Through multi-purpose cash assistance, IOM aims to empower individuals affected by crisis by offering flexibility in addressing their needs. The mechanism provides affected populations with a choice on how they want to prioritize their needs. IOM Libya will: 

• Provide multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) through prepaid cards to the main areas where internally displaced persons (IDPs) are located, as well as to individuals affected by floods or other disasters, based on the evolving displacement situation.  

Through community policing, IOM will build on the foundation   created in 2045 in collaboration with the local authorities and law enforcement, to address peace and security challenges in the community. IOM Libya will: 

• Support the expansion of Community Engagement and Anti-Crime Partnership Forums and assist in their operationalization through capacity development support (conflict management, mediation, gender-related crimes, security challenges and needs).  
• Promote and support crime prevention initiatives through information campaigns, themed social and cultural events promoting community engagement and anti-crime partnerships, and actively reach out to the local population at risk to discourage them from engaging in illegal activities.

Through community stabilization and community-driven development activities, IOM aims to foster community development and social cohesion, particularly along migration routes and in areas experiencing inter-communal tensions (such as borders). IOM Libya will:

• Promote dialogue initiatives to enhance peaceful coexistence among host communities and vulnerable groups (e.g., women, migrants, internally displaced persons, and individuals with disabilities). 
• Implement community engagement activities (e.g., socio-cultural events, sports, and arts) to encourage local participation and strengthen social cohesion among different cultural groups, migrants, and host communities, and IDPs. 
• Undertake community based planning (CBP) in the East and South of Libya to strengthen local governance structures and employ community-led solutions to  displacement.
• To address the impact of climate change as a contributing factor to disaster and conflict and restore social services, promote and support communities to utilize clean energy such as solar energy/power. This would include the installation of solar energy systems to power community services and WASH facilities, therefore reducing dependency on non-renewable energy sources and promote trust between the authorities and communities. To promote sustainability, this initiative will train local communities on the installation and maintenance of the solar system.  
• Involve local communities in rehabilitation projects through cash-for-work programs, providing cash assistance while rebuilding essential infrastructure and enhancing social unity.  

IOM seeks to address the complex challenges of migration and displacement in Libya by utilizing data-driven approaches to understanding demographics, needs, and patterns of displaced populations. Through the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programming, IOM Libya will conduct various analyses and assessments to develop evidence-based solutions tailored to the needs of the targeted populations:

• Disaster risk reduction information: Analyze displacement due to climate change and disasters, focusing on demographics, needs, and patterns, and incorporate DTM data into national reports to highlight displacement impacts and use data and technology, including early warning systems (EWS), to inform policies. 
• Emergency Tracking and Profiling: Conduct rapid displacement assessments within 72 hours of an incident and provide updates on detention centers managed by Libya's DCIM. 
• Accountability and Needs Assessments: Strengthen IOM Libya's accountability to affected populations (AAP) initiatives through community engagement and assess the needs of Sudanese nationals and migrants affected by disasters, focusing on shelter, mental health support, and access to services. 
• Mobility Tracking and Indexing: Gather sex and age-disaggregated data every eight weeks in 100 Libyan municipalities to identify disaggregated needs among IDPs, returnees, and migrants, and conduct Solutions and Mobility Index (SMI) rounds to assess durable solutions and return quality. 
• Capacity Strengthening and Research: Enhance the information management skills of Libyan ministries and academic institutions in migration research and conduct thematic assessments on topics like remittances and labor migration. 
• Flow Monitoring and Migrant Surveys: Collect data on migrant volumes at key transit points and conduct interviews to understand their aspirations and vulnerabilities to guide humanitarian action and migration management. 

