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ABOUT GOOD PRACTICES

Good Practices are knowledge and experiences that have proven to work well and produce good results, so they can be a reference or model for new initiatives. Seeking to improve knowledge management, IOM recognizes the importance of documenting the good practices generated when implementing its initiatives. 

IOM Guyana developed an initiative known as Micro-Business Grants as part of their support program for entrepreneurship within the migrant population in Guyana to allow them to generate income, support the generation of financial security inside their communities and create economic opportunities…

Micro-Business Grants for the migrant population in Guyana

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

Development of the neighboring border transit cards for children and adolescents who transit the border strip, to facilitate their transit between the municipalities of Perquín and Arambala in El Salvador, and Nahuaterique in Honduras.

Issue of neighboring border transit cards to children and t…

Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
Year:
2021

This initiative developed by IOM Honduras consisted in the conditioning of the Migrant Reception Centers as a response to the humanitarian crisis due to the high migratory flows of people from Honduras that returned to the country. The project’s team adapted and rehabilitated the centers to provide…

Rehabilitation of Migrant Reception Centers

Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

IOM Mexico supported the development of a document with several national institutions to establish an efficient coordination for the protection and defense of the human rights of children and youth from the moment they enter the national territory with or without a supervisor up until their…

Comprehensive Care Route for the Rights of Migrant Children…

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

This systematization documents the experience of IOM Guyana in the implementation of an outreach initiative with the diaspora of Guyana, Belize, Jamaica and Suriname.

Diaspora commitment to development in the Caribbean

Thematic Area: Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

This document describes how in the IOM office in Santo Domingo, responded to the lack of means for living that the migrant population had during the Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) program during the pandemic of COVID-19. The document describes the step-by-step taken by the mission, along with the…

Providing Migrants with Livelihood Support during the COVID-…

Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

IOM developed an initiative to strengthen the regional and local institutional capacities regarding the prevention and response to violence against women, trafficking and femicidein Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Dominican Republic.

Strengthening institutional capacities for the prevention of…

Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many shelters that accommodated migrants in the communities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez limited their maximum quota and they restricted admission to prevent the spreading of the disease, therefore leaving migrants who had just arrived without any shelter options and…

Filter Hotels in Mexico, COVID-19 response

Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021