In collaboration with the Federal Government of Nigeria, state actors, partners, communities, and displaced populations, IOM is committed to supporting a transition towards comprehensive, evidence-based, and durable solutions to displacement. This involves providing immediate humanitarian assistance while simultaneously prioritizing the protection and resilience of displaced populations and host communities. By addressing urgent needs and fostering sustainable recovery, IOM aims to strengthen social cohesion, enhance local capacities, and integrate displaced populations into broader development efforts. This approach aligns with the IOM Nigeria Strategic Plan 2023-2027 and contributes to achieving durable solutions for vulnerable populations.
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Nigeria continues to face a severe humanitarian and protection crisis, particularly in the North East, North Central, and North West, affecting millions over the past 13 years. In the North East, conflicts involving non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and military operations have caused extensive displacement and human rights abuses. In the North West, escalating farmer-herder conflicts, criminal activities, and climate impacts, such as floods and droughts, have worsened the situation. Similarly, intercommunal conflicts over land and water resources, along with frequent flooding in the North Central region, especially in Benue State, further contribute to the persistent crisis.
These crises accentuate protection risks, especially for women and girls, by heightening the risks of violence, neglect, deliberate deprivation, discrimination, abuse, and exploitation. Migrants, displaced populations and affected communities, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), may be exposed to protection risks such as gender-based violence (GBV) and increased risk of trafficking due to the situations compelling them to leave their homes, the circumstances in which they travel, or the conditions they face on arrival.
Communities in these regions endure a multitude of human rights abuses, including killings, abductions, rape, and torture, including perpetrated by non-state armed groups. These violations exacerbate pre-existing issues such as food insecurity, malnutrition, water shortages, and insufficient access to sanitation, housing, and healthcare services.
Nigeria continues to face a severe humanitarian and protection crisis, particularly in the North East, North Central, and North West, affecting millions over the past 13 years. In the North East, conflicts involving non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and military operations have caused extensive displacement and human rights abuses. In the North West, escalating farmer-herder conflicts, criminal activities, and climate impacts, such as floods and droughts, have worsened the situation. Similarly, intercommunal conflicts over land and water resources, along with frequent flooding in the North Central region, especially in Benue State, further contribute to the persistent crisis.
These crises accentuate protection risks, especially for women and girls, by heightening the risks of violence, neglect, deliberate deprivation, discrimination, abuse, and exploitation. Migrants, displaced populations and affected communities, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), may be exposed to protection risks such as gender-based violence (GBV) and increased risk of trafficking due to the situations compelling them to leave their homes, the circumstances in which they travel, or the conditions they face on arrival.
Communities in these regions endure a multitude of human rights abuses, including killings, abductions, rape, and torture, including perpetrated by non-state armed groups. These violations exacerbate pre-existing issues such as food insecurity, malnutrition, water shortages, and insufficient access to sanitation, housing, and healthcare services. Women and girls are especially at risk, with a significant surge in GBV.
Nigeria’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Report Round 47 (June 2024) identified over 2.3 million IDPs and more than 2 million returnees in the North East. Of these, 23 per cent are women and 33 per cent are girls, highlighting the specific protection needs of these groups. In the North Central and North West, DTM Round 14 (June 2024) recorded over 1.3 million IDPs, a 19 per cent increase from December 2023.
Climate change remains a key factor driving displacement, further increasing the vulnerability of affected populations. Flooding has become a significant humanitarian challenge, affecting 31 states across Nigeria, including the BAY states in the North East and North West. According to the 2024 OCHA Flood Overview, over 6.9 million people have been impacted by continuous rains in West and Central Africa, resulting in the displacement of close to 400,00 people in Nigeria and over 1. million people in the broader region, loss of life, and widespread destruction of shelter and livelihoods. In 2024, the Maiduguri Alau dam overflowed for the first time since 2012, affecting more than 340,975 people.
In responding to crises, IOM engages with a range of governmental, inter-agency, and bilateral coordination mechanisms at different levels to ensure a holistic and well-coordinated approach to humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, and migration-related challenges.
At the national level, IOM works closely with the Federal Government of Nigeria, particularly the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (FMHAPA), a key entity in humanitarian governance and disaster management. IOM’s collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMA) in key crisis-affected areas also ensures effective response to internal displacement challenges.
IOM also supports governmental agencies in improving migration governance and addressing the mobility dimension of crises, including their drivers. This engagement includes working with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), and other ministries and departments.
