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The joint research between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (FXB Centre) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) aims to examine the challenges along migration routes within and through West and Central Africa. The findings shall be used for policy and programming recommendations. The...

This report provides a snapshot of international data across a range of migration topics that are relevant to policymakers, the public and others. This overview of key migration trends is of particular importance due to not only the migration-related aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration...

Since 2000, IOM has been producing its flagship world migration reports every two years. The World Migration Report 2022, the eleventh in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as...

The EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration: The Gambia is part of a regional initiative covering and closely cooperating with 26 countries in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel and Lake Chad region. It aims to facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants and to contribute to strengthening migration...

The EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration: The Gambia is part of a regional initiative covering and closely cooperating with 26 countries in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel and Lake Chad region. It aims to facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants and to contribute to strengthening migration...

Somalia lies at the centre of old migration routes dating back centuries, and now used by scores of mainly young people, including minors, on their way to the Gulf countries. The country is a key source, transit and, to some extent, destination location for irregular migratory flows due to its porous borders, including Africa’s longest coastline. From March...

This report presents the outcomes of two combined research projects: 1) “Comparative reintegration outcomes in forced and voluntary returns”, and 2) “Understanding and implementing gender-sensitive sustainable reintegration”. The aims of these projects were to study differences in reintegration outcomes between forced and voluntary returnees, and male and...

This fourth Knowledge Bite builds on findings from the second Knowledge Bite, which found that returnees who received direct assistance had higher satisfaction levels and higher reintegration sustainability scores than those who received assistance through referrals. This study sought to complement these findings on referrals by collecting qualitative...

Under the framework of the  EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH), the seminar "Fostering and strengthening interlinkages between sustainable development and reintegration programmes" was held on 1 and 2 December, 2021. During this event key interlinkages between reintegration and development were discussed, and experiences acquired from the implementation...

Around the world, the challenges posed by forced displacement and migration are mounting. Yet international cooperation in this policy area is stagnating […] Simultaneously the economic and political importance of cities is growing worldwide […] In this context, the international debate on migration policy increasingly views cities as potential game changers...

The Eastern Route, which runs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has long been the most relevant migratory corridor in terms of volume and characteristics in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region. Mobility along this route is mixed in nature, with different categories of people on the...

Building on the global joint work by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on hunger, migration and displacement in the world from November 2020, this report aims to provide an overview of the unique challenges faced by migrants and forcibly displaced...

Esta iniciativa llevada a cabo por la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) en El Salvador, consistió en un proceso de trabajo conjunto en el que la persona migrante retornada tuvo la oportunidad de mostrar con evidencias que contaba con conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas necesarias para cumplir...

La OIM Guatemala desarrolló SINAREM (Sistema Nacional de Referenciación a Servicios de Reintegración a Migrantes) /OportuGuate un sistema y una aplicación para conectar a migrantes retornados en busca de trabajo con potenciales empleadores, así como oportunidades de emprendimiento y certificación de competencias. El instrumento pretende facilitar la...

Esta sistematización recoge la experiencia de OIM El Salvador mediante la implementación de una iniciativa vinculada al retorno y reintegración de migrantes. El Capital Semilla consiste en una intervención de donación de bienes, materiales, dinero e insumos con el objetivo de fomentar el inicio de una nueva actividad empresarial innovadora y emprendedora...