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International Forum on
Local Solutions to Migration and Displacement
from emergency to resilience and development
26-27 November 2019, Gaziantep
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Migration Agency (IOM), together with the Metropolitan Municipality of Gaziantep which hosts 500,000 Syrian under temporary protection, the World Academy of Local Authorities and Democracy (WALD), the Union of Municipalities of Turkey (UMT), and United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) are cordially inviting you to the International Forum on Local Solutions to Migration and Displacement.
Ahead of the first Global Refugee Forum (GRF) that Turkey will co-convene in December 2019 , the Gaziantep forum will provide an opportunity to exchange good practices between cities and local development partners in dealing with migration and displacement. The forum aims to facilitate city level partnerships and to contribute to existing networks of relevant local development partners responding to migration and refugees. The forum will adopt the 2019 Gaziantep Declaration as a collective input of local authorities from around the world into global discussions on migrations and refugees.
The event will showcase good practices from Turkish municipalities and cities around the world highlighting how approaches bridging humanitarian and development responses such as the New Way of Working have been put into practice to achieve the goals and objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). Turkey, currently hosting the largest number of refugees in the world, has not only been a lead partner in the global discussions on both Compacts, but has also demonstrated how they can be successfully implemented, and how development approaches can provide critical added value to local authorities in mitigating the negative impact and maximizing the opportunities of displacement on local communities.
A key outcome of the International forum will be the 2019 Gaziantep Declaration reflecting, inter alia, good practices on the implementation of global and regionally agreed principles on local solutions to migration and displacement.
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