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🌎 Reducing disaster risk saves lives and builds resilient communities.
In Guatemala, IOM Goodwill Ambassador Paul Choy saw how, with @IOMDevFund support, @OIMGuatemala and @ConredGuatemala are strengthening resilience and preventing disaster displacement. 🤝
#FeatureFriday
🌎 Reducir el riesgo de desastres es proteger vidas y construir comunidades más resilientes.
En el #DíaInternacionalParaLaReducciónDelRiesgoDeDesastres, destacamos la importancia de la prevención, la preparación y el trabajo conjunto para proteger a las comunidades más expuestas.
Durante su visita a Guatemala, Paul Choy, Embajador de Buena Voluntad de la OIM, conoció de cerca iniciativas que contribuyen a fortalecer la resiliencia de las comunidades frente a los desastres.
🤝 Desde la OIM, con el apoyo del Fondo de la OIM para el Desarrollo, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de trabajar junto a la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (@ConredGuatemala) para fortalecer la gestión del riesgo, prevenir el desplazamiento por desastres y promover comunidades más seguras y resilientes.
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🎉@IOMDevFund is proud to have supported this project in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, helping strengthen resilience to disaster displacement and climate-related mobility.
Congratulations to @OIM_RD and all partners!👏 #FeatureFriday
🎥Watch the reel here: instagram.com/reel/DePETtTtA…
Celebramos el Encuentro de Cierre del proyecto “Ordenamiento Territorial y Gestión Integral del Riesgo para Aumentar la Resiliencia ante la movilidad por desastres, degradación ambiental y cambio climático en la República Dominicana”, junto al VIOTDR @IOMDevFund
@IOMDevFund is proud to support exploratory visits in Playa Cajío, Cuba, alongside #Axis, @AMA_CUBA, and @CubaONEI, laying the foundation for strengthened governance of safe human mobility and greater climate resilience.
@UNmigration #FeatureFriday
🔵 Arrancamos visitas exploratorias en comunidades costeras con Playa Cajío como primera parada.
🤝 Primeros pasos del proyecto junto a #Axis y @AMA_CUBA, con apoyo de @IOMDevFund, para fortalecer la gobernanza de la movilidad humana segura y la resiliencia climática.
Sustainable responses to trafficking in persons start with strong national capacities. 🤝
With @IOMDevFund support, @IOM_Mauritius equips stakeholders in 🇲🇺 Mauritius with knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to trafficking in persons.
@UNmigration
#FeatureFriday
Mauritius 🇲🇺took another step towards strengthening its response to trafficking in persons.
IOM brought national stakeholders together to review training needs & shape priorities for a proposed 3-year capacity development programme, funded by @IOMDevFund .
#EndHumanTrafficking
Capacity development for better data-driven planning 🧩@IOMDevFund is proud to support this training workshop in Villa Clara, strengthening local development planning through migration data — implemented with @cedem_uh and #CEPDE of @CubaONEI. #FeatureFriday
🧩Así fue el Taller de Capacitación en Villa Clara, como parte del proyecto para fortalecer la planificación del desarrollo local con datos migratorios, que implementamos junto a @cedem_uh y el #CEPDE de @CubaONEI, con apoyo de @IOMDevFund .
Raising awareness through sport⚽With support from @IOMDevFund, @IOMGhana partnered with local stakeholders to leverage the Inter-Regional Basic Schools Sports Festival as a platform to address human trafficking and irregular migration among youth🇬🇭#FeatureFriday
The 35th Inter-Regional Basic Schools Sports Festival has ended at the University of Ghana Sports Complex, with IOM Ghana using the event to raise awareness about irregular migration and human trafficking in sports.
#SportyFM
With @IOMDevFund support, @IOM_Uganda has successfully laid the groundwork for an updated Migration Profile, which will support harmonized migration data collection, analysis and sharing across government bodies, in alignment with international frameworks #FeatureFriday
Uganda has launched the Migration Profile Roadmap to inform evidence-based migration planning and policymaking. Supported by
@IOMDevFund, it will help align the country's migration governance with national development priorities and the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).
How is climate change shaping mobility in The Gambia 🇬🇲?
This Climate Vulnerability Assessment was developed with support from @IOMDevFund to help guide targeted responses and strengthen resilience.
🔗Read more here ➡️: bit.ly/4y2wBbV
#FeatureFriday @UNmigration
Climate change is influencing mobility, deepening drought, water scarcity and food insecurity across The Gambia.
IOM's latest Climate Vulnerability Assessment highlights the need for targeted adaptation and resilience efforts.
