IOM Hosts Migration Policy Workshop in Haiti

Haiti is the first country in Central America and the Caribbean to include the link between the environment and internal migration in its draft migration policy. Proposed strategic actions were discussed in a workshop on 20-22 April 2015 in Montrouis, Haiti. They included facilitating the contributions by the diaspora for the protection of the environment and mitigation of disaster risks, and the integration of (internal) migration, environment and climate change in adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes, including data collection.

As the Technical Working Group of MECLEP is a sub-group of the Task Force on the development of Haiti's migration policy, synergies and inputs were provided. After the technical validation of the draft migration policy on 22 April, the next step is the presentation to the Council of Ministers in the upcoming months.

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