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The ICMPD Annual Report is now available 📢 Reflecting on the milestones, opportunities and challenges of 2025, it showcases ICMPD's work and highlights key issues shaping the migration discourse. 📌 2025 was a key year for ICMPD, with migration dialogues strengthening data-driven policymaking, project partnerships, and technical support for migration governance, as well as efforts ahead of the full implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in 2026. 🔗 Read more at: icmpd.org/news/sustainin…

📢 The #ViennaMigrationConference 2025 (VMC2025) Report is now available. 📚 Marking the 10th edition of ICMPD's flagship event, the report synthesises two days of dialogue on 21–22 October 2025, bringing together nearly 350 in-person and 1,500 online participants across 15 sessions. 🔗 Read the full report at: vienna-migration-conference.org/VMC2025-Report/

#PolicyInsights 📝 Skills mobility partnerships can support fairer labour mobility, but their design matters. Sabeth Kessler and Caitlin Katsiaficas draw on a global mapping of 156 SMPs to identify 6 ways to improve mutual benefits and support the fairness and sustainability of labour mobility. 🔗 Read more at: icmpd.org/blog/2026/six-…

#InFocus 🌍 The Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) in Tashkent hosted the European Union Ambassador to Uzbekistan, @ToivoKlaar, and Austrian Foreign Minister @BMeinl and @BMI_OE Gerhard Karner, with ICMPD Deputy Director General, Sedef Dearing. 🤝 Their meetings highlighted the impact of the EU-funded PROTECT project, implemented by ICMPD, and the EU’s continued support for safe, orderly, and regular migration from Uzbekistan and Central Asia. 🔗 Learn more at: icmpd.org/news/eu-ambass…

Featured Publication of the Month 🎯 Civil society play a vital role in creating tangible impact for migration partnerships in their communities. 🎯In 2025, 29 civil society partners of the Migration and Mobility Dialogue (MMD) Grant Facility were driving 7 projects across 25 African countries and 2 in Europe. 🔗 Read the Featured Publication of the Month at, showcasing the MMD Grant Facility Retrospective Report highlighting key milestones since its launch in 2025: icmpd.org/news/early-mil…

#InFocus 🌍 ICMPD supported Romania in hosting the first simulation to test coordination and response in the context of exceeding reception and processing capacities in asylum centres, ahead of the full implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. 🔗 Learn more at: icmpd.org/news/romania-a…

#InFocus 🌍 The Expert Conference on Return and Reintegration highlighted the need for coordinated, evidence-based action and dialogue, as return and reintegration become central to the EU migration agenda ahead of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and the EU Return Regulation. 🤝 The Return and Reintegration Facility (RRF) brought together 111 representatives to discuss cooperation, stronger outreach to returnees and host communities, smarter use of digital tools, and aligning politics with operational realities. 🔗 Learn more at: icmpd.org/news/strengthe…

#ICMPDCareers 📢 Explore new job opportunities at ICMPD and take the next step in your career journey. 🔗 Discover open positions and apply at: careers.icmpd.org ➡️ Disclaimer: ICMPD does not charge any fees for applications, processing, interviews, tests, or any other part of the recruitment process. All information regarding open positions is advertised exclusively on ICMPD’s official channels. Communication with selected candidates is conducted solely via official ICMPD email addresses (@icmpd.org). If you receive any suspicious communications or payment requests, please report them to ReportScam@icmpd.org. ➡️ Please note that only shortlisted candidates who apply through the official recruitment application link provided in the vacancy announcement will be contacted.

#InFocus 🌍 At this year’s World Border Security Congress, ICMPD highlighted the need for effective, rights‑based border governance in an increasingly complex global environment and the value of inter‑agency coordination. 🔗 Discover more at: icmpd.org/news/amidst-ri…

#ICMPDEvents 📅 Join this webinar to explore key migration trends in Sub-Saharan Africa, along with key migration issues and priorities shaping the year ahead - as featured in the Pan-Africa #ICMPDMigrationOutlook 2026. 📅 29 April 2026, 14:00–15:30 (CEST) 🎤 English with simultaneous interpretation into French 🔗 Find more information and download the Pan-Africa Migration Outlook at: icmpd.org/events/events-…

🤝On the sidelines of the #ADF2026, Susanne Raab, ICMPD Director General, together with the ICMPD delegation, had the pleasure of meeting Turkish Minister of Family and Social Services @MahinurOzdemir ICMPD Director General Raab valued the constructive exchange, and ICMPD appreciates its close cooperation with #Türkiye.

🤝 ICMPD Director General, Susanne Raab, engaged in a constructive discussion with @MFATurkiye Deputy Minister H. Ali Özel at #ADF2026. ICMPD values the close collaboration with #Türkiye, an active ICMPD Member State since 2018.

What are the 7 migration issues to look out for in the Mediterranean in the months ahead? 📢 Explore the Mediterranean #ICMPDMigrationOutlook 2026 🔎 The Mediterranean Outlook analyses key current and emerging migration trends in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on countries of North Africa and the Middle East. 🔗 Read and download the Mediterranean Migration Outlook at: icmpd.org/file/download/…

🤝It is a pleasure for ICMPD’s Director General, Susanne Raab, to be at #ADF2026 and to contribute to the constructive discussion on the global protection system alongside @CommissionerHR, @BarhamSalih and Khalilur Rahman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.

#InFocus 🌍 The EU‑funded Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) marks 10 years of strengthening migration cooperation between EU Member States and partner countries. 🤝The anniversary event on 15 April 2026 brought together more than 100 partners and stakeholders. The discussions reflected on the successes across projects that advanced cooperation between the EU, its Member States, and priority partner countries on migration. 🔗 Learn more: icmpd.org/news/eu-partne…

#SaveTheDate 📅 Join the webinar presenting the ICMPD Pan-Africa Regional Migration Outlook 2026 on 29 April 2026, from 11:00 – 12:30 (CEST) 🔗 Register at:  icmpd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The Pan-Africa #ICMPDMigrationOutlook 2026 is now available 📢 What are the 6 migration issues to look out for in the region? 🔎 The Pan-Africa #ICMPDMigrationOutlook 2026 analyses migration dynamics across interconnected routes in the region and identifies key trends shaping migration and policy in 2026. 🔗 Read more at: icmpd.org/file/download/…

🎉 Join us as we reflect on the Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) 10 years of work and development since its establishment by the European Union in 2016. 💡The MPF strengthens dialogue and cooperation on migration and mobility issues between EU member states and partner countries. 🎉 The 10th anniversary of the MPF offers an opportunity to review how partnership approaches have fostered cooperation, harmonisation and cohesion across migration-related areas. 🤝 A new phase starts in spring 2026, and the Facility remains committed to cooperation through trust‑based partnerships, innovative solutions, and evidence‑driven policy dialogue. 🔗Discover more about the Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) at: migrationpartnershipfacility.eu

Call for applications for civil society organisations and non-state actors 📢 Apply by 01 May 2026 for the MMD Grant Facility, Support Programme to the Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue. 📌 Grants range from 100,000 to 150,000 EUR, and applications can be submitted in both English and French. 📅 Join the information session on April 16th at 10:00 (CEST). 🔗 Find more information at: icmpd.org/news/call-for-…