Convening, Dialogue and Advocacy

Resettlement is a protection tool to meet the specific needs of refugees, it’s a durable solution and a demonstration of international solidarity and responsibility-sharing. It allows many people to begin life anew who would otherwise have neither home nor country to call their own. Annually, IOM supports some 40 States to carry out resettlement, relocation...

This paper provides practical insights into the broad thematic issues surrounding integration and social cohesion in order to assist IOM Member States and partners prepare towards the negotiation phase of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). A number of specific actions and effective practices are identified as potential...

The World Migration Report presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and migrants (including migration-related statistics); and Part II: balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and...

Since 2007, IOM has been contributing to the stabilization of Iraq by improving the resilience of communities and promoting social cohesion. IOM aims to achieve this through a comprehensive approach to transition and recovery that encompasses five main outcome areas.

In 2017, IOM invited the world’s leading migration researchers to join in sharing their expertise and knowledge in support of the 2018 global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration. We designed the Syndicate to take into account a range of factors, including the ambitious timeframe set for the global compact for migration, the wealth of expertise of...

This study was carried out by Altai Consulting for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Morocco. It seeks to analyze assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) through a community based approach, the projects that exist in this area and the possibility to replicate them in the main countries of return from Morocco.

This Framework is intended to guide IOM’s approach to the progressive resolution of displacement situations as part of its wider response to migration crises. The Framework integrates a mobility perspective and recognizes the impacts of crisis and displacement on displaced populations, as well as on other migrants and affected populations.

The accessibility of microcredits to returned migrants was examined in five target countries: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mongolia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sri Lanka. In the first step, the situations of the national microcredit markets were analysed, considering that the general availability of microcredits and their accessibility influence returnees’...

This brochures provides an overview of the Migration Governance Framework.

This report is the result of a policy research project and summarizes findings from a literature review, analysis of case data of the vulnerable, exploited and trafficked migrant workers who are being assisted through the project, focus groups with vulnerable migrants, and round-tables with governments and NGOs and international organizations in two sending...

This paper will argue for the importance of reintegration being sustainable, measurable, balanced, complementary and innovative, indicating principles and practices leading to these parameters. It also argues that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to reintegration approaches. It is out of the scope of this paper to deal with reintegration in countries...

The IOM Migration Governance Framework sets out the essential elements to support planned and well managed migration. IOM is well placed to provide this advice: as the global lead agency on migration, IOM’s purpose includes providing advice on migration questions and providing a forum for exchanges of views and experiences on migration and mobility issues.

The third Ministrial Dialogue addressed multiple topics related to migration management, with a particular focus on protection of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC). The objective of the meeting was to foster dialogue among Ministers responsible for Home Affairs in the SADC region on improving the region’s coordinated response to mixed and irregular...

This joint report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Organization for Migration (IOM) examines human trafficking and illegal recruitment in Typhoon Haiyan-affected areas and evaluates if and how IOM and ILO livelihood interventions assisted vulnerable workers. The four-month research included literature and document review...

This document summarizes the practices, methodologies, and processes used, as well as lessons learned by the IOM during the three years of implementation of the Guatemala Repatriates Project (GRP). This report is geared toward the Government of Guatemala and any organization dedicated to assisting repatriated Guatemalans. The practices presented in this...

This evaluation report summarizes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a multistakeholder team using participatory approaches to an evaluation of IOM’s reintegration projects in the Angolan provinces of Huambo, Moxico and Kwanza Sul. It reflects the application of a “learning-focused” process, aimed more at identifying lessons learnt than at...

The Handbook for Repatriation and Reintegration Activities is a guide for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and partner staff in the field to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate repatriation and reintegration activities. It translates the Repatriation, Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (the 4Rs) component of the High...

This special edition of Focus on Migration is one of the activities implemented by the IOM project ‘Assisted Voluntary Return to Migrants in Detention III (AVRD III)’, funded by the European Return Fund 2011 and co-funded by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.

IOM has produced a special publication Saving Lives and Building Livelihoods to chart the evolution and scope of IOM and Germany’s partnership in light of its 60th anniversary in November 2014. Covering in detail all activities between 2010 – 2013, the publication overviews IOM-German projects across the globe. This publication highlights the strong...

In this paper, the IOM and SRC propose the following main initiatives for the future management of public return assistance programmes: (a) opening up of return and reintegration assistance programmes to a wider group of migrants; (b) introducing inovative approaches to return assistance; and (c) strengthening cooperative work in Europe, particularly the...