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The Project for Upgrading Shelter and Improving Living Conditions for Displaced Persons from Myanmar and Host Communities in Cox's Bazar District Nearly all displaced persons from Myanmar living in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh depend on humanitarian services for their survival. They are confronted with limited opportunities for livelihoods and complex and intersecting financial pressures despite efforts by the Government of Bangladesh and humanitarian agencies to provide for their basic needs. Displaced persons also face a range of safety issues including theft, lack of lighting, drug use and drug trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking in persons, disputes over aid distribution and gender-based violence (GBV). Through this project, IOM aims at supporting social harmony and human security through the provision of essential services in displaced persons camps and supporting the most vulnerable hosts communities. Various aspects of disaster risk management are embedded in the project to strengthen this critical gap for both communities.
Canadian Refugees Resettlement Travel Through this project, IOM supports the resettlement process of selected individuals under the resettlement scheme of the Government of Canada, with the provision of transportation from the point of departure to the final destination in Canada. This includes assistance with travel within the country of residence, as well as international travel, assistance at the time of departure, including immigration and airline checks, assistance in points of transit, providing escorts for the resettlement travel, when needed, and assistance to un-accompanied minors and people with special needs. This project covers assistance fees.
Strengthened Justice for Children in Viet Nam The project is jointly implemented by IOM and UNICEF Viet Nam with the aim to strengthen justice for children and improve the experience of children with the legal and justice systems through a three-pronged approach: (1) Enhancing legal framework for protection of children in contact with the legal and justice systems; (2) Building capacity of legal and judicial officers for better investigation, prosecution and adjudication of cases involving children; and (3) Improving protection services for child victims of abuse and violence, especially sexual violence.
Strengthening Mongolia’s Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Human Trafficking The objective of the project is to strengthen the Government of Mongolia's capacity to prevent trafficking in persons and protect victims within Mongolia and abroad. To help the Government of Mongolia consistently identify and protect victims, this project will introduce a set of mutually reinforcing activities centred on communication and outreach, migrant empowerment, data collection and information sharing, capacity building trainings for government officials and stakeholders, and victim direct and reintegration assistance.
Asia Regional Migration Program The Asia Regional Migration Program (RMP) aims to strengthen governments’ and key national stakeholders’ ability to manage migration in a safe, sustainable, and humane manner. Asia RMP targets programming in 12 countries in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam), South Asia (Bangladesh) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan), including interventions implemented regionally. The proposed activities build upon the development gains and progress from previous phases of the Asia RMP. The interventions proposed have been designed in coordination with target governments and counterparts and appropriately respond to gaps and needs identified through formal assessments and ongoing project activities in Central, South, and Southeast Asia. The program has been strategically conceptualized to serve and respond to a framework of three common outcome areas: (I) migration management; (II) partnerships; and (III) crisis response.
Supporting Conflict Affected Communities in Cameroon’s Far-North and North-West, South-West Regions to Recover through Resilience Building and Reconciliation for the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Humanitarian needs in Cameroon remain high. According to the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) published in April 2022, approximately 3.9 million people (or one in six) are in need of emergency assistance as the country has three humanitarian fronts (Far North Region, North-West, South-West (NWSW) Regions and East refugee crisis) to cope with, in addition to the war in Ukraine which has suddenly increased instability with higher food prices that have compounded community pressures and pushed vulnerable persons further into poverty and hunger.  This project provides a third phase in Cameroon for IOM to build community resilience and recovery to save lives in Cameroon's crisis areas of Far North and NWSW. The objective of this project is to ensure that displaced populations and vulnerable youth and host community members in Cameroon have access to the urgent assistance that they need to ensure their pathways to greater recovery and community resilience.
IOM - Ukraine Kakhovka dam - 2023 The breach of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine in June 2023 led to the depletion of the Kakhovka Reservoir and massive flooding, causing significant infrastructural damage. Homes, businesses, and community infrastructure have been devastated, compounding the challenges faced by a population already affected by ongoing war. With the reservoir's capacity reduced by 70 per cent, areas including Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Kherson regions are grappling with both water shortages and impacts of flooding. Water supply infrastructure was highly damaged and in affected regions, a substantial portion of the population has faced dire consequences due to the loss of access to piped water. Homes, businesses, and community infrastructure have been devastated, compounding the challenges faced by a population already affected by ongoing war. Through support from the Government of Canada, IOM is providing mid-term solutions such as clean drinking water and housing repairs while providing essential relief items, targeting 45,600 individuals in need.
