San Jose -  The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), jointly with other agencies, funds and programmes (AFPs) from the United Nations Network on Migration, invite governments, regional processes, civil society organizations and the general audience to participate in the last two sessions of the series of five information webinars organized as part of the regional review of the Global Compact for Safe, Ordely and Regular Migration.

Every webinar addresses one of five thematic areas that group the 23 objectives of the Compact. The purpose of these webinars is to raise awareness and inform all relevant stakeholders, including governments and civil society, about the objectives of the Compact and its corresponding commitments.

The regional review of the Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean offers a first opportunity for a debate led by States on the implementation of the Global Compact that will:

• Enable governments, regional processes and platforms and other stakeholders such as civil society organizations, diasporas and migrants to undertake a first assessment of progress made in implementing the Global Compact;
• Serve as a forum in which challenges and opportunities will be highlighted, gaps identified, regional priorities discussed and resource requirements for implementing the Global Compact identified;
• Provide a common platform for interaction among all relevant stakeholders, the exchange of lessons learned and best practices, and promoting peer learning within the region, building on other coordination processes in the region that might enrich the review of the Global Compact;
• Facilitate the formulation of key findings and recommendations to inform the 2022 International Migration Review Forum; 
• Consider the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the implementation of the Global Compact.

To join the upcoming webinars:

Webinar #4 – 21 January, 2021

Webinar #5 – 28 January, 2021

Both webinars will also be broadcast through the IOM Facebook page for the Caribbean: https://www.facebook.com/IOMCaribbean1

To learn more about the Review of the Global Compact, visit https://migrationnetwork.un.org

For more information on the events contact Rudi Maxwald, email: rmaxwald@iom.int