 So since it's not a stand-up comedy, I'm not going to ask you to shut the good afternoon. But the intention is there. It's Friday. We are really happy to have you here. We really would like to thank you for our income to this small gathering, to enjoy some food with us and to discuss about migration. But the positive side of migration, migration in a nice way, which is a bit of a chance change from what we tend to hear about migration lately. Let's say we're not going to hide the fact that it's a high-profile issue. You all may be following what I would call the global compact on migration saga, with every day the news on who's in and who's out. And I must say I look forward to the Marrakesh summit to be over so we can start the actual work on the global compact on migration. And it's a bit of an elephant in the room, but it's not something that we can also go away from. There are in that document a number of commitments. Whether you're in or out, when you talk about migration, this is a great mapping of what migration is about in all its complexity in a balanced way, in a way that respects sovereignty and most of all in a way that is non-binding. But in a way also that puts cooperation as the only way forward when you want to deal with migration issues. But what is important for us today for this event is that the global compact on migration is also very much based or entrenched in the sustainable development goal. And for a long time this relationship between migration and development has been also one of this ongoing discussion that is not that easy to explain. There is a relationship between migration and development in one way, between development policies and their impact on migration. And there is a need to do quite a bit of work to try to better understand what are those linkages between migration and development. And we have it now. Thanks to the great work of a lot of colleagues and here we have Cicely Rian with us who has led to Salesforce on the side of IEA together with Simon Giga from the SDC, who has also supported us together with DeafCo. So we would like to very much thank you for having come here, for having taken the time, and they will tell you a bit more about what are we talking about when we are talking about these links between migration and development. And let's remember that it's not something that can be easily squared, that can be simplified. The migration as a phenomenon can be positive or negative. It depends a lot on the context and on the different factors on my side, dealing mostly with the forced migration on the side of the spectrum. We know what development means when it comes to forced displacement, what can be done. We also know that sometimes it can have negative consequences that it's also to be addressed. So it's not to portray anything in a rosy way or in a simplified way, but really to try to understand the real complexity around those issues. So with no further view, I'm giving you the floor. Thank you. Thank you so much, Matt Witt. And they welcome to all of you. So we're very excited to be launching here in Brussels in front of our important partners from the European Commission, as well as colleagues from the UN agencies, and further beyond these guides that I hope you all have in your hands. That is very much the first attempt that has been made to really articulate the 2030 agenda with migration. And that has a very meaningful significance. This is what I'm going to try to explain in my presentation, which is really going to be mostly aimed at walking through these guides and, of course, its main messages and what it actually does for its users. So have a PowerPoint, but hopefully it's not going to be a boring one. So basically what this picture is telling you is very much that migration is relevant for all the goals that we have in the agenda. So traditionally we've been thinking, first of all, that it's been a major breakthrough that migration has been integrated in the agenda. Actually it's the first time. So if you think of the NTGs, the predecessors to the SDGs, migration was nowhere to be found. And the gospel has been for a long period of time, but actually migration is a development failure. So, you know, rethinking migration as an enabler for development is something that actually took time and effort, and really the fact that it is now squarely within the agenda 2030 is a major achievement with enormous promises. But first of all, so let's have a look at the picture that we have here. What we have tried to do in the context of this guide is really to articulate all the entry points that exist between migration in all its manifestations. So here we are, of course, talking not only about, you know, migration that is made out of choice, but as well also looking into displacement. We're also looking into all types of migrants themselves. So looking at the children, looking at the woman, looking at the men, so really zooming into all those different situations and circumstances in which people are on the move. And basically, you know, going through the entire agenda, going all one by one, and articulating which are those direct and indirect entry points. It is very clear that there is one specific direct entry point, which is the whole 10.7, that is under the fighting inequalities or reduced inequalities. So we are here. And I think it's very meaningful in fact that migration has been put there, because it is clearly a signal that actually a lot of the reasons why people migrate is because there is a fundamental problem of inequalities within societies and between societies. So it's already giving us a very good hint in terms of what are the kind of policy interventions that one should be thinking of putting in place if we are to help with safe-ordering migration, which is really the essential message that is articulated in 10.7. So moving on, I think what we have to understand is that the significance