Sin embargo dicho tránsito por el territorio nacional ha diminuido al día de hoy estamos recibiendo aproximadamente 200 personas extra-continentales por día. Estas dos migraciones masivas nos dieron la enseñanza de mantener abiertos de atención temporal de migrantes. Uno funciona en el norte del país y otro funciona en el sur del país para la atención de estos diferentes lujos de migrantes. Por último, hemos desarrollado de esta nueva ley de migración extranjera una política nacional de integración en la sociedad costalicense dentro de la misma se establecen desde campañas de regularización de migrantes sin control policial y en un enfoque de respeto de los derechos humanos hasta el acceso de los migrantes a la educación y a la salud de estas poblaciones. Las anteriores estrategias y implementación de acciones las hemos desarrollado gracias a la contribución de la oficina del Organismo Internacional de las Migraciones en Costa Rica. Nuestro país como lo señaló la señora Biceminista de Relaciones Exteriores del Salvador es un país que requiere colaboración internacional para la atención de estos lujos. Nosotros hacemos enormes esfuerzos por gestionar la política de migración de la mano con la protección de los derechos humanos de las poblaciones migrantes así como dentro de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible. En lo que va del año estamos atendiendo migración sur-sur dentro de estas nacionalidades están como solicitantes de refugio 32,243 personas de nacionalidad nicaragüense 3,228 de nacionalidad venezolana 1,741 salvadoreñas entre otras nacionalidades de menor incidencia. Asimismo en lo que va del año hemos dado atención humanitaria hace 1,580 personas que son migrantes extra-regionales provenientes de África y de Asia. Esperaremos que a partir de la aprobación del Pacto Mundial de Migración podamos establecer políticas migratorias más uniformes en el marco de los derechos humanos con el fin de facilitar y aportar a estas crisis migratorias la responsabilidad de todos. Esperaremos que nuestra experiencia sirva para plantear retos para el desarrollo de políticas internas en los diferentes países para que favorezcan la protección, la atención y la identificación de personas migrantes y su relación con políticas se ponga en funcionamiento los objetivos de desarrollo sostenibles. Muchas gracias. Thank you very much, Mr. Hernandez Vazquez. I will now give the floor to Mr. Loboyenuk. Thank you very much. I would like to start with some words and to say that I am honored to present and to share with all participants our experience on implementing diaspora policy. First of all I would like to say that my presentation will be from two perspectives following the holistic approach. Republic of Moldova assimilated experience during the last six years on the field of diaspora policy. That is why at the first stage we face on the challenge to create data about diaspora impact and after that we started to develop the framework of monitoring and evaluation. So first of all at the beginning we face on the challenge about institutionalization of the operational and strategic framework. That is why through putting into practice the whole of the government approach. That is why two years ago we developed and approved the mechanism of coordination and of the state policy on diaspora migration and development. Why this approach? Because we understand that international organizations and donors mostly the key point is based on migration and development approach. We decided for Republic of Moldova that is more useful and more efficiently to promote and put into the practice diaspora migration and development approach at all levels through national and local engaging local authorities. The second challenge for us was targeted initiatives and programs on diaspora policy. That is why we conceptualized and put it into the practice diaspora engagement hub and what is very important that we put into the practice with direct partnership with international organization for migration. Very interesting program as diaspora excellence groups which is targeted for highly skilled migrants which have very interesting initiatives. As an example we have professor Yanthoma which work at the George Washington University in the United States which has a very interesting initiative to create a center of biomedicine in Republic of Moldova. During the last six years diaspora policy framework have main pillars. As an example, first of all we invest activities on human potential expression of our compatriots. The second one is their civic engagement. Another pillar is thematic partnership based on common needs and their professional interests. That is why it is very important for us to invest activities on network for knowledge and technology transfer into Republic of Moldova as a country of destination. When I speak technology I don't mean just advanced and high technology. I mean processes which our compatriots assimilate in the country of destination and which could directly contribute for sustainable development of the Republic of Moldova. First of all as an example I could give you we decided to start with social entrepreneurship. We know that our compatriots have already in this topic experience and we invited them to be more active and to be more engaged in this on a social entrepreneurship. As an example I could give you information that Republic of Moldova is a part of the MPF mobility partnership facility and this program is implemented with our partners from Ministry of Lavro from Italy and the social policy from Italy. This program is supported financially by ICMPD. Now I will speak about the indicator framework which we develop also in partnership with international organization for migration. As early as of 2015 the Republic of Moldova greeted the development by IOM of the Migration Governments framework MIGOV. To help countries define what well-managed migration policy would look like at the national level. We appreciated the subconscious development of the migration governance indicators as a very useful tool to assist us in the operation analysis of the MIGOV by using a standard set of indicators across 6K policy domains. Moldova then actively appreciated in applying the MGI indicators over two editions of the exercise resulting in the production of two snapshot reports. We appreciated the MGI as a tool based on policy inputs offering insights on policy levels that we could use to advance our migration governance. The MGI was beneficial to us as a benchmarking framework offering insights on policy measures that we could harness to strengthen migration governance and self-assess the comprehensive of our migration policies as well as to identify gaps and areas that could be strengthened. In particular, the MGI helped us to advance the conversation on migration governance by clarifying what well-governed migration might look like in the context of SDG. Another use we made on the MGI was to guide us in the development of the monitoring and evaluation framework in the field of diaspora migration and development. I will now focus more on this MGI-inspired monitoring and evaluation instrument as a tool to internally measure the impact of capacity development