Money sent from friends and family from abroad otherwise known as Remittances, make a huge difference to the lives of millions of rural people around the world. In Moldova the country receives more remittances than any other country in Europe. For lavender farmers like Valeriu 2020 was tough. A lack...

The project aims to support policy makers in North Macedonia to effectively manage demographic and migration dynamics through development of evidence-based migration policies based on improved systemic data collection and analysis and enhanced inter-institutional data exchange; and improve the...

This joint project seeks to improve migrant workers and refugees’ access to decent work and sustainable livelihoods by ensuring their employability, and access to employment opportunities and social protection programs implemented in Mexico City and Santiago. To that end, the project will design and...

BRIDGE will ensure that: government initiatives for fair and ethical recruitment and reintegration are evidence-based, gender-responsive and coordinated; and the government has mechanisms that translate evidence into policy and practices of recruitment and reintegration. It will create positive...

The 'left behind' families of absent migrants are a vulnerable and under-served population. A comprehensive approach of top-down protections and policy, with bottom up empowerment, will aim for long- term sustainability through government learning. The project will address key vulnerabilities of...

The focus of the United Nations’ joint programme (JP) is to strengthen migrant integration and social cohesion, particularly among the populations in vulnerable situations, through targeted engagement and participation of government counterparts, civil society, migrants and host communities in...

As COVID-19 cases hiked in major destination countries; uncertainty loomed over hundreds of thousands of Nepali migrant workers battling job losses, wage theft, discriminatory ill-treatment, stigmatization, health hazards, obstructed mobility, and visa-residence and labor permit expiry. Despite...

French translation of Annex to Policy Brief issued by Thematic Working Group 2.

The Migration Network Hub provides online discussion spaces in order to enable interaction, knowledge-sharing and learning on topics related to the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) among Member States and different stakeholders. This Guidance is intended to support those...

Gender Equality and Migration is a brand-new online training module, developed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN Women. This module helps learners understand how gender shapes every stage of the migrant journey, and why gender equality matters in migration.

 Gender...

4Mi Interactive is a portal for exploration and visualisation of data on mixed migration. It launches with 9 months of data on refugee and migrants’ experience of the Covid-19 crisis, showing how the pandemic has affected their lives and journeys. The portal is part of 4Mi, which fills information...

The Toolkit is a collection of tools to help practitioners understand and incorporate human rights-based and gender equal responses into criminal justice responses to smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons.

Regional IGAD - MPTF funded joint programme

This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, the case study discusses current debates on framing and understanding precarity...

This is the map of GCM Champion countries, as of 1 March 2021.

Like many other countries, South Africa (SA) has committed to the Sustainable Development Goals that aim to “leave no-one behind”, in efforts towards universal health coverage, and meeting the UNAIDS 90–90–90 targets through the implementation of universal test and treat (UTT) interventions. SA is...

Guide to participating in the online discussion.

Listing of upcoming UNNM Thematic Working Group (TWG) Tools and Products, Jan-Jun 2021.

As different forms of Global China have emerged and expanded throughout the African continent, this phenomenon has also materialised spatially. The authors suggest that migrants must be approached as social actors who are integral to city-making as they engage in the daily life of cities through...

Background information on the online discussion for Champion countries to provide feedback on the draft guidance for GCM implementation, 26 February - 26 March 2021.