 Very interesting discussion indeed, but we will look specifically on how we have a role to play as development actors in harnessing the role of women in sustainable socioeconomic recovery, following the impact of the new dimension and the new world that has been created by the COVID-19. So my name is Laurent Levoque. I'm the chief of mission of IOM to the Arab Republic of Egypt, and I'm very pleased to be with you, with three experts, panelists who will present their institutional and but also personal expertise on the role of women migrants in the recovery, but also the impact that they had during the pandemic. As you know, women represent an important portion of the migrants worldwide. We noticed in 2016, for example, that they had sent almost half of the global remittances back home, certainly have an important role in the economy of the hosting communities in the host country in Egypt, where we are supporting women migrants in employment and employability. We have seen the role and the innovative approach they had, while they had quite multiple roles by having the childcare and the children not being able to be at school there to take care of children in addition to being involved in their work, but doubling the work. And I remember visiting centers where we train women and we provide them with employment, where they were coming with their children. They were coming hungry because they couldn't actually eat themselves, sharing the food that they could gain for their families and they're spending an entire day working without food. So it highlighted to us the importance actually to look at the certain aspects of the role the women play in society and to certainly look at how we can rebuild better. It highlighted loopholes and barriers and constraints that women are facing. It's certainly important to develop further and reinforce the approach of leaving no one behind and the crucial role women can play in this society. So the inclusive network of the approach must take into consideration the constraints women are facing in accessing services while unleashing and increasing the potential they have in innovation and engagement for their family, the community, the host community, the countries of origin, but the society is at large. So allow me to introduce you our first panelist who, that Diana Echeveria. Diana is the director of the human mobility and attention to migrants in the ministry of paraphrase of El Salvador. She has long years of experience in marketing and branding, but has taken this important role in the ministry now and she will present to us the profile of the El Salvador women, those abroad as well as those back to their country and how they contribute to both societies in the host country and the El Salvador itself. And so it's based on the experiences and looking at the role women can play and the difficulties they face during the pandemic. So Diana, you have the floor. Thank you. Sorry, Loran. It seems that Diana is not online until this moment. We lost her. Can you go for the number two? Of course. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Then we'll go back to the analyzer. Then we have Frida with us. I think Frida is with you. Frida in Tarangui. Good afternoon. Frida is the founder and managing director of a very interesting organization called ZD Circle in Kenya. She has created this experience as a migrant in enhancing the role of women in financial inclusion in the financial ecosystem. So she has received recognition by the EU for this initiative and she will present us the role of the ZD Circle and how it supports women in particular in this pandemic situation. So Frida, you have the floor. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, Loran. Indeed, I'm a migrant woman myself. I migrated to the Netherlands about seven years ago from Kenya and I've been able to create the opportunity as a migrant. We may not just in the Netherlands, we have been living, but also in my country of origin, Kenya and other countries in Africa, including Ghana and Uganda. So I will do a small introduction about ZD Circle and ZD Circle was founded by and for the migrants and diaspora, like most of us in this forum and to support them on the entrepreneurship journey that if nurtured can bring social and economic outcomes, both in their countries of residence and countries of origin. I am proud to say I've heard in ZD Circle about four years ago. We have been able to reach so many grow very with our online entrepreneurship program since the COVID-19 started, not just through our entrepreneurship bootcamps, but also we have driven the change of narrative about immigration in general. As a migrant who has got a world of knowledge, skills and information from opportunities abroad, you feel driven to share this and create a real impact where you're residing in your country and in your country of origin. You've got a passion for your country and want to pray a part in boosting its economy without having a good support structure and often struggling with language biases and even lack of access to resources or opportunities. Abations can be made to be just dreams and we have done a lot of interventions. One I'm very proud to say that IOM the Netherlands has been a good support and in 2019 we worked very closely with IOM to conduct the entrepreneurship by diaspora for development, the ED4D program where we train diaspora entrepreneurs from Ghana and Ethiopia living in the Netherlands and we want them to open their businesses in their countries of origin. We have a yearly entrepreneurship program that we've been doing targeting both the migrant and diaspora and the program involves a four-month program helping define sustainable business models, develop innovative products and become ready for investments and this is for the diaspora, both opening