 Welcome back to our session four. And my name is Susan Martin. I'm at Georgetown University, and I'm delighted to be moderating this session. We will be looking during this session at capacity building at the national level. But before we turn to our panelists, we have a special presentation from Cecile Riavant, senior manager of migration and development specialist at IOM who will be talking about migration and the 2013, 2030 agenda. Cecile? Thank you so much, Susan. Good morning, everyone. So indeed, my role will be to introduce this session but also to focus on one specific tool that IOM is launching today. So in line with the theme of this session, I will focus my intervention on the need to ensure the participation of a wide range of actors operating at different levels of governance for the delivery of efficient and sustainable capacity development in the field of migration. I will argue that capacity development on migration needs a common narrative to connect the many threads related to migration and that the agenda 2030 for sustainable development should be this joint framework. And all the points I will make in my presentation are made to inform the setup of the capacity building mechanism foreseen in support of the efforts of the member states to implement the global compact on migration. So migration outcomes depend on the intended or unintended interactions between migration policies and other sectoral policies, such as housing, trade, health, or agriculture. So capacity development in migration therefore needs to clearly emphasize the importance of securing a whole of government approach that considers how other policies affect and are affected by migration and what sectors and actors need to be mobilized. So training government officials should frame migration really as a cross-cutting issue and provide them with a broad understanding of migration across different sectors. And this is really what has been achieved in the context of a global program implemented jointly by IOM and UNDP and supported by the Swiss Development Corporation that was really focused on this critical issue of policy coherence on migration and development. And it has really relied on a very strong capacity development component whereby joint training of government officials coming from different line ministries has really facilitated as a result of joint up policy making on migration. So bringing different line ministries in joint capacity development training is really important. Another dimension related to the whole of government's approach is really the need to include cities and local and regional authorities in capacity development and migration. The key role of local and regional authorities has been duly recognized in the new urban agenda and the global compact on migration make quite a lot of references as well to the role cities and local and regional authorities have to facilitate the implementation of the compact. So the local level where the development impact of migration is the most profoundly felt is really crucial for comprehensively addressing the challenges and opportunities related to migration. These dynamics are indeed mediated by cities and local and regional actors on the ground who really find themselves at the forefront of providing services to migrants and their families and to communities. So needs for capacity development of local levels of governments are enormous really in a context where migration is still largely perceived as a national level prerogative. So upon bringing in the local dimension on capacity development and migration, there's also another very important element that I'd like to bring in, which is the one of vertical policy coherence between national and subnational authorities through the promotion of coordination mechanisms. And that should be a really important component about how we deliver capacity development on migration. Specific capacity development tools have been already developed and are available in the context of the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative, the GMDI, which is a program that was supported by seven agencies, the United Nations System, among which IOM. And that program developed a specific toolbox for local decision makers on migration management. And we have so far trained over 6,000 stakeholders using this particular tool. So the organization of joint capacity development activities bringing together local and national government officials have proven to be extremely instrumental. Along with the whole of governments approach, the participation of a wide range of actors is also paramount. When talking about capacity development for migration governance, it is important for states to include all relevant stakeholders, also in order to contribute to the implementation of the frameworks for migration governance. So actors like recruitment agencies who play an important role in contributing to fair and ethical recruitment, diaspora organizations who play a critical role in connecting countries of origin and countries' destination, or service providers for digital technology, for example, are all crucial and should be encompassed and included in capacity development efforts. So the capacity building mechanism foreseen in support of the efforts of the member states for the implementation of the GCM should therefore fully reflect the need for whole of governance and whole of society approach. Why the primary focus of the CBM is to strengthen the state's capacities in the area of migration and equip them in terms of legislation, policies, and capable institutions, civil society organizations, local and regional authorities, and other relevant stakeholders should also be considered for support. Now I'd like to turn to the second part of my presentation, which is very much in line with everything that I've been talking about in terms of the importance of the whole of society and whole of governance approach. And I'd like to argue that the 2030 agenda really provides us with an important framework against which capacity development on migration should be framed. Indeed, the inclusion of migration in the SDGs sets an important precedent for how migration governance can progress in the years to come. The principle of universality that underpins the goals is especially significant for migration, as it can promote national and international collaboration on the issue. The applicability of all SDG targets to all countries underlines how each has a role to play in migration and provide a framework for progress towards more effective international governance on migration