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The European Union is supporting the Ecuadorian Chairmanship of the Global Forum on Migration and Development through the MIgration EU eXpertise (MIEUX) Initiative, implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), in hosting the two-day regional workshop “Facilitating social and economic inclusion”, on 24 and 25 July in San José, Costa Rica. The first of a series of four regional round-tables ahead of the Quito Summit in November will gather representatives from academia, national and local-level government and civil society to exchange experiences in how to deliver services and apply innovative and rights-based approaches for the social and economic inclusion of migrants. 

This article describes some of the most recent Actions in the area of diaspora engagement that MIEUX is currently supporting in Ghana and Madagascar.

During the 2019 European Development Days, held on 18 and 19 June under the theme “Inequalities: building a world which leaves no one behind”, MIEUX, along with other ICMPD projects, organized a panel of experts who spoke about the various challenges and inequalities faced by migrants along various points of the migration journey.