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Conduct preparatory activities for the establishment of the Demand Driven Facility (DDF) for national institutions

During the inception phase of the project, guidelines were developed by the ICMPD DDF team to clarify the main objectives, modalities and functioning of the DDF. The DDF Guidelines were presented at the first meeting of the Committee for Project Steering and Coordination (CPSC) on 28 February 2014. The CPSC agreed to let the ECOWAS Commission comment further on the Guidelines. In the period from March through September 2014, the DDF team engaged in intensive discussions with the ECOWAS Commission on the Guidelines, which subsequently underwent multiple modifications following an exchange of alternative suggestions among the DDF Technical Committee members. The DDF Guidelines were finally adopted on 24 September 2014 by the DDF Technical Committee ( 59).
In addition, various procedures, tools and templates were developed for the functioning of the DDF and adopted by the DDF Technical Committee as es to the Guidelines. Guidelines for applicants were also developed, which explains the objectives of the DDF, the eligibility criteria, and the application process.
Following the adoption of the DDF Guidelines, a continuous call for experts to work on the DDF was launched in September 2014, and published on various websites, including the ICMPD website, Project website, Migration4development.org and Forim.org.
This call can be found on the project website:
https://fmmwestafrica.org/demand-driven-facility/
During the reporting period over 1950 CVs were received from interested experts. A DDF Expert Roster has been developed where CVs sent in response to the call are stored. The DDF Expert Roster is an internal tool that will be used solely for DDF activities, and which will facilitate the swift selection of experts to work on DDF actions. Experts that are not in Roster can also work on DDF actions

Actively inform ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania about the existence of the Demand Driven Facility and the possibility offered to submit specific national requests for capacity-building and corresponding procedures
The Project team actively promotes and informs stakeholders of the DDF. In this regard, the DDF has been presented to ECOWAS Member States at the following occasions:

  • Project’s Mission to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28 – 9 April 2014;
  • MIDWA Experts meeting in Accra, Ghana, 6 – 7 May 2014;
  • ECOWAS TiP Annual Review Meeting and subsequent training, Abuja, Nigeria, 21 – 25 July 2014;
  • Project’s Mission to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 17 October 2014;
  • Preparatory technical workshop for the Nigerian national migration dialogue, Lokoja, Nigeria, 29 – 30 October 2014;
  • Meeting of ECOWAS Immigration Experts on the Ebola Epidemic, Accra, Ghana, 18 – 20 November 2014;
  • ECOWAS Heads of Immigration meeting, Dakar, Senegal, 3 – 5 December 2014;
  • ECOWAS Experts Meeting on Identity Management and Civil Registry, Cotonou, Benin, 27 – 30 April 2015
  • Information and Migration Regional Seminar, Abuja, Nigeria, 28 – 29 April 2015.
  • The ECOWAS TIP Annual Review Meeting and subsequent training, Abuja, Nigeria, 27 – 31 July 2015;
  • FMM West Africa Mauritania visibility event, Nouakchott, Mauritania, 9 October 2015;
  • The Rabat Process Senior Officials Meeting and Thematic Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings and Migrant Smuggling, Porto, Portugal, 2 4 December 2015;
  • 11th Steering Committee of the West Africa Network, Abuja, Nigeria, 8-10 December 2015.
  • Meeting on the Implementation of the Valletta Action Plan by ECOWAS Member States, Accra, Ghana, 9 – 11 February 2016.
  • Handover of equipment in Sierra Leone to the Minister of Labour and Social Security in a visibility ceremony, 22 June 2017.
  • Project’s Mission to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28 – 9 April 2014;
  • MIDWA Experts meeting in Accra, Ghana, 6 – 7 May 2014;
  • ECOWAS TiP Annual Review Meeting and subsequent training, Abuja, Nigeria, 21 – 25 July 2014;
  • Project’s Mission to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 17 October 2014;
  • Preparatory technical workshop for the Nigerian national migration dialogue, Lokoja, Nigeria, 29 – 30 October 2014;
  • Meeting of ECOWAS Immigration Experts on the Ebola Epidemic, Accra, Ghana, 18 – 20 November 2014;
  • ECOWAS Heads of Immigration meeting, Dakar, Senegal, 3 – 5 December 2014;
  • ECOWAS Experts Meeting on Identity Management and Civil Registry, Cotonou, Benin, 27 – 30 April 2015.
  • Information and Migration Regional Seminar, Abuja, Nigeria, 28 – 29 April 2015.
  • The ECOWAS TIP Annual Review Meeting and subsequent training, Abuja, Nigeria, 27 – 31 July 2015;
  • FMM West Africa Mauritania visibility event, Nouakchott, Mauritania, 9 October 2015;
  • The Rabat Process Senior Officials Meeting and Thematic Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings and Migrant Smuggling, Porto, Portugal, 2 4 December 2015;
  • 11th Steering Committee of the West Africa Network, Abuja, Nigeria, 8-10 December 2015
  • Meeting on the Implementation of the Valletta Action Plan by ECOWAS Member States, Accra, Ghana, 9 – 11 February 2016.
  • Handover of equipment in Sierra Leone to the Minister of Labour and Social Security in a visibility ceremony, 22 June 2017.