that is based on global partnership. So the inclusion of migration in the SDGs also paves the way towards greater collaboration between the migration and development sectors and through this towards greater policy coherence. So the 2030 agenda has been named a declaration of interdependence. It encourages going beyond governance as usual and under target 17.14 calls to pursue policy coherence and an enabling environment for sustainable development at all levels and by all actors. So the agenda requires stakeholders to move to a whole of governance approach to achieve policy coherence on migration governance. So the migration SDG connections reach far beyond implementing migration policies and then tell integrating migration across governance sectors. So to help doing that, IOM is launching a new guide for practitioners on migration and the 2030 agenda. And you have copies of the guides at the back of this room if you're interested in it. So really this guide is so as you can see here on the screen we have really analyzed looking at the 2030 agenda all the entry points that exist in relation to human mobility and migration. So as you know, they are obvious direct entry points but they are also cross cutting areas. And really what this guide does is to illustrate all of those different dimensions for policymakers and other migration practitioners alike. So it really is designed to serve government actors both national and local, involved in any process of sustainable development goal implementation including those working specifically in migration and those working in other sectors who are interested in integrating migration. So it is also for government actors working in the migration field wish to integrate these SDGs into their work. So these intervention take the form of legislation, policies, programs, projects or other activities and may relate to core migration topics or integrate migration into activities in another sector. So for example, policymakers may use this guide to align intervention that directly address victims of trafficking as well as interventions in the health sector that help protect those victims of trafficking. So you know those looking at all these different entry points for different policy objectives. So for actors with experience in migration mainstreaming this guide offers a new approach that is really based on the 2030 agenda and for those with no experience in migration mainstreaming it offers an introduction on how migration and development are linked in the context of the SDGs and how to take action around these connections. So section one of the guides is really a thematic overview of the ways in which migration is included in the 2030 agenda and really zoom on the main opportunities that it presents and it offers a thematic exploration of direct cross-cutting connections throughout the agenda and it really enables actors to consider how the SDGs are most relevant to that particular local and national migration context. Section two and this is what you have here on the screen offers a full step process that really provides for operational guidance and suggested processes for implementing migration aspects of the SDGs but it really is a flexible framework and that can be modified and adjusted to fit local and national context of course. So the process is not intended at all to be prescriptive or exhaustive but it really helps policy makers to respond to national and local migration dynamics in their own institutional context. So it goes through a stage of a kickoff, prioritization, implementation and monitoring and reporting and throughout those different steps we are really providing very concrete ways to do it illustrated as well by case studies about how governments around the world have gone about this process. So it's really hands-on and we hope that it will help you in articulating the 2030 agenda with policy-making at national level. So in conclusion, I'd like to say that really the capacity-building mechanism of the GCM really has the potential to ensure an efficient use of the existing technical, financial and human resources for strengthening capacities and multi-partner cooperation but as we know there are a number of capacity-development tools that currently exist. A lot is already on the table. So really what is critical now is how we are able to join those different tools that we have and how are we going to do that and really doing it against the pattern or the framework of policy coherence strongly anchored in the 2030 agenda should be one of the guiding principles as we move forward in designing this capacity-building mechanism. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for those words. I plan to, as we begin our session looking at the national assessing capacity development needs of national actors in promoting solutions, I think we need to recall some of the discussion from yesterday and the experiences we've had. It's very clear that national authorities have the primary responsibility, of course, for migration management but also for the implementation of the SGGs. So in many ways this session I think is at the very heart of what the entire discussions have been leading towards. And when we talk about national authorities as we've just heard though, not only do we need to think about a whole of government approaches within the national government itself but also how that national government interacts with all of the other actors that are necessary to be involved in the implementation of the global compact, whether it's local authorities or migrant and diaspora groups, civil society more generally, international organizations as well. I think we'll be hearing a range of perspectives on these issues today that will be very useful in moving forward with the implementation. I'm going to introduce our four speakers first and then let each of them proceed. Our first speaker will be His Excellency, Mr. Republos Azar García Sainz. He's the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala. He's had an extensive diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Fententiary of the Republic of Guatemala. He's also served as General Counsel of Guatemala and Los Angeles and in New York. He'll be followed by Mr. Martin de Mello Barbazzo. He is the Secretary for Strategic Initiatives of the Special Secretariat for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Brazil and he is a Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management. Our third speaker will be Mr. Ken Okaniwa. He was appointed Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to International