key Points of HM the King's Report on the Follow-up to the Establishment of the African Migrations Observatory
Addis Ababa - Here follows the key points of HM King Mohammed VI's report on the follow-up to the establishment of the African Migrations Observatory in Morocco, presented by head of government, Saad Dine El Otmani, on Monday before the 33rd Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU), held in Addis Ababa.
-Migration in Africa suffers from misperception. It is often associated solely with poverty, while other factors, such as climate change, are at the root of the phenomenon.
- Africa is the continent most affected by the new phenomenon of "climate migrants". Of the 140 million potential migrants due to climate change, more than half – some 86 million people – could be in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.
-Migration is a factor for development. Migrants sent $ 529 billion to their countries of origin in 2018. The continent receives the least remittances with $46 billion, compared to $143 billion in East Asia and the Pacific, $131 billion in South Asia, $88 billion in Latin America and $59 billion in Europe and East Asia.
- International migration is not African. Only less than 14% of international migrants are African, i.e. less than 1 in 5 migrants is African.
- African migration is intracontinental. Less than 3% of African population has migrated internationally. African trajectories are not South-North, but South-South. Since 2005, South-South migration has increased faster than South-North migration.
- The African Migrations Observatory responds to a structural need for reliable data on migration. Migration data is as scarce as it is essential and is based on the fundamental idea that better governance of migration requires a significant improvement in quantitative and qualitative data on migration.
- The African Migration Observatory is an institution of the African Union structured around a triple function of understanding, anticipation and action.
- Thanks to the Observatory that Morocco will host, Africa will have an advocacy and decision-making tool. Solid and reliable migration data are essential tools for the development of relevant, effective and realistic policies.
- This regional mechanism for data collection, analysis, management and exchange provides Africa with a lever for development.
- As an African instrument for coordination, the Observatory implies a double coordination: at the national level between the different departments and at the continental level between the different Regional Economic Communities.
- The Observatory is also a tool for the implementation of the Marrakech Global Compact on Migration, which recognizes the need to maximize the overall benefits of migration, while taking into account the risks and challenges faced by migrants and communities in countries of origin, transit or destination.
- Morocco suggests hosting this first African Regional Forum on 10 December 2020 in Marrakech for the implementation of the Marrakech Global Compact. It will serve as the African preparatory meeting for the 2022 International Migration Review Forum.
- Morocco is willing to share its national experience in migration management - recognized by the United Nations as a model that can inspire other countries - with sister African countries that so wish.
- The measures taken by Morocco to eradicate the smuggling of migrants and the adoption of a legal framework to combat human are designed to reduce the situations of fragility and risks faced by migrants and to protect and respect their rights.
- Morocco's migration policy is a fundamental dimension of the Kingdom's African policy, in that it aims, inter alia, to combat the root causes of migration.
- Through the integration of the migration-development nexus in its public policies, Morocco is effectively helping to promote the emergence, development and prosperity of the African continent as a whole.
-Migration in Africa suffers from misperception. It is often associated solely with poverty, while other factors, such as climate change, are at the root of the phenomenon.
- Africa is the continent most affected by the new phenomenon of "climate migrants". Of the 140 million potential migrants due to climate change, more than half – some 86 million people – could be in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.
-Migration is a factor for development. Migrants sent $ 529 billion to their countries of origin in 2018. The continent receives the least remittances with $46 billion, compared to $143 billion in East Asia and the Pacific, $131 billion in South Asia, $88 billion in Latin America and $59 billion in Europe and East Asia.
- International migration is not African. Only less than 14% of international migrants are African, i.e. less than 1 in 5 migrants is African.
- African migration is intracontinental. Less than 3% of African population has migrated internationally. African trajectories are not South-North, but South-South. Since 2005, South-South migration has increased faster than South-North migration.
- The African Migrations Observatory responds to a structural need for reliable data on migration. Migration data is as scarce as it is essential and is based on the fundamental idea that better governance of migration requires a significant improvement in quantitative and qualitative data on migration.
- The African Migration Observatory is an institution of the African Union structured around a triple function of understanding, anticipation and action.
- Thanks to the Observatory that Morocco will host, Africa will have an advocacy and decision-making tool. Solid and reliable migration data are essential tools for the development of relevant, effective and realistic policies.
- This regional mechanism for data collection, analysis, management and exchange provides Africa with a lever for development.
- As an African instrument for coordination, the Observatory implies a double coordination: at the national level between the different departments and at the continental level between the different Regional Economic Communities.
- The Observatory is also a tool for the implementation of the Marrakech Global Compact on Migration, which recognizes the need to maximize the overall benefits of migration, while taking into account the risks and challenges faced by migrants and communities in countries of origin, transit or destination.
- Morocco suggests hosting this first African Regional Forum on 10 December 2020 in Marrakech for the implementation of the Marrakech Global Compact. It will serve as the African preparatory meeting for the 2022 International Migration Review Forum.
- Morocco is willing to share its national experience in migration management - recognized by the United Nations as a model that can inspire other countries - with sister African countries that so wish.
- The measures taken by Morocco to eradicate the smuggling of migrants and the adoption of a legal framework to combat human are designed to reduce the situations of fragility and risks faced by migrants and to protect and respect their rights.
- Morocco's migration policy is a fundamental dimension of the Kingdom's African policy, in that it aims, inter alia, to combat the root causes of migration.
- Through the integration of the migration-development nexus in its public policies, Morocco is effectively helping to promote the emergence, development and prosperity of the African continent as a whole.
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