IOM works to support the responsible use of biometrics in order to enhance migration management and empower migrants.

This website is an electronically published and updated guidance tool intended to support UNHCR staff and other stakeholders by providing a comprehensive repository of good practices in registration and identity management.

The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) has a campaign on advocating for firewalls, which protect people in an irregular situation by facilitating their access to essential services without fearing for their status. This webpage provides a variety of online...

Hosted by IDRC, the Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems is a global resource hub that actively supports national efforts to develop, strengthen, and scale up sustainable civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems that work for all, especially women...

Plan International has several initiatives to assist with the goal of universal birth registration, including the Count Every Child Initiative which has helped to register 40 million children and influenced laws in 10 countries, the OpenCRVS which is an open-source digital system, and several...

We often think that poverty is the main driver of migration, that most of the world’s poor would leave their homes for a life elsewhere. But it’s not that simple, says Hein de Haas, one of the world’s leading scholars on migration and Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

In this...

Many fear that climate change will bring much of the world’s poor to the shores of Europe. As seas rise and resources become scarce, the wealthier and better-prepared states will be overrun, according to this narrative. But is this based in evidence? Not exactly, says Hein de Haas, renowned...

First video in a playlist of animated training videos on transition and recovery; core principles; community stabilization; land, property and reparations; peacebuilding; the humanitarian-development-peace nexus; and disaster risk reduction and resilience.

The Missing Migrants Project webpage provides open-source data on deaths and disappearances during migration worldwide since 2014. It also publishes research and other thematic reports on issues linked to missing migrants. A forthcoming update to the website will also include resources for families...

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus aims to bring three sectors into closer alignment to better address both the immediate needs of people affected by conflict as well as the underlying causes of protracted crises. While the idea of the nexus is gaining wider attraction and buy-in within the...

Livelihood approach to tackle climate migration: the project has until now succeeded in changing lives for over 10,000 households of coastal areas, and is expected to benefit over 60,000 people who are at risk due to climate change.

FFS focuses on rehabilitating public infrastructure and providing essential services to communities living in areas affected by the conflict. This includes the rehabilitation of schools and hospitals, water systems and electricity networks, providing short-term employment through public works...

This project seeks to increase national and international employment opportunities for women and men in Kabul and five pilot provinces, incl. potential migrants and returnees, through:

1.  Enhancing Government Capability to Facilitate Safe & Regular Migration

2. Supporting Technical Vocational...

The project has a focus to initiate the implementation of the SAP with the overall objective to achieve climate resilient, integrated ecosystem-based management of the Lake Chad Basin through implementation of agreed policy, legal and institutional reforms, and investments that improve water quality...

The project aimed to contribute to the global knowledge base on the relationship between migration and environmental and change. More specifically, it aimed to formulate policy options on how migration, including displacement and planned relocation, can benefit adaptation strategies to environmental...

This World Bank report, which focuses on three regions, finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. Without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people—or around 2.8 percent of the population of these three...

IOM Outlook on Migration, Environment and Climate Change aims to bring together in one easy-to-access reference document the knowledge accrued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and to present IOM’s role, understanding and approach to environmental migration.

This Atlas includes maps, callouts and infographics on migration and related topics, including: rural migrants’ profile, main migration routes and migration patterns by countries and sub-regions, numbers of internal and external migrants, domestic and international remittances, main rural out...

This paper aims to inform policymakers of the complex dynamics of climate-induced migration in LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS. It provides an overview of the migration and climate change nexus in each group of countries and proposes ways forward to address it.

This paper analyzes the impact of economic development (expressed as gross domestic product, GDP) on international migration. The findings suggest that emigration rates are relatively low in low-income settings, rise with rising GDP per capita, and decline at high income levels.