Global Governance Reform Initiative: Migration Governance

December is last month of the year and it has been an interesting end to a very busy year. As proponents and opposers of migration have engaged each other in various capacities, at election and political level, this ushered in Brexit and Donald Trump. Not to mention a few others on the way in Europe. At moral and economic level it provided unexpected and controversial funds for Turkey, Africa and number of summits and Valetta and elsewhere. It has been political, humanitarian and well moral struggles that have defined the response to the issue of migration.

But there are other approaches that though quietly being done, pose a possible solution, or perhaps hope. The Global Humanitarian Summit, the first of its kind, was a good drive to get the ball running, the Global Migration Compact seemed like another, though it is rid with a lot of mortal and political potholes. Lets give it a chance and see. The Global Forum on Migration and Development in Bangladesh is a continuation of these and so many other efforts.

As part of an interesting session in Hague hosted by the @HagueInstitute on a similar topic with international experts group set up as a policy advisory engagement, I heard interesting points of view. Limited points of view from the refugee and migrant producing global south, but interesting and engaging nevertheless.

The Global Governance Reform Initiative (GGRI) is a collaboration between The Hague Institute for Global Justice, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi). Its primary goal is to analyse the deficiencies of the current international system and propose policies for improving global governance in select domains. The present focus of this project is on the (global) governance of migration.

Effective global governance is one of the defining challenges of our time. Too often, key stakeholders fail to agree on or engage in concerted action to address pressing cross-border problems successfully