GFMD Civil Society Days PROTECTING AND EMPOWERING MIGRANTS FOR DEVELOPMENT 27-28 October 2008 Philippine International Convention Center, Manila, Philippines
Sunday, October 26
10:00am – 7:00 pm
Registration of Participants / Delegates The Heritage Hotel Manila
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Welcome Reception Grand Ballroom, The Heritage Hotel Manila
Monday, October 27 All sessions will take place at the 2nd floor, Secretariat Building, Philippine International Convention Center unless otherwise specified.
7:30 – 8:30 am
Registration Lobby, Secretariat Building
8:30 – 9:30 am
Opening Plenary Meeting Rooms 2 and 3, Secretariat Building
Opening Ceremony of the GFMD 2008 Civil Society Days
Welcome Message: JAIME AUGUSTO ZOBEL DE AYALA Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation Co-Vice Chairman, Ayala Foundation, Inc. (speech)
Opening Address: SHARAN BURROW, Conference Chairperson President, International Trade Union Confederation (speech)
Report from Brussels Civil Society Day 2007 FRANCOISE PISSART Director, King Baudouin Foundation (speech-En)(speech-Sp)
9:30 – 10:15 am
Plenary Session: Meeting Rooms 2 and 3, Secretariat Building
Roundtable 1: Migration, Development and Human Rights
Speaker: MANOLO ABELLA Chief Technical Adviser Asian Programme on Governance of Labour Migration International Labour Organization (speech)
Roundtable 2: Secure, legal migration can achieve stronger development impacts
Speaker: KHALID KOSER Fellow, Foreign Policy Deputy Director, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement Brookings Institute (speech)
Roundtable 3: Policy and Institutional Coherence and Partnerships
Speaker : SUSAN MARTIN Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration Herzberg Professor of International Migration, Georgetown University (speech)
10:15 – 10:30 am Refreshment break Delegates Lounge, Secretariat Building
10:30 – 12:00 pm
Concurrent Workshops
Voices from the Regions: Regional perspectives, essentials, and recommendations in international migration and development
These workshops will be dedicated to discussing specific concerns of the world’s leading regions of migrants. Discussions will focus on crosscutting issues such as the roles and risks of women migrants; the families left behind; tapping remittances for development; and others. Additionally, discussions will also focus on the dynamics of intra- and extra-regional migration flows such as South-North and South-South trends and their impact on development.
Asia / Middle East (Meeting Room 5)
Africa / Europe (Meeting Room 6)
Americas & Caribbean countries (Meeting Room 2)
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch Banquet Hall, Secretariat Building
Theme The Migrant Worker: Development Partner in Host and Home Countries
Chairperson FR. EDWIN CORROS Executive Secretary, Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines Member, Philippine Organizing Committee
Panel of Speakers: OSCAR CHACON Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities
CHUKWU-EMEKA CHIKEZIE Executive Director, African Foundation for Development
1:30 – 3:30 pm Roundtable Sessions
1.1 Protecting the Rights of Migrants - A Shared Responsibility Meeting Room 5
Resource Persons:
PATRICIA STO. TOMAS Former Secretary of Labor and Employment, Philippines Chairman, Development Bank of the Philippines (speech)
HAMIDOU BA International Migration Expert, Senegalese Migrants Foundation (speech)
ROLA ABIMOURCHED Researcher, Institute for the Study of International Migration Georgetown University
2.1 Fostering More Opportunities for Legal Migration Meeting Room 6
Resource Persons:
PHILIP MARTIN Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California at Davis (speech)
GRAEME HUGO University Professorial Research Fellow and Professor of Geography Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of GIS The University of Adelaide, Australia
LAWRENCE DACUYCUY Chair, Department of Economics De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines (speech)
3.1 Strengthening Data and Research Tools on Migration and Development Meeting Room 2
Resource Persons:
RICHARD BLACK Co-Director, Sussex Centre for Migration Research Professor of Human Geography, University of Sussex
MICHAEL CLEMENS Research Fellow, Center for Global Development (speech)
ANDREA ROSSI Research Fellow, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex (speech)
3:30 – 3:45 pm Refreshment break Delegates Lounge, Secretariat Building
3:45 – 5:45 pm Roundtable Sessions
1.2 Empowering Migrants and Diaspora to Contribute to Development Meeting Room 5
FR. FABIO BAGGIO Director, Scalabrini Migration Center, Manila, Philippines
2.2 Managing Migration and Minimizing the Negative Impacts of Irregular Migration Meeting Room 6
Resource Persons:
NASRA SHAH Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University
RONALD SKELDON Professorial Fellow in Geography, Sussex University
JEFF CRISP Special Advisor on Policy and Evaluation Policy Development and Evaluation Service United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
3.2 Policy and Institutional Coherence in Migration and Development Within Government Meeting Room 2
Resource Persons:
SUSAN MARTIN Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration Herzberg Professor of International Migration, Georgetown University (speech)
DENIS DRECHSLER Policy Analyst/Outreach Coordinator, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (speech)
6:00 – 6:30 pm Departure for Ayala Museum
7:00 – 9:00 pm
A Night at the Museum Ayala Museum, Makati City
Ayala Museum is a museum of arts and history located in the business and financial district of Makati. It is best known for its exhibit on Philippine history known as the Dioramas, its collection of classical paintings, and for its collection of ancestral gold from Mindanao dating to the 9th and 10th centuries. The Museum will be open exclusively to the delegates of GFMD Civil Society Days for private viewing and a reception for GFMD Delegates.
Conference Programme 
