In the foreseeable future, it seems, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is here to stay. The third meeting of the Forum in Athens in November 2009 marked the end of the first half of a journey leading up to the proposed next UN High Level Dialogue on Migration in 2013. The host countries of the next three GFMD meetings have already been agreed upon, and there certainly has been development and improvement of the forum structure since it was first proposed in 2006. There are even indicators pointing towards institutionalization of the so far strictly stateled, informal and non-binding process, albeit merely slight ones. But while Athens could be seen as a step forward in these regards, the civil society component of the forum was criticized by several participants as a step backwards from where it was left off in Manila. They denounced a lack of transparency, especially with regards to the selection of participants and the formulation of the recommendations to the government forum.
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