Organizations and Chief of Consulate Office in Geneva. He was previously the Consul General of Japan in Miami. And then our final speaker will be Ms. Sima Gatia. She's a social entrepreneur and transcultural migration expert and is the founder of SINGA Deutschland and she uses co-creative and social innovation to experiment with more sustainable and impact-driven approaches to integration. And so, we'll begin with you, Mr. Sight. Señora moderadora, Martin. Señores panelistas, señores delegados. Para Guatemala es un verdadero honor participar en este taller el cual enriquece el diálogo sobre una realidad que vivimos todos los países como lo es el tema migratorio. Personalmente agradezco la oportunidad que se me brinda para que mi calidad de vice-ministro de Relaciones Exteriores pueda compartir la experiencia que nuestro país tiene en este tema, lo cual es de suma importancia para mi gobierno. El eje prioritario de la política exterior de Guatemala hoy día lo tiene el tema migratorio considerando que somos un país de origen, tránsito, destino y retorno. Es por eso que nuestro compromiso es el develar por el pleno respecto al cumplimiento de los derechos humanos de todas las personas migrantes independientemente de su condición migratoria. En materia consular y migratoria se han precisado importantes avances como ampliar y fortalecer la red consular guatemalteca con miras a prestar un mejor servicio a la comunidad guatemalteca en el exterior y dar una eficacia, oportuna atención, asistencia y protección en cuanto a la documentación de guatemaltecos en el exterior, asimismo una atención específica a niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes no acompañados y acompañados. En ese contexto Guatemala celebró un logro muy importante como lo fue la finalización de las negociaciones del documento que dan vida al pacto mundial para una migración segura, ordenada y regular cuya base es la protección de los derechos de las personas migrantes, siendo una valiosa oportunidad para reconocer el aporte de la migración para el desarrollo de todas las sociedades. En ese contexto quiero comentarles que el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala, con el apoyo de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones llevó a cabo un taller y consulta interinstitucional durante el mes de octubre del año pasado el cual tuvo el nombre de rumbo al pacto mundial sobre migración en el que se contó con la participación de todas las instituciones de gobierno involucradas en el tema migratorio para la construcción de una posición de país de cara a la negociación que tuviera lugar este año. Siendo nuestro principal eje el tema migratorio Guatemala también ha participado activamente durante las seis negociaciones que se dieron lugar en Nueva York de las cuales se destacó de manera enfática y continua la promoción de los siguientes principios. Uno, enfoca integral basado en la protección de los derechos humanos de las personas migrantes y sus familias, principalmente las niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes no acompañados y acompañados, así como unidades familiares. Dos, contribución de las migraciones y las víasporas en el desarrollo económico, social y cultural de los países de destino y origen. Tres, lucha contra la xenofobia, discriminación, racismo y otras formas de intolerancia contra las personas migrantes. Cuatro, la no criminalización de las personas migrantes. Cinco, la no detención de niñas y niños adolescentes migrantes. Seis, la reunificación de las familias. Y siete, apoyar a la creación de programas de migración ordenada, segura y regular, como lo son los programas de trabajadores temporales en países desarrollados. A partir del reconocimiento de estos principios, Guatemala manifestó a través de sus intervenciones que la migración debe ser aportada a un enfoque de derechos humanos y no exclusivamente en un enfoque basado en la seguridad. Es por esto que vimos la necesidad de asegurar la no detención de niñas y niños adolescentes migrantes por motivos migratorios, así como hacer atención y protección una prioridad máxima de la gobernanza migratoria en el estricto apego al interés superior del niño, garantizando siempre el derecho a la reunificación con su familia. Por otra parte, Guatemala ha iniciado con la transfernalización del tema migratorio en la Agenda 2030 y los objetivos del desarrollo sostenible en el marco de la Conferencia Regional sobre Migración. En este contexto mes grato compartirles que Guatemala, en el próximo mes, recibirá la Presidencia Protémpore de la Conferencia Regional sobre Migración, un foro multilateral donde se comparten las experiencias y buenas prácticas de 11 países sobre derechos humanos y las personas migrantes y gestión migratoria. De esta manera, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso y responsabilidad en pro de las personas migrantes esperando desde la Presidencia promover acciones en su beneficio y viabilizar el vínculo entre la migración y el desarrollo, por lo que desde ya agradecemos la labor de los países miembros de esta Conferencia. Como ya lo he indicado, para Guatemala es prioritario el tema y respeto a la garantía de los derechos del interés superior del niño como base para todos los países y la protección a la niñez y a la adolescencia, justo a la reunificación familiar considerando que la familia es el centro de nuestra sociedad. El gobierno de Guatemala ha demostrado su fiel compromiso de velar en todo momento por los pronacionales en el exterior, principalmente aquí a las poblaciones más vulnerables como lo son las niñas y los niños y los migrantes adolescentes. Durante muestra de ello es la definición de un modelo de protección consular para niñas y niños y adolescentes migrantes con un enfoque de derechos humanos en toda fase el proceso migratorio la promoción, el respeto y la garantía de los principios del interés superior del niño, la reunificación de su familia el debido proceso y el acceso a las medidas de protección internacional. Toda situación que se vea afectada, la niñez y la adolescencia requiere de los estados acciones inmediatas y además la consolidación de una sinergia de todas las instituciones para una correcta determinación del interés superior de los niños y los adolescentes. De esta realidad en el marco del Tricamex un mecanismo de alianza en conjunto con los países hermanos de México El Salvador y Honduras Guatemala organizó en la capital Guatemateca en el mes de julio una reunión para la definición de las estrategias conjuntas en materia migratoria y de seguridad entre los cancieres de estos países y la secretaria de seguridad nacional de los estados unidos de América en donde se abordó el tema integral y principalmente la reunificación de familias. Como resultado de esta reunión hemos establecido una ruta de trabajo para el intercambio de información que facilite la notificación consular de las personas migrantes de los países miembros del Tricamex que se han ingresado a los Estados Unidos de América con el fin de facilitar la actuación consular y los procesos migratorios de manera inmediata. Es por esto que el ordenamiento es importante establecer procesos migratorios seguros ordenados y respetuosos de los derechos humanos de la población migrante. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala como representante del Estado en el exterior es el responsable de velar por el respeto de los derechos de los guatemaltecos de los trabajadores migratorios todo ellos sin importar el estatus en el cual se encuentran y brindar una asistencia y protección consular correspondiendo. Los principales flujos de trabajadores de Guatemala hoy se priorizan en Canadá y los Estados Unidos mexicanos. Se tiene el registro de 7.526 internacionales guatemaltecos trabajando de manera temporal en México y 6.280 en Canadá. Quiero comentar también que se está explorando una nueva área de labor en otros países en donde se está impulsando una migración segura, ordenada y regular. Uno de las partes fundamentales para el alcance de una eficaz gobernanza de la migración es el adecuado marco legal y es por ello que en el año 2016 en Guatemala fue aprobado el código de migración bajo el decreto 44-2016 del Congreso de la República de Guatemala. El cuantos constituye un proceso de aportes intersectoriales crea una nueva institucionalidad y contiene todo un enfoque de principios y derechos básicos colocando a la persona migrante como el centro y sujeto de derecho. Actualmente se continúa en los procesos de la construcción de una reglamentación que mandate al mismo código para protección de todos los migrantes. En el tema consular quiero compartir con ustedes que uno de los proyectos más importantes es la ampliación de la red consular. Para este año se ha tenido planificada la apertura de dos consulados más en los Estados Unidos de América y uno en los Estados Unidos mexicanos. Esto permitirá acercar el servicio a nuestra comunidad. Actualmente contamos con 41 secciones consulares y otros de los objetos dentro de nuestra política exterior es el fortalecimiento de incrementar la presencia de Guatemala en foros internacionales que aborden el tema migratorio con miras a incidir en las decisiones multilacerales internacionales que a largo plazo se expresan en la política nacional. Es por ello que aplaudimos la labor de la OIM para la organización de estos espacios de diálogo. Asimismo en el marco del proyecto MISIC Guatemala ha impulsado varias acciones para el fortalecimiento de la capacidad de preparación para situación de crisis y protección de la población migrante en casos de emergencia. Con el apoyo de la OIM se brindó una capacitación al cuerpo consular acreditado en nuestro país para dar a conocer las acciones que hemos emprendido en estos temas. De igual manera, las misiones diplomáticas y consulares de Guatemala en el exterior ahora cuentan con un manual de contingencia en casos de emergencia o desastres y también con el apoyo de la OIM se realizará la impresión que estos manuales se necesitan para darlos pero compartir que recientemente se presentó el perfil de gobernanza migratoria por parte de la OIM el cual permitirá servir en una hoja de ruta de revisión el fortalecimiento y el diseño de nuevas políticas que den un enfoque de gobierno integral y la búsqueda de una clara normativa del funcionamiento institucional basado en el contexto migratorio de Guatemala. Por último Guatemala considera importante fortalecer la cooperación entre los distintos actores tanto gubernamentales la sociedad civil la academia, el sector privado y los organismos internacionales incluidos la organización internacional para las migraciones y la necesidad de una constante coordinación interagencial dentro de naciones unidas para abordar el tema del pacto mundial sobre migración. En este contexto queremos agradecer nuevamente a la OIM no sólo la invitación para participar en este taller sino por toda la labor que realiza desde la oficina regional para guatemala y a los equipos que han realizado una destacada labor en beneficio de la comunidad migrante. Muchas gracias. Thank you so much for those remarks and particularly for really focusing on some of these major sort of human interest aspects of migration policy with the focus on children and then the end on dealing with disasters and certainly as U.S. we are now into the hurricane season and these issues are of particular concern. So thank you. Thank you very much your moderator speakers and participants of this dialogue first of all I'd like to thank you for the invitation to be here it's an honor to speak in front of such a qualified audience and I'll try to convey some information or picture of what is happening nowadays in Brazil regarding our migration policies and how we are trying to build capacity to cope with the migration events that we have experienced in recent years historically speaking migration was an important event in Brazil you're a country of migrants but in recent decades I can tell you that maybe in the past two or three decades migration was kind of off the radar of our government authorities for one simple reason because migrants even though the number is relevant we have now 1 million 1.1 million people migrants living in Brazil it does not represent an important share of our total population for a country with 200 million people we now have less than 1% of migrants in our country and the same applies to the population living abroad we have, if I'm not wrong, 1.6 1.8 million Brazilians living abroad so it also represents less than 1% of our total population but things started to change around 2013-14 when we started to see in the news information about the arrival of Indians in Brazil so we experienced an important arrival of Indians citizens in Brazil in a matter of few years maybe in two or three years they became the second largest migrant group in our country and the arrival of those migrants highlighted three important problems we had three, if I can say, flaws or difficulties we had first of all we realized that we had an outdated legislation and that migrant law was created with concerns of national security so migrants were treated more as a threat instead of being an opportunity for the