At the inter-agency level, IOM is an active member of various United Nations coordination frameworks in Nigeria, including the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and the United Nations Country Team (UNCT). IOM plays a significant leadership role in coordinating responses to humanitarian crises, particularly within the context of displacement caused by conflict in the North East, North West and Central States of Nigeria. As the co-lead of the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), and Shelter/Non-Food Items (S/NFI) Clusters/Sub-Clusters, as well as the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Network and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Working Group for the North East and an active member of the Cash Working Group, IOM works in partnership with other UN agencies, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and national stakeholders to ensure a coordinated, protection-oriented humanitarian response. IOM is committed to supporting collective efforts to address SEA and is an active member of the PSEA Network nationally and co-leads the network in the North East. In this capacity, IOM actively contributes to the implementation of the inter-agency PSEA Network Action Plan.
In addition to its role within the HCT and UNCT, IOM also serves as the Coordinator and Secretariat of the UN Network on Migration (UNNM) in Nigeria.
In responding to crises, IOM engages with a range of governmental, inter-agency, and bilateral coordination mechanisms at different levels to ensure a holistic and well-coordinated approach to humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, and migration-related challenges.
At the national level, IOM works closely with the Federal Government of Nigeria, particularly the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (FMHAPA), a key entity in humanitarian governance and disaster management. IOM’s collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMA) in key crisis-affected areas also ensures effective response to internal displacement challenges.
IOM also supports governmental agencies in improving migration governance and addressing the mobility dimension of crises, including their drivers. This engagement includes working with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), and other ministries and departments.
At the inter-agency level, IOM is an active member of various United Nations coordination frameworks in Nigeria, including the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and the United Nations Country Team (UNCT). IOM plays a significant leadership role in coordinating responses to humanitarian crises, particularly within the context of displacement caused by conflict in the North East, North West and Central States of Nigeria. As the co-lead of the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), and Shelter/Non-Food Items (S/NFI) Clusters/Sub-Clusters, as well as the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Network and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Technical Working Group for the North East and an active member of the Cash Working Group, IOM works in partnership with other UN agencies, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and national stakeholders to ensure a coordinated, protection-oriented humanitarian response. IOM is committed to supporting collective efforts to address SEA and is an active member of the PSEA Network nationally and co-leads the network in the North East. In this capacity, IOM actively contributes to the implementation of the inter-agency PSEA Network Action Plan.
In addition to its role within the HCT and UNCT, IOM also serves as the Coordinator and Secretariat of the UN Network on Migration (UNNM) in Nigeria. This network is responsible for facilitating the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM) in the country. Through the UNNM, IOM fosters collaboration across the UN system and engages with key national and international partners to promote coherent migration strategies that are aligned with both national priorities and international standards.
Furthermore, IOM continues to provide technical and operational support to the various levels of stakeholder engagement as provided in the National Migration Policy, specifically the Technical Working Group on Migration and the thematic groups - Standing Committee on Diaspora Matters (SCDM); Labour Migration Working Group; Migration Data Management Working Group (MDMWG); Working Group on Forced Migration and Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) and the Stakeholders Forum on Border Management. These coordination bodies are vital in addressing the complex migration dynamics during crises, including the management of displaced populations, border management, and the provision of humanitarian assistance, aligning with IOM’s crisis response plan.
IOM also plays a leading role in the pursuit of durable solutions for displaced populations. At the national level, IOM serves on the National Solutions Steering Committee, working alongside the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other stakeholders to develop comprehensive strategies for resolving displacement issues, supporting government-led initiatives aimed at addressing displacement through voluntary return, local integration, and relocation efforts. In Adamawa State, for example, IOM co-leads the Durable Solutions Working Group (DSWG) and has been instrumental in developing the State Action Plans (SAPs) for Durable Solutions, which is a significant step towards addressing the solutions and protection needs of IDPs and host communities and engaging in Nigeria’s national development programmes.
Nigeria’s participation in the United Nations Secretary-General’s Action Agenda (UN SG AA) is essential in addressing these challenges. As one of 15 pilot countries, Nigeria, with leadership from the governments of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Benue, have put in place Solutions Action Plans (SAPs). These plans focus on supporting the voluntary return, relocation, and local integration of IDPs and ensuring that humanitarian interventions are targeted from the onset at transitioning to long-term development programmes.
