The priorities highlighted by cities at the Berlin Mayoral Forum will be conveyed to governments in the context of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the annual inter-governmental deliberations, which are chaired by the Government of Germany and Morocco on 28 June through 1 July 2017 also in Berlin.
The outcomes of the Berlin Mayoral Forum will also inform two distinct processes to which States committed last September 2016 in the context of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. These are the “global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration” (GCM), and the global compact for refugees. Within the consultative process underway towards the GCM, local authorities are invited to contribute their perspectives as first receivers of migrants. This builds on recent calls for greater empowerment of cities and local authorities, including by ensuring their access to inter-state deliberations, and strengthening of the Mayoral Forum as a mechanism to channel cities’ key experiences into the consultative process for the Global Compact on Migration.