country it also highlighted the existence of a government deficit lack of coordination among government institutions and we also realized that there was a lot of misinformation about the migrant situation and migrant rights about government officials but also among the private and the society as a whole even the migrants, they didn't know what were their rights so in order to attack this three main issue the government implemented two actions first of all it reinforced the role of our national migration chamber this national migration chamber is hosted at the Ministry of Labor and it comprises 20 government members with rights to vote and 13 observers and this chamber is responsible for the guidelines of national migration policies it also coordinates the government activities related to migration policies and analyzes and issues recommendations on legislative proposals related to migration or on issues which can affect the lives of migrants in our country so this was one of the first actions adopted and as a consequence we also approved a new migration law in 2017 some of the principles I can highlight about this new migration law the non-criminalization of migration this was an important evolution the right of migrants to become residents if they want to a faster naturalization process then it's required and it's much faster today than in the previous years it's more flexible for working visas as well those who want to work and don't want to become residents they have a faster process to acquire their visas and the new legislation also have goals of social inclusion especially the right to have access to education public education, public health services so this was an important evolution compared to what we had before and in recent years we also had an important event worth mentioning which was the arrival of migrants from Venezuela it became a kind of a stress test for the government for a few reasons first of all as in the case of the Hadians the migrants from Venezuela they arrived very quickly and in 2015 we had citizens from Venezuela living in Brazil and in 2018 this number jumped to 95,000 dividing between asylum seekers and residents so it became a fast process and it also became a problem for the government for one reason you can see here the demographic density map of Brazil and the parts in yellow represent what we call the Amazon area this is where the Amazon rainforest is located and you can see from the map that it's a scarcely populated area there is almost no one living there just a few major cities here is almost nonexistent as well we have few roads and few airports in this whole region and the difficulty, the problem for the government is that the migrants started to arrive at the north of the country I mean the most isolated area in the country and they are now basically now located at the state of Roraima which is a small state in the northern part of the country and they also have low human index indicators so their situation today is that this state has half a million people of Brazilians living there we have half a million Brazilians living there and now we have 71,000 migrants from Venezuela today they represent 14% of the total population and it created some pressure on how can I say this is related to health security and labor as well and if these migrants want to move to other parts of the country I mean if they want to go from Roraima to Sao Paulo which is the largest city in Brazil where they can find better job opportunities they will have to take a long trip 63 hours by car almost 5000 kilometers and for this reason as well they are still living there most of the Venezuelans are still living in Roraima and as I can show you here now 74% of the Venezuelans in Brazil are still in the state of Roraima so which actions the government has decided to implement the first one at the local level was the decision to establish partnerships with international organizations religious groups and NGOs and this was a tremendous and super important decision because these organizations they have the eligibility capacity and flexibility that governments don't have the federal government also is trying to support the states and the municipality in Brazil we are a federation we have three levels of government the central government and the municipalities and now the government is trying to support the state of Roraima to help them in welcoming these migrants in the most efficient possible way and the government is also trying to provide public service at the border and those are identification and data collection information about migrants rights and it became super important because we realized after a few days that the migrants they didn't know what were their own rights so we are trying to emphasize this point in order to make the migrants more aware of what are their rights we are also providing health care and vaccines shelter and food for those who need it and now we are serving 17,000 meals per day each day we are serving to those migrants and we are trying to move these migrants to larger cities before I talk about the movement of these migrants to larger cities I also want to emphasize one important aspect of this of this event which was a decision to centralize all the actions at the presidency of republic so all the actions regarding government activities were centralized we created a task force at the presidency of republic and it was a huge difference so in order to move these migrants to larger cities to give them jobs and opportunities for a better life we have to first of all identify cities with potential to absorb these migrants which became a challenge as well because in Brazil we have a large unemployment rate we have today almost 13 million people who have defined jobs in our country so accommodating those migrants especially in a situation where they don't speak Portuguese became a main challenge for the government so we are establishing meetings with local authority and civil society organizations as I said before we have to have these civil society organizations on our side otherwise the movement will not be efficient and we are trying to also provide jobs to the private sector and it also this issue is also crucial because we realize that the private sector in most cases was afraid to provide jobs for those migrants because they did not know what were their label rights so we are trying to clarify this to make their more comfortable to hire migrants from Venezuela and we are also making workshops with local government stakeholders to clarify sharing information and design proper policies at the