Argentina: Enhancing Participation of Migrant Women and Migrants with Diverse SOGIESC in Migration Governance and Related Policies

  • Start Date
    2024
  • End Date
    2026
  • Project Status
    Active
  • Project Type
    Integration and Social Cohesion
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    300000.00
  • Coverage
    National
  • Year
    2023
  • IDF Region
    Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Prima ID
    AR10P0529
  • Projects ID
    IS.0138
  • Benefiting Member States
    Argentina
Although Argentina has a broad and inclusive normative framework for migration governance, migrants' effective access to services, the labour market, education and public systems still presents major challenges that hamper the fulfilment of migrants’ economic, political and social rights. Such challenges have been exacerbated by the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among migrant women and migrants with diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC). Migrant women and migrants with diverse SOGIESC are subject to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and often find themselves more vulnerable to poverty, informal work and other disadvantageous conditions. The project aims to involve these migrants in shaping targeted policy responses to best address such challenges. Enhancing the participation of migrant women and migrants with diverse SOGIESC in Argentina’s migration governance and related policies will be achieved through a two-pronged approach. IOM will support the Government in the implementation of Action Plans to adopt gender-responsive participatory mechanisms for migration policymaking processes. This will be done through: the development of policy guidelines for gender-responsive participatory migration policymaking that will be based on a mapping of existing mechanisms for participation (Output 1.1); trainings on gender-responsive participatory approaches to migration policymaking (Output 1.2); a communication campaign tackling discrimination of migrant women and migrants with diverse SOGIESC’s and highlighting their contributions for social change (Output 1.3). In tandem, the project will also assist migrants in engaging in policy processes by equipping them with relevant knowledge and skills. In practice, this will involve: conducting a study identifying the barriers to participation in selected jurisdictions (Output 2.1); developing orientation guides on how to access services (Output 2.2) and education pathways (output 2.3) as per migrants’ rights under national law, and developing and implementing a capacity strengthening programme on leadership skills for engagement in migration policy processes (Output 2.4), which will include attending various kinds of policymaking forums.