The conclusions of the previous GFMDs note that the availability of latest data and research findings is critical in ensuring continued government action in the field of policy coherence; and that policy-relevant data and research are closely inter-linked with policy coherence between migration and development.

Therefore, discussions held in the GFMD context should be informed by the latest data and findings of experts and researchers in the field of migration and development. Moreover, the need for coherence has been underlined repeatedly, as well as the need for useful and meaningful assessment mechanisms.

In this context, Roundtable 3 focuses on concrete measures and the latest state of the art practices in the areas of policy and institutional coherence, including: data collection and research; the contribution of regional (inter and intra) processes; and the future of CSD in the GFMD.

Papers

3.1 - Policy and institutional coherence: latest data and research findings

A perspective from Asia and the Pacific, Graeme Hugo, University Professorial Research Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of GIS, The University of Adelaide

Policy and institutional coherence, Laura Chappell, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research

3.2 - Regional and inter-regional processes and fora

Thinking differently: CSOS' alternative contribution to global processes, Jean-Pierre Cassarino, European University Institute (EUI, Florence)

Regional and Inter-regional Processes and Fora, Consuelo Ahumada, Ph.D. Political Science, New York University. Full Professor, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. Advisor to Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), Colombia

List of Papers and Summaries for RT 3

Papers written both by private sector and other civil society stakeholders will form the initial basis of the roundtable discussion.

For more information read the full version of the concept note.