All Commitments made by International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

With 172 member states, a further 8 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

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Eliminate Stigma and Discrimination
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Policy, legislation and its implementation

  • Review and develop more inclusive policies and strategies, setting out an organizational approach to disability inclusion towards beneficiaries. 
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Ensure support to tackle social exclusion in displacement and migration crises pro-actively incorporates persons with disabilities.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020 

Other
Commit to strengthening mainstreaming initiatives on disability inclusion.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020

Theme: Eliminate Stigma and Discrimination
Year: 2018
Data Disaggregation
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Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
Collect, analyse and report information on persons with disabilities through the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020

Commit to use the Washington Group questions
Ensure that data collected is disaggregated to report beneficiaries with a disability and wherever possible using the Washington Group Short Set of Questions or similar tested tools.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020

Commit resources to support strengthened disability data
Ensure that data on disability are disaggregated by sex and are recorded for migrant victims of violence, abuse and exploitation, including victims of trafficking, assisted under IOM’s migrant protection and assistance programming.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020

Theme: Data Disaggregation
Year: 2018
Women and Girls with Disabilities
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  • Promote the meaningful participation of women and girls with disabilities in humanitarian response and recovery programs
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Develop and implement interventions that advance the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities and protect them from physical, sexual and other forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and harassment.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
Theme: Women and Girls with Disabilities
Year: 2018
People with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts
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  • Strive to ensure that services and humanitarian assistance are meaningfully accessible for and equally available to persons with disabilities. Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Ensure Durable Solutions to displacement include and make provision for solutions for persons with disabilities.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Commit to the implementation of existing guidelines and standards around inclusion and collect and share learning and challenges.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Ensure support for the return and reintegration of ex combatants is tailored to the needs of individuals with disabilities resulting from armed combat. 
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Sensitize and develop the capacity of humanitarian workers on inclusion of persons with disabilities and the intersection with age and gender.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
  • Strengthen technical cooperation and partnership with specialized actors and organizations of persons with disabilities to facilitate cross-learning, sharing of information, practices, tools and resources inclusive of persons with disabilities.
    Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 2020
Theme: Conflict and Humanitarian Contexts
Year: 2018