Development of a Regional Plan to Address Migration in South America

  • Start Date
    2023
  • End Date
    2025
  • Project Status
    Active
  • Project Type
    Migration Policy Activities
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    400000.00
  • Coverage
    Regional
  • Year
    2022
  • IDF Region
    Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Other Countries Benefiting at Time of Allocation
    Chile
    Uruguay
  • Prima ID
    AR99P0518
  • Projects ID
    PO.0201
  • Benefiting Member States
    Argentina Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Guyana
Over the last two decades, migratory flows in South America have experienced a change in direction, intensity, and composition. Currently, the migratory situation in the region is affected by various factors: the mobilisation of more than five and a half million refugees and migrants from Venezuela; the recent intensification and diversification of South-North migration through the Darien gap; the increase in extracontinental migration, mainly from Africa and Asia; and the rising inequality affecting the most vulnerable migrant populations, exacerbated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. These circumstances have revealed the existing limitations and need for improved coordination at the regional level on certain key issues of migration governance such as data management, regularisation, border management, and migrant protection. In light of this context, and with the support from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the various benefiting Member States, this project aims to strengthen regional cooperation and articulation in migration management for safe, orderly, and regular migration in South America, through the achievement of two main outcomes: 1) the governments of South America take ownership of a Regional Vision and a Regional Plan, and 2) the governments of South America strengthen their migration governance through the implementation of training programmes. Specifically, a regional diagnostic assessment of the available evidence on human mobility in South America will be conducted (Output 1.1); a Regional Vision of the political and strategic vision of migration issues and priorities in the region will be developed (Output 1.2); a Regional Plan (with a gender and rights-based approach) will be developed (Output 1.3); the Regional Plan will be disseminated in a workshop with the participation of various actors including civil society, the private sector, and other non-governmental actors (Output 1.4); and trainings for government officials on data management and other priority issues of migration governance will be conducted (Output 2.1).