of migration is being included in the 2030 agenda. What does it mean? It means that we simply cannot do business as usual as we've been doing so far. It means that we really have to see that tremendous opportunity to finally connect developments and migration policymaking. We finally have to connect actors. So it's really thinking about, you know, when we do, when we work on migration, we should stop only thinking through migration policies. We have to start thinking through education policies, health policies, organization policies, housing policies, so on and so forth. So really actually how we can define these Gs is that it is a formidable declaration of interdependence. So let's understand through the agenda all these interdependencies that exist when it comes to migration and let's be able to articulate them in policymaking and in concrete programming on the ground. And that has really, when you actually see the full potential of this, this is very transformative indeed. So I think what is really important is also to really see another important element which is the universality of the SDGs. The SDGs are to be applied both in what we call the global south and what we call the global north. And that is important. It's also an opportunity for us to articulate that indeed migration does have a development impact in destination countries. So it is also a way to articulate this phenomenon in a different manner than how it's been articulated so far. So it's not only about making up migration in receiving countries through the angle of integration, but it's much more than that. The promises are much bigger than that. So seizing the universality of the SDGs applied to migration provides tremendous opportunity also to change potentially the narrative of migration which as we know and as was recalled by my colleague Patrice, is actually quite negative unfortunately and particularly here in Europe. So in general terms moving on I think it's really forcing us to go deeper in understanding about how migration connects and interact and impact other development sectors or parts of policy making. And to be frank with you we don't necessarily have the evidence base right now to actually fully apprehend this complexity and all of those connections but this is what this agenda gives us as an opportunity to do. And if we aren't able to do that it means that we'll be able collectively as an international community to do a much better job at working on migration, at impacting migration and really looking at all the different arrays of related issues. So it's really about going beyond governance as usual. What does it mean quickly? It means that if you are doing policy making or migration within a given country it's about connecting with other line ministries. It's about understanding you know how the policy making you're doing in very specific areas going to impact other areas. And being able to actually make this a de facto or like you know the normal way of working not something you think sometimes of doing because you know it's good to have all of governance approach from time to time. No it's something we need to be doing and establishing systematically. And that's why we're very happy to be you know have the privilege of being you know working with the Swiss Development Corporation in this critical issue that is policy coherence on migration and you know if we are to be able to do policy coherence on migration it means that we will be doing our job in supporting the implementation of the 2030 agenda. Because there is no doubt that if we don't look at a specific situation of men and women and children migrants we will not be able to fulfill the promises of the 2030 agenda. So migration though it might not appear in plain words but in all the goals he is relevant for all the goals. And this means that we cannot do governance the way we've been doing it so far in migration anymore. So I think it's that's a very strong message that I hope we are sending with this guide. So now maybe turning more specifically to the guide itself and how it's structured and what it can do for you. So basically it has different components what you can see here on the screen is that there is a part of it at the end that is in the pockets at the back of the document which does something quite so I hope which is basically to look at all the goals and for relevant targets that are you know important from a migration point of view. So hopefully you know for you migration policymakers or development policymakers this could become a very useful way for you to systematically articulate those connections when you're thinking of programming when you're thinking about partnership who should I work with in order to impact these issues. So hopefully you know this guide is going to be providing you with those clues with those articulations with those answers. So we hope that would be important and useful for you. So moving on this is really what's the guides who is it for. So I started giving some answers to the question I just asked but I want to also make a very specific point is that we think of migration as something that is really in the prerogative of national governments. Migration is about national policymaking it's about national policy implementation and we also know for a fact and particularly us development actors that it's not quite right that actually the impact of migration and on development is most and foremost felt at territorial level within cities that have become as we all know the destination of choice of migrants all around the world. Migration is most and foremost the state and urban phenomenon. It's also in the hands of local and regional authorities so you have you know at the provincial level at the regional level depending of course on the type of administrative structures you have in country. So this is why this guide has been really designed to support national as well as local