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.
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
Thematic Area: Project development and donor relations
Language: Spanish, English
Year: 2024
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.
Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance
Language: Spanish, English, French
Year: 2023
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…
Thematic Area: Gender and migration, Migration Health, Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish, English
Year: 2023
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.
Thematic Area: Policy, governance and liaison, and legal, Immigration and Border Governance
Language: Spanish, English, French
Year: 2023
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.
Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Health
Language: English, Spanish
Year: 2023
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.
Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
Year: 2022
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.
Thematic Area: Operations and emergencies
Language: Spanish
Year: 2022
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.
Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
Year: 2022