The African Regional Consultative Meeting on the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration will take place in Addis Ababa on 26 and 27 October 2017. It will be organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in partnership with the African Union Commission and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

On 19 September 2016, the General Assembly, in its resolution 71/1, adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. In the Declaration, steps are set out towards the achievement, in 2018, of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. Modalities for the intergovernmental negotiations of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration and preparations for the 2018 conference were adopted on 6 April 2017 by the General Assembly in its resolution 71/280.

The global compact is expected to be guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, and is informed by the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development adopted by the General Assembly in October 2013 in its resolution 68/4. The objective of the global compact is to respond to target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda, in which member States committed to cooperate internationally to facilitate safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people; its scope is defined in annex II of the New York Declaration. The global compact is expected to build on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and its recommendations concerning measures to mitigate risks associated with disasters, as well as on the Paris Agreement of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The global compact would assist member States to achieve these commitments. Read>>