policymakers understand you know how basically to work with this agenda. This agenda is very complex it's very it's intertwined it's this declaration of interdependence I was talking about so it means quite a lot of resources to be able to make those articulations and this is what this guide is trying to do is really to tell for policymakers as you are embarked in implementing the SDGs what are the migration considerations that one should take into account what are those connections that you can make in order to translate that into you know new legislation in order to translate that into an initiative or program or so basically this is really how to do it basically and we are very much mindful of the fact that there are many other processes on the SDGs that exist in country so what this guide does is that really helping to plug this work on migration with the countrywide exercise of implementation of the SDGs so it's not duplicative it's not yet another thing at the top of other things it's really trying to really mainstream this into what is being done in terms of the government's efforts to to implement the agenda and fulfill their commitments towards that agenda so this guide also exists in in a you know let's say electronic version through the network I don't know if you've heard of it that is the M4D net the migration for development network which actually we launched as an interagency initiative led by UNDP that was called the UN joint migration at the European Initiative which was funded by the European Union and which really has become the largest hub on migration and development worldwide so within that that setting within on the on the platform on the M4D net you can find actually you know in a dynamic manner all those references so we hope this will really contribute as well to you know make this information easily available and digestible for as many people as possible around the world so going back to to the now thinking more about the interconnection that exists between migration and the 2030 agenda so now I'm more diving a bit more into the substance of things I've been talked about about the guide itself so you will have now on the screen those direct connection between migration and the 2030 agenda what do we mean by direct connections it's literally where the word migration or migrants or victims of trafficking and all the related issues to migration are actually spelled out so you will you will see that it appears in quite a lot of instances in the agenda under quality education under gender equality decent work and economic rules reduced inequalities we've mentioned that before peace justice and strong institutions and they have the really important aspect as well of goals 13 on partnership so this is where we have those clear entry points that is children mobility human trafficking and exploitation labor employment uh migration so unemployment migration governance remittances and migration data so maybe let me pause a little bit on migration data because this is really one of the challenges that we have and it's really important that it is captured in the agenda because as you know to do sound policy making one needs sound data but unfortunately we have to to admit that in the field of migration this sound data are really missing and this is something where through partnership we do need to to fill that gap and that's very important so already you know if you are to consider just the direct connections this is between migration and the 2030 agenda we have very useful and very important entry points that really call for the international community to pull this resources and efforts now let me move on to the what we call the indirect references to migration and this is where you know we go back to the point that I was trying to make earlier that migration is relevant for the entirety of the agenda so here it's clear those on the on the on the screen poverty and growth very important social protection health education gender children cities climate change clearly climate change citizenship and identity and partnership for development so those those are the cross-cutting issues that we are clearly articulating in this guide so let me maybe go now a bit deeper on on some of those issues because I'm not going to go through all of them for the interest of time but I just want to kind of give you a glimpse about what is it that we actually talking about using the scg lenses so let's talk about the issue of health health is a major you know elements of what we do actually in a room because it is a major relevance for the world in of migrants because migrants do face differentiated health risks and often have low access to health care and this is why you know service provisions between the sector of health really have to be mindful of those specific vulnerabilities those specific needs and as well as those specific risks that are associated with human mobility so basically it's just showing that you know through health and then the migration length it's about improving distribution of the global health workforce it's about improving reproductive health for migrants it's about improving universal health coverage for migrants but in general and that's why including migrants in HIV Aids, Malaya and other health efforts so it's just showing you you know how these efforts need to be mainstreamed in other you know type of health intervention and why these are so relevant you know why migration is so relevant to kind of you know capture what needs to be done as international community on health so maybe now let's move to another one which is education I think it's very key that roughly one in 70 children worldwide in a country in a different that even in a different country that they own this is a tiger in picture so if we are to work in the education sector without thinking about the needs and the specific vulnerabilities of children on the move then we