local level the road ahead is the situation perfect? No it is not, we still have a lot of things to do and I would like to emphasize a few questions which are still being attacked by the government and which deserve some effort will be deserving some effort in the near future first of all we still have to improve and production of better information about the situation of migrants especially surveys with the migrants to understand what were the obstacles they were encountering when they come to our country and when they try to find jobs and when they try to live in our society we also have to reduce bureaucracy quick access to document is crucial for these migrants and we realize that the issue of working permits for example still takes some time more than it should we have to improve coordination between government agencies, we have three main databases regarding migrants in our country one at the Ministry of Labor the second at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the third at the Ministry of Justice and these three databases are not interconnected so if we want to find information about migrants we have to close one database open another and for someone who is at the front here it becomes a difficulty a challenge. We have to enhance the capacity of civil society for reasons I already explained we have to provide these civil society organizations with more resources and we have to treat them as important partners and finally we have to disseminate migrants rights among the private and the public sectors especially on a circumstance where the new migrant law was approved in last year it's very recent, most people still don't know what are the migrant rights and we are trying to set some workshops with important stakeholders in the government sector to make them more aware of what are the migrants rights so this was a brief picture a brief explanation about how we are trying to build capacity in our country it's an example of what Brazil is doing I know that the realities and the circumstances and the challenges of other countries are different from ours but I think it can raise some debate and I will be happy to answer to the questions you have thank you very much yes thank you so much both for the update on what's happening the Venezuelans in Brazil but also that last slide was very illuminating in terms of priorities for capacity building based on your recent experience thank you very much Mr. Akadema thank you Susan it's my great pleasure to give a presentation on human security and migration before starting my presentation allow me to express Japan support the global compact on safe orderly and regular migration the global compact incorporates many of the elements of human security approach namely human centered 360 degrees vision and multi-stakeholder approach and also the STG the 2020-30 STG also incorporates many of the elements and that's not a coincidence because human security is a concept that Japan has been promoting in the international community since the 1990s in collaboration with U.N. member states and international organizations including IOM and other stakeholders of course Japan has also been promoting or taking the human security approach in its bilateral aid projects and programs human security is based on a fundamental and mutual understanding that governments play the primary role in ensuring the survival, livelihood and dignity of their citizens it is the governments which have a responsibility to protect their citizens but the concept goes beyond the traditional nation centered framework focuses on lives of individuals focusing on their potential to realize a their potential and also to realize a rich and sustainable society through empowerment of the people since the political economic, social and cultural conditions for human security vary significantly within and across countries the cross cutting and comprehensive approach of human security is effective in responding to migration issues and I think the some of the elements of taking a whole government approach looking at the various human security from various angles is something that was mentioned by some of my previous speakers by focusing on alleviating human suffering and improving lives at the individual level it facilitates collaboration between governments including the local authorities international organizations NGOs civil societies and private sectors in 2012 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on human security in which the concept was defined as people centered comprehensive context specific and prevention oriented it is a people centered approach ensuring the survival, livelihood and dignity of the people dealing with cross cutting risks it is a context specific approach considering the root causes of problems and risks in various ways it is also prevention oriented namely by proactively identifying and addressing risks that exist now and also into the future Secretary General Antonio Gaterres referred to human security as one of the interrelated dimensions along with state security national security and public security in his report last December entitled making migration work for all he also mentioned the importance of human security for the international community to respond to the complex global threats and challenges when he made a special lecture in Tokyo last December on global challenges the role of human security to promote this approach Japan spearheaded the establishment of the United Nations first fund for human security in 1999 since its establishment Japan has consistently been the main donor of the fund between 1999 and 2017 the fund has committed over 400 million dollars to 243 projects in over 95 countries around the world for the sake of time I will not explain individual projects but I think that I will try to generally explain how these projects formulated and implemented there is one project in Somalia which was adopted in 2017 which includes IOM as one of the international organizations proposing the project in this project achieving local solutions to displacement crisis in Somalia IOM and other UN organizations addressed multiple challenges relating to protracted internal displacement large-scale return of Somali refugees from neighboring countries and new displacement due to conflict within Somalia and also drought through a pilot project in Juba Land region in applying the human security approach the first step involves undertaking a context specific human security analysis main determinants of human insecurity for the vulnerable people are identified in a wide range of areas and