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Within the “Rabat Declaration” sanctioning the work of this assembly held in digital format, as a prelude to the ninth Pan-African Congress scheduled from October 29 to November 2, 2024 in Lomé across the theme “Renewal of Pan-Africanism and the function of Africa within the reform of multilateral establishments: mobilizing assets and reinventing ourselves to behave”, the audio system welcomed the Royal dedication within the growth and implementation of the African Agenda on Migration, placing ahead a brand new imaginative and prescient in migration administration African points and governance in Africa.
The efforts deployed and the work carried out by the Togolese Republic and the Excessive Committee in command of the Agenda for the 2021-2031 Decade of Roots and the African Diaspora geared toward supporting African diasporas in a logic of co-development and progress shared, had been additionally welcomed. In addition to the relevance of the theme “Pan-Africanism and Migration” of this regional convention in Rabat and the wonderful situations by which the work occurred.
The members additionally welcomed the present renewed curiosity in a renewed pan-Africanism which can contribute to additional uniting the initiatives of African nations and different stakeholders in addition to mobilizing them round noble and customary causes, emphasizing the necessity to strengthen cooperation, integration and unity of motion on the African continent in an effort to promote higher migration governance.
They recalled, on this event, the significance for African nations to align their nationwide migration administration methods with the Sustainable Improvement Targets and Agenda 2063 of the African Union, emphasizing the significance of strengthen the function of Regional Financial Communities as central pivots of the actions of the African diaspora on the continent.
Reaffirming the essential function of the African Union for orderly and coordinated administration of migration by establishing a variety of mechanisms together with the Migration Coverage Framework for Africa (MPFA) and its Motion Plan 2018-2030, they acknowledge the progress made on the international stage for the reason that adoption, in Marrakech, on December 10, 2018, of the “World Compact for Protected, Common and Orderly Migration” (GMP), in addition to by the United Nations Normal Meeting, on December 19, 2018 , and supposed to cowl worldwide migration in all its dimensions via a world and exhaustive method.
In addition they recalled the achievements and advances in African cooperation within the space of migration administration, reaffirming their dedication to creating contributions to international reflections with a view to offering applicable options tailored to the specificities of the African continent to the challenges posed by the migratory phenomenon, whereas recognizing the necessity to strengthen relations between the African diaspora and the continent with a view to additional involving Africans overseas and Afro-descendants within the quest for prosperity and financial growth and social.
Conscious of the contribution of the diaspora and Afro-descendants in selling the African continent overseas and of the significance of bringing a couple of profound change within the narrative on African diasporas, they confused the necessity to develop and implement extra packages and initiatives providing the Diaspora and Afro-descendants extra probabilities and alternatives on the continent, whereas figuring out the basis causes and alternatives of migration and the necessity to make investments extra in growth of the African continent.
Relating to Pan-Africanism, Migration and Governance, members known as for working within the curiosity of the continent by encouraging African nations to strengthen their regional cooperation to raised handle migratory flows via Regional Financial Communities (RECs). ), by setting up harmonized insurance policies and coordination mechanisms on migration and governance.
Additionally, they pleaded for the mobilization of the methods and means essential to result in narrative change on human mobility and migration, whereas sustaining shut contact and proximity with the completely different generations of migrants and Afro-descendants.
The Rabat Declaration additional requires mobilizing migrants and Afro-descendants as a part of the renewal of Pan-Africanism across the subject of reform of multilateral establishments and higher illustration of Africa in international governance, whereas reiterating the necessity for the Continent to equip itself with dependable and verifiable information on migratory flows and traits in Africa.
The members advocate, on this regard, that the African Migration Observatory (OAM) strengthen the capacities of Member States within the assortment of dependable information and statistics referring to African migration, in addition to to deal with the underlying causes. underlying elements that encourage African residents emigrate, concentrating on poverty, discrimination and displacement as a consequence of local weather change and pure disasters.
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