A planned meeting with embassies of ECOWAS Member States in Abuja to inform their representatives about the DDF did not take place. This would have provided the opportunity to reach all ECOWAS Member States at the same time and in a coordinated manner. Nevertheless, the DDF Team was able to make individual arrangements to visit embassies of ECOWAS Member States, and as a result, seven embassies (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, The Gambia, and Niger) were informed of the existence of the Demand Driven facility.

To facilitate awareness-raising on the DDF, a dedicated webpage (on the Project website) and information package on the DDF have been developed.

DDF information packages in the three ECOWAS languages were sent to all the ECOWAS National Units in Member States; ECOWAS TiP National Focal Points in Member States; Heads of Immigration in the ECOWAS Member States, IOM and ILO field offices in the region and to the EU Delegation in Abuja to disseminate to EU Delegations in the region, and thus for them to share with the relevant ministries they work with.

Assess national requests received and implement selected activities, among others through the recruitment of adequate short-term expertise

  • 1. Action Fiche on labour migration for Togo (March 2015)
  • 2. Action Fiche on counter trafficking for Nigeria (April 2015)
  • 3. Multi country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo) Action Fiche on free movement (April 2015)
  • 4. Action Fiche on counter trafficking for Niger (July 2015)
  • 5. Action Fiche on labour migration for Mali (November 2015)
  • 6. Multi country (The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Mali and Mauritania) Action Fiche on counter trafficking (November 2015)
  • 7. Action Fiche on immigration and border management for Ghana (November 2015)
  • 8. Action Fiche on labour migration for Sierra Leone (November 2015)
  • 9. Multi country (Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria) Action Fiche on labour migration (December 2016)
  • 10. Multi country (All ECOWAS Member States) Action Fiche on border management (May 2017)
  • 11. Action Fiche on Sensitization through motion picture (December 2017)