Since 2002, IOM has maintained a strong operational presence in Nigeria, with its headquarters in Abuja and Sub-Offices in Maiduguri, Yola, Benin, Lagos, and Katsina, and plans to increase its operational presence in Kano, and scale up its presence in Benue and Plateau States. Working closely with the Nigerian Federal Government, IOM Nigeria and its over 1,300 personnel provides support in the areas of Preparedness and Response, Transition and Stabilization, and Migration Governance. IOM's initial emergency response to the 2014 escalation of violence in the North East laid the groundwork for its ongoing efforts to support IDPs, host communities, and vulnerable populations. Today, IOM continues to build on these interventions, adapting its strategies and working across the nexus to address the evolving needs of affected populations and focusing on durable solutions and community resilience.
IOM plays a key role in the country’s UN emergency response framework, including through the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HRP) and the UNSDCF, coordinating efforts across critical sectors of assistance beyond acute crises to strengthen the humanitarian- development-peace-nexus (HDPN). This includes a workforce of staff working in areas such as camp coordination and camp management (CCCM), shelter, disengagement, disassociation, reintegration and reconciliation (DDRR), mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and protection, among others. As the largest CCCM actor in the North East, IOM co-leads the CCCM/NFI sector and supports 56 camps. Its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has been instrumental for the humanitarian and development community as partners rely heavily on DTM products for planning, decision-making, service provision, and accountability to the affected population. In water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), IOM manages a core pipeline for distributing WASH NFI kits, drills and maintains boreholes for safe water access, constructs sanitation facilities, and conducts hygiene promotion through community sensitization and WASH committees. Through the operation of humanitarian hubs, IOM provides safe and solar efficient accommodation and office space in hard-to-reach locations in Borno state for humanitarian actors.
Across Nigeria, IOM demonstrates significant capacity in managing protection interventions, with a focus on GBV risk mitigation, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and accountability to affected populations (AAP).
Since 2002, IOM has maintained a strong operational presence in Nigeria, with its headquarters in Abuja and Sub-Offices in Maiduguri, Yola, Benin, Lagos, and Katsina, and plans to increase its operational presence in Kano, and scale up its presence in Benue and Plateau States. Working closely with the Nigerian Federal Government, IOM Nigeria and its over 1,300 personnel provides support in the areas of Preparedness and Response, Transition and Stabilization, and Migration Governance. IOM's initial emergency response to the 2014 escalation of violence in the North East laid the groundwork for its ongoing efforts to support IDPs, host communities, and vulnerable populations. Today, IOM continues to build on these interventions, adapting its strategies and working across the nexus to address the evolving needs of affected populations and focusing on durable solutions and community resilience.
IOM plays a key role in the country’s UN emergency response framework, including through the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HRP) and the UNSDCF, coordinating efforts across critical sectors of assistance beyond acute crises to strengthen the humanitarian- development-peace-nexus (HDPN). This includes a workforce of staff working in areas such as camp coordination and camp management (CCCM), shelter, disengagement, disassociation, reintegration and reconciliation (DDRR), mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and protection, among others. As the largest CCCM actor in the North East, IOM co-leads the CCCM/NFI sector and supports 56 camps. Its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has been instrumental for the humanitarian and development community as partners rely heavily on DTM products for planning, decision-making, service provision, and accountability to the affected population. In water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), IOM manages a core pipeline for distributing WASH NFI kits, drills and maintains boreholes for safe water access, constructs sanitation facilities, and conducts hygiene promotion through community sensitization and WASH committees. Through the operation of humanitarian hubs, IOM provides safe and solar efficient accommodation and office space in hard-to-reach locations in Borno state for humanitarian actors.
Across Nigeria, IOM demonstrates significant capacity in managing protection interventions, with a focus on GBV risk mitigation, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and accountability to affected populations (AAP). Operating in IDP camps nationwide, IOM ensures safety, dignity, and equitable access to assistance for all people in need, with integrated mechanisms for GBV risk mitigation and disability inclusion embedded throughout the programme cycle. Additionally, IOM builds resilience by enhancing the capacity of local partners and government agencies in disaster preparedness and response, leveraging its experience and deep-rooted networks across Nigeria.
Through a strong presence in both North Central and North West Nigeria, IOM has reinforced community stabilization and social cohesion efforts, particularly in border areas where displacement and trafficking risks are high. Its ability to meaningfully engage with women, girls, and other vulnerable groups ensures inclusive, responsive programmes that address the unique needs of affected populations and support local stability and resilience across the country.
