The Role of Migrants in Post-COVID-19 Recovery and the Achievement of SDGs
Channel: IOM - UN Migration
Date: 2021-10-19

This panel invites migrant workers, diaspora representatives as well as policy makers to a discussion on the key role of migrants in the recovery from COVID-19 and achievement of SDGs by presenting their direct experience and perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their work. The panel aims at looking at how has what we consider essential in an economy changed through the pandemic? How has the role of “essential” migrant workers changed? Which opportunities and challenges are there?

Moderator: 
Monica Goracci, Director, Department of Migration Management, IOM

IOM Speakers:
* Caroline Caporossi, Founder, Association for the Integration of Women and Youth Forum
* Amina Hersi Moghe, Founder of the Atiak Sugar Project, Uganda
* Peter Kwok, Chairman and Founder of the UK Federation of Chinese Professionals