What are the normative, institutional, and financial frameworks required for effective transnational governance of migration and mobility in Africa? This Executive Training will enable participants to develop a deeper ability to identify both the opportunities for and obstacles to effective and sustainable policy-making on human mobility.
Working together in an interactive setting, participants will examine the key bilateral, multilateral, and interregional frames of cooperation, with a focus on transnational decision-making processes and implementation in the African continent. The Training will also provide an opportunity to examine recent regional and continental mega initiatives such as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and will facilitate discussion around transnational governance of mobility through the regulation of different political domains (border governance, protocols for free movement of persons, development aid, education, human rights, humanitarian disasters, public security, public health, tourism, trade).
Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Grace-Edward Galabuzi is the Ag. Executive Director at the Makerere Institute for Social Research, Makerere University. He has served as an Associate Professor in the Politics and Public Administration Department, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada and a Research Associate at the Centre for Social Justice in Toronto. He is the author of Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century (CSPI, 2006) and co-editor of Race and Racialization: Essential Readings (CSPI, 2007) and Colonialism and Racism in Canada (Nelson/Thomson, 2009). His research interests include the experiences of recent immigrants and racialized groups in the Canadian labour market; Labour union organizing in immigrant sending and receiving countries; The racialization of Poverty; Resource extraction policy; and the impact of global economic restructuring on local communities. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from York University.
Andrew Geddes
Andrew Geddes is a Professor of Migration Studies and the Director of the Migration Policy Centre. During his career, he has led and participated in a number of major projects on aspects of international migration working with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners. For the period 2014-19 he was awarded an Advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council for a project on the drivers of global migration governance (the MIGPROSP project see www.migrationgovernance.org for further details). The MIGPROSP project analysed how ‘actors’ of various types in migration governance systems such as political leaders, officials, international organisations and civil society organisations make sense of the issues and challenges that they face and how these understandings then shape their actions. He has published extensively on global migration, with a particular focus on policy-making and the politics of migration and on regional cooperation and integration.
Agnes Igoye
Agnes Igoye has over 20 years Migration Governance experience at Uganda’s Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, Ministry of Internal Affairs. She has performed several assignments by deployment; as Commandant Uganda Immigration Training Academy (2017-2021) as well as Deputy National Coordinator Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (2019-todate) among others. She represents Uganda in several regional inter-governmental committees on migration, peace and security. She is a member of The Labour Migration Experts Reference Group and one of Uganda’s negotiators to the Protocol on free movement of Persons in the 8 Member States IGAD region. Agnes is a Harvard Kennedy School Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) graduate. A 2020/11 Fulbright/Hubert Humphrey Fellow (University of Minnesota) and studied Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.
Mehari Taddele Maru
Prof. Mehari Taddele Maru is currently a Part-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance and Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute.
Prof. Mehari is also a Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, he holds a Ph.D. in Legal Sciences from JL Giessen University, Germany, an MPA from Harvard, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and an LLB from Addis Ababa University.
Prof. Mehari is a member of the Technical Committee of the Tana High-Level Security Forum, and worked as Programme Coordinator for the African Union Migration Programme and Legal Expert at the African Union Commission (AUC). Prof Mehari also served as Chief Strategist, Legal Drafter, and Lead Migration Expert in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
Lucy Daxbacher
A diplomat with 18 years experience working on Governance, Migration, Peace, Security and Stability (PSS), Human Rights Protection and Development in fragile, conflict and post conflict societies in West Africa, East Africa and Horn of Africa. Experience of working with CSOs, Governments, Inter-Governmental Bodies and Bilateral donors. I possess proven practical experience in research and supportive programmatic processes of research/assessment/surveys, advocacy, program design, implementation, training, monitoring, mid term reviews/evaluation and learning. Proven experience in institutional assessments and proven track record of institutional capacity building on implementation of peace building projects, pacification and livelihoods projects for ex combatants/exservicement, transitional justice and reconciliation processes, promoting the Rule of law and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Charles Obila
Charles is a Coordinator for Migration and Forced Displacement at the Intergovernmental Organisation on Development (IGAD). His main responsibility is to support IGAD and its member states in promoting durable solutions on forced displacement and in improving migration governance by promoting dialogue, cooperation, and supporting capacity building initiatives.
