IOM has a strong history of providing support to governments and communities in Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. As a result, IOM has formed strong partnerships with governments and their respective line ministries, humanitarian and civil actors, and communities. These close working relations underpin the quality and impact of IOM’s emergency prevention, disaster preparedness, and humanitarian assistance programmes.

IOM is a member of the UN's Pacific Joint Country Team for the Pacific region, the Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) and actively participates in the Regional Cluster Coordination Group, Protection Cluster and Shelter Cluster. Under the auspices of the PHT, IOM anticipates establishing a regional Camp Coordination Camp Management (CCCM)-like support and coordination structure to:

• Support national disaster management offices, and other relevant authorities, in formulating national evacuation management policies, standard operating procedures, standards for evacuation centres, etc.;
• Provide capacity building to governments and NGO partners on the development of national cluster systems and implementation of an exit strategy for evacuation centres, return and reintegration of IDPs, and recovery planning for the displaced communities; 
• Develop national capacities on the Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) methodology and community-driven disaster risk reduction, mitigation and awareness-raising.  

IOM is also the chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) for Human Mobility (migration, displacement and relocation) in the context of increasing climate and disaster risk.  The TWG was established by the Pacific Resilience Partnership taskforce to the implementation of the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific.

Over the past decade, IOM has emerged as one of the world’s largest humanitarian actors, with large-scale relief operations underway in virtually every major humanitarian setting. IOM uses its extensive expertise and experience in this area both to provide support to States as well as the individuals and communities affected by crises and to actively contribute to the efforts of the international community to identify ways to more effectively address future humanitarian challenges related to natural hazards and conflicts.

IOM’s key objective in the Pacific region is to support governments with preparedness activities and enable a more effective operational response to crises and emergencies. Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) are particularly vulnerable to disaster displacement, and the adverse impacts of climate change are expected to compound existing risks leading to displacement.

IOM first began its emergency preparedness, response, and recovery programs in Vanuatu in 2011 and has expanded its activities to contribute to the Government of both the Solomon Islands and the Republic of Fiji’s efforts to manage migration effectively through programs on emergency preparedness and response, CCCM, displacement tracking matrix (with particular focus on mobility and emergency tracking in Fiji and Vanuatu), disaster risk reduction; migration, environment, and climate change, labor migration and human mobility, migration and development, and counter-trafficking and migrant protection.