Policy & Advocacy

We don’t just deliver programmes. We shape policy.

CYID operates simultaneously at grassroots and intergovernmental levels — contributing to migration policy at national, European, and global levels while maintaining direct community practice.

Policy & Advocacy

We don't just deliver programmes. We shape policy.

CYID operates simultaneously at grassroots and intergovernmental levels — contributing to migration policy at national, European, and global levels while maintaining direct community practice.

2015 — Ongoing

PICUM Brussels

Member of Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants. Active in Return & Reintegration and Children & Families thematic groups. Presenter at PICUM General Assembly.

2016 · 2017 · 2018

Global Forum on Migration & Development

Three consecutive years at GFMD. Selected as Discussion Starter at GFMD Berlin 2017 — Return, Readmission & Reintegration breakout session.

2017

IOM Expert Rapporteur

Appointed Expert Rapporteur to the IOM for Nigeria’s National Consultation towards the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

October 2024

Cambridge Partnership

Co-convened Migration, Deportation and New Pathways Forward Roundtable with the Dept. of Sociology and Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

2024 — Ongoing

Platform for Cooperation on Mixed Migration

Founded PCMM in 2024 — now a 64-member network coordinating migration sector organisations across Nigeria in partnership with the European Cultural Centre (Nigeria office).

Ongoing

Federal Policy Memberships — Nigeria

Three simultaneous federal government appointments: NCFRMI National TWG on Migration; Working Group on Return, Readmission & Reintegration; and Federal Ministry of Labour Technical Committee.

2024 — Dakar

GCM Stakeholder Consultation

Speaker at the Stakeholder Consultation for West and Central Africa ahead of the GCM sub-regional reviews for Africa, held in Dakar, Senegal.

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