IOM Libya will enhance the preparedness and resilience of communities in fragile contexts to mitigate disaster risks and strengthen local capacities. IOM Libya will: 

• Tailor training and capacity strengthening initiatives for Libyan authorities, including developing customized training programs for national and local authorities based on identified needs, focusing on disaster preparedness, contingency planning, and emergency response. 
• Strengthen the capacity of local first responders, including civil defense, the Libyan Red Crescent, and local CSOs, to enhance their roles in disaster preparedness and response. 
• Advocate for a disaster risk reduction (DRR) legislative framework in partnership with various stakeholders. 
• Develop a community-centered anticipatory framework in Ghat and Shahhat (two flood-prone cities in Southern and Eastern Libya) to further advance monitoring, capacity-strengthening, and preparedness efforts. 
• Promote and support the construction of community infrastructure (drainage systems, sustainable and durable housing, sanitation and water facilities)   
• with appropriate quality and standards adhering to the Building Back Better [BBB] principle. 
• Support ecosystem restoration and nature-based solutions to improve community resilience against disasters. 
• Conduct community vulnerability assessments and develop action plans to mitigate hazards and adapt to climate change, improving resilience and livelihoods. 
• Raise community awareness about climate change, pollution, and the importance of biodiversity conservation and sustainable resource management. 

IOM’s health interventions aim to increase access to primary health care services by promoting migrant-inclusive health systems and advocating for rights to health, and strengthen the national health system through targeted and need-based assistance. IOM Libya in 2025 will; 

• Provide healthcare services to migrants in need, including essential primary healthcare, and referral services to secondary and tertiary care, at detention centers, disembarkation points, and migrant-dense areas across Libya. 
• Conduct periodic studies to assess the health situation among migrants with focus  on emerging healthcare needs such as Mpox. 
• Carry out public health risk assessment and syndromic surveillance to improve the potential health risks among migrants at detention centres, migrant-dense locations and migrant communities through periodic public health risk assessment and response measures to reduce morbidities and mortalities.  
• Adapt risk communication materials and strategies to be inclusive of migrants, ensuring that messages are culturally and linguistically tailored for effective community engagement. 
• Strengthen knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals on migration health and migrant sensitive disease preparedness and response. 
• Strengthen the capacity of selected public health care centres to provide migrant-sensitive healthcare services.  
• Enhance knowledge on climate change, health and mobility through research. 
• Promote evidence-based migration health governance and mainstreaming in policy and legal frameworks through research, collaboration with academia, promoting cross border coordination to enhance national surveillance, information sharing and reporting. 

Through humanitarian border management (HBM programming IOM IOM support governments in ensuring the safety of crisis-affected populations by strengthening preparedness and response capacity to manage cross-border movement especially during crisis. In line with the countries’ laws and guidelines on border security, IOM assists governments to develop initiatives that ensure the fundamental rights and needs of the affected population. IOM Libya will; 

• Enhance search and rescue in the desert (SARD) capacities of the relevant entities to perform search and rescue operations along the border with neighbouring countries.  
• Provide emergency first aid, safe recovery, and post-rescue humanitarian assistance, including referring people safely to the competent authorities and/or service providers to address their legal options, and support authorities to receive and process arrivals in a rights-based, dignified manner. 

IOM will empower communities to achieve sustainable livelihoods and enhance resilience by promoting economic independence through job creation, skill development, and market-driven opportunities. This will include: 

• Economic Recovery: Promote economic recovery through access to long-term work opportunities, livelihoods development and market improvement.  
• Individual Livelihoods Assistance (ILA): Support vulnerable populations, including IDPs, host communities, and women, with job referrals, on-the-job training, business support, and vocational training to address critical livelihoods gaps.  
•  Enterprise Development Fund (EDF): Support small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and local market development through grants, technical assistance, and access to finance, addressing unemployment and economic resilience. 
• Youth Entrepreneurship: Promote youth-led businesses with mentorship, funding, and incubation services, fostering economic resilience and innovation.  
• Women-Led Initiatives: Empower women entrepreneurs through capacity strengthening, grants, and market access support to enhance their economic participation.  
• Agri-Business Incubation: Support early-stage businesses in the agri-business sector with innovation, technical assistance, and market development to rebuild conflict-affected enterprises.  
• Social Enterprise Incubator: Support CSOs and youth enterprises to develop social enterprises that address community needs, through capacity strengthening, funding, and incubation service. 
• Livelihoods for Sudanese refugees: Enhance livelihood opportunities for Sudanese refugees through agribusiness incubation, youth entrepreneurship programs, and technical and vocational education.
• Establish of Youth Employment One Stop shop (YESS) for Libyan and migrant youth to enhance their access to skill development, improvement and livelihood opportunities.

