Episode 48: Assessing migration governance - learnings from IOM’s MGI programme

The Migration & Diaspora Podcast

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Migration & Diaspora Podcast, where we discuss topics, projects, ideas, and everything else related to the movement of people.

Today, I’m joined by David Martineau, Senior Programme Manager at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), who tells us all about the Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) programme.

About David

Working within IOM’s department of policy and research, David works to build governments’ capacity to understand how their policy frameworks could better respond to emerging challenges and opportunities stemming from current migration dynamics. In his decade working at IOM, he has worked on the organisation’s engagement on the Sustainable Development Goals, New Urban Agenda and other multilateral processes. He was deployed to Moldova for the Ukraine response and worked on UN partnerships in New York. Before IOM, David studied and worked in Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Canada. David holds Masters degrees from the Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto) and Queen’s University in Canada.

What we talk about

It was an absolute pleasure to have David on the show to tell us all about:

• How IOM helps different countries from around the world to assess their migration governance frameworks.

• What migration governance constitutes.

• The indicators used to measure migration governance.

• Knock-on effects that the MGI assessments have produced for the countries and municipalities who have benefited from the programme.

Links

• MGI webpage: https://www.migrationdataportal.org/overviews/mgi

• MGI success stories: https://publications.iom.int/books/migration-governance-indicators-success-stories-2023

• Connect with David on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-martineau-0ba24136/

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