African Union (AU) senior officers are in Accra to validate a coherent and harmonised plan of motion on the worldwide impression of migration (GCM) hinged on respect for human rights and dignity.
The 2-day workshop is to look at the scope of the draft coverage determine key priorities for the continent in regards to the GCM and develop a transparent guideline on the right way to implement them.
If profitable, the doc is anticipated to be adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this 12 months and report back to the Worldwide Migration Reform Discussion board in New York subsequent 12 months.
The draft coverage, which has been in existence for six years however but to be validated, recognises that regional migration is usually associated to a mix of things, together with socio-economic drivers and seasonal and livelihood components; persistent insecurity and battle in addition to local weather variability and deteriorating environmental circumstances and public well being emergencies.
Opening the workshop final Wednesday, the performing Chief Director of the Ministry for the Inside, Doreen Annan, urged member nations to look past the negatives and discover the way it might impression the continent positively.
She shared with the senior officers Ghana’s instance of leveraging migration to impression the
“By means of this initiative, we’re recognising the rights of migrants as key gamers in our nationwide improvement,” she mentioned.
Mrs Annan mentioned Ghana was dedicated to working with the African Union to make sure significant implementation of the GCM to impression Africa positively.
“This manner, we’re positioned to successfully coordinate migration of the continent in making certain respect for human rights and dignity,” she added.
She mentioned the workshop comes on the heels of a casual cross-regional dialogue of the worldwide compact for migration held in Accra in November 2023.
In her view, the compact presents Africa as a security anchor for the efficient administration of worldwide and inner migration.
“In Ghana, the compact helps us to make sure consistency throughout coverage domains by integrating migration points into our nationwide improvement plan and dealing with related areas and ranges of presidency together with civil society and the academia,” Mrs Annan mentioned.
She mentioned migration had been built-in into Ghana’s nationwide improvement framework saying regardless of the modest good points, much more wanted to be performed within the space of implementation.
“Authorities by means of the Ministry of Inside has finalised the nationwide coordinating mechanisms to assist the implementation of the GCM and coordinating all migration-related actions,” she mentioned.
The performing Chief Director mentioned the GCM supplied a platform for dialogue and collaboration for actors engaged on migration.
Nonetheless, she reckoned that migration had been exacerbated by the impression of local weather change, battle and violent extremism which had influenced rural-urban migration and meals insecurity.
Summary
AU-member states have affirmed the significance of worldwide migration and its contribution to the event of the African continent.
They’ve additionally acknowledged the great challenges posed by migration and human mobility, particularly when it’s not managed correctly to make sure that it’s protected, orderly and common