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Lucy Daxbacher, IGAD Migration Programme’s Free Movement project officer
  • News article

The eight countries in Eastern Africa that form the IGAD region have embarked on a journey to improve regional integration and development by facilitating the free movement of persons in the region.

  • 3 min read
Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
Partner
  • OIT - ILO - Organisation Internationale du Travail - International Labour Organization
  • Intergovernmental Authority on Development
EU-IOM Joint Initiative: Habi story
  • News article

Habi thought that she could easily earn money working as a maid in Libya and come back to Nigeria to take care of her children with some savings.

  • 1 min read
Region and Country
  • Uganda
  • Ethiopia
  • Eritrea
  • Djibouti
  • Kenya
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Guinée
  • Ghana
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Senegal
  • Tchad
  • The Gambia
  • Mali
  • Mauritanie
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroun
  • Nigeria
  • Niger
Thematic
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • International Organization for Migration
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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  • News article

"After years of suffering, we are finally reunited again as one family in The Netherlands," said Mudather, a 20-year-old Sudanese, who had to flee his home in 2014, seeking safety in another country due to the unstable situation in Darfur.

  • 3 min read
REG-REG-04_EU-IOM_GH_Faustina success story
  • News article

Faustina decided to leave Ghana for Libya to look for greener pastures.

  • 2 min read
Region and Country
  • Uganda
  • Ethiopia
  • Eritrea
  • Djibouti
  • Kenya
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Libya
  • Guinée
  • Ghana
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Senegal
  • Tchad
  • The Gambia
  • Mali
  • Mauritanie
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroun
  • Nigeria
  • Niger
Thematic
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • International Organization for Migration
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
PECOBAT et PROMOPECHE_Expo Des emplois qui changent des vies
  • News article

L’Union européenne et le Bureau International du Travail en Mauritanie ont développé des programmes de promotion de l’emploi décent permettant d’accroître les opportunités professionnelles pour les jeunes en situation précaire et d'améliorer leur employabilité.

  • 2 min read
Region and Country
  • Mauritanie
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
Partner
  • GIZ
  • OIT - ILO - Organisation Internationale du Travail - International Labour Organization
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants and refugees including many children in need of protection travel to and through the Somaliland for economic and safety-related reasons
  • News article

Approximately 450,000 children are on the move in Somaliland each year.

  • 4 min read
Region and Country
  • Horn of Africa
  • Somalia
Thematic
  • Improved migration management
Partner
  • GIZ
GrEEn_Story Aminatu
  • News article

One impact of climate change in central Ghana is the increasingly unpredictability of annual rains, robbing 43-year old subsistence farmer Boatemaa Aminatu and her six children of a reliable income and forcing them to rely on the goodwill of neighbours.

  • 3 min read
Region and Country
  • Ghana
Thematic
  • Greater economic and employment opportunities
Partner
  • United Nations Capital Development Fund
  • SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Ghana