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According to its Terms of Reference, the GMG’s regular consultations are undertaken
for the following purposes:
- Establishing a comprehensive and coherent approach in the overall institutional
response to international migration.
- Providing direction and leadership in a system-wide context and
promoting interest, dialogue and debate on migration-related issues,
including trade and development aspects, with governments, employers’
and workers’ organizations and civil society.
- Contributing to greater consistency in policy formulation and programme
implementation.
- Exchanging information and expertise to improve understanding, interagency
cooperation and collaboration, to promote synergies and avoid
duplication.
- Identifying critical issues, opportunities, challenges, weaknesses, gaps
and best practices.
- Pooling efforts in and exchanging the results of research, data collection
and analysis.
- Developing common positions, responses and actions in addressing specific situations or themes.
- Agreeing on common activities to develop and exchange thematic expertise among staff, especially in the field of capacity building and
inter-agency transfers.
- Reinforcing the human rights, labour rights, human security and criminal justice dimensions of migration governance and management, with a
focus on the protection and well-being of migrants, including victims of
trafficking.
- Contributing to major initiatives of GMG members and the international community such as the 2006 General Assembly High-level Dialogue on
International Migration and Development and the follow-up to the report
of the Global Commission on International Migration.
- Enhancing the efforts of individual states, regional bodies, regional and
global consultative processes in the field of international migration.
- Finding appropriate mechanisms for the GMG to interact with states.
In addition to regular exchanges of information on developments in the migration
field and in their work, the Group undertakes research and data collection,
including surveys, conducts capacity-building activities, develops compendia of
its work, experience and effective policies and practices in different areas, and
works on identifying gaps.
Areas of work include: migration and development; migration and gender; migration and human rights; and the network of interactions between international migrants, governmental entities and international organizations.
A joint initiative on an "International Partnership on Migration and Development"
has been developed. The Group has been supporting the efforts of States hosting
and participating in the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).
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