Counteracting the biased assessments that States may make of their compliance with the Compact’s commitments requires active monitoring by civil society organisations. Nevertheless, it is revealing that, during the first International Migration Review Forum, the delegation of Spanish civil society organisations was the only one to present an alternative report on the migration policies of their State.Having a common framework of indicators would facilitate this work on the part of civil society, both at the international level, by contributing through shadow reports to global and regional reviews, and in terms of political advocacy at national and local levels, by demanding specific advances that meet the goals set.
This report aims to contribute to this debate by providing a methodology proposal for the development of these indicators. In addition, by putting this methodology into practice, we propose a concrete set of indicators – defined and validated in conjunction with grassroots organizations of migrant people – for those objectives on which the organisations that are part of this alliance work most directly.