at various levels such as personal insecurity economic environment and health insecurities in the specific case of this project threats to human security include violence, poverty, unemployment lack of adequate housing adequate basic services infectious and other disease and the impact of natural hazards such as drought once an analysis is done the second step will be to formulate a strategy that will integrate the roles of various stakeholders concern and comprehensively deal with the diverse range of threats to human security for the human security approach to work it is essential that all the important stakeholders participate in the process starting from analysis to formulation of strategy implementation and the monitoring and evaluation process human security aims at empowering the displacement affected communities and promoting capacity development of the community this is very important to support the community in this way and empower them because in many cases the government's capacity is too weak and they cannot adequately deal with the challenges and through the project the affected individuals and community will become more self-reliant we also support the government the government will become more accountable and better able to respond to the needs of the displacement affected community by emphasizing empowerment and capacity development the project will seek to contribute to durable solutions in the affected areas the project was funded in 2017 and implementation has just begun but once the pilot project is completed it is expected that lesson learned and best practices will be used to mainstream the human security approach into future programming in Somali I hope that the results of this project will be an useful input to the global knowledge platform administered by the IOM in accordance with the global compact on migration human security is originally a concept adopted in the context of peace and security but it is useful in dealing with other challenges including migration and also the 2030 agenda for sustainable development the approach is useful in addressing complex complex issues and all the root causes of problems to promote this approach Japan welcomes extended support or expanded support to the fund from more members of the international community thank you for your attention thank you so much for both introducing the concept of human security and to our discussions today we've heard a lot about human rights and development and human security is another way of cutting into those issues and also for talking about capacity development in the context of prevention and solutions I think that also adds a really interesting element to what we'll be talking about on that we've wrapped things up for us in the presentations so hello everyone I'm hoping that we are going to end this session with some energy and maybe some space to really reflect on how our own teams are actually approaching this topic and what we can really do differently to really embrace the spirit of a whole of society approach not just in theory but also in practice I had the impression yesterday that there's a lot of willingness in the room I'm very impressed to hear a lot of willingness in the room to really embrace this compact and put it into practice maybe the tools and the methods on how to actually do that I feel that there's still room for potential to really explore them so I'm happy to share a few ideas with you today on how this whole topic of multi-stakeholder cooperation and whole society approach can look and I'm very curious to hear your feedback my name is Sima and I'm very happy to present SINGA today SINGA is an organization that I founded in Germany three years ago and I will get to the details in a moment so the first question I asked myself when I founded an organization in the space of migration and integration was how can a sense of belonging help to reveal individuals potential and I'd like all of you to take one moment to reflect on a time in your life it could be from childhood it could be from a meeting last week when you felt that you weren't really welcomed or you weren't really feeling that you have a place or at least not a place you felt you deserve and was there anyone in that moment that actually sort of created a space and created an opening for you maybe it was a grandparent maybe it was a cousin maybe it was a colleague maybe it was someone totally unexpected it could be a small moment or a big moment but think about the role that that person played in that moment and how maybe by creating a space where suddenly I'm welcomed here suddenly you had all these ideas and you had all this energy to really express and to fulfill your potential so this is the question that Shinga tries to answer every day and this is a picture from a language café that we have in Berlin here you can see Laura she's become a really great friend of mine and what I love about this picture is that it not only emphasizes this question of how migrants refugees and foreigners and all these scary people can participate in integration but we often forget about the role of locals locals have maybe even a more important role to play in making their societies open and they want to in 2015 in Germany we experienced an incredible willingness to engage by civil society there were more organizations founded in the field of migration than ever before in history so obviously there's an interest but sometimes people need an invitation to get involved also the locals we heard from a presentation this morning the migrant voices which I found very interesting panel that the word migrant is most often associated with the word illegal language is power we tend to use the word refugee we tend to use the word migrant in a lot of the work that we are doing and yet we're not always aware of the stigmas that are associated with those terms and you know I always find it so ironic when people say that they're working on inclusion they're working on integration whole society you know all these great things but then they use really they use language that is actually exclusive they speak about refugees and nationals or migrants and locals you've already taken two steps back before you can take two steps forward so at SINGA we also try to use a transcultural approach which goes beyond the usual intercultural approach if you're interested I can tell you more about it later and as part of this approach we actually are very very interested in language that we use so you will see in a moment at least interim solution we found for this term over the past six years we have