The Director General-Elect of International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope has attributed resolution for the sustainable management of migration to appropriate partnership, enhanced labor mobility plans, and permissible policies. Pope stated this during the International Conference on Development and Migration, held on Monday at the Italian Foreign Ministry Headquarters in Rome. The conference aimed to contribute to the development of all countries involved in the trend.
Pope said that, “Evidence shows that well-managed migration spurs economic development. Considering the demographic trends and changing global labor market, we must start now to create more comprehensive, inclusive, and strategic migration solutions, and integrate more strategic and humane mobility policies into regional and national adaptation plans”.
The conference, organized by the Italian Government to address migration challenges, such as irregular migration and forced international displacement, including their root causes, brought together representatives from European, African and Middle Eastern countries involved in management of migration flows.
The adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation, in particular, are increasingly driving migration and internal displacement. In an international context characterized by economic crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, migration is proving to be one of the most important geopolitical phenomena of the century.
“Last year, natural disasters displaced 32.6 million people: 7.5 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) estimates that more than 300 million people live in communities that are extremely vulnerable to climate change”.
“We know from collective experience that if people no longer have a home or a way to earn a living, they will move. This is human. Migration is the first and most humane adaptation strategy.”
Pope stressed the need for strategic and mutually beneficial partnerships to harness benefits of migration, added that, there is need to invest in all sectors of the societies and in partnerships with private sector as well as civil society.
He also emphasized the need to strengthen measures to prevent and curb irregular migration flows, while preventing loss of life, particularly in the Mediterranean, where nearly 2,000 deaths have already been recorded since the beginning of the year.
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