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Galen and IOM Join Forces
posted (April 6, 2018)
The International Organization for Migration and Galen University teamed up on a migration management project. The main goal is to engage stakeholders in government and academia in the broad and multi-faceted issue of migration. Areas such as human trafficking and smuggling will be addressed in this joint effort. Here is more from the signing:

Coordinator
"Today, it is a very important day. We are signing an implementation of agreement and also a general agreement with Galen University. This specific capacity building program that we have partnered with Galen University to carry out falls under two initiatives that are currently implementing in Belize. One is related to the Mesoamerican program which started last year in September - October 2017 running up to September 2018. Also, we have a second initiative which supports the government of Belize to develop its comprehensive migration and development policy. This is a project and technical support that's going for the upcoming one and a half years. We are supposed to be presenting a policy document for the government to implement. However, we thought that it would be very important that the capacity of key institutions, national, government, civil society and academia institutions, industry, leaders, stakeholders have the necessary capacity to be engaged in the production of data and the entire consultation process that's going to be taking in the 2nd year of implementation of the project."

Coordinator
"At Galen, we offer a major in criminal justice. We offer programs in Anthropology and in Education. We think that all 3 of these programs and the people that we develop in these programs will play a key role in stemming the flow of human trafficking and sex workers that the project tries to address."





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