This report summarizes the results of surveys of 57 beneficiaries of IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return Programme (RVA), assisted from August to September 2021. The collection of qualitative as well as demographic data provides important information on the experiences of migrants in countries of destination and origin, as well as plans to migrate again, their physical and mental health status, financial security, employment, physical security and any assistance received after their return. Programmes in Mexico and North Central American countries. No. 8

DTM COVID-19 El Salvador Ronda 2 The second round of the Livelihood Survey of Returnee Migrant Population in El Salvador was conducted on adults returning to the country at the facilities of El Salvador International Airport «San Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez» in the period of information collection (6 to 27 October 2020). The objective is to generate information for the development of support programs for migrants and their families. It covers areas such as financial inclusion and communications, job profile, protection, migration and demographic characteristics.

Since 2014, more than 5,000 deaths and disappearances have been documented along migratory routes through Central America, North America and the Caribbean, although many more are likely to remain undocumented. In some places, this crisis of migrant deaths is widely publicized, but in others it is not sufficiently known.

This report contributes to a better understanding of the evidence on the link between human mobility, environment, disasters and climate change through a mapping of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The study also aims to: verify the political and legal responses to this nexus in the seven countries of Central America; formulate recommendations or general guidelines for the development of data harvesting mechanisms; and verify the extent to which the definition of climate migration proposed by IOM is applied in the region.