IN AFRICA MIGRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT II. The strategic framework for managing migration IN AFRICA Recommended strategies i. Strengthen national and inter-State efforts to prevent persons from moving across boundaries for illegal purposes. ii. Implement regional and continental agreements in the context of APSA. iii. Provide African CSOs with avenues to address conflict prevention and peace building at local, national and continental levels. iv. Ensure well-equipped, competent national security structures/mechanisms to participate in continental peace-keeping assignments. v. Strengthen diplomatic initiatives to prevent and diffuse volatile situations before they lead to conflict and displacement, and enhance intra-regional and international co-operation in order to further the capacity of African States to respond in a timely and efficient manner to large, spontaneous migration and refugee flows, including by establishing early warning mechanisms. vi. Negotiate bilateral agreements that enable nationals of Member States that do not have embassies in destination countries where they find themselves in distress to be assisted by the embassies of other Member States that have a presence in those destination countries. 57