SEE Project "Making migration work for development"/Proiectul SEE "Migratie favorabila dezvoltarii”
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The MMWD project aims to enhance public administrations' capacity to manage demographic changes and migration-related challenges in Southeast Europe for sustainable development. It focuses on harmonizing knowledge, building local capacities, and facilitating transnational dialogue while addressing employment, human capital, and social services. Key objectives include developing evidence-based strategies and creating a knowledge platform to support regional development efforts up to 2020.
SEE Project "Making migration work for development"/Proiectul SEE "Migratie favorabila dezvoltarii”
- 1. MAKING MIGRATION WORK FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING IN SEE REGIONS AND CITIES POPULATION, MIGRATION AND LABOUR MARKET EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY BUILDING Anna Lucia Colleo Regione Emilia-Romagna Budapest, 22 May 2013
- 2. 1. INTRODUCING MMWD 2. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS 3. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND GROWTH PROSPECTS: UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS
- 3. MMWD: Strategic project co-funded by the South East Europe Programme Website: www.migration4growth.eu Duration: 30 months (May 2012-October 2014) Lead partner: Regional Government of Emilia-Romagna 21 Partners: Public administrations supported by technical partners (statistical offices, universities, research centres, development agencies). The International Organization for Migration is an observer.
- 5. THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF MMWD To enhance the capacity of public administrations to anticipate, understand and strategically manage the implications of current demographic change, and particularly of migration-related demographic change, with a view to actively address critical challenges for the sustainable growth of SEE territories.
- 6. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Boosting knowledge: improving the harmonization of comparable information about SEE regions and cities that are key to understand the prospects for growth and well-being of SEE regions and cities Supporting the identification of major territorial challenges and political priorities, based on comparable regionalized information on SEE regions and cities Strengthening local capacity to undertake evidence- based strategic planning in participating territories
- 7. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Support and facilitate transnational dialogue and exchanges among SEE territories that share common development challenges and are affected (positively or negatively) by the identified trends, prospects and/or policy impacts, with an aim to exploring comparative advantages and synergy through transnational cooperation arrangements. Supporting dissemination and the use of MMWD results to an audience of policy makers, practitioners, experts, and SEE communities (public discourse).
- 8. ACTIVITIES Defining the knowledge base: panel of indicators, data mapping and analysis of gaps Turning knowledge into a strategy-making tool: construct demographic forecasts and impact scenarios until 2020 (i.e. develop a "reading structure" anticipating territorial evolutions related to demo change, as a precondition to be able to steer them towards positive outcomes) Capacity-building on the use of policy scenarios for the formulation of development strategies, with migration recognized as a relevant feature for sustainable growth
- 9. ACTIVITIES: ACTIVITIES From sparse initiatives to integrated policies: improving governance methods and policy coherence. Pilot applications of project results Harmonizing knowledge across SEE: Knowledge Platform on www.migration4growth.eu Building a SEE platform for transnational dialogue and cooperation, to promote more effective regulations of migration flows across the SEE area
- 10. 1. INTRODUCING MMWD 2. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS 3. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND GROWTH PROSPECTS: UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS
- 11. MAIN TERRITORIAL SCALE: REGIONS (NUTS2) POLICY SCALE: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES … which also include a trans-national realm (i.e. part of the non-realized development benefits of migration for specific territories relate to a lack of articulated agreements on mobility/migration management and social protection, as well as limited dialogue, exchange and cooperation among connected countries)
- 12. AT THIS STAGE, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT … The development of SEE territories is facing several mega trends that strongly impact policy choices: Interaction is growing across SEE territories as well as with other parts of the world (increasing flows, including migration) Global economic competition is accelerating, offering more options for regions but also more challenges to policy-makers Market forces and the evolution of society in general are supporting a geographical concentration of activities: cities are (and compete as) development hubs The ongoing demographic change is affecting the regions differently (with labor moving across regions)
- 13. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS MMWD was designed in the realm of the Europe 2020 Strategy to support regional strategy-making for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth Policy-makers dealing with territorial development are in need of a future oriented and integrated vision of development, translating the targets and objectives of Europe 2020 into policy priorities Building such vision requires: sound evidence, comparable regionalized information, mid-term scenarios in order to draw sustainable and integrated policy responses for their territories
- 14. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS Focus on 3 critical (and inter-related) policy realms Employment Human capital The offer of social services (ensuring the social infrastructure needed to support growth policies)
- 15. DEMO CHANGE AND GROWTH PROSPECTS MMWD’S ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY-MAKING FOR SEE REGIONS AND CITIES. MMWD’S SPECIFICITY IS THAT IT LOOKS AT DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AS A KEY FEATURE OF TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS AND IT LOOKS AT MIGRATION AS THE KEY FACTOR IN TODAY’S POPULATION CHANGES.
