This means amending or developing new national, regional and local laws, policies and plans that take into consideration these interlinkages and the needs of and challenges faced by migrants. To achieve this, IOM supports governments with ‘ mainstreaming’ migration into local and national policy planning.
IOM supports governments in understanding how all of these governance areas are interrelated and are affected by migration and to what extent other sectoral policies facilitate or impede migrants’ ability to contribute to society. A Comprehensive Approach to Migration and Development It supports IOM’s active engagement in the UN Development System and hinges on building stronger partnerships within the UN system and beyond. The Strategy brings greater coherence and development impact to IOM’s activities and allows for a joined up approach to the way the Organization designs and delivers its operations, as called for in IOM’s Strategic Vision. The Strategy represents IOM’s direct contribution to the Decade of Action to fast track progress for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. It recognizes that migration, when well managed, can be both a development strategy and a development outcome. The IOM Institutional Strategy on Migration and Sustainable Development outlines a whole-of-organization approach to comprehensively integrate migration and development into policymaking and programming within IOM. IOM Institutional Strategy on Migration and Sustainable Development IOM therefore applies a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to migration governance, striving to ensure that migration and migrants’ needs are considered across all policy areas, laws and regulations from health to education and from fiscal policies to trade. Migrants can be put at risk and communities can come under strain.Īs outlined in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, “migration is a multi-dimensional reality that cannot be addressed by one government policy sector alone”. If migration is poorly governed, it can also negatively impact on development.
The relationship between migration and sdevelopment is much more complex: the political, social and economic processes of potential destination countries will also determine how, where and when migration occurs. The benefits of migration should not be seen only from the perspective of what migrants can bring to any given territory. It brings significant benefits in the form of skills, strengthening the labour force, investment and cultural diversity, and contributes to improving the lives of communities in their countries of origin through the transfer of skills and financial resources. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that migration is a powerful driver of sustainable development, for migrants and their communities.