During the reporting period, 49 DDF requests were received. All DDF requests are subjected to the same approval process. First the DDF Technical Committee members discuss the request to determine whether it matches the DDF eligibility criteria, which are outlined in the DDF Guidelines. Once the request is approved, it is developed into a full action fiche by the ICMPD DDF team in collaboration with the pertaining national institutions. The EU delegations, ILO, and IOM offices in the relevant countries are also consulted to ensure that the activities do not duplicate other initiatives. The MIEUX initiative, which is implemented by ICMPD, is also consulted, as well as other stakeholders in the region that are working in similar areas in the pertaining countries. DDF action fiches are approved at the DDF Technical Committee meeting after which implementation of those DDF actions can start.
At the DDF pre-screening meeting of 19 January 2015, it was decided that the ICMPD DDF Team would endeavour to combine multiple requests which have been received from one country into one DDF action. In addition, the DDF Team will first focus on the DDF requests received from Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal and the multi-country request (originally received from Burkina Faso, Côte D’Ivoire and Togo but subsequently expanded to cover eight countries). On 25 March 2015, the DDF Technical Committee Meeting approved the Action Fiche on labour migration for Togo. Subsequently, on 20 April 2015, the Technical Committee approved the Action Fiche on trafficking in persons for Nigeria and a multi-country free movement action fiche, which was submitted by the ECOWAS Free Movement and Tourism Directorate on behalf of 8 Member States (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Togo).
On 30 July 2015, the DDF Technical Committee approved the Action Fiche on trafficking in persons for Niger. On 13 November 2015, the DDF Technical Committee approved an additional 4 action fiches: labour migration actions for Mali and Sierra Leone, multi-country action on trafficking in persons, which would be implemented in 6 countries (The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal) and a border management action for Ghana.
At the Technical Committee meeting of 22 March 2016, it was decided to approve, for further development into action fiches, two multi-country requests sent by ECOWAS, one on border management for the ECOWAS Member States (capacity building to be based on the ECOWAS border management and free movement manuals, developed under activities 1.3.2 and 1.3.4), and a multi-country action on labour market and migration information system (LMMIS), based on the study conducted under FMM West Africa project by ILO (under activity 1.4.5). The multi-country on Labour Market and Migration Information Systems (LMMIS) drawing directly on the FMM West Africa assessment study carried out by ILO was approved on 6 December 2016.
The Action Fiche for the DDF Rollout of the Border Management and Free movement manuals was presented and approved at the Technical Committee meeting held on 04 May 2017. Also, the request for a DDF action on Sensitization campaign was summited by the ECOWAS on 23rd June 2017. There were series of consultation and expert meetings held in the process of articulating the Action Fiche. The action required expertise in movie production and all the elements to execute this action needed to be properly outlined in the AF. At the Technical Committee meeting held on 09 October 2017, the Action Fiche for the DDF Multi-Country Sensitization campaign was presented and approved.

Demand Driven Facility

  • 68: The labour migration in Togo (legal, institutional and socio-economic environment), French version (DDF action on labour migration – Togo)
  • 42: Assessment report on the legal and institutional framework to fight against trafficking in persons in Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and The Gambia, French version (DDF multi-country action on TiP).
  • 69: Communique on the Establishment of a Regional Cooperation Mechanism to fight against Trafficking in Persons between Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and The Gambia (DDF multi-country action on TiP).
  • 86: Regional Seminar on Harmonization of Professional Practices in the Fight against Trafficking in Persons between Gambia, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau, Ma DDF Action on Trafficking in Persons
  • 87: Labour Market and Migration Information System (LMMIS) in ECOWAS (DDF action Multi-country Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, The Gambia, Niger, Nigeria and Mauritania)
  • 88: Report on Participants Evaluation of Workshop on Labour Migration Governance in Sierra Leone (DDF Sierra Leone 1st Training Session Report)
  • 89: Participant’s Assessment of the Training Workshop on Protection and Empowerment of Migrant Workers and their Families in Sierra Leone and Destination Countries

After 5 years of implementation, on 04-05 December 2019, FMM West Africa under ICMPD conducted a DDF Conference with the sole objective to provide donors, implementing partners and beneficiaries, among other stakeholders, with a retrospective reflection on the DDF’s implementation. The exercise involved:

  • The participatory assessment phase, which brought beneficiaries of the DDF’s assistance together to participate in focus group discussions and questionnaires regarding their experiences of receiving assistance; and
  • The impact assessment phase, which focused on reviewing the outputs of the DDF actions and capturing the longer term impacts through a webinar with the DDF team and follow-up interviews with selected beneficiaries.

Implementation update on individual DDF actions:

Below is a chart showing the distribution of DDF implementation in ECOWAS MS+1 as well as the thematic spread across the region. Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria have 5 DDF actions each, while all countries have at least 2 DDF actions (Sensitization and Border Management).