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Strengthening the Capacities of IGAD and its Member States to Support Regional Migration Policies in the Horn of Africa (SIMPI)

The SIMPI project supports the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and its member states in developing and implementing migration and displacement policies in the Horn of Africa. The regional project focuses on three areas of action: migration and displacement policies, cross-border cooperation to improve basic services for migrants, refugees and host communities, learning and data. It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The SIMPI project supports IGAD's cross-border cooperation in Moyale/Moyale at the Ethiopian-Kenyan border and Metemma/Gallabat at the Ethiopian-Sudanese border and empowers local administrations to include migrants in basic service delivery (GCM objective 15). Joint engagements of mobile populations and host communities are stimulated with targeted cash transfers to strengthen social cohesion in border areas in the IGAD region (GCM objective 16).

The German government supports IGAD together with AUC, IOM, ILO and Statistic Sweden to establish a harmonized system for reliable, disaggregated and comparable regional data on migration (in line with GCM objective 1) and promotes learning to provide a better basis for evidence-based policy making.

Project Date
2018
 - 
Ongoing
Type of Project
Project/Programme
Lead implementing organization/s
Government of Germany
Donor/s
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Language
English
Other
Other Language
German
Geographic Scope
Regional
Sub-regional
Country
Country
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Regions
Africa
Sub Regions
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Northern Africa
Workstream Output
Off
Regional Review Process
No
GCM Objectives
Cross Cutting Theme
Whole-of-government approach
Whole-of-society approach
Keywords
Integration policies
Migration data sources
Tags
IGAD
cross-border-cooperation
basic services
migration data
Status
Published

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).