are missing a big part of what needs to be done in that policy making area so again you know it's really about expanding education opportunities increasing student mobility which is a very important element that we need to be capturing as well addressing the global supply and matter of skills because of course then it collects to employment and how we recognize the skills of migrants and again also improving education for migrants should be so what we're trying to say here is basically you know all the ramifications just trying to evidence those ramifications and again what does it mean in terms of policy making so I could go on and on there we of course have poverty and growth as well as as climate change I think maybe we can stop on the one on cities which is really also building on what I was explaining before that migration has become most and foremost another phenomenon so actually one could think that most of policy making in the field of migration should be about urbanization policies these days so but are we our policy makers at city level completely aware of those complexities of the fact that they have to take that into account maybe not and this is why you know the the avenue of SDGs is so important to help them connect to dogs as well as other important genres like the new urban in general which is an important element because it does also acknowledge migration so it's about in that sense what integrating migration in local development planning it's about adjusting services that are provided to the wider population or for the wider community so it has a lot of ramifications so once you're able to kind of articulate that and do it against the backdrop of the SDGs as an overall commitment of the international community then your policy making and your understanding about what you're trying to achieve becomes better so it's not so much about migration anymore there's just thinking of migration as an important element of this big adventure so now turning to the most more practical part of the guide so what i've described in a nutshell is that most the first part of the guide which is more zooming into those connections the second part is really about basically you know going through a four-step approach that we it's absolutely not compulsory so it's just we are suggesting this as a methodology which is really about who are the actors that you have to bring around the table to be able to implement this process how you go at the very difficult job of prioritizing because it's you have this big agenda the all these different issues so we're helping through the guide the users to kind of zoom onto those those acceleration points that actually make sense in their given context in order to really address what is the most important for them so the step of prioritization is comes with tools and so on that you will find in the guide then we move on to the issue of course implementation so who should be implementing this what are the kind of resources that you need again you know how then you would monitor and report on your work and that's really important and that goes back to the issue of data so you will see in the guide there's a lot of attention that is paid to this critical issue of data so again these four steps of approach is absolutely not prescriptive we're just trying to you know propose a pattern for action and you will also find in the guide in the last part that this methodology has been tested so it's not we're taking talk about something that just came out of our mind and just aspirational but actually it's been really tested in four countries and what you're having the guide is the outcome of those processes in those four countries and what is it that it came up with so it's really we try to evidence you know clearly the end purpose and outcome of doing this work so and I will finish with that basically having said everything I said this is having an impact on the way we work in Iowa I mean as you know we are the UN migration agency we are on on the verge indeed of having a very important new framework for our work which is a global compact on migration just a few days away from from now we're going to be embarking to a week in Marrakech for the migration week and and basically you know this means really for us as Iowa that we need to kind of change very much the way we've been working so far and really being able to articulate much better what we do in terms of understanding better what is what are the development contexts in which we work and how that should be influencing the way we program and design our interventions but as well you know what is our development footprints as an organization so what is it that we do that actually also have an impact on those longer term development you know processes or contexts so we are particularly right now working on defining an IOM-wide or institutional strategy on migration and sustainable developments and we really want this to be an important entry point to engage in very meaningful partnership with our UN colleagues and all of that of course happening in the backdrop of the implementation or rollout of the UN development system reform which is really going to help us as UN to work in a more joint manner so our role and now that we're doing all this work is really to help ourselves to plug in a meaningful manner in a helpful manner for the rest of the UN system our specific expertise and what is it that we can actually contribute to so and also we want to be a bit more articulate in terms of how we you know impact the implementation of the SDGs so being able to communicate that and make this more visible to to to our membership and to our partners so really it's a declaration of interdependence and partnership so we really see this for IOM as an entry point for maybe some useful new ways of working and we are very excited about it and I would now you know hand down the floor to Simon Giger who's