started to create in all kinds of spaces in tech in housing in Germany more specifically in employment and entrepreneurship to see how different kinds of programs whether it's a business incubator whether it's professional mentoring whether it's Sprachcafé living room storytelling which spaces actually create that dynamic where people can really really connect and create together so as you see here the solution that we've come up with at least in Germany for now is to refer to connecting newcomers and locals and what I love about the term newcomer by the way I'm from Canada originally and in Canada actually newcomer is actually an official term and it refers to anyone that has been living in the country for less than three years regardless of status refugee international student husband wife you're a newcomer and what I like about the word newcomer even beyond Canada is that it's not really a political term it's not a political status in the sense of refugee or asylum seeker and again when we're trying or claiming to work on a whole of society approach of integration it means we have to create a space where people feel welcomed to contribute welcome to get engaged and the moment you label them directly with very exclusive traumatizing terminology you're not really doing your job to create that space or that entry point so language is very important and I'm happy to say that SINGA has managed to reach new levels and we continue to get questions from cities around the world that they want to start SINGA you know in Sao Paulo or you know here in Geneva we're very happy to have started very recently and my colleague from SINGA Geneva is here Giordano so feel free if anyone is in Geneva and you want to connect we're also here but here you can see that we've engaged in scaling mainly around Europe but slowly we're reaching cities also outside of Europe and what I want to now talk about with you we've done the trans-cultural co-creation stuff now I want to talk with you about scaling but not the usual type of scaling I want to talk about how to scale impact and again yesterday I heard the echo from many of you that you want to know okay we want to cooperate and we have a whole society approach so many different stakeholders are important and you have working groups now within the IOMUN that's great and we have goals and we have many many objectives here in the compact and the question is always how do we actually work together where to start so we're here a new form of networking with you that comes from the field of social entrepreneurship so SINGA is a social business so maybe this can also offer some insight how do we usually build networks whether it's on a personal level or a professional level we put ourselves in the middle of course and we think okay who do I need around me to move my objectives forward so when you're in an organization and you say you want to grow okay so I need funding partners I need press I need marketing I need financial legal whatever you put yourself in the middle and you pull the resources that you need around you normal to move forward this is how we were taught to do things and this is very normal the interesting thing with scaling impact is that research has shown that this approach doesn't really work all of those partners are doing the same thing so they're also putting themselves in the middle and as long as you keep putting your own organization in the middle and your own structural needs in the middle impact is always going to be a second priority so what I'd like to propose to you is a model that comes from Ashoka I'm not sure if any of you know of Ashoka it's the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide and they have amazing theories and amazing impact stuff and one of my favorite concepts from them and this is what I think is if you take one thing from this presentation please take this it's the notion of smart networks so again this is a notion of how to scale impact now you can see we have just made one switch we've taken me out of the center and we've put our impact goal in the center so now we ask ourselves okay let's say I don't know take any objective you want from the global compact ideally an actionable impact goal and you ask yourself okay which actors does this impact goal need in order to move forward maybe hopefully you are one of those actors although maybe not and then you should pull yourself out completely don't waste your resources put them where you're where you're good at but let's assume that yeah I'm a very important actor in the space let's say SINGA for example we feel we're a very important actor in the space of innovation and innovating around connections but we need funders of course we need press of course we need all the types of other actors and so we when we reach out to actors we tell them what our impact goal is and we tell them how they can contribute to that goal so sure they're partnering with us but the idea is not to partner with SINGA the idea is to move an impact goal forward so yeah if I come now to the maybe the last slide to my recommendation I would encourage all of you here today especially those representing countries to go back to your teams and to have an honest conversation with your team and to say okay we have 23 objectives of course we're not going to work on all of them probably ever and we're not going to work on all of them right away however maybe there are one or two or three that are really really a priority now so be very clear with your team which objectives do you want to focus on directly in the next three years and formulate those objectives into measurable impact goals and then now comes the fun part create funding opportunities for local multi-stakeholder actors to create smart networks and this has to happen also on the very local level so we heard a lot of talk about mayors and you know local administration I think mayors have a huge role to play in fostering the foundation of smart networks in their cities all around your countries I have a lot more to share but I think the time is running and I hope that you have questions and ideas and of course if you want to get in touch I would be very happy to share some more insight and input into this you can come up and find me afterwards and thank you very much raising the issue of scale because as we talk about capacity development I think there are a lot of good ideas there are a lot of topics about which capacity needs to be developed but scaling it up to the point where we could actually make a larger impact is another issue so thank you for getting us on to that topic