Examples of using Migration profiles in English and their translations into Arabic
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Project 3: Migration Profiles repository.
Participants pointed to a number of challenges in developing migration profiles.
To date, migration profiles are available for over 80 countries.
Project 3: Developing Migration Profiles.
Migration Profiles should ideally be available before a mainstreaming process is launched.
These could be collected at all stages of migration via Migration Profiles.
Data available in Migration Profiles could also contribute to determining such indicators.
Working session III.1/3: Mainstreaming migration into development planning/ Migration Profiles.
ESCWA has also prepared a study, entitled" Return migration profiles, impact and absorption in home countries".
It was also reported thatthe South American Conference on Migration(CSM) is helping to support and harmonize migration profiles.
In light of this, the Philippines welcomed the launch of the Migration Profiles repository as a timely initiative.
It should further explore the recommendation of the thematic meetings to includedomestic workers(and gender issues generally) in Migration Profiles.
The debate focused on three themes: impact assessment, migration profiles and mainstreaming migration into development planning.
Migration Profiles are frameworks for aggregating, in a structured and systematic manner, existing data and information from national, regional and international sources.
They finally called on governments tobring the evidence generated by impact assessments and migration profiles into the development planning process.
Part three of the report contains international migration profiles for 228 countries or areas as well as for major areas, regions and special country groupings.
Furthermore, several delegates felt that profiles need to be updated regularly andcivil society should be encouraged to participate in the migration profiles exercise.
One participant noted that the template used in the migration profiles could help governments collect information on internal migrants as well as international migrants.
With regard to Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning, delegates recognized the advantage ofdiscussing this planning tool in conjunction with the debate on Migration Profiles.
Continue to produce and update Migration Profiles that use a standardized template but provide flexibility that allows the information to be tailored to the priorities of the countries concerned.
Effective data collection at the regional and inter-regional level, including Migration Profiles and sex-disaggregated data to ensure the necessary gender perspective.
The session also discussed the three kick-off projects to launch the PfP: Engaging Diaspora in Development Activities;Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Developing Migration Profiles.
The discussion in this combined workingsession on mainstreaming migration into development planning and Migration Profiles was informed by the outcomes of five thematic meetings.
Participants were provided with an Information Note on Migration Profiles, outlining the nature and principal objectives of migration profiles, including the more comprehensive'Extended Migration Profiles '
National priorities figuring in a Migration Profile versus the need for international comparability of collected data is another key factor,and Extended Migration Profiles are also seen as key tools for supporting migration and development mainstreaming processes and Policy Impact Assessments.
The Philippines made a briefstatement highlighting the fact that Migration Profiles/Extended Migration Profiles are increasingly being recognized as useful tools for collecting migration and development data.
The ensuing discussion showed considerable consensus that for some countries such migration profiles are valuable both as a longer-term process and for the immediate information produced.
The full range of information gathered in Extended Migration Profiles directly supports and feeds into a mainstreaming process, and such Profiles should ideally be available before a mainstreaming process is launched.
Mainstreaming migration into development planning and extended Migration Profiles should be implemented as entailing longer-term processes and planning tools aimed at factoring migration into development planning, and vice versa.
Many delegates referred to the issue of Government ownership of Migration Profiles, underlining that such ownership depends first and foremost on the political will of Governments to set in placeappropriate structures for implementing and monitoring Migration Profiles.
