The Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) are pleased to invite you to the seminar: Measuring Well-Governed Migration – The 2016 Migration Governance Index

There have been many attempts to create migration policy indexes at national and/or regional levels. However, these attempts were not global but limited to one point in time, and one dimension of migration policy. Furthermore, most countries do not prepare an annual migration policy report, which could form the basis of a global report.

Thus, commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and designed by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Migration Governance Index (MGI) aims to provide a consolidated framework for evaluating country-specific migration governance structures, and to act as a potential source for informing implementation of the migration-related SDGs.

As more countries become part of the MGI, greater political, economic and geographic diversity will facilitate more nuanced cross-country comparisons, allowing the tool to function as a repository for a broader array of “good practice” case studies and institutional design and policy ideas. The MGI will also inform the development of the migration policy indicator 10.7.2 of the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Speaker:

- Leo Abruzzese Global Forecasting Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit

Co-discussants:

- Armin Nolting, Sector Programme Governance

- Peter Bonin, Head - Migration and Development Sector Project

If you wish to attend, please register via email (medved@iom.int).

For more information, please visit http://iomgmdac.org/migration-development-debate-series/