Delivering on the Promise? Partnering for Implementing Global Political Commitments in the Global Compact for Migration and the Agenda 2030

Partnerships in migration are often shrouded in secrecy and sometimes decried as ‘rhetoric’. Both assessments reveal a critic over their asymmetric exchange of interests tilted in favour of receiving states. Yet, the 155 UN Member States endorsing the Global Compact for Migration politically committed to benchmarks for partnering. In so doing, international cooperation strengthened the format and function of partnerships, foremost when operationalizing as a venue for implementing global to local political commitments. From the UN Agenda 2030 to the GCM, partnerships ‘realize the objectives’ and ‘strengthen cooperation’. In this ASILE Forum blogpost, we encourage to a new reading of existing partnerships in light of the global guidepost and transregional cooperation frameworks, at the forefront the Objective 23 of the GCM, SDG 17, and the EU New Pact on Migration.