International Organization for Migration
IOM has been focusing on the complex dimensions of the water-migration nexus through both its policy and operational works. IOM has been raising awareness and persistently addressing environmental migration challenges due to water-related disasters. Within the framework of our policy and advocacy work, IOM resolutely engaged in the international scene to anchor migration-related issues in environmental and climate change policies. This has ensured that environmental and climate change, including water, considerations are now considered in migration policy agendas and that migration issues are taken into consideration in water-related policies.
IOM is committed to the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, not only through the provision of technical policy support on migration-related issues in water governance, but also by embodying the principle that “no one be left behind”. IOM recognizes that access to water and sanitation services, paired with hygiene promotion, is life-saving in humanitarian contexts, while sustainable access to water and sanitation services is also critical in the context of resolving displacement situations and building resilience to future shocks and stressors. IOM provides life-saving and longer-term Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion (WASH) services directly, as well through partners or coordinating with other actors for an appropriate response. IOM is currently undertakes WASH interventions in 29 countries.
Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative
IOM’s work on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and environmental degradation contributes to the efforts of Member States to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015-2030 by advancing mobility-based strategies in disaster risk reduction and resilience, paying particular attention to at-risk communities, migrants and other vulnerable mobile populations.
IOM hosted the secretariat for the Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative, a government-led effort co-chaired by the United States and the Philippines, aimed to improve the protection of migrants when the countries in which they live, work, study, transit, or travel experience a natural disaster or conflict.
MICIC Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing Conflict or Natural Disaster.
IOM, together with the UNHCR, is a Standing Invitee to the Platform on Disaster Displacement’s Steering Group, and plays a key role in supporting States’ efforts to implement the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda and the priorities identified by the Platform’s Steering Group, which are directly in line with IOM’s vision and action on addressing displacement and human mobility associated with natural disasters and climate change.
Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda
Water and sanitation events during HLPF UN-Water The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will be held 9-18 July 2018. During this time, many water and sanitation events will be held. Events known to date (list non-exhaustive and may be updated) Monday 9 July Global Progress on Wate … Read more