Videos
Timor Leste: The key to food security
In the hamlet of Heda, alternating floods and droughts have left farming families with little access to food, contributing to malnutrition and depriving households of additional income. This scenario is common throughout Timor-Leste, where heavy rains and hilly terrain make communities increasingly vulnerable to floods, landslides and river shifts, resulting in decreased agricultural production, damage to infrastructure and property, and loss of livelihoods.
Framework on Addressing Gender-based Violence in Crises
In September 2018, IOM launched its Institutional Framework for addressing Gender-Based Violence in Crises. For an Organization with such a vast operational footprint, this is an important step forward in addressing gender-based violence, or GBV, in a systematic manner.
In Burkina Faso, theater helps change attitudes on irregular migration.
In Burkina Faso, theater helps change attitudes on irregular migration.
Private Sector Joins IOM to Enhance Skills of Returnees
In June 2018, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed an agreement with the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSS), under the Ministry of Youth and Sports, to provide Technical and Vocational Educational Training (TVET) to 200 Gambian returned migrants. Through this agreement, NYSS taps into the expertise of four private sector enterprises and two government training centres to deliver training in various skill areas to Gambian returnees.
IOM joins forces with UNCTAD and UNHCR to work on entrepreneurship for migrants and refugees
IOM works on migrant entrepreneurship in many programme contexts – community development and stabilization; integration and reintegration; support to vulnerable groups of migrants and engaging with diasporas. IOM`s work in this area remains unknown to many partners and donors, however.
5 Facts about Water and Migration
5 Facts about Water and Migration
Media Training in Sierra Leone
Over three days, radio journalists in Sierra Leone were trained in the Communication for Development (C4D) approach to awareness raising. This will enable them to develop a tailored radio campaign to educate Sierra Leoneans on identifying and reporting fake job opportunities.
“I wish people would accept each other like they accept the Danube”
Description: Hamzat has fled #Chechnya as a young boy and lives in #Austria. In his video he speaks up for #Chechens and calls for a world in which everybody is accepted like the #Danube. The video was produced as part of the pilot project WIR implemented by #IOM Austria. https://austria.iom.int/en/wir
Gender equality on Ukraine's Borders
IOM helps Ukrainian border guards with staff recruitment and gender equality. Report from Ukrainian TV.
World TB Day - "It's time"
Sanja Celebic-Lokovac, IOM Georgia Chief of Mission, on the new South-Caucasus TB and HIV study undertaken by IOM.
“My goal is to help people”
Description: Mansur was born in #Grozny and lives in #Vienna. In his video he speaks up for #Chechens and talks about his future plans with #Doctors Without Borders. The video was produced as part of the pilot project WIR implemented by #IOM Austria. https://austria.iom.int/en/wir
Papua New Guinea: Build Back Safer
UN Resident Coordinator in Papua New Guinea Gianluca Rampolla, together with IOM, UNDP and UNICEF representatives, this week visited Humbra in Southern Highlands province – one of the communities hardest hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in February 2018.
People trained in safe shelter construction are passing on the knowledge gained to other community members, including voluntarily participating in shelter reconstruction work in their communities, he added.