Enhancing Migration Governance for Sustainable Development in Fiji: supporting National Policy Making and Strategic Planning

  • Start Date
    2023
  • End Date
    2025
  • Project Status
    Active
  • Project Type
    Migration Policy Activities
  • Budget Amount (USD)
    300000.00
  • Coverage
    National
  • Year
    2022
  • IDF Region
    Asia and Oceania
  • Prima ID
    FJ10P0526
  • Projects ID
    PO.0200
  • Benefiting Member States
    Fiji
Over time, Fiji has made significant efforts to ensure more consistent governance of migration, ratifying most key migration-related international conventions and transposing them into domestic law. Today, enhancing strategic approaches to harness the development benefits of migration remains key to the promotion of sustainable development in the country: a milestone, in this stance, would be the introduction of an evidenced-based, coherent and comprehensive national migration policy and a related strategy. This project was developed in response to this identified need and aims to make a long-term contribution to facilitating orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration and human mobility in the island, through the development, via a whole-of-society approach, of a comprehensive national migration policy package. The project will establish a high-level Inter-Agency Steering Committee (IASC) on migration to develop recommendations on migration governance for consultation with the Government. Then, through capacity development and technical assistance, the project will engage directly with officers at ministerial level, civil society organizations, diaspora associations and the Government itself, towards the development and adoption of a gender-sensitive migration governance policy for sustainable development, a migration governance strategy and a related plan of action, aligned with international standards and best practices.