1. The "Med – HIMS" Surveys An Overview MGSC 16-17 March 2017 Point 10 of the Agenda

2. Intro
Migration Flows became a KEY ISSUE for policy makers and researchers in last decade
Importance to HARMONIZE DEFINITIONS and GET INDICATORS for the migration phenomenon
Settlement of a methodology to measure migration flows at the global level
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The new global development framework identifies 17 SDG
Request of NSOs of most of South countries of the ENP

3. SDG Med-HIMS Migration Flows Causes Determinants Government
Policymakers
Med-HIMS
Migration Flows
Policy Decisions
SDG

4. Med-HIMS
Consist of a regional programme of coordinated international migration surveys (single-round and cross-sectional).
Aim of the project: provide information on the determinants and consequences of international migration and mobility.
Started in 2008 in the EU financed MEDSTAT Programme and became a joint initiative (World Bank, UNFPA, UNHCR, ILO, IOM, LAS)

5. Med-HIMS Main instruments (set of manuals):
Manual 1: Model Questionnaires
Manual 2: Survey Design and Organization
Manual 3: Instruction to Supervisors
Manual 4: Instruction to Interviewers
Manual 5: Data Dictionary and Recode Specifications
Manual 7: Guidelines for Data Tabulations and Analysis
Main modules included into the each questionnaire (multi-topic, multi-level, retrospective and comparative):
MQ1: Household Questionnaire
MQ2: Individual Questionnaire for Out Migrant
MQ3: Individual Questionnaire for Return Migrant
MQ4: Individual Questionnaire for Non Migrant
MQ5: Individual Questionnaire for Forced migrant
MQ6: Household Socio-Economic and Environmental Characteristics
MQ7: Community Characteristics Questionnaire (optional)

6. Med-HIMS Output data as evidence based information:
National Migration Profile;
Development of migration policies;
Design of successful action programmes;
Identification of priority areas;
Development of measures dealing with refugees and forced migration;
Migration governance;
Institutional partnership with the main receiving countries;
Assessing effects;
Etc.

7. Managing the Programme
International level: international representatives with Eurostat as chair.
Programme Steering Committee (PSC)
Project Implementation Unit (PIU)
National level: planning, preparation and implementation managed by NSOs.
National Project Steering Committee (NPSC)
National project Implementation Unit (NPIU)
Countries: Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Lebanon

9. Future Work and Challenges
Promotional materials
Visualisation
Dissemination
Comparative analysis
Main Challenge:
OPERATIONAL PHASE
Full Med-HIMS (every 10 years)
Med-HIMS "light" (more regularly)
To add a migration module in other surveys
Migration-related questions in censuses
Migration Survey

10. Many Thanks!