Grants and Contributions

This Project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of law enforcement agencies and improve border infrastructure through the provision of equipment and specialized trainings on countering violent extremism and organized crime, while institutionalizing standardized border management curriculum and SOPs in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The Project will enhance regional coordination through trainings, joint workshops, and operational mechanisms such as Integrated/Coordinated Border Management Committees, Joint Operations Centres, and cross-border taskforces. The Project will also reinforce community engagement and policing (CEP) and strengthen early warning mechanisms in border communities by developing standardized CEP training curriculum, monitoring frameworks, and community forums.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides humanitarian assistance to populations facing a heightened risk of vulnerability, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, migrants and host communities. IOM provides assistance in multiple sectors, including protection, shelter, emergency non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene services, livelihoods, and camp coordination and management. This grant supports IOM’s objective of saving lives and responding to needs through humanitarian assistance and protection in Bangladesh, Mozambique, South Sudan, and other countries in Africa.

With the support of GAC and other donors, IOM is facilitating access to essential relief items and adequate living conditions for crisis-affected populations, including IDPs, refugees, migrants, returnees and host communities. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash; (2) coordinating camp management, site care and maintenance; (3) deploying mobile teams to remote locations where affected populations lack water, sanitation and hygiene services; (4) providing health support, mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian response; (5) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene; (6) providing support services for humanitarian organizations by establishing humanitarian hubs in deep field locations; (7) data collection, including mapping of vulnerable populations at points of entry and at the district and community level, to enhance targeting and delivery of humanitarian assistance; and (8) ensuring protection and gender mainstreaming across humanitarian response activities for extremely vulnerable individuals, including unaccompanied migrant children, single women, and adolescent girls.

This project seeks to foster sustainable peace and resilience in the reintegration process of ex-associated to terrorists and violent extremism groups into host communities. This initiative aims to support stakeholders ongoing efforts by strengthening community cohesion, enhancing local governance and institutional capacities, while promoting gender equality and human rights, and encouraging regional cooperation with borders countries.

This project aims to ensure migrants' rights and foster sustainable integration into host communities in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Across these countries the project seeks to enhance the protection, regularization, and socio-economic integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees and other nationalities in the Latin America region.

Strengthening Border Management and Security Practices Points of Entry into Aqaba Governorate

The project aims to assist the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in supporting community-driven recovery and rehabilitation efforts in rural and peri-urban locations. This includes up to 5 hromadas (communities), in Dnipropetrovska, Kharkivska, Sumska, and other Oblasts in Western and Central Ukraine. The project focuses on providing help to internally displaced persons who are seeking durable solutions. The project seeks to support the development and implementation of local recovery plans that align with the Government of Ukraine’s decentralization reform efforts and national recovery programs and policies led by the Ministry for Restoration. IOM aims to establish small grants and technical assistance mechanisms to empower civil society and community-based organizations to identify and implement community-level activities and local rehabilitation projects.

Project activities include: (1) empowering local ownership of the recovery process; and (2) addressing barriers to durable solutions and broader recovery efforts, including small-scale infrastructure rehabilitation, in selected locations. IOM aims to design, develop, and deliver targeted capacity-building activities and establish a community-of-practice coordination platform for sustainable collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

This project aims to strengthen the border management capacities of the Haitian Border Police (POLIFRONT), an arm of the Haitian National Police (HNP), to detect and deter illicit cross-border activities that serve to strengthen Haitian gangs operating throughout the country. Over 2 years, the project aims to equip POLIFRONT with the technical tools required to effectively carry out their mandate, provide them with technical training on equipment use and maintenance, and improve infrastructure at the border.

September 2023 – On September 10, Storm Daniel hit northeastern Libya with heavy rains and flash floods, affecting various cities, including Al Marj, Benghazi, and Derna. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicates that 884,000 people need humanitarian assistance. Several factors influence and exacerbate the severity of humanitarian needs, including pre-existing conditions, deteriorating socio-economic situations, and logistical and access constraints to certain areas. Before the storm, 300,000 people in Libya were assessed to require humanitarian assistance, according to the 2023 Humanitarian Overview.

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) helps provide humanitarian, multi-sectoral and life-saving assistance in response to the floods in Libya. Project activities include: (1) deploying medical teams and mobile clinics to provide emergency health services; (2) procuring and distributing medical supplies, medicines, and equipment; (3) distributing essential non-food items and shelter kits; and (4) setting up collective shelters.

Through this project, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Republic of Moldova aims to strengthen trust between law enforcement officials and communities. The project also seeks to enhance security and stability by improving refugee, migrant and host community safety. Project activities include: (1) delivering training for the Moldovan National Police (MNP) on community engagement; (2) providing technical assistance to the MNP, helping to maintain public order and respond to emergencies; (3) organizing MNP-community information exchange forums; (4) providing equipment to help the MNP in preventing and combatting cross-border crime; and (5) evaluating MNP capacity to perform risk analysis and intelligence-led policing.

July 2023 – On April 15, 2023, armed clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, leading to mass displacement within and outside of Sudan, as well as significant protection violations and a lack of access to basic food, water, health, nutrition and other services for vulnerable people. The clashes have increased humanitarian needs within Sudan and its neighbouring countries, many of which had been experiencing protected crises prior to the outbreak of this conflict.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides humanitarian assistance to populations facing a heightened risk of vulnerability, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, migrants and host communities. IOM provides assistance in multiple sectors, including protection, shelter, emergency non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene services and camp coordination and management. With GAC's support, the IOM is responding to the needs of vulnerable people in South Sudan fleeing the conflict in Sudan.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash assistance; (2) coordinating camp management, site care and maintenance; (3) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene support; (4) providing logistics and transporting vulnerable people from remote border areas to points where they can access critical services; and (5) mainstreaming protection and gender mainstreaming across humanitarian response activities.