businesses in their country of residence, especially year within the European Union and in their country of origin. During the pandemic we went entirely online so migrants and diaspora were able to access our programs anywhere in the world and that's why I think Roland said I'm based in Kenya because this year we also started this program in the east and western Africa. So the other program that we have is that we have a grant project that is a four-year action program by the European Union and its European Union and Majesty Fund and other partners, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana, the SNB in Ghana and the United Nations Chapter Development Fund. The project aims at creating greater economic and employment opportunities for youth women and returning migrants by promoting and supporting sustainable green businesses and local climate resilient economies in two regions in Ghana, the Ashanti and Western region. So Ziddi Circle practice into this program through the Venture Bacchus program which is a training program for diaspora angel investors and migrants to invest in green businesses in Ghana. As we speak diaspora angel investors from across the Europe and the UK and even Ghana are attending the program and next week the diaspora investors will be selecting the first investing companies at a pitching event in Ghana. Obviously it's very disappointing to note that because of the I don't know if it's the gender gap really but it's actually the reason why we have in this topic today only 15% of those participating are women. So the other program that we are doing to support migrants women is announcing local migrant women entrepreneurship as a driver to social and economic inclusion in the Netherlands. We've designed this program the IOM the Netherlands and it will land for two years starting next year but we are still mobilizing ecosystem partners to make it work properly. So migration is a powerful driver of sustainable development for migrants and their communities. It brings significant benefits in form of scales entrepreneurship strengthening the labour force investments and cultural diversity. Well an employment rate for non-western migrants is more than twice the general rate. The percentage of entrepreneurs within the working populations that not differ between groups with different migration status. Entrepreneurship can thus be an effective way to include migrants in local economy and create a new market opportunities and even cross-border networks that contribute to a greater inclusive and more secure economy. Specific attention to gender is needed as figures show that women migrants traditionally have worse labour market participation outcomes. These outcomes can be linked to cultural norms regarding female economic participation, responsibilities such as child care, possibly educational levels and host country language barriers. And in overcoming these challenges migrant women represent an untapped and unauthorized potential. Migrant focus programs are often needed to support migrant entrepreneurs and furthermore boost an economic ecosystem about migrant entrepreneurship which is different from traditional entrepreneurship. We saw a need to support women migrant entrepreneurs to changing the narrative of migration in the contribution to society and innovation and building capacity of newly aligned women migrants by connecting them to already established entrepreneurial women migrants. Convening an ecosystem of engaged and supporting migrant entrepreneurship stakeholders and encouraging policies favorable to once migrant entrepreneurship innovation and by sharing runnings and best practices. The overall objective of this initiative is to facilitate social inclusion of women migrant entrepreneurs and boost the economic contribution through entrepreneurship ecosystem development working with the women entrepreneurs themselves and supporting them to connect to investors, policy makers and support organizations. Our program consists of entrepreneurship boot camps, capacity building and incubation processes for a cohort of identified women migrants or aspiring entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. Ecosystem building by convening key stakeholders, policy makers and members, financials, new support, newcomer support organizations and developer network through workshops and events. Policy maker training and support to create the conditions for supporting migrant entrepreneurship within various municipalities in the Netherlands. The correction and implementation of lessons learned from women migrants and Dutch successful entrepreneurs through sharing experiences and tokens and publishing of insights to encourage learning from our engagement to the women entrepreneurs in one day ecosystem. We believe this program will be helped to build capacity for migrant women to support programs to improve the employability and entrepreneurship capabilities of women entrepreneurs by matching them with market opportunities and mentoring into self-employed enterprise development to build this and strengthen policy infrastructure to migrant women and entrepreneurial ecosystem. This program will start in the beginning of 2021 and we are still mobilizing partners and if you're interested in this program you can please contact me or Nina Stahl at the IOM in the Netherlands. We also need support in providing entrepreneurship programs freely across the globe to the global migrants and diaspora also in the running program we need to reinforce mentorship networks and facilitation and funding on the ground. We are also very happy to share experiences of our model and replicated to other European member states and across the globe. