The Idea Lab is an initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that promotes knowledge exchange spaces between field offices and the IOM country office in Mexico to enhance the implementation of programs and actions identified through fieldwork, thus addressing the needs of the

To enhance border management in Haiti, IOM, in collaboration with the Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (DIE), installed MIDAS, a Border Management Information System (BMIS), to effectively monitor the border crossing points.

Along with local actors IOM Costa Rica promoted equitable access to health services to the Ngäbe Bugle cross-border indigenous population by incorporating Cultural Advisors: Ngäbe Bugle women who serve as liaisons between the medical team and the indigenous population, providing accompaniment and…

To support the newly created UATIM, IOM conducted a Train-the-Trainers workshop on Counter Migrant-Smuggling for public servants from the National Migration Service (SNM) to train state officials nationwide on this crime.

The regional action was implemented with funds from the European Union and executed at an inter-agency level by IOM and UNHCR, with the aim of increasing the resilience of vulnerable populations to the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic and supporting their recovery from the crisis. 

This good practice describes the assistance provided by IOM Mexico to the migrant population under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) during the preparation for border crossing, transfer to the crossing points, monitoring, and report of the operation.

During the year 2020, El Salvador was impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of tropical storms. The IOM, with the support of USAID, contributed to the coverage of basic universal needs of the people affected by both the pandemic and the tropical storms.

Reintegration on Wheels its a mobile unit that travels through different municipalities in El Salvador with information about the prevention of irregular migration, services for the reintegration of returned migrants, and psychosocial care, shared through interactive activities.