Stockholm Agenda” and National Post-2015 Development Agendas, As Both Actors and Subjects of Human and Economic on Migrant and Development That Is Sustainable
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Civil Society I. Over-arching framework Migrants and migration belong in international “Stockholm Agenda” and national post-2015 development agendas, as both actors and subjects of human and economic on migrant and development that is sustainable. As a first matter, SDGs must address root causes migration-related and conditions that force people to migrate, especially surging global inequalities driven by current development and economic paradigms. goals and targets . We must move towards people and nature- centered, rights-based development. This is an urgent practical matter, but also a clear moral in post-2015 imperative, not least so that migration can be a choice, not a necessity. In this direction, the SDGs global and national must include strong goals for: decent work for all, with labour rights, as a goal development agendas for all countries but with explicit reference to protection of migrant workers regardless of status universal publicly-funded and delivered social protection in critical areas of community well-being Point 1 of the “5-year 8-point Plan of Action” that global civil society presented to the UN High Level Dialogue on Migrant earnings and remittances are important International Migration and Development in 2013 (HLD) contributors to family and community development. calls for the integration of migrants and migration into the Remittances however, are private transfers: they post-2015 development agenda “to address not only the should not be diverted or used as the “answer” or contributions that migrants make to development in countries of substitute for development policy or assistance. origin and destination, but also the possibilities for better policy planning and coherence that can make migration more genuinely The SDGs must point to and incorporate a choice and not a necessity, and greater gain than drain.” full participation of migrants and diaspora as partners in public policy planning and implementation, Before, within and in follow-up to the 2014 Global Forum development and data collection. on Migration and Development in Stockholm, civil society came together to assert the following framework and a set As described on the next page, a number of of goals and targets that connect migrants and migration with migrant and migration-related targets may fit human and economic development that is decent, sustainable either under broader SDGs (such as ending poverty; and transformative. fair, accessible and adequate healthcare, education and governance; empowering girls and women, etc.) Many of these goals and targets match and take forward or together as a logical set for transformative human important emphases of the consensus Declaration of Member and economic development, including: States at the HLD and the work of a range of post-2015 decreasing remittance transfer costs processes, including the UN member states’ Open Working reducing risks to migrants on the move, Group and the April 2014 Dhaka recommendations. in particular: recruitment costs; lack of fair, regular and orderly channels of migration; Civil society proposes to collaborate with UN member criminalization of migrants; and risks to women states to ensure that the forthcoming post-2015 Sustainable and to children in contexts of human trafficking, Development Goals (SDGs) and national development transit and crisis agendas reflect these goals and targets, and to together portability of social security, pension and skills, achieve, monitor and measure progress on them over the 15 including recognition of qualifications years through 2030. CIVIL SOCIETY “STOCKHOLM AGENDA” ON MIGRANT AND MIGRATION-RELATED GOALS AND TARGETS JUNE 2014 Targets under goals Targets under a II. GOAL 5 III. similar to the current stand-alone goal for MDGs or focus areas of Ensure healthy lives multi-actor global and the Open Working Group. Ensure that all migrants have national collaboration. access to adequate and quality GOAL 1 healthcare Civil society believes that this goal uniquely frames four targets to Create jobs, sustainable GOAL 6 remedy inefficiencies and obstacles livelihoods and equitable growth that block migrants and migration Create and preserve decent work Ensure good governance from achieving greater human and opportunities in countries of origin and effective institutions economic development. which make migration and re- Ensure that all migrants have migration an option instead of a access to justice and due process GOAL 9 necessity and mitigate brain drain equal to nationals Ensure that migrants enjoy End policies and practices that Enlarge human security decent working conditions and criminalize and detain migrants and human development social protection that conform based upon their migration status