4th JIFORM Global Migration Summit

Climate Change, Human Mobility and Sustainable Investments

The Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) Global Migration Summit is an annual international conference. The Canadian host for the Fourth Summit is once again Abedorc Productions Inc. (Dorc Radio and Dorc Tv), in Toronto Canada. Their Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Yinka Farinde, successfully hosted the 3rd edition of the summit in Toronto in 2022. Originally scheduled for October 2-14, the Summit will now be held between November 27-30, 2023. The opening session of the hybrid summit is to be beamed from the Abedorc Productions Inc studio in Toronto on November 28 while the grand finale will take place at the Belmont Event Space, Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada on November 29.

THEME: Climate Change, Human Mobility and Sustainable Investments

PARTNERS: First Fridays Toronto, Medga Evers College, City University, New York City, USA, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Rayopay Travels, Nigeria, Nakotech Center for Labour Diplomacy, Ghana and others.

Programme Schedule With Dates.

  • Sunday, November 26, 2023- Arrival of participants and registration.
  • Monday, November 27, 2023: Press Conference at Abedorc Productions Inc Studio.

              VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

  • Tuesday November 28, 2023: Summit Day One (Opening Day).

VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Wednesday November 29, 2023 :Summit Day Two/Awards (Grand Finale).

VENUE: Belmont Event Space, 655 Dixon Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1J3, Canada.

  • Thursday November 30, 2023: Site-Seeing/Rest Day.
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023: Departure.

 

TARGET AUDIENCE:  100 participants to include international participants and residents of Canada joined through in-person discussions, and the hybrid-event. Who should participate? Journalists, immigration and judicial workers, legislature, youth trainers, entrepreneurs, captains of industry, academics, migrant workers, migration institutions, migrants (refugees, asylum-seekers, involuntary migrants, climate migrants, remittance workers and more) government agencies, non-governmental organizations, religious organizations, government officials, students, youth representatives, community leaders and others.

 

Venue: Toronto, Canada
November 27-30, 2023
Time: 11 am to 4 pm, Daily

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUMMIT

DAY ONE AGENDA

DATE: NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ABEDORC PRODUCTIONS INC STUDIO, 37 RACINE ROAD ETOBICOKE, TORONTO CANADA

TORONTO TIME: 10: AM

 

TIME

ACTIVITY

ANCHOR

11 AM-11: 30 AM

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS

 

MASTER OF CEREMONY

11:30 AM-11: 45 AM

WELCOME ADDRESS.

 

MR YINKA FARINDE, CEO ABEDORC PRODUCTIONS INC, TORONTO/CHIEF HOST

11: 45 AM- 12: 00

 

 

REMARKS: 4TH JIFORM GLOBAL SUMMIT IN PERSPECTIVE

 

DR AJIBOLA ABAYOMI, PRESIDENT JIFORM

12:00 PM-12: 40 PM

GOODWILL MESSAGES

 

HON GERRY WEINER

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, CANADA.

OCANSEY,

MEMBER AFRICAN UNION LABOUR MIGRATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

NERMIN. K AHMAD

CONVENER SUBCOMMITTEE ON XENOPHOBIA, RACISM AND SOCIAL INCLUSION, at the UNITED NATIONS.

 

PROFESSOR BYRON PRICE,

City University, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

 

12:40 PM-12: 50 PM

IMPACT INVESTMENT: A MITIGATION STRATEGY IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

MR GERHARD BAYER, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CSRSPACE, LLC, US.

 

 

12:50 PM- 1:  15 PM

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ALL PARTICIPANTS

1: 15 PM-1:30 PM

LAUNCH

ALL PARTICIPANTS

1:30 pm- 1: 50 pm

CANADA HOSPITALITY SECTOR AND BENEFITS TO TOURISTS

WARREN SALMOT,

President First Friday, Toronto

1:50 PM- 2: 10 PM

MEDIA MANAGEMENT OF MIGRANTS, ECONOMY AND DATA ANALYSIS

PHILOMENA GNANAPRAGASAM, 

DIRECTOR OF THE ASIA PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR BROADCASTING DEVELOPMENT (AIBD), MALAYSIA.

2:10 PM-2: 20 PM

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ALL PARTICIPANTS

 2:20 PM-2:40 PM

REVIEW OF THE SUMMIT PRESENTATIONS.

