(Opening session, Panel 1) International Dialogue…

• Opening session: Ensuring human mobility is leveraged as a crucial component to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
• Panel 1: Strengthening migration data for action, insight, and foresight.

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.