Moldovan National Commission for Coordination of Joint Global Programme discusses mainstreaming migration phenomenon into national development strategies

Chisinau, 24 March /MOLDPRES/ - Government Secretary General Tudor Copaci today chaired a meeting of the National Commission for Coordination of Global Joint Programme. The main subjects on the agenda were focused on mainstreaming the migration in national development strategies, unveiling a report on the Global Joint Programme in Moldova for 2015-2016 and amendment of a working plan to this end, the government’s communication and media relations department has said.   

In his speech, the government’s secretary general said the migration was a spread phenomenon in Moldova, and namely therefore, the Moldovan cabinet had established more objectives of migration’s integration in strategic development documents. Also, Tudor Copaci thanked the development partners for the continuous support provided to Moldova in the concerned sector. In the context, Copaci highlighted the contribution of the UN agencies in Moldova, International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and other partners.  

United Nations Resident Coordinator in Moldova Dafina Gercheva stressed the need to work out a strategy due to give Moldova an efficient mechanism of support in migration processes, stressing the role of migration in the country’s economic and human development.  

For his part, the head of the Diaspora relations bureau at the State Chancellery, Valeriu Turea, emphasized the need to diminish the negative effect of migration, by integrating this phenomenon in the national development strategies.  

The Global Joint Programme, Mainstreaming Migration into National Development Strategies, is aimed at empowering governments and their partners to better measure the impact of the migration on the human development, as well as to work out policies due to mitigate the risks for the migrants, their families, for the communities from the origin countries, as well as the destination ones. The first phase of the programme was carried out in June 2012 – January 2014, and was piloted in four countries, including Moldova.      

(Editor A. Raileanu)