efforts. In order to establish a participative monitoring and evaluation policy framework in the field of diaspora migration and development and assessment of existing national monitoring and evaluation procedures, mechanisms and indicators of impact and progress, including those measuring progress of migration-related SDG targets has been carried out during 2017. It is worth mentioning that in the Republic of Moldova the first step in nationalizing the 2030 agenda on sustainable development took place during July 2016, March 2017. By first identifying the relevance of sustainable development goals. Second, identifying the level of goals for the national context at the level of goals and targets. And analyzing the level of correlation between the agenda and the national priority policies. Second, adopting, formulating global goals and targets to national needs and priorities. And identifying policy documents that need to be amended in order to reflect the ecosystem necessary for SDG monitoring and evaluation. Based on the insights of the SDG nationalization exercise, the Government of Republic of Moldova initiated the development of a new national developing strategy, 2030. That is deemed to be consistent with the long-term frameworks to which the Government has already committed. In the context of SDG nationalization exercise, a model of the national monitoring and evaluation framework of diaspora migration and development was conceptualized in close collaboration with relevant public authorities. Namely, convening on the type of indicators to be used and the frequency of their collection. Data sources to be used and the role of participating institutions and reporting procedures with monitoring and evaluation process to be applied. In this context, a set of 65 indicators, quantitative and qualitative progress and impact has been proposed which have been selected from the Moldovan strategic and policy framework in force. Responding the quality criteria the indicators have been integrated into a matrix and grouped by six thematic areas as follows. Migration and development, 20 indicators. Social security and work safety, 8 indicators. Diminishing migration flows, 11 indicators. Migration management services facilitating reintegration and diaspora enhancement. Reintegration of return migrants and immigrants. Policies and programs framework, civil dialogue with diaspora. The matrix with the indicators has been subject to consultation and validation by members of the interministerial diaspora migration and developing working group meetings. The monitoring and evaluation framework for migration and development was approved by interministerial committee on April 2018. Enables the government of Moldova to monitor and evaluate the progress in the mainstreaming process to provide the coherent and coordinated evidence-based policymaking with the DMD field. The monitoring and evaluation framework was approved by Moldova and Moldova and Moldova. The monitoring and evaluation framework was approved annually in a synergy with the regular reporting procedures of the central public authorities to the state chancellor. Practically for a public authority which has a DMD-related mandate, it means that when it reports relevant DMD data to the diaspora relations bureau which is a coordinator of monitoring and evaluation process according to our matrix put in the practice. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you very much. And now on to our last speaker, Mrs. Dousow. Thank you. It's my pleasure to be here today and talk about what is going on at the African Development Bank as the first development finance institution of the continent. Indeed, the African Development Bank is an institution gathering 80 countries including all 54 African countries. And Africa is at the heart of the migration issue currently. As we all know yes, the general public is informed of the numbers for those who cross the Mediterranean day after day, but the number of educated African youth that live the continent for whom migration is a success goes unnoticed to the general public. It's a lost investment for the countries. For the countries who sometimes construct to build strong educational systems higher education to pay for students who finish the cycle and leave the continent is a loss. So the African Development Bank is moving in an inclusive development process of integrating migration in its development strategies. And this is in alignment with the global goals of the SDGs Agenda 2063 of the African Union to have a more integrated way of impacting without necessarily going back to the old ways of having one's own flag of this is my achievement this is my impact this is what I did going beyond that and looking at impact as a shared outcome from shared goal. So my short presentation will be around the way the African Development sees and gets involved more and more in the migration discourse. And from there we can say that capacity development be it for migration or any actually capacity development cannot be seen as a sectoral capacity development for education capacity development for migration or whatever capacity development is capacity development. Whatever you do whatever you invest in development goes to capacity development. It's an enabler in itself it allows development to better perform and the context of migration it unlocks the policy but also the action in the field in many ways but unfortunately when we talk of capacity development in the field of migration we most of the time align to the funding of sectoral issues and then we don't go down to the impact level to see how the financing is making the change in terms of the migration coordination goals that have been set at country level or across countries or in the regions. And also the capacity development is not always monetized and it seems to be overlooked because in many situations we want to see the return on investment but capacity development in itself is the return. You don't expect to monetize it and say that the net impact is more than the financial the money inputted so we need to also switch our way of considering things but there are challenges in the nature of capacity development we also need to diversify to diversify the activities to targeting the same outcomes at country level or at regional level but we need to understand the mechanism beyond the change we cannot just grant let's say x million to a country for a single project and we see it that we have made a change and we are impacting and we are measuring against the result set and as long as this is not integrated in the big picture we will end up maybe dropping a lot of what we do more than what we have brought to the change so we need to see that particularly in the African context the difficulty fragility of state institutions the situation of conflict in countries is also an impediment to what the financing of migration related capacity development can bring in the the field and some mechanism to monitoring and evaluating the impact of capacity development is the support to migration of the African development bank works with governments but we all know today that governments by themselves cannot bring much change they have to partner