The Greek Chair will continue the participative and team-based approach to preparing the Roundtable sessions.  The structure of three Roundtables will be retained, with break-out sessions prepared by government teams around themes of common interest. As in Manila, it is intended to limit the Roundtables to seven sessions for reasons of manageability and logistics. 

The GFMD process pursues an incremental approach to the themes and is also open to new topics. The Athens meeting will thus build upon the Brussels and Manila meetings, while breaking new ground with the overarching Greek GFMD theme. The theme of Integrating Migration Policies into Development Strategies for the Benefit of All will be addressed in some form throughout all Roundtables, but will also be the specific focus of Roundtable 1, along with some new approaches to the role of diasporas for development and to the root causes of migration in light of the current global economic crisis. Roundtable 2 will deepen the earlier discussions on regular migration, labour mobility and the protection of migrants, and will examine migrant integration, reintegration and circulation strategies and their inter-linkages with development. Roundtable 3 will expand on, and update, the ongoing policy and institutional coherence efforts underpinning the other Roundtable debates and focus on data and research issues and regional and inter-regional activities.  

Roundtable 1:
How to make the migration – development nexus work for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (more...)

Roundtable 2:
Migrant integration, reintegration and circulation for development (more...)

Roundtable 3:
Policy and Institutional Coherence and Partnerships  (more...)

> Guidelines for the Roundtable Sessions