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you, thank you very much Frida for highlighting the role of women particularly in the entrepreneurship and the innovative approach that you mentioned women can have and you I like it also an important point which is the virtual training approach the role of online training and certainly linked to this the need to supporting the women in ICT literacy. But the partnership entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship ecosystem is certainly important in rebuilding better so thank you for sharing the experience of your program and hopefully you'll get the support for yourself supporting more women. I see that Diana has joined us. Good morning Diana, thank you very much for being with us. Diana is the director of the Human Mobility and Attention to Migrants from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in El Salvador. She has years of experience in marketing and branding and brand positioning but has recently taken the role of director of this Human Mobility and Attention to Migrants department in the ministry so she will share with us the experiences of the El Salvadoran women abroad and the role they play in the whole society certainly the link they keep with El Salvador and how they contribute to the sustainable development of both but also highlighting the process of returnees that the women and their integration in the country. So Diana, thank you and we listen to you now. Muy orgosam orgullosamente pertenezco al vice ministerio de diáspora y movilidad humana que trabaja en la gestión eficiente y eficaz de los temas migratorios del salvador desde un enfoque integral en todos los ciclos que implica la movilidad humana que son origen tránsito destino retorno y reintegración. Para mi intervención me permitiré compartir una presentación a continuación en esos momentos. La situación negativa de la pandemia por el covid 19 requiere de un enfoque de acción integral que involucre a todos los sectores en este sentido los procesos migratorios no se ven ajenos a esta realidad dentro de estos las mujeres migrantes son un grupo poblacional que puede aportar por medio de su potencial a los procesos de desarrollo de sus países de origen y destino. Para el caso del salvador se estima que más de tres millones de salvadoreños residen en el exterior en estos de estos de acuerdo a datos de la política nacional para protección y desarrollo de la persona migrante salvadoreña y su familia un 49.2 por ciento son mujeres. Según los resultados de la sexta encuesta de remesa familiares del año mil 2018 realizada por el banco central de reserva del salvador las mujeres tienen una participación mayor que la de los hombres en el review de remesas y envían una proporción mayor de su ingreso aún cuando estos son menores que los de los hombres. Para el gobierno del salvador la perspectiva de género es un enfoque transversal en el abordaje de la migración esto es un permanente accionar la protección y el goce de lo que permita algo está pasando con mi presentación mil disculpas creo que perdón pueden pueden ver la pantalla si yes we can yes we do we do the other ok es que yo no las estoy viendo you are the slide. Si estoy teniendo problemas de mil disculpas no sé qué está pasando voy a tratar de perdón para el gobierno del salvador o perspectiva de género como un enfoque transversal en el abordaje de la migración es un imperativo y permanente accionar la protección y el goce de los derechos de la mujer migrante están en un primer plano de las prioridades de la política públicas en el marco de las migraciones de personas salvadoreñas. El potencial de las mujeres migrantes a efecto de una recuperación socioeconómica sostenible no sólo debe verse desde una perspectiva de envío de remesas a sus países de origen sino también en la transferencia de conocimiento y experiencias una vez retornen a estos en esta línea desde el vice-ministerio de vías por movilidad humana se trabaja el programa transformando vidas cuyo principio rector es el enfoque de género y por medio del cual se aprovecha el potencial adquirido en el exterior o las mujeres migrantes retornadas para sumar a procesos de desarrollo del salvador. Nuestro programa transformando vidas incluye las ventanías de atención a mujeres migrantes retornadas. Cómo surgen estas ventanías pues frente a los índices de mujeres retornadas hacia el salvador se elabora el primer protocolo de atención a mujeres retornadas llamado PRAMUL herramienta que define los principales perfiles de mujeres migrantes retornadas y la ruta de atención en los procesos de reintegración a la vida productiva del país. El protocolo ofrece a una guía de trabajo enfocada a la creación y apertura de seis ventanías de atención especializada a mujeres retornadas definiendo las mejores condiciones de atención asegurando un servicio de calidad y calidad desde las necesidades propias de cada mujer. Tenemos diferentes perfiles de mujeres retornadas como son madres solteras mujeres con discapacidad mujeres de pueblos indígenas mujeres de la población LGTBI mujeres gestantes mujeres con prescripciones médicas mujeres adultas mayores mujeres en niveles educativos mujeres menores de 18 años e hipersexualizadas. Nuestra ventanías se encuentran alrededor de nuestro territorio salvadoreño en los diferentes departamentos como son Santana la Libertad, San Salvador, Chalatenango, Morazán, San Miguel y Ussolotano. La ventanías articulan con actores claves distintas iniciativas en beneficio de las personas salvadoreñas retornadas y sus familias en sus territorios de origen. A través de emprendimientos, empleabilidad, apoyo a su estado de salud, certificaciones de formación técnica, educación superior, educación básica. Hemos identificado necesidades de esta población retornada como son la remoción de tatuajes, apoyo médico, estudios superiores, educación media, atención psicosocial, teleoperadores o call center, productos financieros, certificación