IMA-ICB Meets, Develops 2023-2024 Plan
Towards a stronger global migrant movement!
This was the spirit imbibed by the new members of the International Migrants Alliance’s International Coordinating Body (IMA-ICB) when they met together for their first in-person meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to discuss and detail the General Program of Action (GPOA) that came out of the successfully concluded 5 th Global Assembly of the IMA last December 2022.
On June 6-7, the 15 regular members of the ICB met and tackled the GPOA and developed a one-year plan covering July 2023 until June 2024. The GPOA contains action plans that the whole IMA will take for the next three years (2022-2025) in relation to campaigns and advocacy, education and information sharing, alliance and network-building, and organizational development.
Prior to the two-day ICB meeting, the ICB members visited on June 4 a Rohingya learning school and an Indonesian migrant worker community in Kuala Lumpur and listened to both the Rohingya teachers and families in the school and the continuing struggles of Indonesian women migrant workers in Malaysia. On June 5, the ICB joined Malaysia-based migrant and refugee leaders and civil society groups in a seminar-workshop on neoliberalism and migration led by the IMA. Both activities were co-organised by the IMA with TENAGANITA. TENAGANITA is one of the founding members of the IMA with one of its officers, Fajar Santoadi, part of the incumbent ICB.
Joining Fajar in the ICB who attended the meeting were Eni Lestari (IMA chairperson), Antonio Arizaga (IMA vice chairperson), Joanna Concepcion (general secretary), Manuel Hidalgo (deputy general secretary), Terence Valen (treasurer), Adrianne Sebastian, Viviana Medina, Marco Luciano, Luz Myriam Jaramillo, Malick Sy, Mark Louie Aquino, Anisur Khan, Mandeep Bela and Rey Asis.
The Executive Committee will meet to further detail the one-year plan and coordinate with the ICB members regarding plans around animating and strengthening working groups and preparing for upcoming global campaigns.
