A/65/222 Governments and other stakeholders with regard to the development, strengthening and implementation of more effective and rights-based national and international labour migration policies. 55. The Special Rapporteur also praises the adoption of the 10-point plan of action by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2007. The plan is a tool to assist all stakeholders in migration management policies, especially in the context of mixed migratory flows where protection initiatives are particularly required. In his view, the 10 areas addressed in the plan should feature prominently in migration management initiatives and activities in countries of transit and destination. The areas are: cooperation among key partners; data collection and analysis; protection-sensitive entry systems; reception arrangements; mechanisms for profiling and referral; differentiated processes and procedures; solutions for refugees; addressing secondary movements; return arrangements for non-refugees and alternative migration options, and information strategy. The Special Rapporteur commends the impact of the plan, which inspired the development of protection initiatives in various regions and which were compiled in 2009 by UNHCHR. He welcomes the compilation as a knowledge-sharing tool that provides practical guidance for the implementation of the 10-point plan in action. (b) Large-scale regularization programmes 56. The Special Rapporteur wishes to highlight the fact that creating opportunities for regularizing the situation of non-documented migrants constitutes, in his view, a rights-based alternative to managing irregular migration without resorting to its criminalization. 57. The Special Rapporteur welcomes recent large-scale regularization programmes, which improve the enjoyment of human rights by migrants, particularly economic and social rights, and contribute to their integration in countries of destination. In this regard, he concurs with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who stressed that this approach recognizes that migrants who do legal and decent work are likely to contribute more to development than those who are economically exploited and socially excluded. 17 58. The Special Rapporteur observes that large-scale regularization programmes are usually part of a multi-pronged strategy. They are aimed at incorporating workers in the informal “underground” economy into the formal economy, and in that way, to increase their contributions to national tax and social security revenues, limit workers exploitation and abuse and discourage migrant smuggling and human trafficking. He also observes that these programmes usually specify requirements of potential beneficiaries, including length of residence, proof of work and, in some instances, proof of social welfare contributions, age range and nationality (when the regularization programmes target migrants from countries with cultural and historical connections with the host country). 59. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the positive impact that recent large-scale regularization exercises have had on the lives, working conditions and realization of __________________ 17 10-47488 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Migration and Development: a Human Rights Approach, Geneva, 2008, para. 47, available from: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/docs/HLMigration/ MigrationDevelopmentHC'spaper.pdf. 15