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Voices from the Ground: UN Interagency Cooperation to Support Migrants and Refugees in times of COVID-19
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How does a UN-wide response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for vulnerable populations look like? The United Nations Network on Migration is an interagency platform that coordinates the activities of 38 UN agencies and programs to ensure effective, timely and coordinated system-wide support to Member States. The 'UN MigNet' also brings the voices of civil society to discussions and program design by the Network's UN Members and Member States.
The newly launched ‘Voices from the Ground’ platform on the UN MigNet’s COVID-19 website provides important insights into specific challenges migrants and refugees are facing and how civil society and other actors are addressing them.
Jonathan Prentice, Head of the UN Network on Migration Secretariat and the Network's Civil Society Liaison Officer, Monami Maulik, will offer key insights into the work of the UN Migration Network and its civil society partners on the ground to understand multilateral efforts to address the effects of the public health crisis for vulnerable mobile populations.
Moderated by IO/UNS Interim Director Daniel Naujoks.
The newly launched ‘Voices from the Ground’ platform on the UN MigNet’s COVID-19 website provides important insights into specific challenges migrants and refugees are facing and how civil society and other actors are addressing them.
Jonathan Prentice, Head of the UN Network on Migration Secretariat and the Network's Civil Society Liaison Officer, Monami Maulik, will offer key insights into the work of the UN Migration Network and its civil society partners on the ground to understand multilateral efforts to address the effects of the public health crisis for vulnerable mobile populations.
Moderated by IO/UNS Interim Director Daniel Naujoks.
Speaker bios
Jonathan Prentice joined the United Nations in 1994, working for the Departments of Political Affairs, and Peacekeeping; the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and UNDP; and serving in Geneva, New York, Baghdad, Dili, Jakarta, and Phnom Penh. He also worked for International Crisis Group from 2010-2017, as director of policy. He returned to the UN system in 2017, as chief of office for the SRSG/International Migration responsible for coordinating preparations leading to the adoption of the Global Compact on Migration. Since 2019 he has been head of secretariat for the new UN Network on Migration.
Monami Maulik joined the secretariat of the UN Network on Migration in 2019 as the Civil Society Liaison Officer. She is a migrant organizer and founder of a grassroots immigrant rights organization in the US. From 2016-2019 through the Global Compact on Migration process, Ms. Maulik served as the International Coordinator for the Global Coalition on Migration. She has served in the Steering Committees of the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) and the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development. Earlier, she worked as an International Consultant for UN Women on rights protections for Asian women migrant workers in the Gulf region. From 2000-2014, Ms. Maulik served as founding Executive Director of DRUM- The South Asian Organizing Center in New York City. She holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.