Official Name
Republic of Ecuador
ISO2 Code
EC
ISO3 Code
ECU
Longitude
2 00 S
Latitude
77 30 W
Geolocation
POINT (-77.3 -2)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Empowering Migrants and Diaspora to Contribute to Development" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Managing Migration and Minimizing the Negative Impacts of Irregular Migration" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Inclusion, protection, and acceptance of migrants in society - linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Regional and Inter-regional Processes and Fora" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Joint Strategies to Address Irregular Migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Reducing the cost of migration and maximizing human development" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Migration, gender and family" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Assessing the relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3,3, "How can RCPs and Inter-regional better include the migration and development nexus?"
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 1,000 for Organizational expenses 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 3.3 "Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers - Enhancing their Development Potential" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Operationalizing mainstreming and coherence in migration and development policies" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1. "Migration as an enabler for inclusive social development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.1. "Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Migration, diversity and harmonious societies" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Protection of migrants in all situations" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Migrants in situations of crises: conflict, climate change and natural disasters" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Harmonious Societies" on 18 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

Roundtable Co-Chair in RT 2.1 "South-South mobility: trends, patterns and transferable learning"

Government Team Member in RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development" and RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshops on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs", "Labour Migration and Skills", and "Children and Youth on the Move: Implementing Sustainable Solutions"

Toda Una Vida ('A Whole Life')

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The Government of Ecuador ensures access to health and education services for migrants. Ecuadorís public policy plan ëToda Una Vidaí examines the rights of migrants at all stages of policy development plan, and includes a human mobility plan to promote universal citizenship.

Migration Youth Forum

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

The Migration Youth Forum is MYCP's flagship initiative and an official youth preparatory space to the GFMD Summits, implemented since 2018. This has been 2-3 days long virtual or in-person event, which have been very successful in:
– building the capacity of young people to advocate on issues of migration;
– giving youth a space to consult, help them consolidate their priorities, and amplify their voices;
– creating strong networks and collaborations across youth peers as well as relevant institutions from governments to UN and civil society;

Mi casa fuera de casa

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The "Mi casa fuera de casa" Project is an initiative of the organization Diálogo Diverso in Ecuador, supported by the Canadian Embassy, which began in November 2018 and seeks to benefit LGBTI people from Venezuela residing in Ecuador.

Programme Migration & Diaspora (PMD)

Submitted by Ms. Charlotte … on

The PMD programme is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supports key actors in making more effective use of regular migration and diaspora engagement to achieve their development goals. Guided by the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), the program is implemented by GIZ in up to 25 partner countries and focuses on the following three components:

 

Supporting host communities for refugees and migrants from Venezuela in the border regions of Colombia and Ecuador

Submitted by Ms. Charlotte … on

Commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this programme implemented by GIZ supports government institutions, local governments and civil society in the border regions of Colombia with Venezuela and Ecuador with Colombia to better respond to the flow of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and, in the case of Ecuador, also Colombian refugees. The project supports host communities in the integration of refugees and migrants.

 

Making Migration work for Sustainable Development

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNDP is supporting eleven countries—Bangladesh, Ecuador, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, the Philippines, Serbia, Senegal and Tunisia, to continue to address the plight of migrants and their host communities by supporting national and local governments to mainstream migration into development plans.

Banking on women

Submitted by Ms. Angelica Pinzon on

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Banking on Women helps financial institutions offer women entrepreneurs financial and non-financial services such as advisory support. Through Banking on Women, IFC has supported female entrepreneurs with direct investments, mobilized investments, and advice through banks in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Mexico.

 

 

National Human Mobility Round Table

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Ecuador has put in place the National Human Mobility Round Table involving a wide range of actors (ministries, public agencies, CSO, academia, UN agencies, business) to work on various issues and identify solutions, including on inclusion. Coordination among central government, provinces and regional actors aims to ensure the application of public policies at different levels of administration;

Mainstreaming Migration into National Development Strategies Phase II

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Migration is a global phenomenon affecting all countries worldwide and its effective governance needs global partnerships. It is within this context that, since 2011, IOM and UNDP have been implementing a Joint Global Programme on Mainstreaming Migration (MM) into National Development Strategies with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. 

Subscribe to Ecuador