MHPSS efforts aim to empower communities and increase resilience, reduce suffering and promote psychosocial well-being, improve mental health, treat or prevent mental disorders, and enhance accessibility to MHPSS services to affected populations, migrants and Libyans alike. IOM will: 

• Provide centre-based direct services through Migrant Resource Centres (MRC) and Youth Employment one Stop Shop (YESS)  
• Provide direct services in urban areas and detention centers through multi sectoral mobile teams and mobile clinics.  
• Provide direct services in the communities through individual services including counselling sessions, psychological first aid (PFA), facilitating referrals to specialized services as needed, as well as group sessions through peer support groups, art-based activities, socio-relational and recreational activities, in compliance with IOM’s community-based approach. 
• Train local service providers and humanitarian actors in direct contact with migrants, including YESS Centre outreach assistants to integrate MHPSS. 
• Conduct MHPSS induction and PFA tailored for points of entry and for CSOs, and provide training for volunteers and community members as peer support facilitators. Organize MHPSS trainings on community-based interventions targeting CSOs and train SAR teams on basic MHPSS modalities. 
• Provide psychosocial support toolbox for MHPSS actors. 

Voluntary humanitarian return (VHR) supports stranded migrants to voluntarily return to their countries of origin and provides integrated socioeconomic reintegration, in line with IOM’s Policy on the Full Spectrum of Return, Readmission and Reintegration. Individuals willing to return home will be supported with pre-departure support, including consular assistance, vulnerability and medical screening, escorts and transit assistance (if required) and post-arrival assistance.   

• In coordination with IOM's Country Offices in the countries of origin, facilitate the safe and voluntary return of migrants in Libya to their countries of origin.  
• Raise awareness on the VHR possibility and free services available for migrant support in Libya. 

In line with the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HPDN) approach, IOM seeks to strengthen the understanding of social structures and the impact of violence. In 2025, IOM will: 

• Strengthen data collection, analysis, and information dissemination for detecting early warning signs and inform early response to mitigate conflict.  
• Conduct predictive conflict analysis in combination with mobility data and information.  
• Analyze inter- and intra-communal perceptions to understand and maximize potential positive impact of programme intervention.    
• Engage with communities to enhance peaceful coexistence between communities of different backgrounds.    
• Provide technical support to the National Program for Rehabilitation and Reintegration and other relevant entities in view of the operationalization of a legal framework and the design and completion of the DDR strategy that is under development.   
• Support community-based conflict management and efforts to prevent violent extremism. 
• Strengthen the local authority service delivery systems to mitigate tensions among different groups  over limited resources and opportunities.  
• Facilitate conflict mitigation and foster peaceful coexistence at the local level, to rebuild trust in local institutions and reestablish constructive relationships (vertical social contracts) between communities and governments.  
• Support youth and women-led conflict resolution initiatives by developing and implementing conflict resolution mechanisms that empower youth and women to proactively address grievances and mitigate tensions.  

In partnership with Libyan authorities, other UN agencies and local partners, IOM will implement initiatives that seek to protect and provide assistance to migrants in vulnerable situations including victims of trafficking,  and unaccompanied and separated children, IDPs, and other vulnerable community members in crisis and disaster affected areas. IOM Libya will: 

• Conduct vulnerability assessments in migrant-dense areas and assist with family tracing and re-unification.  
• Conduct assessments and focus group discussions in detention centres, and urban settings to better understand, monitor and address protection risks.   
• Provide immediate needs-based support through the provision of dignity kits, referrals for health and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services, and school kits, as well as referrals for educational support. 
• Provide shelter through the IOM’s  community hosting programme. 
• Support the implementation of the principled framework for interventions in detention centres. 
• Engage with Libyan authorities and other relevant partners to improve detention conditions and advocate for alternatives to detention. 
• Assist with consular support, provide joint counselling together with UNHCR, advocate for exit processes lifting, and provide VHR and tailored reintegration assistance in coordination with countries of origin. 
• Conduct regular awareness raising sessions on protection related topics. 
• Provide capacity strengthening support on protection during emergency for crisis affected population, and   for child protection  especially unaccompanied  migrant children, as well   counter trafficking.  
• Support coordination efforts among government entities, CSOs and UN Agencies on counter-trafficking for a more comprehensive and victims centered approach to addressing trafficking.
• Convene periodic for a on human trafficking  between countries of origin and Libya. 