JIFORM OFFICIALS

2:40 PM-2:55 PM

GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS

ALL PARTICIPANTS

2:55 PM-3:00 PM

VOTE OF THANKS

 

 

 

DAY 2: GRAND FINALE

DATE: NOVEMBER 29, 2023

VENUE: BELMONT EVENT SPACE, ETOBICOKE, TORONTO CANADA

TORONTO TIME: 11: AM

 

TIME

ACTIVITY

ANCHOR

11:00 AM- 11: 30 AM

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS

 

MASTER OF CEREMONY.

11: 30 AM- 12-00 PM

CUTURAL DISPLAYS AND MUSICAL INTERLUDE

MASTER OF CEREMONY

12:00 PM-12: 20 PM

OPENING REMARK: EVIDENCE BASED REPORTING AND MIGRATION TERMINOLOGIES.

 

DR AJIBOLA ABAYOMI, PRESIDENT JIFORM

12:20PM -12: 45 PM

 

 

 

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

ECONOMIC RECOVERY PATHWAYS IN AFRICA THROUGH PARTNERSHIP ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY WITH CANADA.

HON GERRY WEINER  FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE / MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEES,

CANADA.

 

12:45PM-1:20PM

MEDIA ROLES IN CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ON MIGRATION: BEST PRACTICES, SOCIAL INCLUSION, AND CONCERNS

NERMIN. K AHMAD

CONVENER SUBCOMMITTEE ON XENOPHOBIA AND SOCIAL INCLUSION, ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF NGO COMMITTEE ON MIGRATION REPRESENTING CIVIL SOCIETY AT UNITED NATIONS.

1:20 PM-1:40PM

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ALL PARTICIPANTS

1:40 PM-2:20 PM

COUNTER AND AFFIRMATION ACTIONS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SURVIVOR ANALYSIS.

KELLY TALLON FRANKLIN,

MEMBER ECONOMIC COUNCIL AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) DELEGATE AND PANEL EXPERT AT THE UN WOMEN’S SUMMITS AND CANADIAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SURVIVOUR ACTIVIST.

2:20 PM- 2:35 PM

LAUNCH

ALL PARTICIPANTS

 

2:35 PM- 2:50PM

REVIEW OF THE SUMMIT PRESENTATIONS.

BY DR AJIBOLA ABAYOMI,

PRESIDENT OF JIFORM

2:50 PM-3: 30PM

AWARD SESSION

DIGNITARIES AND PARTICIPANTS

3:30 PM-3: 15PM

GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS

DIGNITARIES AND PARTICIPANTS

3:15 PM- 3:25 PM

VOTE OF THANKS

MR YINKA FARINDE, CEO ABEDORC PRODUCTIONS/CHIEF HOST

 

 

 

 



  • Why attend:

    Migration is increasingly one of the most important global issues faced by communities and nations today. Yet it remains unplanned, unpleasant, and unmanaged. Our Summit seeks to bring out real information and real opportunities associated with migration (of all types) and facilitate a solutions-oriented exchange on differing ideas, practices and capacities.

    • Promote robust policy inputs with clear benefits for safe, orderly and regular migration and the global economy.
    • Serve as an avenue to enhance media professionals and other stakeholders’ capacity on migration matters – balancing shock value with success stories.
    • Facilitate networking among migration advocates, institutions, and government entities to plan for migrant absorption, and promotion of migrants’ rights and migration governance.
    • Facilitate advancement of the economy through knowledge sharing among migration advocates, media, organizations, and other professionals. 

CROSS-CUTTING THEMES:  

CLIMATE CHANGE: Climate Change, Human Mobility And Sustainable Investments

The theme is a precursor to analyzing the dynamism of migration and the global economic order with the intent to identify feasible solutions to noticeable challenges, as well as mitigation measures and concrete actions that lead to less dangerous and better managed human movement, with the hope for better global climate adaptation and mitigation.  

PRESENTATIONS FOCUS.

