migration profiles: concept and iom’s experience
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Migration Profiles: Concept and IOM’s
ExperienceJobst KOEHLER
Research and Publications DivisionIOM, Geneva
Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics, 16 April 2010
Outline
a) Migration Profiles: Background and
Objectives
b) Migration Profiles: Main components
c) Migration Profiles: IOM’s experience
d) Lessons learned
Migration Profiles:Background and Objectives
Migration Profiles (MPs):Migration Profiles (MPs):BackgroundBackground
MPs first introduced by the EC in Annex 6 of the 2005 Migration and Development Communication:
“Migration profiles aim to gather information on issues such as the labour market situation, unemployment rates, labour demand and supply and present or potential skill shortages by sector and occupation, skills needs in the country, skills available in the diaspora, migration flows, incoming and outgoing financial flows linked with migration, including migrant remittances, as well as relevant gender aspects and those related to minors."
To inform Community programming in the field of migration and poverty reduction strategies
MPs provide concise information in a standardized form,
(A country’s migratory picture at a glance)
MPs:BackgroundMPs:Background
2007 Council conclusion to Global Approach to Migration proposed to create:
sustainable extended migration profiles, which would include information regarding migration flows and stocks, as well as the economic dimension of migration."
MP should feed into new policy tools such a mobility partnership and circular migration schemes.
MP evolved from being a means to bring together data from a range of sources, to a more elaborate process involving consultation with many different actors in an effort to help identify and develop strategies to address data gaps and produce the evidence required to inform policy.
MPs: Background
Migration Profiles
Information toolCapacity-building
tool
Extended Migration Profiles (EMPs)
MPs: Objectives
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Objectives of E / MPs:• To enhance governmental knowledge about migration
and its relationship to development
• To support governments in establishing or strengthening mechanisms for regular reporting on migration-related information
• To improve the use of migration information for policy development
• To foster greater inter-ministerial coordination and collaboration with respect to data collection and policy development
• To monitor and assess the donor intervention in the area of migration
MPs:Main Components
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MPs as an information tool
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Standard MPs:
- consist of a migration situation report based on a standardized template
Two types of templates:
- Shorter template; used by EC Delegations in ACP and IOM in South-Eastern Europe and Black Sea
- Longer template; used by IOM in West and Central Africa and Latin America
• Both include indicators on immigration/emigration; types of migration (labour, forced migration) remittances, irregular migration and assessment of migration policy
Templates: Key features
Shorter Template Longer Template
- Fewer indicators (20) on migration;
- No specific focus on migration-related areas (e.g. labour market, human capital, demography);
- Short assessment of migration policies and actors, including diaspora.
- Detailed indicators (46) on migration;
- Focuses on development, demography, economy, labour market and human capital;
- Analysis of factors driving migration
- Assessment of policy framework and effectiveness
- inventory of data sources and list of key definitions.
Migration Profiles - Migration Profiles - TemplatesTemplates MPs as an information toolMPs as an information tool
bring together information about theactors and institutions involved in migration-related activities and policy frameworks in general
MP reports are more than a statistical report. They also ….
Migration Profiles - Migration Profiles - TemplatesTemplates MPs as an information toolMPs as an information tool
Government involvement in the production of MP reports:
National/Regional workshop
Intra-governmental mechanism to support data collection and
production of report
Statistical Advisory Group
MPs asa capacity-building tool
MPs as a capacity-building tool
Problems with existing migration data:
• Accuracy, reliability and validity• Coverage• Timeliness and frequency• Relevance and usefulness• Comparability• Access and transparency
MP exercise presents anopportunityto initiate
a capacity-development
processto improve
data collectionand availability
Dialogue between data users and producers
During the preparation of MP reports…
MPs as a capacity-building tool
Sustainable MPsM Data assessment
Inter-ministerialTechnical WG
Statistical Advisory Group
Training throughTwinning
National DataManagement
(Dissemination)Strategy
Training of Focal institution
New data collectioninstruments
MPs:IOM’s experience
IOM’s experience
IOM first tested the basic migration profile concept in 2006, in Ecuador and Senegal, has subsequently prepared MP reports in over 30 countries:
Africa: 13Europe: 16Asia: 2South America: 4
Prepared in the context of:
• Regional consultative processes (RCPs)
• National initiatives to support Government research units
• National initiatives to support main-streaming of migration into development plans.
IOM’s experience:Key projects
- Pilot project to test a methodology linking the preparation of MPs to a range of capacity-building and policy development activities that aimed to improve basis for coherent policy-making and foster country ownership.
“Migration in West and Central Africa: National Profiles for Strategic Policy Development” (funded by EC, Swiss and Belgian Government) 2008-2010:
10 countries involved: Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mauretania, Niger, Nigeria plus Cameroon and Cape Verde;
• To identify information and capacity-building needs and developing plans to address these needs
IOM’s experience:Key projects
- Migration Profile project linked to a broader capacity-building initiative, the EC’s Mobility Partnership.
“Supporting the implementation of the migration and development component of the EU-Moldova Mobility Partnership” (funded by the EC), 2010- 2012
• Data assessment
• Twinning
• Capacity-building through targeted training and additional data collection
Migration Profiles:Useful tool for policy
development?
MPs as a useful tool?
..Migration Profiles can support policy development through:
• ... improving accessability and availability of migration data
• … identifying data gaps and promote data-sharing at national and regional level
• … promoting discussion on migration policy, coherence and coordination involving a large range of ministries
• … deepen understanding of the policy options and information needs
MPs as a useful tool?
However, Migration Profiles still need...
• …to move from fairly descriptive reporting to more sophisticated analysis
• …to link research and policy-capacity building over the long run
• … to be effectively utilized
• …. to encourage Governments to take ownership and responsibility for updating MPs
IOM Contacts
Jobst KOEHLER
Research and Publications DivisionIOM Geneva
Tél.: +41 22 717 9260Fax: +41 22 798 6150
Email: JKoehler@iom.int, RES@iom.int
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