benefits of migration to international human rights Increase participation and Prevent and address international and labour standards contribution of migrants in human trafficking and violence Ensure portability of skills and public policy planning and against migrants benefits implementation Improve systemic responses Ratify and implement core to forced migration, including GOAL 2 UN and ILO instruments migrants uprooted by crisis and climate change End poverty GOAL 7 Facilitate safe, orderly and regular Reduce costs of labour migration, migration, through enhanced with priority to abolishing debt Ensure stable and international cooperation bondage and recruitment charges peaceful societies Reduce inefficiencies that to migrant workers Increase public awareness of generate large numbers Reduce the cost of sending cultural, social and economic of migrants lacking proper remittances contributions of migrants and documentation Protect and promote the private diaspora use of remittances for family and Institutionalize mechanisms community development that embrace and integrate or reintegrate migrants and their IV. Measurable indicators for all of the above targets GOAL 3 families into their countries of origin, heritage and destination are being developed Empower girls and women separately. and achieve gender equality GOAL 8 Provide access to social and legal protection and decent work Create a global enabling to migrant women and girls, environment for development including domestic workers with new partnerships Ensure that migrants and GOAL 4 diaspora are fully engaged as partners in development Provide quality education Expand collaboration on and lifelong learning and access to migration Ensure migrants’ access to and development data education, particularly for children who are migrants themselves or the children of migrants CIVIL SOCIETY “STOCKHOLM AGENDA” ON MIGRANT AND MIGRATION-RELATED GOALS AND TARGETS JUNE 2014 Medamo, The Netherlands Design Civil Society Stockholm Agenda Signatories 1. 11.11.11 Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement 53. Centre Social Jacques Brel 2. Action Aides aux Familles Demunies 54. Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo 3. Action Secours Ambulance (ASA) Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM) 4. ADAP-INTERNATIONAL/USA 55. Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM) 5. Adrian Dominican Sisters 56. CFERD 6. ADYNE 57. Childlink Foundation 7. AFFORD 58. CHRD 8. Africa America Higher Education Partnerships (AAHEP) 59. CIBAI Migrações 9. Africa Centre, Ireland 60. Centro Internacional para los Derechos Humanos de los 10. African Diaspora Policy Centre Migrantes (CIDEHUM) 11. African Migration and Development Policy Centre 61. Club Migrante Cheran Southern Illinois/St. Louis 12. African Sky 62. CO-HABITER 13. Agisra e.V./ Information and Counseling Center for Female 63. Colectivo de Apoyo para personas Migrantes (COAMI) Migrants and Refugees 64. Commission Episcopale pour la pastorale des migrants et 14. Agrani Bank limited des réfugiés / Burkina Faso -Niger 15. Alianza por la Solidaridad (APS) 65. Community Development Services (CDS) 16. Alliance against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal 66. Computers for Development (AATWIN) 67. Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd 17. Alliance for Brain Gain and Innovative Development (ABIDE) 68. Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation 18. Annulliamo La Distanza onlus 69. Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation of 19. Antenne pour la Reconnaissance de l’ Environnement au Newfoundland and Labrador Congo (AREC) 70. Congrégation Romaine de Saint Dominique 20. Artemisszio Foundation 71. Congregations of Saint Joseph 21. Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation 72. Conseil des Beninois de France 22. Agenzia Scalabriniana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo 73. Conseil des Migrants Subsahariens au Maroc (ASCS) 74. Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa 23. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development 75. Construisons Ensemble le Monde (APWLD) 76. Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud 24. Asociación de Mexicanos en Carolina del Norte, Inc. 77. Coordination SUD (AMEXCAN) 78. Cordaid 25. Asociación PortiMujer 79. Corporación Anne Frank Colombia 26. Association Aide aux Familles et Victimes des Migrations 80. COSIM Bretagne Clandestines (AFVMC) 81. COSIM-Languedoc-Roussillon 27. Association for Farmers Rights Defense (AFRD) 82. Countryside Community Church – A United Methodist 28. Association pour la promotion des droits humains (APDH) Community 29. Association Sénégalaise pour la Promotion des Energies 83. C’Pro G Renouvelables 84. CRID 30. Associazione Comunitá Papa Giovanni XXIII 85. Curia Generalizia Agostiniana – Augustinians International 31. Associazione Noi per Loro 86. Development Action for Women Network (DAWN) 32.