The UN Network on Migration is pleased to announce the launch of a series of listening sessions with stakeholders as well as a number of webinars looking at various aspects of how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting on migrants and how successful policies and practice might be developed to ensure that in overcoming the current global crisis no-one is left behind. Listening sessions will offer a space primarily for civil society and stakeholders to speak and exchange on their activities. Webinars will invite Member States and UN Network on Migration members and partners to exchange and contribute to interventions as well.
This listening session is organized in collaboration with the Network’s Working Group on Access to Services, which is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Habitat, the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements. The Working Group members include the following organizations: FAO, ILO, IOM, OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN Women, Caritas on behalf of Initiative for Child Rights, IFRC, OECD, PICUM, PSI and UCLG.
The outcome of the discussions will contribute to the finalization of the Network’s draft policy brief on enhancing access to services for migrants in the context of COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, and response, currently under development. It is hoped the listening session contributions of various stakeholders will inform this policy. Participants will also be invited to contribute in writing to the matrix of good practices, including in the COVID-response, as relates to access to services and the ongoing work of the Network’s Working Group on access to services.