Before joining IGAD, Charles worked with IOM Regional Office in Nairobi and was one of the contributors to the 2018 World Migration Report. Charles hold a Masters of Arts in Demography and Population Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Nairobi.
Linda Oucho
Dr. Linda Adhiambo Oucho is an established migration expert and Executive Director of the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (AMADPOC), an independent research think tank leading in policy-based research on migration and development issues in Eastern Africa and beyond. Dr. Oucho holds a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick, where she specialized in international migration of African Women. She contributes to research activities in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of influencing policy change on migration dynamics based on evidence. She has undertaken projects on internal, regional, and international migration related to poverty, climate change, youth-employment-migration nexus, forced displacement as well as diaspora return migration and reintegration among others. Dr. Oucho works in partnership with international institutions including University of Ghana, Open University and Carleton University among others. She currently works closely with national governments in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi, assisting key stakeholders on migration profiles and labour migration dynamics supporting efforts to develop policies on migration.
Lorenzo Piccoli
Lorenzo Piccoli leads the work of the Migration Policy Centre on teaching and training together with the School of Transnational Governance.
He holds a PhD degree in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (2018) and has previously worked as Scientific Coordinator of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research for Migration and Mobility Studies (2019 - 2021) and as Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory (2018 - 2021).
His research focuses on the politics of inclusion and exclusion of international migrants from basic rights, such as healthcare, voting, and welfare. His research has been featured in several international media, including Radio France International, Radio Svizzera Italiana, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
Martin Ruhs
Martin Ruhs is Professor of Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He is on leave from the University of Oxford where he is Professor of Political Economy. Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. His books include The Price of Rights. Regulating International Labour Migration (Princeton University Press 2013), Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-Making on Migration and Integration (Oxford University Press 2019, co-edited with Kristof Tamas and Joakim Palme), and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (Oxford University Press 2010, co-edited with B. Anderson). He is currently working on research projects that analyse the tensions between free movement and European welfare states (freeEUmove); public policy preferences for international cooperation on migration and refugee protection (MEDAM); the role of migrants in shaping systemic resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic (MigResHub); the use of new technologies in asylum and migration governance (AFAR); and the ethics of migration policy dilemmas (Dilemmas).
Sadam Garad Abdi
Sadam Garad Abdi is the Senior Mixed Migration Coordinator at the office of Special Envoy for Children’s and Migrants’ Rights in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) of the Federal Government of Somalia. His responsibilities include advocating for the rights of Somali Children and Migrants regionally and internationally, as well as working closely with international organizations to assist Somali migrants and asylum-seekers abroad. He is also the National Coordinator for prevention of Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants and is responsible for the creation and coordination of the Inter-Ministerial Task Forces on Migration, Human Trafficking and Return and Readmission.
Agnes Asele
With 12 years of experience equipping organizations to achieve continued success through process improvements, Asele serves as: Project and Grants Management Technical Officer at Africa CDC where she plays a key role in providing oversight of various Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) projects and grants. Asele joined the African Union (AU) in 2014 to support the African Union Support for Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA) and later championed the establishment of Africa CDC by supporting the development of key policy documents and coordinating various management activities. Before joining the AU, Asele worked as an Assistant Managing Editor for Africa Peace & Conflict Journal (APCJ) University for Peace.
Martina Abisso
Martina Abisso is a PhD researcher at Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs, where she is researching for JustRemit the Governance of Migration and Remittances between the European Union and West-Africa. Her background is in International Relations and European Union Studies, with a focus on the challenges of human mobility. Before her PhD candidacy, Martina worked for the Italian Ministry of Interior at the immigration office in Trieste. Specifically, she operated within the Area IV which concerns Civil Rights, Citizenship, Legal Status of Foreigners, Immigration and Asylum Right. Currently, Martina is also active as research fellow at the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity.
Lado Lobor Lado Lojong
Lado Lobor is a career Diplomat working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Republic of South Sudan (MFA&ICR). He promotes friendly relations in bilateral or multilateral in international arena. Lado completed his master programme in international relations-Global studies from the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His master thesis was about ‘’South Sudan membership in East Africa Community (EAC) Analyzing potential benefits and detriments’’. In 2015, he completed his bachelor degree in Public Administration with a specialization in Public sector from the International University of East Africa (IUEA) Kampala, Uganda.
