Global Compact for Migration: enhancing African migration governance

Will the compact offer sufficient benefits in areas that truly matter for Africa?

The final outcome document of the Global Compact for Migration calls for developing evidence-based migration policies and discourses. The importance of data for well-informed policy making is also emphasised. The compact follows a comprehensive approach in order to optimise the benefits of migration and address challenges. Different languages, legal systems and levels of technological and socio-economic development between African countries could pose a challenge for building shared data and information systems.

About the author

Tsion Tadesse Abebe is a senior researcher in the ISS Migration Programme. Her research focuses on international and regional migration, forced displacement policy and the dynamics of intra-African migration. Tsion has an Master’s degree in gender and peacebuilding from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) and a certificate in international labour migration from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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