laboral, emprendimientos y formación técnica. Algunos áreas de acción son nuestros proyectos de reintegración. Uno de ellos es el desarrollo económico y turístico bueno, el desarrollo económico y turístico para la reintegración de mujeres migrantes retornadas. El objetivo general es generar desarrollo ex socioeconómico de las mujeres migrantes retornadas, así como turístico en los territorios a intervenir. Nuestras líneas de acción y la capacitación y certificación en reparación y fabricación de tablas de sur, otorgamiento de capital semia para que puedan iniciar sus ideas de negocios, creación de tres asocios ofreciendo servicios de reparación de tablas de sur y la comercialización de productos para la práctica de este deporte. Otro es el diseño de moda alternativa para mujeres migrantes retornadas, cuyo objetivo general es fortalecer los procesos de reintegración a través de formación de en áreas técnicas específicas y nuestra línea de acción se otorga capital semia para que puedan iniciar sus ideas de negocios bajo un enfoque del mundo de la moda en la confección de prendas de vestir de un alto nivel. Otro es el fortalecimiento de ideas emprendedoras de las y los migrantes retornadas con acompañamiento de OIM, PMA, PBB F4. El objetivo general es fortalecer las competencias y brindar apoyo al capital económico de las ideas emprendedoras de las personas retornadas. Nuestra línea de acción es otorgar capital semia para que puedan fortalecer sus ideas de negocios y lograr un salto de calidad de pasar de ser emprended emprendimientos a micro y medianas empresas, líneas a desarrollar como formación empresarial contable marketing digital, entre otros. Otra área de acción que tenemos un proyecto de contribución a la atención seguridad y recuperación psicosocial. Para esto hemos apoyado en la creación de una casa de acogida y transición para mujeres migrantes retornadas y sus familias en condiciones de vulnerabilidad por violencia. El objetivo general es contribuir a la atención, protección y recuperación psicosocial por medio de la dotación de equipo técnico, mobiliario y equipamiento de la casa de acogida y transición en la zona oriental del país. Una de las nuevas líneas de acción es la instalación del equipo y personal especializado, como también facilitar herramientas para el acceso de las mujeres retornadas a un empleo y o emprendimiento productivo para la incorporación a la realidad económica y social en condiciones de igualdad y no discriminación. Otra área de acción son los proyectos de certificación de habilidades y formaciones técnicas, como son la contribución de reinserción de mujeres, niñas y niños migrantes retornados como población priorizada en el plan social salvador fase 2. El objetivo general es la ampliación de la oferta de programas de reintegración para mujeres retornadas, sus hijos, niñas y niños en proceso de retorno no, evitando flujos de migración irregular bajo un enfoque de uso de recursos informáticos y tecnológicos necesarios. También tenemos la formación para la empleabilidad de mujeres migrantes en Centroamérica, programa piloto en El Salvador con PMA, PEN, SICA y OIM. Nuestro objetivo general en este momento es la ampliación de la oferta de formación técnica profesional para mujeres migrantes retornadas, mujeres con riesgo de migrar y mujeres migrantes centroamericanas a través del manejo de herramientas informáticas para la empleabilidad. Una de las líneas de acción es la certificación inofimática, vinculación de las mujeres retornadas en el mercado laboral, público y o privado en esta área. Yo me quedo hasta aquí de este modo finalizo mi intervención esperando que la haber compartido nuestras buenas prácticas con ustedes les permita conocer cómo El Salvador se preocupa por la implementación de proyectos integrales en la reintegración de las mujeres migrantes retornadas. Agradezco el nombre del Salvador del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y de la Dirección de Movilidad Humana y Atención a la Persona Amirante por la oportunidad en este espacio. Muchísimas gracias. Gracias Diana. Thank you very much. For highlighting this comprehensive approach of the government of El Salvador, indeed you mentioned employability but looking as well at the social support, health support and the focus specifically also on the protection of those victims of violence or specific vulnerabilities. It's quite important to see how much comprehensive you look at the dimension of the contribution of women and the role the government can have with the support of other institutions, civil society, the national organization. So thank you very much for sharing with us this experience. And now I would like to call Dina Nuriati. Dina Nuriati is the coordinator of research and international relations and one of the founding members of the Serikat Buru Migran Indonesia SBMI in English the Indonesian migrant labor union. She created herself this after more than 10 years being a migrant, a female migrant, a migrant abroad, and is now for a trade union with more than 13,000 members around the globe. So a very beautiful experience from her own life to a service provided to others through a trade union defending the rights of migrant workers. Dina, you have the floor. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Lauren. Is my voice, you can hear it clearly? Perfect. Okay. May I share a screen of my presentation here? Can you see the presentation? Yeah, we see everything. Okay. You can maybe enlarge the screen on the first... Like this? Okay. Perfect. Thank you very much. I'm still honored to be invited here in the second session of the International Dialogue on Migration. Thank you very much for the IOM, the United SBMI as part of this discussion. So we would like to share how the SBMI, our union who are members, the member is migrant worker who are still active in abroad, migrant worker who are returns, migrant worker returnage, and also migrant worker family, how we make the academic and hard work for migrant workers with the cooperative space. Before that, I would like to highlight again the positive contribution for the migrant worker for the socioeconomic both to the country of origin and also the country of destination. That's a donation with around 9 million people are working abroad. And then gives the financial remittance to the country for around 2019, around 11.435 million US dollar. And also the social remittance to the country with idea of product technology information that the migrant worker bring back to the country of origin. But we also give, of course, a contribution to the country of destination with the taxes and also through the labor shortage in the country of destination. With around 60 or 270 percent of Indonesian migrant worker working as a migrant domestic worker working in the construction foundation or any other kind of, and also the migrant system. But with those positive contributions both to the country origin and destination that the migrant worker face several problems, especially during the pandemic COVID-19. We would like to share that there is a kind of increasing number of a complaint asking for our union and increased about 20 percent in 2020. There are 643 migrant workers with the problem. And yeah, in the decade, I'm already handling the case over the 3,000 migrant workers cases. And during the pandemic, we would like to share the problem spaces like unpaid salaries or any other which have happened to the migrant worker no holiday or reducing the employer reducing the rap period and document contested by employer, vulnerable to crowds by a broker an agency, hire a psychological burden, that's the extreme part due to the increasing hour of working working load during employer working from home or the employer keeps the study from home and that is without compensation to them. And then a return to home with the no job or a stigmatized that by the community that migrant workers who are deported, stigmatized, bring a virus and so on. And discussing about the hardening the potential of migrant worker sustainable socio-economic recovery, we would like to say with all those problems that migrant workers face, this supposed to be a must be in line with the effort in fulfilling the right of migrant workers to in the coalition that migrant workers supposed to get that a decent wage, decent work, right to rest, right to organize, unionize and other fulfillment of other human rights regardless of status and employment sector both in the country of origin and destination because there are many many times that migrant workers face the discriminative regulations that because they are migrant or because they are women, for example that migrant workers who are working as a domestic worker, they are not allowed to, they are just like employers to keep them always at home no rest, but because they are afraid that migrant workers will bring a virus from outside. But the employer mostly they are still go out, etc. So it just seems that the employer will not get any kind of viruses outside. So this is the kind of thing that migrant workers especially in the domestic worker area face. And with those kind of conditions that SBMI is the union keep working on the area that SBMI further organizing migrant workers both in the country of origin and the country of destination with the transfer knowledge agenda on the issue above that about the labor rights, women's rights, human rights as well as state and fair migration including that SBMI also together with a member we made several training for the migrant workers before a leave to have a kind of financial literacy it's not only for the migrant workers but also migrant workers family member to have that migrant workers have a kind of a clear plan in how many years they are working and then how how the family can manage and of course it will be give a clear plan to the migrant worker and also the other rights that they have to prepare before they leave if there is a kind of anything that happens to them to where they are will ask for the complaint. And SBMI also have a direct experience and role with the SBMI member under took in the COVID-19 prevention in the country of origin and country of destination how we collect our member to spread out the and together also engage with the government to take responsibility to the migrant worker who are working in abroad to provide the hand sanitizer and also the mask and and also take role in inside the country in the basic basic fillets of migrant workers and also SBMI further strengthen the economic empowerment agenda through cooperative base work to keep a socio-economic sustainability with significantly in both women migrant worker and facilitate them to take part to contribute to the family and the community in time of the pandemic. So during the pandemic migrant worker return it lost their opportunity to re-migrate because many of the country are closed and then they got difficult to continue life and several migrant workers start a small business or make a food production on bring their skills back just like how to make or produce food for the sentencing from the country that they are working like a make a pizza or other different food and then start a small business. So SBMI also seeing that as a opportunity also to push the government to take responsibility to encourage them with the kind of entrepreneurship program etc besides that the SBMI also by independently or together with other start up the cooperative and then we establish the SBMI mark like a 7-11 or circle game that that our member can become the members together to start up with that. And here I would like to show the the picture that how