"What we are experience now is a health crisis. But there are economic and labour market implications to this globally in the short term…" -  Michael Newson, Senior Labour Mobility and Human Development Specialist, IOM.

  Despite widespread lockdown, COVID-19 has brought the world closer together. Only together, we can overcome this crisis. Fight discrimination. Spread kindness.      

There is no link between COVID19 and a person’s nationality or ethnicity. In fact, in many contexts, persons who migrate are in good health and form a critical part of national communities, including health-care systems. - Dr. Aleksandar Arnikov, Regional Migration Health Specialist for the Americas

Since the spread of the Coronavirus, as soon as someone coughs or catches a cold, people distance themselves from that person. So when someone catches a cold or the coronavirus, the person is shunned and so they feel isolated, which makes them feel lonely. To fight such stigmatization, an advisory was sent to IOM staff about the modes of transmission of the virus. To protect ourselves while…

The Office of Diaspora Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grenada, with the support of IOM, hosts a consultation aimed at initiating dialogue and exploring new opportunities, challenges, lessons learnt, and best practices on how proactive diaspora engagement can contribute to the development of Caribbean countries.

  We firmly believe that diaspora can contribute in a unique way to the development of their countries of origin through knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. This is a promotion video to showcase IOM’s experience with our CD4D and ED4D projects. Through our projects we support the development of targeted sectors in selected countries. We do this by engaging experts from the diaspora in the…

IOM Sierra Leone launched Diaspora Agribusiness, to utilize SL Diaspora for country development through investment.  Sierra Leone is the time of development phase, but almost all of business sectors faces funding resources. IOM try to utilize Diaspora for encouraging remittance/ investment to home country. The panel consisted  a mix of actors in the open data and technology for the agriculture…