Euro-African Migration and Development Process
(‘"Rabat Process"’)

This meeting, which took place under the co-presidency of Senegal and France, was organised by the Support Project to the Rabat Process, which is implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP).

The event was attended by ninety high level representatives and national focal points from the partner countries and organisations. The aim of the meeting was to feed into preparations for the Third Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development, to be held in Dakar on November 23rd 2011. Participants discussed the agenda of the ministerial conference and the content of the future declaration and cooperation programme to be adopted by the ministers in Dakar.

The new cooperation strategy will set the priorities for the migration dialogue among the partner countries for the years 2012-2014. It is based on the outcomes of the 2009-2011 cooperation programme adopted at the Paris Ministeral Conference in 2008 as well as the conclusions of several Expert’s Meetings which were organised between July 2010 and May 2011 and covered the following topics: vulnerable groups, social rights of migrants and their portability under a transnational framework, civil registry and document fraud.