our member did make a production, super production and we have our own mark that this is with the cooperative method. So a member become the owner of the mark and then the member can also do a marketing for the production that they have. So it's like our member is to get the benefit for the product that they are selling here. So this is the owned by the migrant worker. And so far we have about three branches in Jakarta and in East Java and then we continue will open for the in different branches especially in the half district near our member. And we did of course we incurred more the government role and also it's not only in the central government or in the province level or district level we also encourage the Felix government especially as the basic place that the Felix origin of the migrant worker to take part for the empowerment and also perfection. And we also push the regulation and so far we make a kind of research also with the different organization with the IOM, with the ILO to how the Felix government take a role to more empower migrant worker and then protection for migrant worker. And here why actually am I choose the cooperative because the cooperative based on the principle the basic of equality unity become a place for education for the migrant worker for the migrant worker a family member also and with economic democracy a cooperative democracy etc. So SBMI have a 1,347 cooperative member with the 70% are women and we encourage more member to become a member of the cooperative. So this is our end of presentation and then please welcome for any kind of questions so we can discuss further. Thank you. Thank you very much Dina for this very impressive presentation on the work of SBMI. You highlighted very positive points on the cooperation of all of the society approach that you highlight and the solution you found for economic empowerment of women. I appreciate particularly that you mentioned the issues that the COVID-19 has exacerbated for the migrant workers and women in particular during the pandemic but also the role to play in economic recovery and gaining back the rights of migrant workers and human rights in general. It's very important. Thank you. Before giving the floor to the audience for questions I would like to invite you to look at a video we received from the Excellency the Vice President of Colombia. If the secretariat can show us the film the video please. Thank you. I would like to thank the OIM for leading this dialogue and gather us around a topic that reflects all the attention of the states such as the application of the world pact for the safe, coordinated and regular migration of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. For our country it is essential to deploy all the efforts with the purpose of advancing in gender equity and position Colombia as a regional and global reference in the application of the fifth goal of sustainable development which is more relevant than ever in consideration that women and girls have been disproportionately affected by the assassination consequences and especially socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In attention to the topic of this panel I would like to reiterate the commitment of Colombia to consolidate this pact for the equity of women as a policy of the state that we have conceived with President Iván Duque with our presidential advisor of the woman as a policy projected in the long run that works on the structural themes for development, for promotion, for the strengthening of women and their leadership in the Colombian society and in that pact it has provided a normative framework and financial resources to support each of the axes that have to do with the economic empowerment, the political empowerment and leadership and the physical empowerment to avoid the violence of all orders against women and within that economic empowerment the temporary status of protection for Venezuelan migrants makes a great bet to transform migration into a factor of development that generates tangible effects in that integration, in that complementation, in that penetration of the migrant population with our country but above all that gives that opportunity to that migrant refugee population to develop a life project that generates a stale income. That is why we are so committed, especially I mention the case of women in making that accompaniment from their idea of what way we can help them to enter the labor market, to fortify them, to prepare them, to generate spaces in the Colombian companies but also to accompany them in their business idea, in their entrepreneurship, with funding so that they have companies that are scalable, profitable, sustainable, sustainable. I would like to mention the strategy that is developing the government of President Iván Duque, called Colombia Serreactiva por las Mujeres. In that strategy there are four sematic axes related to mitigation, the generation of employment opportunities, entrepreneurship and the closure of the digital threshold. These efforts include programs to promote that employability and formalization of migrant women, as I mentioned earlier, but I also want to highlight that Colombia has proposed the creation of an action coalition for the economic empowerment of women during the pandemic that has as an objective, to exchange ideas on employment issues, entrepreneurship, access to financial services, information technologies, as well as education in areas of STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and to propose multilateral actions together to advance in these matters. In the same way, last September, on the March of the General Assembly of the United Nations, an invitation was extended for the United States to work together to establish a system of monitoring the empowerment and economic autonomy of women in