Event: "1er Seminario Internacional Migración en los Albores del Siglo XXI", Mexico DF, Mexico
Description:
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Instituto de Investigaciones económicas (IIEc) and the Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico (SGAPA) organized the "1er Seminario Internacional Migración en los Albores del Siglo XXI".
UN-INSTRAW, UNDP and OIM gender section organized a global consultation from June 2009, 29th to July 1rst. The six case studies made by UN-INSTRAW/UNDP in Philippines, Albania, Morocco, Senegal, Dominican Republic and Lesotho “GENDER AND REMITTANCES: CONSTRUCTING A LOCAL GENDER SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT” were presented.
Event:Seminar: "Tercer Encuentro sobre Remesas y Desarrollo: Crisis económica Mundial y su impacto en el envío de Remesas", TU MUJER, Dominican Republic
Description: Tú Mujer organized the third annual conference on Remittances and Development in the Dominican Republic with a special emphasis on the current global financial crisis. This meeting brought together civil society representatives, the government, experts on the topic and international organizations to assess and discuss the local impact of the global crisis on the Dominican Republic.
Event: "Seminario Internacional sobre Migración", Universidad Mayor de San Andrés CIDES-UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia
Description:
The Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA) Graduate Department of
Development Sciences hosted an international seminar about Migration on
Octuber 2008, 2nd and 3rd.
Event: "International Conference on Gender, Migration and Development: Seizing Opportunities, Upholding Rights", Office of the President National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women Malacañang Complex, Philippines
Description: The International Conference on Gender, Migration and Development:
Seizing Opportunities, Upholding Rights (September 25-26, Manila)
examined women’s participation in migratory flows and their crucial
contribution to development through the sending, receipt and management
of remittances. The conference aimed to identify paths to enhance the
positive aspects of migration and mitigate the negative effects, as
well as promote greater gender equality in both sending and receiving
countries.
Event:International Seminar: "Cuerpos y Fronteras", FLACSO, Ecuador
Description: With this event FLACSO Ecuador celebrates 10 years of work about feminism and gender studies. "Los últimos diez años han traído cambios acelerados en el Ecuador y la región en muchas direcciones, sin que podamos aprehender a ciencia cierta sus significados para las relaciones de género. El devenir de los cuerpos y las fronteras en la globalización condensa las paradojas de los cambios experimentados en la vida de hombres y mujeres, en la conformación de sus subjetividades y en las relaciones y representaciones del género y la sexualidad. Pero también reactualiza desplazamientos sociales, culturales, normativos anteriores."
The presentation made by UN-INSTRAW is titled: "Cuerpos que cruzan fronteras y transforman realidades: dominicanas en España, precursoras de la globalización de las migraciones".
Event:Jornada: “El dinero que llega de fuera, las remesas: un camino hacia la democracia financiera”, Casa de América, Madrid, España
Description:
The concept of "Financial Democratization" adopted by Donald Terry, Director of FOMIN, states that if senders and receivers of remittances become clients of the formal financial system in countries of origin and destination, they could save and thus, invest this money to improve national economies.
The presentation made by UN-INSTRAW consisted in giving a gender analysis of that concept and in proposing other another focus if we want to use remittances as a Local Gender Sensitive Development resource.
Event:Foro Internacional sobre Remesas 2007:
Agenda tentativa - FIDA, BID - Washington DC, EEUU
Description:
"The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) were pleased to host the 2007 International Forum on Remittances at the IDB Conference Center in Washington DC, on 18-19 October 2007.
INSTRAW participated in the Session VIII-B: "Gender dimension of migration and remittances for rural development" See working papers in section Publication.
Event:"Presentation of Results. Remittances 2007 - Gender Perspective" - IOM Guatemala - Guatemala, Guatemala DC, EEUU
Description:
IOM Guatemala invited migration experts to present the results of his anual survey about remittances in Guatemala. This year, INSTRAW colaborated with IOM Guatemala to include a gender perspective.
INSTRAW was present in the presentation to welcome to the participants.
Event:Meeting on "Remittances and Development" - Tú Mujer - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Description:
This meeting was the first meeting about Remittances and Codevelopement in Dominican Republic and was organized for Tú Mujer.
It took place in September the 18th in the Santo Domingo Hotel.
Event:Global Forum on Migration and Development - UN member States - Brusels, Belgium
Description:
The first meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Developement took place on July 9th, 10th and 11th 2007 in Bruxelles, Belgium. The governemental discussions were preceeded of a representative civil society meeting on July 9th. It was the beginning of a glabal process designed in order to better the efects of migration on developement.