IOM promotes and supports the enhancement of and timely access to regular pathways for crisis-affected populations and migrants in vulnerable situations. In 2025: 

• Collaborate with embassies to streamline travel document issuance and conduct information sessions on regular migration pathways. 
• Enhance migrant worker rights and support Libya's economic recovery through bilateral labour agreements (BLAs) and technical policy support on labour migration and facilitate the signing of BLAs and memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with countries in the region (e.g., Niger, Ghana, Chad). 
• Provide alternative pathways for skilled migrants in Libya, including education and job opportunities abroad, and skill recognition.  
• Organize roundtables for private sector engagement in mobility schemes. 
• Strengthen the capacity of the private sector on the regulation of the recruitment industry and ethical recruitment practices to better protect migrant workers and prevent forced labour and trafficking, and advocate for the inclusion of migrants in the formal labour force.  
• Strengthen capacity among national authorities through research, workshops, and training on labour migration dynamics. 
• Strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to ensure inclusion and implementation of youth employment and livelihood focused development programme to create clear pathways and supportive systems for youths, thus reducing vulnerabilities and foster resilience and stability, while enabling youths to contribute positively to their communities. 
• Support establishment of South-South and North South regular pathways/skills mobility partnership  
• Promote awareness-raising campaigns targeted at host communities of to inform public perceptions regarding the positive contributions of migrants  based on evidence and facts, and to end racism, xenophobia and stigmatization against all migrants. 
• Facilitate and organize a meaningful social interaction of people of different backgrounds to promote inclusion and broader social cohesion.   

To facilitate rapid and effective response mechanisms through crisis response cells, IOM Libya will provide needs-based assistance for vulnerable migrants living in urban settings, detention centers, and hard-to-reach locations where they have limited access to services. IOM will: 

• Provide and stockpile essential lifesaving non-food items (NFIs) to respond to the emergency needs of migrants and vulnerable host community members. 
• Respond to the immediate shelter needs of the affected population including people displaced in temporary sites and persons located in their place of origin, whose homes have been severely damaged or destroyed. 

IOM Libya will contribute to safeguarding public health and protecting the dignity and well-being of affected populations as well as enhancing the Libyan government’s capacity to improve the quality of WASH services in disaster and conflict affected areas, along migratory routes, and migrants and IDP dense areas. IOM will:  

• Improve clean water supply by rehabilitating affected water sources, establish alternative supply systems, set up mobile water treatment units, improve water storage facilities, implement rainwater harvesting, and distribute safe drinking water through tankers or pipelines.  
• Improve WASH access in schools affected  by conflict and disaster to ensure adequate safe water supply and access to sanitation facilities, including gender-segregated toilets and access for people with special needs.  
• Ensure culturally appropriate hygiene messages are delivered during crises.  
• Improve sanitation by Constructing or rehabilitate latrines to prevent open defecation, establish proper drainage systems to manage wastewater, improve solid waste management in densely populated urban areas, and ensure the maintenance and sustainability of sanitation facilities to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks. 
• In collaboration with other stakeholders, ensure that the most vulnerable populations receive hygiene supplies, including menstrual hygiene management (MHM) items for women of reproductive age.  
• Implement awareness campaigns on handwashing, personal hygiene, and proper water storage.  
• Conduct pre-disaster and post-disaster assessments (e.g., flooding) to determine immediate WASH needs by gathering data on water access, sanitation facilities, and hygiene practices. Identify specific vulnerabilities such as contaminated water sources, inadequate latrines, and shortages of hygiene supplies.