IOM, with its institutional, technical, and staff capacity and mobile teams, effectively manages emergency programmes aligned with humanitarian response plans and strategic frameworks spanning the humanitarian-development-peace nexus such as the Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF), Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Global Compact on Migration (GCM). See IOM Nigeria latest Annual Report for key achievements.
In line with the 2023-2027 Country Strategy, IOM continues to support the Government of Nigeria at all levels – national, sub-national, and local – by fostering strong partnerships and providing critical assistance to enhance the government's leadership and response capabilities in managing and addressing migration, displacement, conflict drivers and humanitarian crises. Through established and close cooperation, such as the development of State Action Plans (SAPs), IOM has played a key role in developing a comprehensive system to collect and disseminate data on internally displaced persons (IDPs), host communities and migrant populations. The data is available for all stakeholders to plan, prevent and deliver services to affected populations, ensuring coordinated and effective responses.
IOM supports the Government in managing migration in a humane and orderly manner through capacity-strengthening, advisory services, and technical assistance across various areas, such as migration health, assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR), counter-trafficking, displacement drivers and information management. IOM has established strong collaboration with national migration stakeholders to improve border management, combat trafficking in persons, reduce irregular migration, and integrate migration considerations into Nigeria's broader development plans. These partnerships involve key agencies such as the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), and various Federal and State ministries – including Humanitarian Affairs, Health, Education, Water Resources, Women’s Affairs, Youths and Sports, Agriculture, Works and Housing, Science and Technology, Environment, and the Ministry of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (MRRR).
Furthermore, IOM works in addressing the drivers of conflict to prevent displacement and enhance social cohesion, including by providing technical support to the Government on DDRR processes.
IOM’s engagement also extends to the regional level, particularly through its collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This cooperation helps to align Nigeria’s migration management practices with broader regional frameworks, ensuring an integrated and sustainable approach to managing migration challenges across West Africa. Through these multifaceted efforts, IOM continues to strengthen the Government's capacity to lead on crisis response and migration issues, ensuring a comprehensive, coordinated, and resilient response that promotes long-term sustainability.
In line with the 2023-2027 Country Strategy, IOM continues to support the Government of Nigeria at all levels – national, sub-national, and local – by fostering strong partnerships and providing critical assistance to enhance the government's leadership and response capabilities in managing and addressing migration, displacement, conflict drivers and humanitarian crises. Through established and close cooperation, such as the development of State Action Plans (SAPs), IOM has played a key role in developing a comprehensive system to collect and disseminate data on internally displaced persons (IDPs), host communities and migrant populations. The data is available for all stakeholders to plan, prevent and deliver services to affected populations, ensuring coordinated and effective responses.
IOM supports the Government in managing migration in a humane and orderly manner through capacity-strengthening, advisory services, and technical assistance across various areas, such as migration health, assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR), counter-trafficking, displacement drivers and information management. IOM has established strong collaboration with national migration stakeholders to improve border management, combat trafficking in persons, reduce irregular migration, and integrate migration considerations into Nigeria's broader development plans. These partnerships involve key agencies such as the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), and various Federal and State ministries – including Humanitarian Affairs, Health, Education, Water Resources, Women’s Affairs, Youths and Sports, Agriculture, Works and Housing, Science and Technology, Environment, and the Ministry of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (MRRR).
Furthermore, IOM works in addressing the drivers of conflict to prevent displacement and enhance social cohesion, including by providing technical support to the Government on DDRR processes.
IOM’s engagement also extends to the regional level, particularly through its collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This cooperation helps to align Nigeria’s migration management practices with broader regional frameworks, ensuring an integrated and sustainable approach to managing migration challenges across West Africa. Through these multifaceted efforts, IOM continues to strengthen the Government's capacity to lead on crisis response and migration issues, ensuring a comprehensive, coordinated, and resilient response that promotes long-term sustainability.












Aligned with IOM’s global Localization Framework, the IOM Nigeria Localization Strategy emphasizes collaboration with local actors to deliver effective and sustainable humanitarian responses. Through the Rapid Response Fund (RRF), IOM partners with national organizations, serving as an intermediary to transfer knowledge, technical support and resources. Since its launch, the RRF has funded 26 organizations, allowing for rapid, cost-effective responses across Nigeria that are community-owned and targeted at fostering long-term solutions tailored to community-specific needs and rooted in indigenous practices.