In line with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10.7 requiring extensive consultations and engagements with the stakeholders to facilitate orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration, the conference shall accommodate presentations on climate change with strategies to mitigate the effects, administration of migrant with a review of the United Nations 2030 and 2050 alarm on climate change and steps to adapt to and mitigate the effects. The summit shall also dwells on the overviews of human mobility with special assessment of Canada immigration policies, opportunities, investment drives, labour migration, human trafficking, gender matters, regular and irregular migration, migrant health, decent work, and migration reportage dynamisms with focus on the need for the media to continue to take the lead in providing quality information on migration choices premised on safe, orderly and safe migration.

RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES AND PLACES TO VISIT:

The participants will enjoy a brief tourism excursions and evening events at leisure during their stay in Toronto and other places in Canada with visits to places like CN Tower, and Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada.

The training methodology will  consider relevant migration management documents on global and continental migration policies and framework for ethical media reporting on migration: These include Canada’s migration policy and economic benefits,  agenda 2030 for sustainable development, New York Declaration, documentations on mobility as drafted by the  Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration, International Organization for Migration (IOM), African Union projection on migration on 2063 Agenda and various international, regional and national legal instruments for the protection of the migrant’s rights; other related materials on the role of media in migration discourse. Other invited institution are Association of Black Journalists Toronto, Ontario; European Union office, Canada; Migration and Diaspora Studies, Carleton University, Canada; and The International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Programme Schedule With Dates.

  • Sunday, November 26, 2023- Arrival of participants and registration.
  • Monday, November 27, 2023: Press Conference at Abedorc Productions Inc Studio.

              VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

  • Tuesday November 28, 2023: Summit Day One (Opening Day).

VENUE: 37 Racine Road, Unit 1b, ON M9V 4J8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Wednesday November 29, 2023 :Summit Day Two/Awards (Grand Finale).

VENUE: Belmont Event Space, 655 Dixon Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1J3, Canada.

  • Thursday November 30, 2023: Site-Seeing/Rest Day.
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023: Departure.
  1. Gold Sponsorship Category Fee : $20,000.

Benefits

  • Media mention in all JIFORM statements, promos both within and outside Canada (this include both pre and post publication concerning the event),
  • Access to Branding of event venues: E.g. banners, exhibitions during the summit
  •  Opportunity to speak through paper presentation at the summit on product/services
  • Logo to appear in all the souvenirs
  • Publication of company’s profile and the CEO interview on the JIFORM website and in the brochure of the event
  • Recognition award and certificate for sponsoring the event.
  • Free pass for 4 representatives of the company to participate at the summit.
  • Full colored page publication of company profile and logo in the Brochure of the event.
  • Placement at strategic seat during the event and gala tables.

 

  1. Silver Category: $15,000

 Benefits: 

  • Publication of company’s profile on JIFORM website.
  • Recognition award for sponsoring the event.
  • Free pass for 2 representatives of the company to participate at the summit.
  • Half colored page publication of company profile and logo in the Brochure of the event.
  • Branding of the event.
  • Media mention in the Canada media.

 

  1. Bronze Category: $10,000

Benefits: 

  • Publication of company’s profile on JIFORM website.
  • Recognition award for sponsoring the event.
  • Free pass for two representatives of the company to participate at the summit.
  • Branding of the event.

 

  1.  General support: $5,000

Benefits:

  • Free pass for one representative of the company to participate at the summit.
  • Logo of the company to be included on the banner of the event.

 

Event Sponsors

  • Break sponsor (1 each break)  $3,000.00
  • Lunch sponsors

           Platinum (1) $5,000.00

           Gold (2)         $3,000.00

           Silver (5)        $500.00

  • Reception sponsor
  • Gala sponsors

           Platinum (1)  $10,000.00

           Gold (4)          $3,000.00

           Silver (6)        $2,000.00

  • Speaker sponsor (2)       $3,000.00

Registration /Annual Fee Payable In Naira or Dollar

N15, 000 (Fifteen Thousand Naira Only non refundable)

JIFORM Naira Account

BANK: ZENITH BANK, NIGERIA

ACCOUNT NO: 1016742625

Account Name: JOURNALISTS INTER’L FORUM FOR MIGRATION

JIFORM Dollar Account

BANK NAME: ZENITH BANK, NIGERIA

ACCOUNT NAME: JOURNALISTS INTER’L FORUM FOR MIGRATION

ACCOUNT NO: 5071232415. Swift Code: ZEIBNGLA   Sort Code: 185008

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