This conference session explored overall development planning, and ways in which migration issues can be better taken on board in country-level development strategies, such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.

Conference materials –

• Session One minutes
• Presentation PowerPoints:
1. ‘Migration and National Development Strategies’, Richard Black (University of Sussex)
2. ‘Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Bangladesh’, Tasneem Saida Muna (Bangladesh High Commission, London)
3. ‘Policy Perspectives on International Migration and National Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Aderanti Adepoju (Human Resources Development Centre, Lagos)
• Audio clips (to be added later)

Migration DRC research – view a two-page overview of the Migration DRC’s research findings on migration in development strategies.

Further reading – working papers published by the Migration DRC related to migration in development strategies are listed below.

1. “On Migration and the Policy Process”. Ron Skeldon (Aug 2007; Working Paper T20).
2. “Making Migration Development Friendly?: Temporary Worker Schemes in the UK”. Catherine Barber, Richard Black and Paula Tenaglia (May 2005; WP-T10).