Event:Workshop on “Building Partnerships” within the context of UNITAR’s Migration and Development series - UNITAR - NY, USA.
Description:
This seminar on Building Partnerships was catering to the ongoing policy discussions on international migration and development, which gained momentum during the General Assembly’s High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), held at UN Headquarters in September 2006. This dialogue was continued at the first Global Forum on International Migration and Development to be held in Belgium in July 2007.
The seminar brought together development and migration experts to share their views and discuss the migration-development nexus in the context of their respective mandates and policy agendas. A look at the historical evolution of this nexus lead to a discussion on more recent developments. The Seminar presented evidence and experiences regarding the building and functioning of partnerships that bring together the development and migration ‘communities’, including local actors, the private sector, as well as migrants and diaspora organizations.
This seminar was intended to:
- increase mutual understanding between migration and development communities;
- look at how migration is taken into account in development cooperation;
- identify good practices in increasing the development impact of migration and, in this context, models of successful partnership between different stakeholders;
- discuss the way forward for enhanced international cooperation in this field;
- brief delegates on the state of preparations for the first Global Forum on International Migration and Development to be held in July in Belgium, and on the work of the Global Migration Group (GMG).
Event:Seminar-Workshop on "Family, Childhood and Migration" - UNDP, UNFPA, IOM, UNICEF - Quito, Ecuador
Description:
The UNDP, UNFPA, OIM and UNICEF summoned to a Seminar - workshop on “ Family, Childhood and Migration ” in Quito, Ecuador, with the participation of representatives of public and private institutions, ONGs, social organizations and academic institutions of the country and of the exterior, as well as to represantatives of agencies and international organizations.
The general target of the event was: Based on a compared analysis of the Ecuatorian experience and that of the taking part countries, establish lines of work for the formulation of policies in order to guarantee the rights of children, girls and adolescents affected by the migration, establish the conceptual basis for a plan of action for 2007. For it, three specific targets were proposed:
- To present to the participants, for his discussion and ratification, a proposal that shows the current situation of the migratory phenomenon in the country, as well as his principal characteristics and his effects between children, girls and adolescents.
- To know the policies that are being implemented in other countries, related with: Polities to mitigate the irregular migration, especially of children, girls and adolescents; Social Policies to face the effects in children, girls and adolescents, of the migration of parents and mothers; Policies of familiar reunification in countries of origin and destination; Policies to promote the cultural identity and integration of children, girls and adolescents in the countries of origin and destination. And,
- To agree a prioritized agenda of work (strategic lines of intervention) for the definition of Institutional Policies and immediate actions, directed to guarantee the exercise of the rights of children, girls and adolescents and his families facing the migratory phenomenon.
Event:Event on “Investing Migrant Resources: Results of Effective Alternatives" - The Multilateral Investment Fund , BID - Mexico City, Mexico
Description:
The purpose of the seminar was to promote a discussion on innovative strategies and the public policies needed to stimulate the delivery and profitable use of remittances. Organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), through its Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). Mexico City, Mexico.
Event:Seminary on "Gender and International Migration" - UNFPA, OIM - Bogotá, Colombia
Description:
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Organization for the Migrations (IOM) organized this seminar in Bogota, Colombia, with the participation of experts and national and international experts as panelists and a very select group of guests: governmental officials, representatives of the private sector, the academy, the international cooperation and organizations of the civil society, between others. Two panels were realized, the first one is a look to the international migration from the gender perspective and the second one, focused on the women inside the migratory process with the presentation of Latin-American experiences. It finished with the Throwing of the Memoirs of the Second Seminar on International Migration and Shape of Transnational Communities.
Link ponencias (en Agenda de actividades 28.11.2003 Seminario Género y Migración Internacional, Bogotá)
Event:The 5th Coordination meeting on International Migration - The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations - New York, USA
Description:
The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations organized the Fifth Coordination Meeting on International Migration in response to General Assembly Resolution 58/208 of 13 February 2004 on International Migration and Development, which requested the Secretary-General to continue convening meetings to coordinate activities regarding international migration The Meeting had two main objectives: (a) to discuss the implications of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, which was conducted by the General Assembly on 14 and 15 September 2006; and (b) to exchange information on activities in the area of international migration and development of participating organizations.
