Brokering Solutions: How Local and Regional Governments Shape Regular Migration Pathways
BROKERING SOLUTIONS
How Local and Regional Governments Shape Regular Migration Pathways
This White Paper provides a first analysis of how local governments design, advocate for and implement regular migration pathways (hereafter ‘regular pathways’). It starts with a definition of regular pathways and zooms in on the role of local and regional governments.
The White Paper offers a tentative categorization of how they work on pathways and provides concrete examples, with the aim to spark further discussion. It also offers a number of recommendations through which national governments and the international community can better unlock the potential of local governments in supporting the roll-out of regular pathways going forward.
This working document aims to inspire and support the 2024-2025 GFMD Colombian Chair, UN Agencies such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its Regular Pathways Secretariat and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), donors interested in supporting local governments in their regular pathways portfolios, and, lastly, local governments that are exploring to enhance their work on pathways.
This paper was drafted by the Secretariat of the GFMD Mayors Mechanism, co-steered by United
Cities and Local Governments, the Mayors Migration Council, and the International Organization for
Migration (IOM).
It also received critical inputs from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and includes results from a
survey circulated in October, through which over 20 local governments from Chile, Ethiopia, France,
Iran, Iraq, Italy, Mali, Mauritius, Peru,