Luzzi Phillip Sebigeye
Phillip Luzzi is a Ugandan national and career diplomat working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda. He is also a Young African Leaders Program (YALP) alumnus of the European University Institute. Phillip studied his Master’s degree in Africa and International Development at the University of Edinburgh and is a motivated leader with excellent research, writing and communication skills with a passion for bringing positive change to both Uganda and Africa.
Umar Kabanda
Umar is a policy analyst and researcher. He is currently a Policy Leader Fellow at EUI's School of Transnational Governance in Italy, as well as the Managing Director of Kalube Consults Limited in Uganda. In the African Union Scientific, Technical and Research Commission based in Nigeria, Umar was engaged on an ad-hoc basis as an advisory working group member to study the Impact of Covid-19 in Africa. He has a PhD and Masters in Governance and Regional Integration from the Pan African University in Cameroon, Post graduate diploma in Human Rights from the University of Oslo in Norway and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Makerere University in Uganda.
Mwathi Mary Kitonga
Mwathi Kitonga is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over ten years’ experience, a mediator, arbitrator and holds an LLM in International Environmental Law from the University of Kent. She has participated in government advisory projects including consulting with the Federal Government of Somalia on Somalia’s Oil and Gas policy. She has worked in electoral legal reform, civic education, children and youth advocacy, policy formulation specifically in the development of regulations for Kenyan advocates on Anti- Money Laundering, sexual harassment and the use of technology in law practice. Her leadership roles include project management, resource mobilization, strategic planning and engagement. She has led civic education, capacity building and justice awareness programmes. Mwathi is the Director, Practice Standards, at the Law Society of Kenya, where she oversees ethics and compliance management, ensuring integrity and transparency. Mwathi is undertaking her PhD in Environmental Law at the University of Nairobi.
Ilham Siba
Ilham SIBA is a Project Manager at the German political foundation Heinrich Böll, in its Rabat's office, Morocco since more than five years. She is in charge of projects related to migration & mobility as well as accountability & transparency. She works closely with civil society organizations, giving support to amplify their work, especially when it comes to advocacy. Ilham holds a Master degree in communication. In her essay, she worked on the transparency of institutional communication in the migration public sector in Morocco. She wrote a policy brief: “Building Bridges: Moroccan Civil Society as a Mediator in EU Decision-Making on Migration” in the framework of a workshop organized by DGAP. She participated in the summer school on Migration, Mobility and Diversity: New Horizons for Human Rights at the Venice Academy of Human Rights EIUC. Ilham is a scholarship holder of the International Parliament Scholarship program of Berlin (September 2021).
Leah Tesfamariam
I am a program support manager at Never Again Rwanda (NAR); a peacebuilding and social justice organization based in Kigali. I recently completed a postgraduate diploma at the Academy of Young Diplomats hosted at the European Academy of Diplomacy (EAD) in Warsaw. Recently, I have a masters in Public Policy and Good Governance from the University of Osnabrueck in Germany and hold an Bachelors in International Relations and Diplomacy from Maseno University in Kenya. I am a peace fellow at the regional Peace Building Institute located in Rwanda. I have received trainings in Conflict Transformation, Gender and Transformational leadership, Transparency and Accountability. My interest is in social justice transformation. I founder the Karachuonyo Safe Space for Young Women and Girls, a resource centre that serves as a safe for young women and girls to meet and have conversations about Sexual Reproductive and Health education and receive support free from judgment.
Mary Muyonga
Mary Muyonga is a doctoral candidate at the Population Research Institute of the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where she attained her MA (Population Studies). Her research interests focus on migration and urbanisation and their policy implications. She has published papers on migration and participated in forums on migration.
Robel Hailemariam
Company: Ministry of Justice, Ethiopia. Department: Legal Research, Drafting and Codification Directorate General. Current Job: Federal Public Prosecutor. Achievements: Conducted a group research on Illegal migration and recruitment methods in Ethiopia; Litigated in criminal bench of Federal courts fore more than a decade. Interests: Transnational Migration, Organized Crime and Human Trafficking, International Criminal Law.