Event:The High-level Dialogue on "International Migration and Development" - The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations - New York, USA
Description:
In New York, UN-INSTRAW was invited to participate in Round Table No. 3 on “Multidimensional aspects of international migration and development, including remittances”. The High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development took place on 14 and 15 September 2006 in New York at UN Headquarters. In its resolution 58/208 of 23 December 2003, the General Assembly decided to devote a high-level dialogue to international migration and development during its sixty-first session in 2006. The purpose of the high-level dialogue was to discuss the multidimensional aspects of international migration and development in order to identify appropriate ways and means to maximize its development benefits and minimize its negative impacts. Additionally, the high-level dialogue had a strong focus on policy issues, including the challenge of achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Event:The Regional Consultation on "Migration, Remittances and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Preparation for the The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development - 14.09.2006) - UNDP - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Description:
The Regional Consultation on Migration, Remittances and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean brought together 75 representatives from 13 countries, namely Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru, to prepare the The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (14-15.09.2006).
The regional consultation was convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and was jointly organized with the Government of the Dominican Republic, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) and the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, in keeping with the aims of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development. FUNGLODE hosted the meeting at its headquarters in Santo Domingo.
Participants at the consultation represented the main stakeholder groups - governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private sector, and international organizations and foundations. Among the NGOs, discussants came from home town associations and other diaspora organizations, as well as from community organizations in countries of origin .
Event:The Ibero-American meeting on "Migration and Development". (Preparation for the The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development - 14.09.2006) - The Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) - Madrid, Spain
Description:
The Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) organized the Ibero-American Meeting on Migration with support from ECLAC, through its Population Division (CELADE), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). At this meeting government representatives, experts, representatives of civil society and international agencies and organizations pursued discussions of the numerous issues of interest in the area of migration.
Event:Roundtable on “Creating an environment at the national and international levels conducive to generating full and productive employment and decent work for all, and its impact on sustainable development” . (Preparation for the The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development - 14.09.2006) - Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) High-level Segment - Geneva, Switzerland
Description:
The 2005 World Summit put the goals of full employment and decent work firmly back into the United Nations development agenda. It demonstrated that there is a solid consensus that in order to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs, employment and decent work need to be at the centre of economic and social policies. World Leaders also concluded at the Summit that in many parts of the world the goals could not be achieved by the 2015 deadline under the prevailing employment and labour market condition. Against this backdrop ECOSOC decided to devote its 2006 High-Level Segment to employment.
INSTRAW participated in the ECOSOC roundtable ministerial breakfast on the “Gender Dimensions of Labour Migration” of the 5th of July and in the Panel discussion on International Migration and Development.
Event:Symposium on International Migration and Development. (Preparation for the The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development - 14.09.2006) - The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (DESA) - Turin, Italy
Description:
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, in collaboration with Fondazione Rosselli and with the support of the Italian Government, organized an International Symposium on International Migration and Development in Turin, Italy, from 28 to 30 June 2006. The Symposium falled within the framework of the preparatory work of United Nations Secretariat for the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development that the General Assembly conducted from 14 to 15 September.
The purpose of the Symposium was to debate, at the substantive level, key issues that Governments, international organizations and civil society face in addressing the challenges and opportunities posed by international migration. The Symposium focussed on relevant policy questions about ways of enhancing the contribution of international migration to development. The event allowed for an exchange of views between experts and representatives of governments, the United Nations, international organizations and civil society. In discussing both the technical and policy dimensions of migration issues, the Symposium built the capacity of decision-makers, particularly from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, for preparing for the High-level Dialogue at the national level.
Event:International Meeting on "the Human Rights of Migrant Women" - IOM - Mexico City, Mexico
Description:
INSTRAW opened an International Meeting on the Human Rights of Migrant Women in Mexico City, and moderated a panel discussion as part of the meeting.
Event:The 39th session of the Commission on Population and Development - Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs - New York, USA
Description:
The Commission took place in New York and focused on international migration.
INSTRAW contributed a statement on the importance of looking at the gender dimensions of international migration and remittances, with the intervention of its Director.
Event:50th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women. High-level panel on the theme “The gender dimensions of international migration” - Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs - New york, USA
Description:
The 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women considered the following two themes:
* Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work.
* Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels.
The Director represented the Institute with a presentation on INSTRAW’s work in gender and remittances.The short documentary prepared by INSTRAW featuring results from the Dominican Republic case study was also shown to participants of the High-level panel.
Event:50th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women. Panel “Exchanging Change: Gender, Remittances and Development” - Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs - New york, USA
Description:
The 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women considered the following two themes:
* Enhanced participation of women in development: an enabling environment for achieving gender equality and the advancement of women, taking into account, inter alia, the fields of education, health and work.
