(Panel 4 and Panel 5) International Dialogue on…

• Panel 4: Engaging Youth to capitalize on the potential of human mobility in the context of climate change, environmental degradation, disasters and for greening the economy.
• Panel 5: Building resilient and peaceful cities and communities

Strengthening the positive impact of human mobility on societies and sustainable development can help to advance key priority areas of the UN Common Agenda and 2030 Agenda and support the role of human mobility as a global public good for a renewed global social contract.

The session will provide an opportunity for Member States, international organizations, civil society, youth, women, communities and other key stakeholders to take stock of the increasingly complex and intertwined ways in which human mobility is impacted by and impacts major transformations. These include the demographic shift, urbanization, digitalization, widening inequalities, mistrust and exclusion from decision making, climate change, conflicts, the challenges within the multilateral system, changes in the funding ecosystem. to the IDM will also serve to generate more impetus, building on the progress since 2015, and the landmark IMRF Progress Declaration, to maximize the positive impact of human mobility by discussing and refining practical actions towards the acceleration of the SDGs.