Emily Elizabeth Nakaboke
I am a Uganda Legal Advocate by Proffession and a Civil Servant. I am employed under the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control wherein i am an Immigration Officer. I am also currently undertaking a Post Graduate Diploma under the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
James Ojok Onono
Ojok James Onono is the current Assistant Public Relations officer of Gulu University, he has over 7 years’ experience in the media industry in Uganda and still attached to Northern Uganda Media Club. Reporting on Refugee, Environment and Health, Governance are his interests, currently he does Communication consultancy on Population, Health, Environment (PHE) with People-Planet Connection -a Johns Hopkins University online project dedicated as a central repository for those working in PED/PHE or those interested in learning more about those approaches to access documents, information from various organization, projects, countries implementing the cross sectoral programs. Apart from Media profile, James Onono is a published poet, But My heart (2015), Heaven Will Never Wait,2017 and his latest on market Justice in The Hague (2020) which explores the LRA conflict and its aftermath in series of over 40 poems.
Emily Akullu
Emily is An Ecocomist By Profession, an Ardent Administrator and a Social Worker. Holder of a Masters of Arts Degree in Economics of Makerere University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Uganda Management Institute, and her Bachelor's Degree was in Social Sciences with a Major in Economics, and a Minor in Gender. Ms. Akullu has worked with the Government of Uganda before, for 10 years; as Assitant Secretary in the Office of the First Lady of Uganda Mrs. Janet K. Museveni, and later as Deputy Residet District Commissioner at the border districts of Busia and Moroto, respectively. She has explored private consultancies severally, most especially in the areas of Research, Policy, Monitioring & Evaluation. Organisations like the International The International Research Exchanges Board (IREX), USA have been quick to benefit from her services, the Critical Research Institute for International Development (CRIID).
Hamid Khalafallah
Hamid is a development practitioner, researcher, and policy analyst, currently working as a Program Officer for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), supporting Sudan’s democratic transition. He is a Nonresident Fellow the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, focusing on inclusive governance and mobilisation in Sudan. Hamid is also an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Program of at the European University Institute. Hamid holds an MA in International Development Management from the University of Bradford in the UK, where he studied as a Chevening Scholar and was awarded the 2019 UK Development Studies Association best dissertation prize. In his free time, Hamid has been active with various civil resistance groups in Sudan, promoting democracy and advocating for human rights.
Asiimwe Bosco
Asiimwe is a Uganda national and an International Relations analyst and researcher; the Coordinator Academia at the Uganda Council on Foreign Relations (UCFR), Director for Democratic Governance & Strategic Studies at the Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) and a Community Relations Specialist with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company (EACOP). He was the coordinator and a member of the Advisory Board for UCFR-EUI-MPC research partnership on 'Migration Governance and Migration Diplomacy in Uganda: an Agenda for a Migrant-Centred Approach', which climaxed into EUI’s first ever Executive training on human mobility on the African continent.
This training is organized by the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in collaboration with the Uganda Council on Foreign Relations and the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute.
The executive training will enable participants to analyse and discuss the normative, institutional, and financial frameworks for the transnational governance of migration and mobility in Africa.
The executive training takes a problem-oriented approach. Participants will have the opportunity to follow interactive sessions with academic experts and policy-makers.
Consult the online platform and familiarise yourself with the material.
Participation in all the sessions is highly recommended because they are your main opportunity to engage with teaching staff and participants. However, should you not be able to attend a session for exceptional reasons, please inform the organisers at lorenzo.piccoli@eui.eu in advance.
You will be able to download the slides in PDF from the online platform of the training.
No. In order to create a space for free discussion and exchange we will not record the sessions.
Download the programme of the Executive Training.
The drivers of migration and mobility governance
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Africa - Europe partnerships on international migration and mobility
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Ruhs, M. (2022), ‘Who cares what the people think? Public attitudes and refugee protection in Europe’, Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
African migration governance in action (II): Policy frameworks and legislative instruments in the East African Community
Transnational cooperation to counter human trafficking
Enact Africa (2021), Girls from Karamoja sold for US$5 and trafficked to Nairobi.
Bukedde (2021), Child trafficking in Karamoja perpetuated within communities.
Nbs (2017), Untold Stories of Child Trafficking in Karamoja.
Andrew Geddes: What Drives Migration Governance?
Martin Ruhs: International Cooperation on Migration and Mobility
Charles Obila: African Migration Governance in Action
Linda Oucho: Regional Approaches on Labour Migration and Mobility in Africa
Lucy Daxbacher: The Policy Dimension of Migration Governance and Free Movement of Persons in the IGAD Region
