Enhancing Protection and Response for Crisis-Affected Migrants
Briefing for Regional Conference on Migration
RCGM
Tegucigalpa, June 9, 2016
2011
Libya
Crisis – Civil Strife
Nearly 800,000 migrants fled; over 120 nationalities; enormous
challenges for migrants and home/neighboring countries
Why Migrants?
Specific Vulnerabilities and Circumstances
Barriers related to language, culture, social connections
Unable or unwilling to leave the country in crisis
Unable to access humanitarian assistance
Unable or unwilling to return to country of origin
Subjected to discrimination, targeted attacks, or
exploitation
Origins of the MICIC Initiative
United States’ 2010-2011 Chairmanship of IGC: “
Humanitarian
Responses to Crises with Migration Consequences”
IOM’s 2012 Migration Crisis Operational Framework
2013 UN HLD on International Migration and Development: SRSG Peter
Sutherland call to develop an approach
UN Secretary General: call to address needs of migrants caught in crisis
2014: MICIC Initiative launched
Objectives of the MICIC Initiative
Better preparation
More effective responses
Better recovery
Save Lives
Increase
Protection
Decrease
Vulnerability
Voluntary and non-binding
Principles, Guidelines and Practices
Improve
Response
Scope of MICIC Initiative
Which Crises?
Conflict
and/or
Natural
Disasters
≠
Economic
≠
Employment
≠
Other
Which Migrants?
In country when crisis hits
Temporarily or permanently
Regardless of legal status
Can include:
Migrant workers and families
Tourists, business travelers, students and diplomats
Victims of human trafficking and smuggled persons
Marriage migrants
Outcomes will complement existing frameworks and
mechanisms
Which Phases?
Pre-Crisis
Emergency
Post-Crisis
= All Phases
MICIC Initiative Consultations
Consultations with governments and stakeholders until May 2016
MICIC
Initiative
Principles,
Guidelines
and
Practices
June
2016
MICIC Principles, Guidelines and Practices
Principles
Guidelines
Practices
Guide all actions
Targeted suggestions to
shape policies
Technical and operational
advice
What We Are Learning So Far
Data, tracking, and contact
information on migrants
Crisis
alert
systems
Standing arrangements on
evacuation, consular
assistance, coordination etc.
Emergency
funds and
insurance
schemes
Respect for
human and labor
rights, and ethical
recruitment
Contingency
planning/DRR
Save
lives
Open borders, humanitarian
border management and
temporary admission
Identification and Referral
Systems
Evacuation and return
services
Non-
refoulement
Services upon return -
livelihood creation, health,
psychosocial counselling
Back pay, outstanding
wages, return of
property, remains
Re-migration and
other mobility
opportunities
Where to from here?
•
Consider building on the basis of the MICIC
Initiative and contemplate future, broader
guidelines;
•
Voluntary, non-binding nature provides for
flexible implementation and effectiveness;
•
See in the context of global responsibility
sharing.
What We Ask of You
Seek or support a welcome of the MICIC Initiative in the
outcome document for 19 September UN Summit
Welcome the MICIC Initiative in your oral interventions at
the 19 September UN Summit
Consider using the MICIC Initiative Principles, Guidelines
and Practices to improve your planning, response,
recovery and the assistance you provide migrants
Help us raise awareness by briefing your counterparts in
capitals, Geneva, and New York
Share a Practice at:
http://micicinitiative.iom.int/connect/share-practice
The United States and Costa Rica have had the pleasure of presenting the Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative and providing updates at previous meetings, so it’s a pleasure now to summarize where we stand today as we prepare to launch the Initiative next month. We also have action requests for all of you. First, a quick summary of the Initiative.
The purpose of the MICIC Initiative is to generate voluntary guidelines for states and others –employers, NGOs, IO’s – to follow in situations in which migrants who are living, studying, working outside of their home country are trapped in situations of armed conflict or a serious natural disaster.
We launched this Initiative well before the current global refugee and migration crisis hit the news, and so it is important to say at the outset that it is not designed to directly address all of the challenges of large numbers of people on the move, like the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who have sought to reach Europe in the last year.