Matrix: Strengthening the Value of Migrant Associations in Spain Strengthening the network of migrant associations in Spain and their active participation in the Spanish society, through training activities on topics related to project development and implementation. The project will promote a participatory process of migrant associations, involving them in the process of designing this intervention itself.
Humanitarian Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants in Yemen Since the escalation of conflict in March 2015, Yemen continues to face the world's largest humanitarian crisis. In 2021, more than 20 million people are in need (two-thirds of the population), over 12 million of whom are in acute need of humanitarian assistance (Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2021). Migrants are amongst the most marginalized, excluded, and vulnerable groups of people in need in Yemen and face considerable xenophobic and discriminatory treatment. The ongoing crisis and conflict, combined with the hardening attitudes of authorities against migrants, has increased migrants? exposure to abuse and violence. Through this project, IOM aims to contribute to address the urgent needs of migrants on the move or stranded in Yemen. IOM is targeting vulnerable migrants with urgent protection support (including emergency assistance) and healthcare services through static Migrant Response Points and mobile teams. IOM is also contributing to informing the overall humanitarian and protection response by employing its Flow Monitoring activities, through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme.
Migration Management Framework (MMF) The program strengthens governments' capacities to support evidence-based migration management by leveraging the work done through IOM's Migration Governance Indicators (MGI). The MGI helps governments, upon request, take stock of their migration policies and strategies to identify good practices and areas with potential for further development. By focusing on government ownership of the process, the MGI supports governments to gradually improve their migration management systems. The two-year program structure will contain three main components: conducting MGI assessments at national and local levels; informing Global Compact on Migration engagement by developing data bulletins; and influencing policy change through building the capacity of IOM missions.
SEA Risk Management: Transforming Collective Action for an Effective PSEA Response (Phase II) Given the large ongoing complex humanitarian crisis within country, Mozambique and Philippines were selected as pilot countries for this project with the objective to reduce the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse within crisis‐affected communities through a collective SEA risk management approach which leads to strengthened PSEA responses within country. Additionally, sustainable collective SEA risk management models will be identified and integrated within pilot countries and shared with global PSEA and other fora to promote replication in other contexts.
Covid-19 Response: Improving WASH Access in Public Facilities in the Republic of Marshall Islands The overall objective of the proposed project is to contribute to COVID-19 response activities through improved water, sanitation and hygiene access in public facilities.
Enhancing Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation Capacity in Libya - Phase II According to the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, Libya is among one of the least prepared countries to face the challenges of climate change. In recent years, some regions in Libya have been repeatedly affected by extreme weather conditions, often in insecure and institutionally vulnerable environments, heightening the risk of intensifying disputes over scarce resources and undermining social cohesion. Building on the ongoing Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Risk Management (DRM) activities, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya is further contributing to strengthening the resilience of communities affected by, or at risk of being affected by hazards, and consequently reinforcing national response capacity (through structured local investments) to mitigate the impact of climate-related disasters in Libya.
Addressing the Humanitarian, Protection and Health Needs of Undocumented Returnees at the Borders and Longer-Term Needs of Returnees and Internally Displaces Persons (IDPs) in Key Provinces of High Return Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a very real risk of systemic collapse and human catastrophe. In addition to unimaginable human costs, this humanitarian crisis is reversing many of the gains of the last 20 years, including around women’s rights. The objective of this 12-month project is to ensure the continuity of humanitarian assistance provided to vulnerable undocumented returnees at the border, addressing the longer-term needs of returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in key provinces of high return through improved access to livelihoods.
Border and Migration Management Action for Georgia (BMMAG): Supporting the Government of Georgia in the Further Development of Border and Migration Management Capacities This joint UN project will deliver activities under the overall objective of supporting the efforts of the Government of Georgia to strengthen its integrated border management and migration governance capacities, ensuring compliance with the Visa Liberalization Agreement with the European Union.