Localization is central to IOM's efforts, particularly in co-designing, co-implementing, and co-evaluating initiatives, such as through community-based planning. IOM strengthens local ownership across its programmes, fostering local leadership in key areas such as return and reintegration, climate change adaptation, conflict mitigation, and economic revitalization. By placing local actors at the heart of its operations, IOM ensures that they are empowered to spearhead community-led solutions and drive sustainable development.
Aligned with IOM’s global Localization Framework, the IOM Nigeria Localization Strategy emphasizes collaboration with local actors to deliver effective and sustainable humanitarian responses. Through the Rapid Response Fund (RRF), IOM partners with national organizations, serving as an intermediary to transfer knowledge, technical support and resources. Since its launch, the RRF has funded 26 organizations, allowing for rapid, cost-effective responses across Nigeria that are community-owned and targeted at fostering long-term solutions tailored to community-specific needs and rooted in indigenous practices.
Localization is central to IOM's efforts, particularly in co-designing, co-implementing, and co-evaluating initiatives, such as through community-based planning. IOM strengthens local ownership across its programmes, fostering local leadership in key areas such as return and reintegration, climate change adaptation, conflict mitigation, and economic revitalization. By placing local actors at the heart of its operations, IOM ensures that they are empowered to spearhead community-led solutions and drive sustainable development.
Sustainability is at the core of IOM’s approach, with efforts focused on strengthening the capacity of local actors to manage long-term humanitarian and development services independently. This objective is achieved through capacity-sharing initiatives, including training in disaster preparedness, project management, and data collection via IOM’s DTM. IOM also prioritizes improving access to funding for local actors, supporting them in resource mobilization and enhancing their visibility on national and international platforms. By fostering these partnerships, IOM aims to promote resilience, and ensure locally-driven, sustainable solutions in Nigeria.
Through localized coordination and ensuring accountability, transparency, and gender inclusivity, these efforts support IOM's goal to strengthen local resilience and governance by promoting safe, well-governed human mobility and addressing humanitarian needs while contributing to Nigeria’s broader development goals.
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Objective 1Saving lives
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Objective 2Solutions to displacement
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Objective 3Pathways for regular migration
Saving lives and protecting people on the move

IOM Nigeria addresses urgent humanitarian needs of crisis-affected populations through integrated, life-saving programmes, in line with humanitarian protection principles while contributing to long-term recovery. Aligned with the IOM Strategic Plan 2024–2028 and guided by the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDPN) approach, IOM’s approach not only meets immediate needs but fosters sustainable solutions. By partnering with government bodies and civil society organizations (CSOs), IOM ensures local ownership, gender-responsive and tailored interventions for vulnerable groups, including children, older persons, persons with disabilities, survivors of GBV, and victims of trafficking.
Through a gender-sensitive and inclusive lens, IOM provides targeted support to internally displaced persons (IDPs), particularly those in camps or return areas facing insecurity, damaged infrastructure, and limited services. IOM also strengthens the capacities of governments, local authorities, and CSOs through training and technical assistance to ensure continuity of essential services during crises.
Through DTM, IOM monitors displacement trends, including its drivers, to enable data-driven decision-making. IOM also enhances information management systems, provides health, protection, mental health and psychological support and leads camp coordination, WASH infrastructure, cash-based interventions (CBI), shelter, and non-food item distribution.
Thus, through these activities, IOM directly contributes to life-saving assistance by prioritizing funding for the alleviation of human suffering, reducing threats and vulnerabilities, and lastly, enhancing humanitarian assistance standards for affected populations.
Driving solutions to displacement

IOM works to support the implementation of the State Solutions Action Plans (SAP) developed with the Office of the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Solutions to Internal Displacement, governments, UN agencies, and partners. These plans aim to reduce displacement-related vulnerabilities and promote self-reliance among communities. IOM’s multi-sectoral programming designed in line with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Framework on Durable Solutions aims to contribute to supporting the numerous IDPs, returnees, and host communities across northern Nigerian states to find durable solutions. This entails supporting access to safe sustainable homes, basic services, economic opportunities, and legal rights, fostering public participation and safety, and supporting family reunification and access to justice.
IOM will increase its support for state-led efforts to address the drivers of forced migration in the context of climate change adaptation and to enhance the resilience of affected communities, including populations unable to relocate from harm. Support will be provided to people who want to stay in their home areas by increasing investments in disaster risk reduction measures and local adaptation. IOM will embed environmental standards across its operations to ensure that it contributes to reducing environmental degradation, while seeking opportunities to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management.