But the MICIC Initiative has gained huge traction because, both in process and substance, it represents the type of enhanced global responsibility-sharing that has to come about to collectively address and better respond to these big crises.
We wand to focus especially on the connections between the MICIC Initiative and the September 19 UN meeting on addressing large movements of migrants and refugees.
The Regional Conference on Migration held in Tegucigalpa highlighted the vulnerabilities and challenges faced by migrants, especially in the aftermath of crises like the 2011 Libya Civil Strife. The MICIC Initiative aims to increase protection, decrease vulnerability, and improve responses for migrants caught in various crisis situations, regardless of legal status or phase of the crisis. Consultations with stakeholders have been ongoing to establish principles and guidelines for better preparation and recovery in crises.
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Briefing for Regional Conference on Migration RCGM Tegucigalpa, June 9, 2016
2011 Libya Crisis Civil Strife Nearly 800,000 migrants fled; over 120 nationalities; enormous challenges for migrants and home/neighboring countries
Why Migrants? Specific Vulnerabilities and Circumstances Barriers related to language, culture, social connections Unable or unwilling to leave the country in crisis Unable to access humanitarian assistance Unable or unwilling to return to country of origin Subjected to discrimination, targeted attacks, or exploitation
Origins of the MICIC Initiative United States 2010-2011 Chairmanship of IGC: Humanitarian Responses to Crises with Migration Consequences IOM s 2012 Migration Crisis Operational Framework 2013 UN HLD on International Migration and Development: SRSG Peter Sutherland call to develop an approach UN Secretary General: call to address needs of migrants caught in crisis 2014: MICIC Initiative launched
Objectives of the MICIC Initiative Increase Protection Decrease Vulnerability Improve Response Save Lives Better preparation More effective responses Better recovery Voluntary and non-binding Principles, Guidelines and Practices
Scope of MICIC Initiative Which Crises? Which Phases? Which Migrants? In country when crisis hits Temporarily or permanently Regardless of legal status Conflict Pre-Crisis and/or Emergency Can include: Natural Disasters Migrant workers and families Tourists, business travelers, students and diplomats Victims of human trafficking and smuggled persons Marriage migrants Post-Crisis = All Phases Economic Employment Other Outcomes will complement existing frameworks and mechanisms
MICIC Initiative Consultations Consultations with governments and stakeholders until May 2016 23-Mar-15 22-Oct-15 Middle East and North Africa 30-Dec-15 East and Southern Africa 11-Jun-15 Private Sector 14-Aug-15 Civil Society Permanent Representatives to the UN MICIC Initiative Principles, Guidelines and Practices June 2016 January 2015 IGC Plus 14-Mar-16 11-Feb-15 South, East and South-East Asia 18-Apr-15 Eastern Europe and Central Asia 05-Jul-15 West and Central Africa 09-Sep-15 Central and South America 25-Nov-15 International Organizations
MICIC Principles, Guidelines and Practices Principles Guide all actions Targeted suggestions to shape policies Guidelines Technical and operational advice Practices
What We Are Learning So Far Respect for human and labor rights, and ethical recruitment Data, tracking, and contact information on migrants Standing arrangements on evacuation, consular assistance, coordination etc. Contingency planning/DRR Crisis alert systems Non- Evacuation and return services Save lives refoulement Emergency funds and insurance schemes Open borders, humanitarian border management and temporary admission Identification and Referral Systems Services upon return - livelihood creation, health, psychosocial counselling Back pay, outstanding wages, return of property, remains Re-migration and other mobility opportunities
Where to from here? Consider building on the basis of the MICIC Initiative and contemplate future, broader guidelines; Voluntary, non-binding nature provides for flexible implementation and effectiveness; See in the context of global responsibility sharing.
What We Ask of You Seek or support a welcome of the MICIC Initiative in the outcome document for 19 September UN Summit Welcome the MICIC Initiative in your oral interventions at the 19 September UN Summit Consider using the MICIC Initiative Principles, Guidelines and Practices to improve your planning, response, recovery and the assistance you provide migrants Help us raise awareness by briefing your counterparts in capitals, Geneva, and New York
Share a Practice at: http://micicinitiative.iom.int/connect/share-practice