within the countries with all layers of the society and more and more with the private sector which brings the money but also some types of knowledge proper to their doing which can be of great help when we look at the inclusiveness of the interest for all to work on the migration front so investing in knowledge on capacity development is one of the most important steps to setting a framework for measuring impact we need to know before we measure when we know we can plan and when we plan we can target from the activities and then we can go back to what we were looking for and was it worth the investment in terms of not necessarily like I said the money it brings in but the change it brings even culturally even in terms of individual's perception this change is substantial in the long run for the migration discourse non-traditional measurement methodologies will also be very important and monitoring for example cultural attitudes to explore and use and define the change in an empirical way at the African Development Bank we have some generic high level consideration for measuring capacity development impact it is the quality of planning having national plans like I said that are in alignment with the commitment and with longer term goals not just we want to develop the specific skills of our use and it ends there that is not going to impact capacity development sustainably and capacity development also has to be demand driven but we don't just wait for the countries to ask for support in capacity development we have to find ways to trigger demand and to have it come from them but also with the technical assistance on what does a specific country need to move on and better prepare the youth to integrate to job market for example and when knowledge is generated the initiatives can be can allow regulating demand and supply for capacity development but for example based on the practice at the African Development Bank there are some limitations until now because our capacity development is broadly measured in terms of institutional development impact which is quite diffuse which can be the result of a very different articulated activities which have nothing to do with the capacity the capacity development framework itself so we need to move on more contributively and see what capacity development contributes actually more than the impact is XYZ and with quantification that is would look like more of qualitative judgment rather than systematic quantification of an impact as we can do with sectoral programs and that being said we can still go on by meta-analysis when you have the proxies for quantifying change at institutional level at individual level organizational level systems you can add up and have at the end of the day some impact information that can be further refined and the African Development Bank I will move on quickly on this is engaged and the engagement is actually at senior level with our president down to the direct rate down to technical level we are really more and more engaged with the building of an internal working group of integration to better reflect what is going on across institutions around the globe and our main entry point is through policy knowledge building policy knowledge and making sure African countries aware of their developmental goals and the value of the youth the value of the youth the capital development this is the impact of capacity development for migration is to achieve human capital for the youth through five strategic lenses which are set out here but mainly two-prone vision for the capacity development the job for youth in Africa initiative and enable youth and entrepreneurship programs which are African white funding initiatives in support to building skills beyond the theoretical academic trainings that the young people can receive and to make Africa appear like a good place because the young African go by the television social media it's a dream and dream is taking most of the cream of our youth outside the continent and then it's a loss but if Africa could be proud of being Africa showing example of democracy example of youth centered policies the center of interest I think the young people will maybe reflect themselves in the future government and take their place instead of turning to the west constantly so this is mostly the framework for the African development to impact the change and we have one specific these are the numbers I can jump on them specific measurement portal which is the index the youth employment index which is trying to collect data to improve knowledge and better guide programming for specific countries based on the numbers of this index so these are examples of mechanism for trying to to see how to speak to the impact of capacity development in terms of the question whether it is worth financing initiatives for migration or not and how we defend the investment overall investment in each countries there are different components and feel free to come to me to share whatever you would like but we have different entry points but these depend on the regional dialogues that we have for specific regions in Africa we have specific needs expressed and specific programs, specific plans for financing and we have also country level financing the factors that in my view will contribute to measuring capacity investment for impact the approach to be holistic we have a holistic approach and we also have the use of technical assistance as an input to capacity development so that at the end of the day the impact has been monitored and used again for upstream programming we have internal collaboration and we have also a variety of tools and in fact it is part of performance for the African development itself to observe all these measures so that impact monitoring is made part of the business making and then we place policy dialogue at the highest level but also participatively and then the final word would be to consider impact not attribution but contribution level of impact analysis you can contribute but you are not attributing your financing to an impact you are observing while we know that impact is shared by all organizations all institutions in the field so the final word is strength and partnership partnership and partnership and not say we are bringing the money so we are the bosses no we bring the money someone brings the technical and someone else brings the knowledge someone else brings whatever but we need to be one co-ordering across the globe to achieve one single impact and not just flag our successes individually that's my final word thank you thank you to the panelists I think we've heard a lot of very inspiring words a year from how as a country of origin transit and destination you see the potential with the global compacts of furthering the advancement of human rights in the context of migration to the impressive framework that you've put together in Moldova based on 65 indicators quantitative and qualitative progress and impacts and last but not least your words on how capacity development unlocks action in the field and is in fact a return in itself which we should consider as a shared impact requiring the partnerships that we aim to establish also through this discussion