the world so that this is an effective tool for progress, equality, prevention of violence, and respect for the fundamental rights of women. To respect the rights of women, we must also insist on respecting the rights of everyone, respect, respect for the human being, respect for their integrity, for their value. No matter the differences that we have, respect. I am sure that this initiative will receive the support of several countries and international organizations. With pride, I reiterate that Colombia is a nation of entrepreneurship women, and that is why we have achieved that goal in 2022 of having 1 million successful business women, 500,000 rural women, 500,000 urban women, and thus we will consolidate ourselves as a leading country in the generation of economic opportunities through these robust, financed businesses, with access to really all the technical assistance, with support in the market of these products. And within this project, migrant women have a very important space. That is how we advance, also, in that women's companies are part of the public purchases in Colombia. We have developed through our agency of public purchases Colombia with an efficient module so that there is a benefit, a preference, to companies that are of women's property and mostly integrated by women. In such a way that in equal conditions of quality and prices of a product or service, we will always prefer in the public purchase system these women's companies. That is how we are then strengthening the economy, but also strengthening the female entrepreneurship. I renew the commitment to solidarity with the 135 million of migrant women who are all over the world, in particular with the 850,000 migrant women Venezuelans who are in our country, our sincere and affectionate arms to all of them, and reiterate our determined support for this population to have the necessary guarantees to start a personal, economic, and family life that allows them to effectively join and consolidate themselves as part of the labor and economic market of Colombia. Concluy reiterando el agradecimiento como siempre a la OIM, pero también ese llamado que ha hecho el presidente Iván Duque. El apoyo a la migración venezolana es de verdad muy pequeño comparado con las necesidades que tiene esta población. Es muy pequeño comparado con el apoyo que ha recibido los migrantes de Siria y de otros países. Necesitamos que la comunidad internacional asuma para Colombia, que no es un país rico. Es muy difícil asumir mayoritariamente lo que significa la carga económica de esta migración. Necesitamos más y mejores esfuerzos. Agradecemos a los países que participaron en la última mesa de donantes liderada por Canadá. Tenemos una gran ilusión esperando que ojalá Alemania lidera la próxima mesa de donantes, pero necesitamos que esos recursos ingresen, que ingresen pronto, porque tenemos un sistema de salud que se ha colapsado en algunos sitios atendiendo a esta población migrante. Les hemos dado a ellos todos los beneficios y derechos. Tenemos que seguir trabajando en garantizar esos derechos humanos de la población migrante y seguir de todas maneras conscientes que las mujeres y las niñas tienen unas condiciones de alta vulnerabilidad. Y por eso tenemos que hacer esfuerzos adicionales para acompañarlas, para protegerlas, para dar respuesta integral a esos lujos migratorios mixtos que provienen de Venezuela. Muchas gracias el señor Victorino. Muchas gracias a la OIM y a todas las personas que nos acompañan hoy. Honora. Thank you very much for sharing this video and highlighting the very strong recognition by Colombia and the migrant women's role and the right and the entrepreneurship and the very strong political will behind being inclusive in the society to make it the role of the women better in contributing to the economy of the country. We are running out of time, we are just one minute past one. I may check whether there are any quick question or remarks from the audience to our panelists. I don't have access to that. I don't know. I remind you that I didn't pass. Sandra in March, you have the floor. Thank you. You are muted. You are muted. Excuse me. Yes. Is it now that I have to intervene? That's why I allow myself to intervene or interrupt you. Sorry, I didn't hear you well. No, I said it's good now that you want me to intervene or it's a forget. No, no, no, I just saw that you have the hand. So I'm sorry to intervene. I didn't hear the answer. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As you said it was over, I said oops, we forgot. Good. In any case, it was really with great pleasure that I address you today as a parliamentary member of the Assembly of the Méditerranée, the parliamentary assembly of the Méditerranée. I thank the organizers and the OMU Migration to give the floor to the parliament, while our governments, precisely, debate too much in the next spring, progress made in the framework of the World Pact for surordinated and regular migrations. You all know here around this table, the Méditerranée is a region of and it's our wealth, I would say, and there is a myriad of migratory realities that affect women in our region. The Philippine Nounou, in possession of legal documents that allow him to work, the seasonal one that goes to work a few months a year abroad to welcome fruits and vegetables, the Syrian refugee who lives in Gaziantep, Istanbul or Ismir and who, for many years, tries to rebuild his life thanks to a temporary protection statute, the rescue of an orphanage who is waiting for a decision of justice to know if she should return home or if she could hope to build a better view in this destination country and many others. All the countries of the Méditerranée are concerned and we are all of the countries of origin, of transit or of the destination of migration whether it is legal