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Who We Are
WHO WE AREThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) is part of the United Nations System as the leading inter-governmental organization promoting since 1951 humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all, with 175 member states and a presence in over 100 countries. IOM has had a presence in Azerbaijan since 1996.
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Our Work
Our WorkAs the leading inter-governmental organization promoting humane and orderly migration, IOM plays a key role to support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through different areas of intervention that connect both humanitarian assistance and sustainable development.
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The two year regional programme, funded by the European Commission has been launched in December 2005. The project aims to deepen the benefits of an existing inter-regional migration and asylum management dialogue between the sending and transit countries of the South Caucasus and receiving EU Member States as well as non-EU Member States such as Switzerland through the Cluster Process. Target groups include government ministries dealing with migration management; private sector representatives; NGOs; and last but not least the peoples of three Caucasus States. Main activities include 1) organizing Cluster meetings; 2) developing national Migration Information Centres (MICs); 3) raising public awareness on migration issues; 4) enhancing data collection and processing; and 5) training government officials responsible from migration administration.
Key objectives include promotion of the Cluster process dialogue on negotiations/actions on readmission, return and reintegration, combating irregular migration, and promoting legal migration; establishment of MICs as a basis for outreach, institutional sustainability and information dissemination to promote legal migration; dissemination of objective information on foreign and domestic employment opportunities, living and working conditions abroad, and provision of legal counselling to target groups through the MICs; processing data collection and analysis; enhancement of labour administration skills of public and private sector. Within the framework of the project, three Cluster meetings are planned to be carried out as a follow-up to the meetings held in 2001 and 2002. The first meeting took place in Brussels on 10-11 May 2006 and the second one in Tbilisi on 14-15 March 2007.
Migration Information Centres, based in Baku and Nakhchivan are devotedly involved in raising awareness among the NGOs and the entire community by providing free and anonymous consultations to calling and visiting persons, and to those seeking assistance through internet. MIC staff deliver consultations on legal migration opportunities and notifying the target groups on risks of irregular migration, including trafficking and smuggling. Published materials such as flyers, stickers, calendars, posters, etc. have been produced and disseminated across Azerbaijan. Newspaper ads, radio PSAs are also broadcasted through national and local mass-media. IOM is going to produce more flyers, brochures, TV PSAs and other publications.
Training workshops in labour migration management for government officials and private sector representatives have been planned for the second half of 2007 with an aim to enhance their capabilities on managing the phenomenon of labour migration more effectively in line international standards.