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* Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels.
In collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), INSTRAW organized this panel during the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). INSTRAW was joined by experts from UNFPA, UNDP and IOM in making presentations at the panel. Delegates and representatives from institutions and organizations working on migration and gender issues attended the panel.
Event:Workshop "The research policy nexus for women's human rights" - UNESCO, Buenos Aires Governement - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description:
The workshop was held as part of the International Forum on Social Science-Policy Nexus sponsored by UNESCO and the Government of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At this meeting, the UN-INSTRAW presented information on gender, migration and remittances with particular emphasis on its relevance for policy making.
Event:Meeting on "Gender, Migration and Development: Women migrants from and to Dominican Republic" -UN-INSTRAW, OIM - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Description:
INSTRAW and IOM organized this meeting to encourage the debate on the relation between gender, migration and development in the case of the Dominican Republic to answer to some questions such as: What are the needs, the interests and the claims of the Dominican women migrants? What are their contributions in his community of origin? How to defend and to protect better the rights of the women through implementation of gender perspective on migration public policy?
Event:24th International Conference for women leaders on "Migration and Gender Issues within the Millennium Development Goals" - United Nations - Haifa, Israel
Description:
This conference celebrated in Haifa, Israel, took as targets to understand better the tendencies in the feminization of migration and to analyze how there are related questions of migration and gender, and the Millennium Development Goals.
Event:Conference on "Remittances and Poverty Reduction: Learning from Regional Experiences and Perspectives" - Asian Development Bank (ADB), Inter-American Development Bank (BID)/Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Manila, Philippines
Description:
The conference was expected to produce a compilation of information and best practices on different aspects of the remittance industry. It brought together stakeholders and experts in several aspects of remittances, with the goals of promoting dialogue, exchanging perspectives, and sharing key learning experiences on an inter-regional basis.The objectives were:
- To provide an overview on best practices and experiences in remittances from various global, regional, and national perspectives
- To generate ideas to enable overseas workers to remit funds with greater ease and reliability
- To promote the use of remittance funds for poverty reduction and development initiatives
Event:International Forum on Remittances 2005 - FOMIN, BID - Washington DC, USA.
Description:
INSTRAW coordinated, as a part of the International Forum of Remittances 2005 organized for the Multilateral Fund of Investments (FOMIN), a session on “Gender and Remittances”, that assembled experts of the academy, agencies of United Nations and civil society to discuss the gender dimension of the remittances and his potential as a tool for the development and the empowerment of the women.
Event:Conference on "Sharing the Remittances Market by Shifting to Formal Systems" - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation - Tokyo, Japon
Description:
This conference, organized by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in collaboration with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, Tokyo, 2-3 June 2004, aimed at bringing together those responsible for policy-making in the area of remittances, researchers, analysts and competitors to share successful experiences in the strengthening of formal transferal channels, and the creation of catalysts to encourage the switch from informal to formal channels.
Event:Meeting on "Working Together With the Diaspora: A New Direction for International Development Cooperation" - GTZ - Berlin, Germany
Description:
This expert group meeting, organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) on 3-4 May 2004, aimed to open a space for dialogue on the contribution of communities of the diaspora to the development of their countries of origin as well as the role of development cooperation and cooperation between governments in general in increasing the potential of this contribution.
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Tú Mujer organized the third annual conference on Remittances and Development in the Dominican Republic with a special emphasis on the current global financial crisis. This meeting brought together civil society representatives, the government, experts on the topic and international organizations to assess and discuss the local impact of the global crisis on the Dominican Republic. 
The International Conference on Gender, Migration and Development:
Seizing Opportunities, Upholding Rights (September 25-26, Manila)
examined women’s participation in migratory flows and their crucial
contribution to development through the sending, receipt and management
of remittances. The conference aimed to identify paths to enhance the
positive aspects of migration and mitigate the negative effects, as
well as promote greater gender equality in both sending and receiving
countries.
With this event FLACSO Ecuador celebrates 10 years of work about feminism and gender studies. "Los últimos diez años han traído cambios acelerados en el Ecuador y la región en muchas direcciones, sin que podamos aprehender a ciencia cierta sus significados para las relaciones de género. El devenir de los cuerpos y las fronteras en la globalización condensa las paradojas de los cambios experimentados en la vida de hombres y mujeres, en la conformación de sus subjetividades y en las relaciones y representaciones del género y la sexualidad. Pero también reactualiza desplazamientos sociales, culturales, normativos anteriores."
