General Objectives

To follow up on the findings from the II Congress on Women in Migration: Gender, Human Rights and Empowerment, and on the advances in the implementation of the Guidelines on Assistance and Protection of Women in the Context of Migration, in order to enrich and shape the III Regional Congress on Women in Migration Contexts, to be held in September 2021.

Specific Objectives

1. To present the results derived from the II Congress on Women in Migration Contexts as well as the follow-up actions, including research/actions being led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with IOM and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under the Regional Spotlight Initiative.
2. To contextualize the results within the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, which affects the entire world and which has had disproportionate consequences for women, female adolescents and girls, including those in migration contexts.
3. To establish dialogue among the RCM Member Countries on the advances and challenges in the implementation of the Guidelines on Assistance and Protection of Women in the Context of Migration and to identify the priority topics to be addressed during the III Regional Congress on Migrant Women in Migration Contexts.