UN Network for Migration in Mozambique officially launched
On 15 February 2022, the UN Network for Migration was formally launched in Mozambique. The Network supports the international community’s efforts to implement the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
To ensure system-wide support to the implementation of the GCM that was adopted by Member States in 2018, the Secretary-General launched the UN Network on Migration to ensure effective, timely and coordinated system-wide support to Member States. Mozambique joins 60 other Member States by launching its national UN Network for Migration through the UN Country Team.
The Network in Mozambique consists of eleven members: the UN Resident Coordinators Office, FAO, IOM, OHCHR, UN Habitat, UN Women, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR,UNICEF, UNODC and WFP. The Network aims to facilitate effective, timely and coordinated UN system-wide actions supporting the Government of the Mozambique in implementing, follow up and review of the GCM.
Today, on 16 February 2022 the Network held its first kick-off meeting focused on developing a work plan and supporting the Governments participation to the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) 2022 that will take place from 17-20 May 2022 at the UN HQ in New York as well as the submission of the National Voluntary Review report.
In carrying out its mandate, the Network will prioritize the rights and well-being of migrants and their communities of destination, origin, and transit. It will place emphasis on those issues where a common UN system approach would add value and from which results and impact can be readily gauged.
In all its actions the Network will respect the principles of the GCM and be guided, inter alia, by the United Nations Charter, international law, and the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). The GCM was adopted by 152 Member States in Marrakesh, Morocco and endorsed by the General Assembly on 19 December 2018. The GCM recognizes that no State can address migration alone, and that national migration policies are more likely to succeed through international cooperation and requires a whole-of-society and a whole-of-government approach. The Network consists of 38 entities of the UN system for whom migration is of relevance to their mandate and is headed by an executive committee consisting of IOM, ILO, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNDESA, UNICEF, UNODC, UNDP and WHO. As the UN Agency for Migration, IOM was appointed as coordinator and secretariat. So far, the Network has established 60 country networks and 6 regional networks. |
Figure 1: The 23 GCM Objectives