or not. Some of us even accumulate several characteristics. So it is in the informal sector of domestic work that we find the vast majority of migrant women and those whatever their level of study of professional specialization. At the world level, women represent more than 70% of the first line staff in the social sector and health. As a nurse, helping, women of care, most of them being women out of immigration. And I have to clarify, since the Covid has given us the proof that in France, for example, there are also women out of Maghreb who have been the pillars of our hospitals, for example. That is to say, if they had not been good, they, at their post of women of care, of care, and of all these work also concerning health, well, all the devices of medical care are crumbled at the worst moment, in fact. So they were pillars, I would say, Republican during the crisis. But it is also in this professional sector that women have been the most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and the successive confinements. So these women are found in extreme situations, extreme situations of vulnerability since many are those in families where their original country has been deprived of financial subsidies and the economies of the original countries also suffer from the lack of funds coming from diasporas. The international organization of work predicts that because of the Covid-19, unemployment could reach, overall, the 25 million and these estimates greatly affecting women and migrants. Some can find themselves in critical situations without a visa to work, without social or medical support. And we call on our call for a universal health coverage. The organization, the population of migrants, should have access to vaccines. This is also this question that is quite vital to have a chance to participate, sorry, in the economic recovery of the country in which it is built. And we are directly concerned, also in France. In this regard, we salute La Jordanie, who was one of the first countries to have a vaccination campaign for refugees. I really salute this initiative, which I hope will be followed very quickly of all the countries concerned. The World Bank and the FMI estimate that an increase in the percentage of migrants in the population of countries with high income increases substantially the income per inhabitant. And I'm precise, it's not militant associations for the human rights that say it, it's really the World Bank and the FMI. An increase in the percentage of migrants in the population of countries with high income substantially increases the income per inhabitant. I think it's an argument, a very beautiful argument. So it represents these migrants, about 3% of the world population, but it contributes more than 9% of the global GDP. It is therefore essential that the public policies of reliance do not forget the migrants, and we are in the midst of it in each of our governments. They must be inclusive of these public policies of reliance. As parliamentarians, we have the duty to ensure that no one remains on the side of the road, but that the contributions that migrants can bring are valued. These reliance plans must include policies of struggle against xenophobia and discrimination, which are often often victims of migrant women. While we need them in the heart of the reactor, I would say, of health and social, the reliance plans must be based on solidarity and justice, also on the justice of self-knowledge. We talk a lot about a green reprise that includes the digitization of our economies. Be careful not to exclude any pawn in our societies. These are themes that we will debate in November during meetings organized by the Foundation of the Assembly of citizens of the Mediterranean in Valence, Spain. I would like to conclude by responding to the question of young migrants. I personally work a lot on this question in France. I would only have three words, they are the same. Education, education, education. Because we have to invest massively in education policies that will allow these young people to become motor actors of our economies and not the other way around. So, to all those who wish to help on this mission that ends in December, we need your examples in your respective countries. And then, to conclude, at the APM, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, we have played our part in the weeks to come and until May, alongside the civil society, which has a lot to learn from us, to the next consultation in the forum of the World Pact on Immigration. I would like to thank you for your attention and for finally giving me the floor. Thank you very much, Madam, excellent. It is a pleasure to hear, indeed, the engagement of the government and the parliament. Thank you very much. Due to constraint of time, unfortunately, we will have to close this session. Very interesting session on the women migrants and the role they play. They continue to play and they have to continue to play during COVID. I think all the interventions showed the role of the actors, state actors, non-state actors in the highlight of a comprehensive approach to continue ensuring that women and migrant women have access to their rights, basic services, and continue to defend those roles that they play in sustainable development. But certainly also continuing empowering them on the role they can have in not only the entrepreneurship, the kind of people role, but also the social role in guaranteeing basic access to services, access to basic services. So thank you very much for being with us. Thank you, particular thanks for our three panelists for their time with us and sharing their important expertise. And now I have to close and let you go for, I think, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Thank you. Thank you all and we are resuming at three o'clock.