Results of the national consultation in El Salvador to build a country position for the Global Compact for Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration. The Government of El Salvador, through the Vice-Ministry for Salvadorans Abroad, requested IOM’s cooperation in the implementation of a national consultation process with the aim of developing a national inter-agency position for phase I of the preparatory process for the Pact.

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Migration and family remittances are issues of great relevance to El Salvador. Remittance flows sent by Salvadoran migrants benefit more than 20% of households in the country, supplementing the primary income obtained through the work of household members, allowing them to increase their purchasing power, improving food, choosing a better place to live and expanding access to health and education services, among others.

The Regional Conference on Migration (RCM), as a regional consultation process committed to the human rights of migrants, has promoted various initiatives throughout its 23 years of existence. "Migrant women" is a current issue with a very significant impact on regional migration dynamics and requires strengthening from the regional level and at the domestic level of the Member Countries of this conference.

The publication was prepared within the framework of the "Return and Reintegration Project in the Northern Triangle of Central America" and its objective is to provide facilitators with a methodological guide for organizing and implementing local psychosocial care groups, that also involve institutions with a presence in the territory. The aim is to provide the participating population with assertive coping tools that allow them to design their own reintegration route into the community from their personal experiences.

The document makes available to professionals who provide mental health services, both to the returnees directly and to the population in which they are integrated, fundamental knowledge of the theoretical context, policy and action to be taken to contribute effectively to the reintegration of forcibly returned Salvadorans. This from the country view of El Salvador.

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The Work Plan on the Smuggling of Migrants of the Network of Liaison Officers on Combating the Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons of the Regional Conference on Migration, aims at guiding and promoting regional cooperation to prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants, while protecting the rights of smuggled migrants, in particular those who are victims of related crimes.

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Despite the growing feminization of migration, the invisibility of women as active subjects in migration processes, which is based on prejudice, persists, norms and practices that perpetuate female subordination and discrimination in all areas of society by generating inequality. This document responds to the commitment of the eleven Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) to promote, protect and guarantee the rights of migrant women in the region, in accordance with their international commitments.

In its content, it also offers recommendations for the generation of proposals related to labour migration, with emphasis on the regularization of migration status and social integration and inclusion. In addition, it makes suggestions regarding the promotion of bilateral or multilateral agreements with the countries of origin of migrant workers to facilitate family reunification in El Salvador, and promote policies that promote the access of families to public health services, education, housing, among others.

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This document is the regional report of the Study on Reintegration: Migration and Cities carried out by the International Organization for Migration, IOM, in the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico. The study investigates the reintegration processes of returning migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.