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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. 

The document details the actions developed by the OIM office in El Salvador to create a model to contribute to the social integration of people who had ceased committing criminal acts and violence.

Pioneer Project on Social Integration

Thematic Area: Migrant protection and assistance
Language: Spanish
Year:
2022

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

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

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