10.7.2 Migration policies to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people

10.7.2 Migration policies to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people

10.7.2 Proportion of countries with migration policies that facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Indicator aims to describe the state of national migration policies and how such policies change over time.

The information collected seeks to identify both progress made and gaps, thus contributing to the evidence base for actionable recommendations for the implementation of SDG target 10.7. The indicator also serves for the future thematic reviews at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).

The conceptual framework for indicator 10.7.2 is IOM´s Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF), which was welcomed by 157 countries (IOM Council Resolution C/106/RES/1310). The MiGOF has three principles and three objectives. The principles are: (1) Adherence to international standards and fulfillment of migrants' rights, (2) Evidence and whole-of government approaches to migration government and (3) Strong partnerships to support migration governance. The objectives are: (1) Socioeconomic well-being of migrants and society, (2) Effective responses to the mobility dimensions of crises and (3) Safe, orderly and dignified pathways of migration.

In line with the MiGOF, the proposed methodology for SDG indicator 10.7.2 is comprised of six policy domains, with one proxy measure for each domain. The domains are: (1) Migrant rights, (2) Whole-of-government/ Evidence-based policies, (3) Cooperation and partnerships, (4) Socioeconomic well-being, (5) Mobility dimensions of crises and (6) Safe, orderly and regular migration. For each of the domains and corresponding proxy measures, one question was specified, each one of them informed by five sub-categories or responses. Possible values of indicator, i.e. ratings for each of the domains are: "Requires further progress" (score 1), "Partially meets" (score 2); "Meets" (score 3) and "Fully meets" (score 4).

The source of data is the UN Inquiry among Governments on Population and Development, which has been used to survey global population policies since 1963, including policies on international migration. The Inquiry is mandated by the General Assembly in its resolution 1838 (XVII) of 18 December 1962. The Inquiry consists mostly of multiple-choice questions. The Twelfth Inquiry is divided into three thematic modules: Module I on population ageing and urbanization; Module II on fertility, family planning and reproductive health; and Module III on international migration. Module III of the Twelfth Inquiry has been updated to include core questions for all the six migration policy domains mentioned above. The Thirteenth Inquiry is divided into two thematic modules: Module I on reproductive health; and Module II on international migration. The Inquiry is conducted on behalf of the Secretary-General and is sent to all Permanent Missions in New York: 193 Member States, 2 observer States, and 2 non-member States. As per past practice, the Permanent Missions redirect the three thematic modules of the Inquiry to the relevant line ministries or government departments who are tasked with answering the questions. The Inquiry modules can be completed either through an online questionnaire or a fillable questionnaire in PDF. Countries responses are transmitted back to UN DESA for basic consistency checking. The data are then compiled/integrated into the World Population Policies database.

Results of the Inquiry are disseminated though the database, updated every two years. The main agencies for the data collection are International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and as partner agency is Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The indicator includes a total of 30 sub-categories, under 6 questions/domains. All sub-categories, except for those under domain 1, have dichotomous “Yes/No” answers, coded “1” for “Yes” and “0” for “No”. For the sub-categories under domain 1, there are three possible answers: “Yes, regardless of immigration status”, coded “1”; “Yes, only for those with legal immigration status”, coded “0.5”; and “No” coded “0”.

For each domain, the computational methodology is the unweighted average of the values across sub-categories, i.e. the formula is Di=(Σ Sji/n)*100.𝑖Di refers to the value for domain i; Σ Sji refers to the sum of the values across sub-categories (indexed by j) under domain i; and n refers to the total number of sub-categories in a domain (n=5). Results are reported as percentages. For each domain, values of Di range from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 100 per cent. 

For ease of interpretation and to summarize results, the resulting country-level averages (for the overall indicator and by domain) are then categorized as follows: values of less than 40 are coded as “Requires further progress” (score 1); values of 40 to less than 80 are coded as “Partially meets” (score 2), values of 80 to less than 100 are coded as “Meets” (score 3); and values of 100 are coded as “Fully meets” (score 4).

Score

Policy domains

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International Organization for Migration (IOM) and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Every two years

Developing a synthetic, robust indicator with the breadth and scope of target 10.7 as formulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is challenging. As co-custodians of indicator 10.7.2, UN DESA and IOM recognize that the indicator is neither expected nor designed to be comprehensive; hence the importance of other, complementary tools such as IOM’s Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) Project. Link is https://gmdac.iom.int/migration-governance-indicators.

Data for this indicator are taken from the UN SDG global database https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/unsdg.

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https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-10-07-02.pdf