Learn more: bit.ly/4y2wBbV
@IOMDevFund is pleased to support the Border Management TWG meeting where @IOMTheGambia, @tdrgp and stakeholders came together to discuss border management priorities, including MIDAS expansion and advancing access to legal identity in The Gambia. #FeatureFriday
Collaboration is key to effective border management.
IOM supported the Border Management TWG meeting, bringing together stakeholders to discuss border management priorities, including MIDAS expansion, and advancing access to legal identity in The Gambia.
@tdrgp
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Improving care for migrants and IDPs with mental health needs.
This week, @OIMNiger brought together stakeholders to validate the practitioner’s handbook on the care of individuals with impaired decision-making capacity.
Supported by @IOMDevFund #FeatureFriday
New insights, informed decisions 📊With support from @IOMDevFund, @IOMTanzania and @NBSTanzania shared findings from the Migration and Urbanization Monograph, helping strengthen the evidence base for migration and development policies in Tanzania🇹🇿#FeatureFriday
With support from @IOMDevFund , @IOMTanzania partnered with @NBSTanzania to disseminate findings from the #Migration and Urbanization Monograph and convene a High-Level Policy Dialogue on key 2022 Population & Housing Census thematic reports.
#DataForDevelopment #MigrationData
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Hoy participamos de la socialización con el sector turístico, empresarial, gobierno municipal y autoridades de Puerto Plata del proceso de fortalecimiento del CPPMR (Comité Provincial para Prevención, mitigación y respuesta ante desastres) .
Proceso financiado por @IOMDevFund
@IOMDevFund is pleased to support this powerful example of youth-led innovation action. The initiative equips young entrepreneurs in Chad to turn ideas into sustainable, nature-based solutions that address the challenges of climate change and climate mobility. #FeatureFridays
🚀 Lancement de 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓™ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐝 : 40 jeunes entrepreneurs des 23 provinces, accompagnés par l'OIM pour transformer leurs idées climat en projets concrets.
Financé par le 🇩🇰 @DanishMFA (#CCMD) et @IOMDevFund
Premier rendez-vous : le #Hackathon_ClimateLab™, 5 jours de co-construction. 🌍
Migrants and host communities in #Tadjourah are working with @OSC_ALCACE to protect their environment and build a more sustainable future.
@IOMDevFund is proud to support @DjiboutiIom in driving locally led solutions for a greener future. ♻️ #FeatureFriday
Comment les communautés locales agissent-elles pour protéger leur environnement?
🎬👇Découvrez en vidéo l’activité de sensibilisation et d’engagement communautaire menée par @DjiboutiIom avec @OSC_ALCACE à #Tadjourah
Merci @IOMDevFund 🙏
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With @IOMDevFund support, @IOMSerbia is advancing a comprehensive, rights-based and development-oriented approach to #LabourMobility in 🇷🇸, helping build a labour mobility system that works for everyone #FeatureFriday💡
Moving toward a comprehensive, rights-based and development oriented #labormobility system in 🇷🇸
#WorkThatWorksForEveryone
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#MigrationProfiles are a core tool for understanding migration dynamics & supporting evidence-based policy development. With @IOMDevFund support, #Uganda is updating its Migration Profile to support effective #migrationgovernance 🇺🇬 @IOM_Uganda
#FeatureFriday @UNmigration
Now in Kampala: Members of 🇺🇬's National Coordination Mechanism on Migration (NCM) and district branches are meeting to shape 🇺🇬's Migration Profile roadmap, strengthen data systems and enhance evidence-based #MigrationGovernance. Supported by @IOMDevFund.
@RefugeesUganda
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From Lagos, through the war in Sumi, to Serbia, Dr. @Winny_thfc pursued medicine despite extraordinary challenges.
“Patients are fascinated, then proud, that someone chose their country to study and practice medicine,” says Dr. Winnington.
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@IOMDevFund – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
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Over two years, IOM and @AccraMetropolis, with support from @IOMDevFund, strengthened Accra’s response to climate mobility, as an Old Fadama pilot reduced flood risk, improved livelihoods, and advanced climate‑resilient planning.
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IOM and @Info_Ministry_ recently convened the Communication and Advocacy TWG meeting.
Support by through our @EUinTheGambia and @IOMDevFund projects, members:
🔵 Updated on ongoing activities
🔵 Discussed improved communications
🔵 Brainstormed future programme priorities
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🔵 Los proyectos migración‑desarrollo fortalecen la gestión segura y ordenada de la movilidad humana, explica nuesta colega Eilsel Pélaez, en la serie #AprenderConDatosMigratorios🎥
🤝 Una iniciativa de @OIMCuba, @cedem_uh y @CubaONEI, con apoyo de @IOMDevFund.