Empowering Governments to Address Mixed Migratory Flows and Protect Migrants Transiting to, through and from North Africa

The purpose of this sub-regional project covering Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia is to enhance contextualized knowledge on mixed migratory flows and migrants stranded in or leaving from North Africa. With a view to developing new materials adapted to the North African context, the project aims to respond at both the operational and policy levels to the increasing challenges of mixed migration through and from the North African Mediterranean shores, including issues of border management, cross-border cooperation, and migrants rights (e.g. rights of victims of trafficking or other crimes).

IOM together with national partner governments and relevant civil society and international actors, will take a three-fold approach: (1) research will be conducted on mixed migratory flows concerning the North African context; (2) regional dialogues will be held between origin, transit, and destination countries to define innovative approaches to addressing mixed migratory follows, together with the production of a number of policy/ issue papers and recommendations; (3) targeted trainings will be provided to governmental and civil society actors to respond to the challenges of mixed migratory flows and better protect the rights of migrants, including trainings on border management, identify documents, counter-trafficking, and rescue at sea.