The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is a new initiative of the international community to address the migration and development interconnections in practical and action-oriented ways.  It marks the culmination of more than a decade of international discussion on the growing importance of these linkages, and the progressive acknowledgement of the need to address the policy implications and responses in a multilateral framework.

Among the formative initiatives pre-dating the GFMD are:
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a) the UN Population and Development Conference in Cairo in 1994 , whose Programme of Action ranges across issues such as remittances, temporary migration, transfer of knowledge, skills and technology, etc, and calls for “orderly international migration [that] can have positive impacts on both the communities of origin and the communities of destination”; and

b) the more recent Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), established under the auspices of the UN in 2003.            

The GFMD was proposed by the UN Secretary-General and his Special Representative on International Migration and Development at the High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD) on 14-15 September 2006 within the framework of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Its inaugural meeting was held in Brussels in July 2007 under the chairmanship of the Government of Belgium. 

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