SYNOPSIS ON 4TH JOURNALISTS INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR MIGRATION- JIFORM GLOBAL MIGRATION SUMMIT

Theme: Climate Change, Human Mobility and Sustainable Investments

Date: November 27-30, 2023.

The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) Global Migration Summit is an annual international conference. The Canadian host for the Fourth Summit is once again Abedorc Productions Inc. (Dorc Radio and Dorc Tv), in Toronto Canada. Their Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Yinka Farinde, successfully hosted the 3^rd edition of the summit in Toronto in 2022.  Originally scheduled for October 2-14, the Summit will now be held between November 27-30, 2023. The opening session of the hybrid summit is to be beamed from the Abedorc Productions Inc studio in Toronto on November 28 while the grand finale will take place at the Belmont Event Space, Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada on November 29.

PARTNERS: First Fridays Toronto, Medga Evers College, City University, New York City, USA, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Rayopay Travels, Nigeria, Nakotech Center for Labour Diplomacy, Ghana and others.

Programme Schedule With Dates.

• Sunday, November 26, 2023- Arrival of participants and registration.

• Monday, November 27, 2023: Press Conference at Abedorc Productions Inc Studio.

             VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  

• Tuesday November 28, 2023: Summit Day One (Opening Day).

VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• Wednesday November 29, 2023 :Summit Day Two/Awards (Grand Finale).

VENUE: Belmont Event Space, 655 Dixon Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1J3, Canada.

• Thursday November 30, 2023: Site-Seeing/Rest Day.

• Friday, 1 December, 2023: Departure.

TARGET AUDIENCE:  100 participants to include international participants and residents of Canada joined through in-person discussions, and the hybrid-event. Who should participate? Journalists, immigration and judicial workers, legislature, youth trainers, entrepreneurs, captains of industry, academics, migrant workers, migration institutions, migrants (refugees, asylum-seekers, involuntary migrants, climate migrants, remittance workers and more) government agencies, non-governmental organizations, religious organizations, government officials, students, youth representatives, community leaders and others.

Why attend:

Migration is increasingly one of the most important global issues faced by communities and nations today. Yet it remains unplanned, unpleasant, and unmanaged. Our Summit seeks to bring out real information and real opportunities associated with migration (of all types) and facilitate a solutions-oriented exchange on differing ideas, practices and capacities.

• Promote robust policy inputs with clear benefits for safe, orderly and regular migration and the global economy.

• Serve as an avenue to enhance media professionals and other stakeholders’ capacity on migration matters – balancing shock value with success stories.

• Facilitate networking among migration advocates, institutions, and government entities to plan for migrant absorption, and promotion of migrants’ rights and migration governance.

• Facilitate advancement of the economy through knowledge sharing among migration advocates, media, organizations, and other professionals.  

CROSS-CUTTING THEMES:  

CLIMATE CHANGE: Climate Change, Human Mobility And Sustainable Investments

The theme is a precursor to analyzing the dynamism of migration and the global economic order with the intent toidentify feasible solutions to noticeable challenges, as well as mitigation measures and concrete actions that lead to less dangerous and better managed human movement, with the hope for better global climate adaptation and mitigation. 

PRESENTATIONS FOCUS.

In line with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10.7 requiring extensive consultations and engagements with the stakeholders to facilitate orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration, the conference shall accommodate presentations on climate change with strategies to mitigate the effects, administration of migrant with a review of the United Nations 2030 and 2050 alarm on climate change and steps to adapt to and mitigate the effects. The summit shall also dwells on the overviews of human mobility with special assessment of Canada immigration policies, opportunities, investment drives, labour migration, human trafficking, gender matters, regular and irregular migration, migrant health, decent work, and migration reportage dynamisms with focus on the need for the media to continue to take the lead in providing quality information on migration choices premised on safe,orderly and safe migration.

RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES AND PLACES TO VISIT: 

The participants will enjoy a brief tourism excursions and evening events at leisure during their stay in Toronto and other places in Canada with visits to places like CN Tower,and Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada.

About Abedorc Productions Inc

– https://abedorc.com/

ABEDORC productions Inc is a Canada based company founded in 1999 with the aims and objectives of promoting arts and entertainment with respect to music and movies predominantly from all parts of Africa by Yinka Farinde who is the C.E.O of this successful establishment. The company is proud owner of tv and radio stations.

About JIFORM

www.joformalert.org

Founded in 2018, the Journalists International Forum For Migration- JIFORM with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria held its first Global Summit on migration in Abuja, capital of Nigeria between November 26 and 27, 2019 and had since become a global force in migration affairs.

The body was part of the top media team selected across the world by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and assembled in Tunisia between December 9 and 12, 2019 to develop an ethical charter for journalists covering migration. JIFORM, a Non Profit, Non-Governmental and professional body is now a rallying point and umbrella body for journalists covering migration with human face and passion with over 300 members across the continents.

Having successfully organized several capacity building workshops for journalists, it held her second Global Summit between October 15 and 16, 2020 combining both physical and virtual presentations at Pensioners FM, Ibadan Oyo State with over 140 participants across the globe.

Apart from, the JIFORM initiated the West African Migration Summit which debut in Lome, Togo between June 22-23, 2021, held its 3^rd Global Migration summit in October Toronto in 2022 and went on to collaborate with the City University, Brooklyn to organized intercontinental summit in New York City in November 2022. ,

JIFORM has a history of collaborations with the IOM Nigeria, Ghana, and Gambia and various migration agencies both within and outside Africa. In 2022, the leadership of JIFORM under Dr Ajibola Abayomi published a book titled: Guide To Migration Reportage in 2021 containing series of migration reportage and step by step approach on coverage of Migration matters.

DAY ONE AGENDA

DATE: NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ABEDORC PRODUCTIONS INC STUDIO, 37 RACINE ROAD ETOBICOKE, TORONTO CANADA

TORONTO TIME: 10: AM

DAY 2: GRAND FINALE

DATE: NOVEMBER 29, 2023

VENUE: BELMONT EVENT SPACE, ETOBICOKE, TORONTO CANADA

TORONTO TIME: 11: AM