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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 Costa Rica, in coordination with the government and the agricultural sector, both industrial and exporting, developed SITLAM, an application and a system.

Labour Migration Traceability System (SITLAM)

Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance, Migration Health, Labor mobility and human development
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2022

In 2021, the Honduras country office developed the communication campaign ¨Respiramos Miskitu¨ in the Moskitia region of Honduras, to promote peaceful coexistence with the Miskitu population.

Communication Campaing “Respiramos Miskitu”

Thematic Area: Media and Communications, Migrant protection and assistance, Migration Health
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2022

Considering the high levels of human mobility, trade, and transportation in the border communities between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti, IOM developed the MDTs, to establish spaces for dialogue between the communities of both nations at the four official authorized border…

Cross-border Roundtables

Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2022

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

To assist the people internally displaced because of the eruption of the Fire Volcano in Guatemala, the IOM developed a computer system to facilitate the registration, distributions of humanitarian assistance, and family reunification after the emergency.

Best Practices: Integrated Shelter Registration System: SIRA

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

IOM Haiti developed an initiative to create the border police stations throughout the Haitian border area to provide greater security in the areas and fight smuggling and illicit traffic.

Best Practice: Support for creating the border police in Hai…

Thematic Area: Immigration and Border Governance
Language: Spanish, English
Year:
2021

IOM Guatemala developed SINAREM (National Referral System for Reintegration Services for Migrants) / OportuGuate, a system and an app to connect returned migrants in search of a job with potential employers and opportunities of entrepreneurship, and certification of competences.

OportuGuate, response to COVID-19 and Socio-Economic Assitan…

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

With the Support of IOM Guyana, the office of IOM Curaçao developed an initiative to help migrant children in a situation of vulnerability by identifying their main needs regarding their access to education and carrying out other activities to reinforce their effective integration in the…

Integration of migrant children into the school system in Cu…

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