ABOUT THE GCRP
While the Global Appeal 2025 shows how IOM will deliver on the Strategic Plan 2024–2028 at the macro level, IOM’s Crisis Response Plans (CRPs) and Appeals published on the Global Crisis Response Platform detail the Organization’s plans and associated funding requirements to address the mobility dimensions of crises in select at-risk, fragile and crisis settings in 2025 and beyond.
Framed by the Migration Crisis Operational Framework, the CRPs outline IOM’s comprehensive, multisectoral approach, applying the Organization’s unique mobility lens to analysis and response across all three institutional strategic objectives.
- Saving lives and protecting people on the move
- Driving solutions to displacement
- Facilitating pathways for regular migration
Complementing humanitarian assistance and protection, the Organization applies a solutions lens from the start, addressing crisis drivers and strengthening resilience, while embracing opportunities mobility may offer, contributing to humanitarian, development and peace outcomes.
CRPs are single or multi-year plans outlining IOM’s planned activities and funding requirements to respond to crisis or fragility in one or more countries. As a dynamic platform, plans are updated throughout the year as contexts and responses evolve and inter-agency plans are finalized.
2025 highlights
Protection-centred cross-cutting priority
IOM is committed to placing the rights and well-being of crisis-affected populations at the centre of operations and decision-making. In 2025, IOM will maximize efforts to deliver on its institutional commitments to the Centrality of Protection and to ensure that protection principles, such as Do No Harm, meaningful access to assistance, participation and empowerment, as well as promoting accountability to affected populations, are mainstreamed throughout its interventions. IOM is committed to integrate gender-based violence (GBV) risk mitigation across all sectors in its operations to reduce the risk of exposure to GBV for all women, girls and other vulnerable groups at risks of GBV. Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) is also a cornerstone of IOM’s overall strategy and encompasses prevention, mitigation and response efforts.
Approach to localization
In line with Grand Bargain commitments, IOM plays a leading role in advancing the localization agenda by enhancing the leadership and response capacities of local and national actors (LNAs) through its crisis response initiatives and humanitarian leadership and coordination efforts. In 2025, IOM will scale up localization efforts by rolling out its Localization Framework, working to strengthen local capacities and engage in equitable partnerships for quicker, more sustainable and locally-led responses. The framework identifies five key pillars central to IOM's approach to localization: (1) partnerships and funding, (2) capacity strengthening and mentorship, (3) participation, (4) coordination, and (5) visibility and advocacy.
IOM is committed to ensuring that the needs and rights of individuals and communities are at the heart of its interventions by involving people affected by crisis in decision-making processes.
Methodological note on key figures
The People in Need figures captured in CRPs reflect the agreed figures published as part of the Global Humanitarian Overview.
The people targeted figures reflect individuals, households and communities that IOM intends to reach with activities outlined in each CRP. To the extent possible, double counting within and across plans is accounted for in aggregations. The six population categories adhere to IOM standard categorizations, noting that returnee is a sub-group of several of these categories.
In addition to individuals, entities targeted include organizations that would benefit from training, services, products/goods, events, spaces, or policies provided by IOM or its implementing partners. Double counting of these entities within and across plans has also been accounted for to the extent possible.
Funding requirements are the result of an analysis of identified needs, IOM capacity to respond, inter-agency plans and the planned activities of other stakeholders. As such, funding requirements may be updated during the year to ensure coherence and relevance.
Augmenting its own Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) data and analysis, IOM draws on available external sources, which are hyperlinked within CRPs whenever possible. Single country CRPs include a context table, reflecting data sourced from INFORM risk (accessed November 2024), INFORM severity (accessed November 2024) and the Human Development Index (accessed November 2024).
Key links:
- Strategic Plan 2024 – 2028
- Global Appeal 2025
- Migration Crisis Operational Framework
- Emergency Manual
ABOUT IOM
Established in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration and is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. IOM is part of the United Nations system, as a related organization, and has 175 member states and 8 observer states, with a presence in 171 countries.
The Organization is guided by the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, including upholding human rights for all. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society, with respect for migrants’ rights, dignity and well-being paramount.
Strategic Plan 2024 - 2028
IOM's Strategic Plan sets out how the Organization will support its Member States to deliver on the promise of migration, while supporting the world’s most vulnerable. IOM recognizes that governments, the private sector, other international organizations, academia, civil society and, of course, migrants and their communities are all essential actors, and seeks to engage with a wide range of partners to contribute to shared global goals.
Three strategic objectives define the broad parameters of IOM's work:
- Saving lives and protecting people on the move: IOM puts the safety, dignity and protection of people first in the most challenging crisis response contexts in the world.
- Driving solutions to displacement: IOM reduces the risks and impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, conflict and instability for communities affected by or at risk of displacement.
- Facilitating pathways for regular migration: IOM prioritizes whole-of-government, whole-of-society approaches to safely connect people, goods, services, knowledge and innovation.
The 2025 Crisis Response Plans demonstrate how IOM’s crisis response efforts contribute to the objectives of the Strategic Plan in select at risk, fragile and crisis contexts.
Inter-agency Engagement
Migration is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which articulates several of the links between migration and sustainable development and recognizes that migrants must be taken into consideration as part of efforts to leave no one behind. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is consistent with target 10.7 of the 2030 Agenda, through which Member States committed to cooperate internationally to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration.
As a core member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group and Coordinator and Secretariat of the United Nations Network on Migration, IOM plays a central role in ensuring effective, timely and coordinated United Nations system-wide support to Member States to enhance cooperation on international migration and maximize its contribution to sustainable development.
IOM is a full member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and engages extensively in collective efforts towards improving the effectiveness of principled humanitarian action and strengthening accountability across the humanitarian system, from the country level – including as a member of Humanitarian Country Teams – to the regional and global levels. IOM is the global Camp Coordination and Camp Management cluster lead in emergencies induced by disaster, and holds cluster coordination lead and co-lead roles in many countries.
In line with Strategic Objective 2, IOM has supported roll out of the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement, launched to better prevent, address and resolve internal displacement. Starting in 2025, new global UN coordination mechanisms have been introduced as a follow-up to the Office of the Special Adviser, to ensure a coordinated and coherent approach to internal displacement. IOM, UNDP and UNHCR are part of the initial ‘Solutions Champions Group’, dedicated to continuing advocacy for internal displacement solutions, and ensuring predictable support to Resident Coordinators and Governments at the country level. IOM is the first annual Convenor in 2025 and is committed to bring together our resources, strengthen partnerships and IDP participation, and redouble our efforts to support IDPs on solutions pathways.
Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL) is a groundbreaking initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027. In 2024, national rollout was achieved in 22 countries bringing the total number of countries within the initiative to 38. IOM's role in EW4ALL is to ensure that migrants and displaced people are included in early warning systems, and to help deliver those warnings to vulnerable communities through active participation in Pillars 1 (Risk Knowledge), Pillar 3 (Risk Dissemination) and Pillar 4 (Preparedness for Response).
The coordination sections of Crisis Response Plans outline IOM’s inter-agency engagements in select at risk, fragile and crisis contexts.
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