the the head of the global program of the Swiss Development Corporation on Migration and Development and I think you know the Swiss government through the SEC has been really one of the pioneers in you know putting this vision to the fore and then I'd like to thank you very much for that. Thank you Cecilia and I also would like to thank actually IOM to organize this launch today when we are on a mission to Brussels so it's a nice coincidence to be here I feel that all the important things have already been said so maybe I just want to re-emphasize one point and then say a few words about why Switzerland so for us that the point of the narrative I think that's something that we are all concerned about and that is important for everybody and the work that we have been partnering with with IOM for a few years now is really also a way to counter that narrative so it's really to see migration as a phenomenon that is neither positive nor negative it's neutral in itself but it's up to us to make the best out of it and I think this guide will hopefully make a contribution to that it's about effective migration governance it's about managing migration it's about acknowledging that migration is here to stay so let's all work together to make it to make it work so why Switzerland some of you may know that Switzerland actually is one of the champions in a in a in a whole of government governance approach towards towards migration so we started this almost 10 years ago and we have now a functioning system involving all the all the the the relevant ministries and agencies and we meet regularly and we talk about migration issues and I think that's part of our success story and that's part why in Switzerland so far we still have a red or nuanced I would say a discussion about migration issues so I think we are well positioned to to partner with you on this work and then a second point why Switzerland it's really because it's a practical guide and we are usually we like to be practical the on the populations in in the partner countries so we all want to have a snack I guess and something to drink so I think everybody is here very much and I hope that you will also take these guides with you and basically spread them in in your organizations in the partner countries and and hopefully then on one of my next missions I will see it on the table of some government official thank you very much thank you very much appreciate it so do you have questions because I think you know this is not meant to be us just preaching you but we you know we really hope this is as well a dialogue and so I was wondering whether some people in the in the audience had any comments that you'd like to make or questions potentially so the the floor is open thank you for saying that okay thank you for these wonderful presentations I think very timely my name is Peter Roy and I work for the European Commission for many years and I'm extremely impressed by this work the presentation I have to read you know they say the commission the European Union is working very slow it's true but when it moves into a certain direction it has a certain impact and I remember that the first communication by migration development was in 2005 and I'm extremely happy to see that along the way you know people try now more and more to understand actually what does it mean and I think what is the important thing where we are now is that we are really thanks to all the good work and I really also like the famous rich government for this because you invested in this already eight years ago I think we now reach a stage where the IUM is part of the UN we reach a stage where we have the development goals we reach a stage where everybody recognize we have to act on migration and I think the approach is really an interesting one just one observation I've been working in the migration area for many many years I've been working with Commissioner Malmström for many years but we have to realize that it is not migration looking at all those areas I think it's extremely important I mean I guess many of the people around in this place have a migration background but I think in this room a criteria for success could be if in three years from now we have the people from DG health we have the people from DG environment we have the so that we look they look from their realities to what does it mean for people and and also I'd like to add maybe DG aggregate I'd like to talk about the external action service I mean and I take it upon me so give me copy give me a number of copies of your of your leaflet and I'll make sure that all of these directorates and I happen to know all the people that are relevant for you will get a copy of your publication so thank you very much this is really music to music to our ears any any other volunteer for comments or reflections no I think we we are okay so thank you so much for for coming and um yeah let's take the opportunity of having food and drinks uh in front of us maybe to continue the the dialogue in the the countries where you buy with it you didn't mention them so you want to know the the countries so these are Ghana so we've mostly worked in in countries in the in the global south so mostly in African countries as a matter of fact yeah so you will see it yeah in there but we also I want to say that we are pioneering this through the different regional dialogues on migration that IOM is associated with so we've been working with the League of Arab States we've been also working with the Puebla so I processed most recently and we're trying to really mainstream the usage of these guys throughout the regional processes on migration that exists so we're trying basically to obviously we are indeed focusing as I said on the national as well as the local level but also the regional level which is a very important piece so yeah that's that's also what we are in the making okay thank you so much thank you for coming