Member States

The Safe Mobility Initiative, launched in June 2023, is part of the U.S. government’s holistic approach to promote safe, orderly, and humane migration management. The Safe Mobility Offices (SMOs) help individuals find support and access a wide range of services in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala.

SMOs provide information about the wide range of support and services available in host countries.

SMOs also facilitate access to protection and other lawful migration pathways to the United States and other countries including Canada, New Zealand, and Spain.

Strengthening the Partnership between Belgium and Georgia through Temporary Mobility of Entrepreneurs"" (EMLINK) is a project aimed at strenghtening bilateral cooperation by designing a pilot temporary mobility scheme for outstanding entrepreneurs. Implemented by ICMPD on behalf of Belgium, this project aims to strengthen Georgian start-ups’ potential to develop and assist skill and talent retention and will produce a course curriculum based on the results of a mapping and sectoral analysis report.

Children are at the heart of human development. Migration can place unaccompanied children and adolescents in highly vulnerable situations. In order to better protect migrant children, Mexico has set up a specialized "Corps of Child Protection Officers" and developed a training module for migration officials dealing with child rights protection:

Governments are increasingly recognizing Migration Profiles as a comprehensive data collection and capacity building tool for informed and coherent policy planning. To date, more than 100 migration profiles have been prepared ranging from short statistical overviews, to longer and more comprehensive reports based on extensive consultation and analysis of the migration situation of a particular country.

The Western Hemisphere Regional Migration Program (WHP) is a U.S. government-supported program that has operated since 2011.  The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration provides funding as a contribution to IOM to implement the program.

At COP26, President Biden announced his Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), which brings together the diplomatic, development, and technical expertise of the United States to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change by 2030. Co-led by USAID and the U.S. Department of State, PREPARE is the U.S.

This report provides an overview of climate change and its impact on migration that informs a proposal for how U.S. foreign assistance can better address the effects of climate change impacts on displacement and migration. It goes further to outline options for protection and resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change and identifies opportunities for the United States to work with other stakeholders, including through multilateral engagement, to address migration resulting directly or indirectly from climate change. 

The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is the Pacific region’s premier political and economic policy organization. The key development framework for the Forum is the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. This crucial document outlines the commitment to ensuring health and wellbeing of Pacific peoples, and to human rights and equity for all. The 2050 Strategy places emphasis on the ocean and land and celebrates Pacific communities, the natural environment, resources, livelihoods, faiths, cultural values and traditional knowledge. 

The Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum on 9 November issued the 2023 Declaration on the Continuity of Statehood and the Protection of Persons in the Face of Climate Change-related Sea-Level Rise.(external link)

Climate change remains the greatest existential threat to the livelihoods, security, and well-being of the Blue Pacific Continent. The impacts of climate change include sea-level rise which is already affecting Pacific countries.

In 2016, under the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU, the ‘Urban Agenda for the EU’ was launched to give European cities a greater say in shaping EU legislation, funding, and instruments for knowledge exchange. The initiative brought together cities, Member States and EU policymakers around 12 priority areas key to cities’ future—each area covered by a dedicated Partnership.