Peru - The 4th Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretariats of Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs) will open tomorrow (22/5) in Lima, Peru.

The event, which will be attended by IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and Deputy Director General Laura Thompson, will focus on “Defining the Place of RCPs in a Changing International Migration Landscape.”

Participants will include high level officials representing States engaged in RCPs from all world regions. They include: the Bali Process, Budapest Process, Prague Process, Puebla Process, the Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD), the Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA), the East African Intergovernmental Authority on Development-RCP (IGAD-RCP), the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC), Migration Dialogue for West Africa (MIDWA), the Colombo Process, the Mediterranean Transit Migration Dialogue (MTM), the Regional Ministerial Conference on Migration in the Western Mediterranean (5+5) and the South American Conference on Migration (SACM.)  Representatives of several new RCPs will also be in attendance.

International organizations, UN agencies and regional bodies, including the European Union, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Arab League and the Organization of American States, will also be represented.

Part of the conference will deliberate on the question of how global dialogue processes such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and the UN General Assembly High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development, which will take place in New York on 3-4 October, 2013, can best interact with similar migration dialogues that are taking place within and across regions.

IOM has published a special report in the IOM Migration Research Series to coincide with the conference. “Regional Inter-State Consultation Mechanisms on Migration: Approaches, Recent Activities and Implications for Global Governance of Migration,” can be downloaded free from: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_3&products_id=951&zenid=60fa602a70fa50d2eebb868f8a223187

The Lima conference is co-organized by the Government of Peru and IOM, and funded by Switzerland and the United States.

For more information, please contact

Maureen Achieng
IOM HQ
Email: machieng@iom.int
Tel. +41 79 829 7136

or

Jose Ivan Davalos
IOM Lima
Email: jdavalos@iom.int
Tel. +51.986638473