Address and Prevent Conflict Factors Related to Trafficking, Drug Consumption and the Issue of the Management of Mining Resources in Agadez. The intervention aims to address the destabilizing effects of recent changes in migration movements in the Agadez region by strengthening the capacities of local authorities and civil society. Additionally, the project will provide young people and women in the Agadez region with economic opportunities to enhance their economic resilience. The intervention will focus on three key areas of intervention. Firstly, efforts will be made to reduce the effects of crime, including trafficking in persons and drug trafficking, on social cohesion. This will involve strengthening the capacities of HACP peace committees and civil society actors, particularly women and young people, in addressing issues related to drug trafficking and criminal activities. Secondly, the project will work towards improving migration governance by providing capacity building, logistical, and material support to enhance authorities' understanding and their ability to address problems such as drug use and artisanal exploitation of mineral resources. Lastly, the intervention will focus on providing economic opportunities to young people in the region, offering them alternative economic pathways, support for entrepreneurship, and professional integration to strengthen the local economy and reduce tensions between the local population and migrants.
Safe and Dignified Transfer of Migrants Landed in Lampedusa to Other Reception Centres in Italy The project aims at defining easy-to-activate tools to coordinate efficient responses – among the different stakeholders – in the territories affected by emergency situations created by the massive, sudden arrival of migrants. The even application of the response throughout the territory will be ensured by assigning the Department of Civil Liberties and Immigration at the Ministry of Interior with the leadership and ownership of the relevant coordination mechanism, including through the assignment of a reference official/coordinator stationed in Lampedusa.
Transition and Reintegration Support to IDPs in Jeddah Camps The project will continue providing targeted assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in protracted displacement, in need of continued humanitarian assistance and facing complex barriers to return in the Jeddah 1 and Jeddah 5 camps, in the Ninewa Governorate in Iraq. As such, the project contributes to improving and maintaining safe and dignified living conditions of households currently hosted in the targeted camps, and to improving their capacity to prepare their return to their area of origin or to relocate, when the situation will be conducive to safe, voluntary and durable returns, through legal assistance and protection monitoring.
Resettlement Support Center (RSC) Processing in Latin America Through this project, the Resettlement Support Center (RSC) in Latin America processes US Refugee Assistance Program (USRAP) resettlement cases throughout the Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Provision of Rapid Financial Assistance to Vulnerable Households in Yemen The project has the objective to provide immediate livelihood assistance to vulnerable households to meet urgent needs. Project activities will support vulnerable, crisis affected families who are not able to meet their basic needs, through direct cash assistance to provide an immediate boost to local economies and to contribute to improved livelihood conditions, that will ultimately support them in meeting their most urgent needs. Through this approach, the project will empower local communities and contribute towards reducing reliance on external aid. This project will directly support 1,690 vulnerable, crisis affected individuals (and another 10,140 members of their households) to have improved access to basic goods and services in the short term while simultaneously supporting long term livelihood opportunities for people in need.
Strengthening the Capacity of Sri-Lanka’s Border Risk Assessment Centre (BRAC) The project aims to enhance the Government of Sri Lanka capacity to manage borders to efficiently deter and prevent all forms of migrant smuggling, and other transnational crimes through the application of passenger risk assessment.
Emergency Grant Aid in Response to the Flood Disaster in Southern Ukraine In the early hours of 6 June, explosions severely damaged the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine’s Kherson oblast. Though the dam had undergone extensive damage and stress since the start of the full-scale war, the final breach resulted in massive flooding, directly impacting an estimated 17,000 persons, with the potential to affect over significantly more in the region. Flooding has worsened over the days and has also impacted communities in Mykolaiv oblast and caused large-scale destruction in Kherson. 
 
Through this project, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is contributing to the collective efforts of the Government of Ukraine and other actors to address the immediate and urgent humanitarian needs created by the Kakhovka Dam destruction and prevent waterborne diseases among the affected population by conducting Health Promotion/Awareness on disease prevention. In addition, IOM seeks to improve access to medical services by enhancing primary health care facility capacities and providing health care through mobile teams, including mental health and psychosocial care. Furthermore, the project is providing and distributing lifesaving non-food item kits and equipment to enable populations displaced by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam and returnees to maintain their dignity.