- 16. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS The effects of demographic change on living conditions and growth prospects are both a challenge and an opportunity. A challenge because demographic trends such as low fertility rates, ageing, changes in the households’ structures and population mobility can limit territorial competitiveness and growth prospects. An opportunity if such changes are appropriately placed in regional development strategies, considering the evolutionary effects of population trends on selected policy areas.
- 17. 1. INTRODUCING MMWD 2. MMWD APPROACH AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS 3. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND GROWTH PROSPECTS: UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS
- 18. DEFINING DEMO CHANGE AND GROWTH IN MMWD DEMO CHANGE: AGE STRUCTURES - MIGRATION GROWTH: EMPLOYMENT – HUMAN CAPITAL – SOCIAL SERVICES INTER-RELATED AND KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- 19. DEFINING MIGRATION IN MMWD UNDER MIGRATION, WE SUM UP : • INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION • IN-COUNTRY MIGRATION (ACROSS REGIONS, RURAL VS. URBAN AND VICEVERSA) • LONG-TERM DEMO CHANGE RELATED TO NONNATIVE RESIDENTS ON SEE TERRITORIES (FIRST GENERATIONS VS. RESIDENTS WITH A MIGRATION BACKGROUND)
- 20. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE CHANGES (BEHAVIOURS)
- 21. DEMO CHANGE AND GROWTH: SEEKING CONNECTIONS MIGRATION IS SCRUTINISED IN RELATION TO ITS EFFECTS: DEMO CHANGE MIGRATION GROWTH PROSPECTS EDUCATION TRAINING BEHAVIOURS OF POP GROUPS VARY LABOUR SOCIAL NEEDS DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF POPULATION TRENDS AND RESOURCES IN DIFFERENT TERRITORIES
- 22. HOW CAN DEMOGRAPHIC AND LABOUR MARKET PROCESSES BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN MIGRATION POLICIES? By migration policies – in relation to demographic and labor market processes, we may refer to a broad range of policy areas: Active management of international labor migration: Skilled/less skilled; seasonal and circular migration programs; programs for attracting/attracting back specific categories of workers; compensation measures for origin countries; the offer of services to migrants, including vocational training, ...)
- 23. HOW CAN DEMOGRAPHIC AND LABOUR MARKET PROCESSES BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN MIGRATION POLICIES? Local policies to manage local population movements (labor market and transports, schools, housing, services in general, …). The localization of the population on the territory is a driver for local policies. Rural to urban movements across SEE, with densely populated areas surrounded by more scarcely populated areas. This may also imply a drastic change in the age structure of the population (concentration of elderly in rural areas, for instance), posing specific development challenges.
- 24. HOW CAN DEMOGRAPHIC AND LABOUR MARKET PROCESSES BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN MIGRATION POLICIES? Migration policies targeting the resident foreign population (or, for emigration territories, targeting nationals abroad) Migration policies are often separated from territorial development policies, and fragmented between labor market, education, and social inclusion policies – not necessarily referring to a crosssector strategy.
- 25. Thank you! Anna Lucia Colleo acolleo@regione.emilia-romagna.it annalus@hotmail.com 25