Rabat Process Senior Officials’ Meeting Conclusions - Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

“Pursue the use of tools to boost the Dialogue: labelling and the laboratory of ideas” (Recommendation from “Stocktaking of progress on the implementation of the Marrakesh Action Plan (2018- 2020) and future prospects”.) The Dialogue partners agreed that the labelling system has been successful with the labelling of two meetings, one of which focused on coordination between the national and loca. [...] On strengthening the Dialogue's interaction with cities and local authorities “Strengthen the interaction of the Dialogue with cities and local authorities” (Recommendation from “Stocktaking of progress on the implementation of the Marrakesh Action Plan (2018- 2020) and future prospects”.) In the Marrakesh Political Declaration (2018-2020), the Rabat Process partners adopted an "inclusive and mult. [...] On the follow up of the Joint Valetta Action Plan (JVAP) The text of the Joint Valletta Plan of Action (JVAP) has been technically updated, in line with the mandate given to the Steering Committees of the two Processes (Khartoum and Rabat) by JVAP partners at the 2018 Senior Officials’ Meeting in Addis Ababa. [...] During the exchanges, the partners recalled the importance of taking into account the following: the question of communication on the mechanisms for assisting voluntary return in host countries; the need to ensure a better correlation between these mechanisms and those existing in the migrants' countries of origin; the importance of advocating for policies that provide for reintegration at natio. [...] On the governance of the Dialogue On the governance of the Dialogue 1) The Senior Officials' Meeting officially marked the handover of the Chairmanship of the Dialogue to Spain, a member country of the Steering Committee.