Connecting Diaspora for Development (CD4D 2) Through Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship The overall objective of the project is to promote the active role of diaspora in public sector reinforcement and private sector development in four focus countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria and Somalia. The proposal presents itself as a comprehensive diaspora engagement programme that is built on two pillars, namely knowledge and skills transfer and diaspora entrepreneurship.
Migration Governance for Sustainable Development in Indonesia The objective of the joint programme implemented by IOM, UN Women, and UNDP is to enhance migration governance in Indonesia by supporting the Government of Indonesia’s capacities in evidence-based migration management, with the appropriate gender responsiveness, at the national and sub-national levels as well as to support improved cooperation at the global level.
Addressing Coastal Communities’ Vulnerability in Sierra Leone: A Case Study of Plantain and Yelibuya Islands The coastal populations of Sierra Leone are highly susceptible to sudden and slow onset hazards. Coastal erosion, flooding and storm surges adversely impact coastal ecosystems and individual and community livelihoods through ecosystem degradation, reduced fish availability and low farming outputs, among others. In addition, the limited accessibility and availability of data on coastal communities in Sierra Leone and limited institutional capacity restricts the ability of decision-makers to make informed planning and policy decisions for the coast, and to take any clear strategic actions dedicated to coastal communities and areas to remedy and/or adapt to these adverse effects. In light of the above, the objective of this project is to contribute to strengthening the Government of Sierra Leone’s preparedness and response to disasters, the adverse effects of climate variabilities and environmental degradation in the coastal communities of Sierra Leone.The project will seek to do so by strengthening the ability of the Environment Protection Agency Sierra Leone to plan and assist vulnerable coastal communities subject to climate change impacts in Sierra Leone by: conducting gender-sensitive socio-economic and environmental assessments of vulnerable coastal communities subject to climate change (Output 1.1) and improving the knowledge of decision-makers on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable coastal communities, with particular attention to gender considerations, using the results of the assessments (Output 1.2). In this way, the project will set up the groundwork for future policy processes by the Government of Sierra Leone. The project will focus on the Plantain and Yelibuya Islands, which are of key priority for the government, due to their positioning as major transit points for sea transportation, business centers and fishing hubs.
2022 French Contribution to IOM’s Activities for the Ukraine Crisis With violence now spread country-wide, over 8 million people are internally displaced since 24 February, and this will undoubtably rise as fighting continues to intensify, including targeting of civilian and residential infrastructure. New waves of displacement and the deteriorating living conditions of the most vulnerable will continue to exacerbate in the current context. Through this project, IOM is providing multi-sectoral interventions focused on humanitarian assistance to vulnerable displaced and conflict-affected populations in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) in Ukraine Assisting the government in support of counter trafficking efforts through implementing the national referral mechanism and developing local capacity to provide high quality assistance to victims of trafficking including those newly identified among internally displaced persons.
Development of a Regional Plan to Address Migration in South America Over the last two decades, migratory flows in South America have experienced a change in direction, intensity, and composition. Currently, the migratory situation in the region is affected by various factors: the mobilisation of more than five and a half million refugees and migrants from Venezuela; the recent intensification and diversification of South-North migration through the Darien gap; the increase in extracontinental migration, mainly from Africa and Asia; and the rising inequality affecting the most vulnerable migrant populations, exacerbated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. These circumstances have revealed the existing limitations and need for improved coordination at the regional level on certain key issues of migration governance such as data management, regularisation, border management, and migrant protection.Therefore, this project aims to strengthen regional cooperation and articulation in migration management for safe, orderly, and regular migration in South America, through the achievement of two main outcomes: 1) the governments of South America take ownership of a Regional Vision and a Regional Plan, and 2) the governments of South America strengthen their migration governance through the implementation of training programmes.Specifically, a regional diagnostic assessment of the available evidence on human mobility in South America will be conducted (Output 1.1); a Regional Vision of the political and strategic vision of migration issues and priorities in the region will be developed (Output 1.2); a Regional Plan (with a gender and rights-based approach) will be developed (Output 1.3); the Regional Plan will be disseminated in a workshop with the participation of various actors including civil society, the private sector, and other non-governmental actors (Output 1.4); and trainings for government officials on data management and other priority issues of migration governance will be conducted (Output 2.1).