To achieve durable solutions and prevent future displacement, IOM will increase its investment in development approaches that integrate health care, education, livelihoods, DDRR processes and community-based protection mechanisms to support the successful integration or re-integration of IDPs, returnees, ex-associates of violent extremist organizations (VEOs) and contributing to other preventive measures to displacement.
In areas impacted by conflict, crisis and fragility, IOM will mobilize social cohesion and peacebuilding efforts to prevent and resolve conflict, improve stability and, ultimately, contribute to the establishment of resilient, peaceful and inclusive societies.
Thus, through its activities, IOM aims to directly contribute to sustainable solutions to displacement by primarily fostering resilience and self-reliance among displaced people, supporting them in accessing long-term solutions, and minimizing adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their homes.
Facilitating pathways for regular migration

IOM will continue to promote safe, orderly, and regular migration, recognizing its value to both migrants and society. To address the challenges of conflict and instability in Northeast Nigeria, IOM seeks to enhance data and protection-centered regular migration pathways for vulnerable groups, including IDPs, refugees, returnees, and victims of trafficking. In collaboration with the government, IOM will provide evidence-based data and policy support, ensuring safe and orderly migration through comprehensive programmes that prioritize health and protection.
Additionally, IOM will focus on strengthening government capacity to manage migration effectively, with particular attention to the safety, health, and security of migrants throughout their journey. Efforts will build on previous support to the Nigerian government in strengthening legal and policy frameworks for labour mobility, including the development of the National Policy on Labour Migration (2014). They will promote the development of sustainable channels for regular migration that adapt to emerging migration trends and establishing monitoring systems for cross-border movements. By aligning migration management practices with international standards, IOM supports Nigeria in creating a well-coordinated, inclusive migration framework responsive to the needs of all stakeholders.
Percentage of funding required contributing to the long term outcomes expressed on IOM's Strategic Results Framework.
IOM adheres to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) understanding of accountability to affected populations (AAP) in its implementation and across its strategies. This includes alignment with IOM's Gender Equality Policy, IOM Accountability to Affected Populations Framework and IOM's equality and equity strategy.
This commitment ensures that power is exercised responsibly by considering the perspectives of those the Organization seeks to assist, including individuals in crisis, those at risk, and communities benefiting from community-based programming, such as host populations, IDPs and returnees. IOM will mainstream AAP within its strategies and programmes to deliver a quality, safe, and accountable response to crisis-related needs. In practice, this is achieved through robust complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFM), strategically placed in camps and camp-like settings, as well as through outreach activities such as house-to-house visits, community meetings, and focus group discussions.
IOM adheres to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) understanding of accountability to affected populations (AAP) in its implementation and across its strategies. This includes alignment with IOM's Gender Equality Policy, IOM Accountability to Affected Populations Framework and IOM's equality and equity strategy.
This commitment ensures that power is exercised responsibly by considering the perspectives of those the Organization seeks to assist, including individuals in crisis, those at risk, and communities benefiting from community-based programming, such as host populations, IDPs and returnees. IOM will mainstream AAP within its strategies and programmes to deliver a quality, safe, and accountable response to crisis-related needs. In practice, this is achieved through robust complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFM), strategically placed in camps and camp-like settings, as well as through outreach activities such as house-to-house visits, community meetings, and focus group discussions. These mechanisms ensure that affected populations, including host communities, IDPs, and returnees, have a platform to voice their concerns, which IOM actively listens to and addresses. Information is tailored to meet the diverse needs of different groups, considering factors such as age, gender, and vulnerability.
In Nigeria, IOM integrates human rights and AAP through its sectoral interventions, emphasizing the centrality of protection and rights-based approaches. This approach includes mainstreaming protection principles across all sectors of interventions to mitigate risks and uphold the "do no harm" principle, safety and dignity, ensuring meaningful access to assistance, accountability, participation and empowerment. Participation is promoted through consultation groups that are gender-sensitive, with separate groups for men and women, ensuring that gender perspectives are considered in the discussions, empowering affected populations and ensuring transparency through timely information dissemination.
Integrating protection thematic areas (protection, gender, GBV, disability, counter-trafficking, child protection, PSEAH and MHPSS) in all internal sectoral interventions will also be a priority. In line with IOM’s Institutional Framework for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Crisis (GBViC Framework), GBV risk mitigation is a shared responsibility. Every sector and unit must consider potential GBV risks that may be heightened by their interventions and take necessary actions to address them. IOM integrates protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) as a core principle across all operations, requiring staff, contractors, and key partners to complete PSEA training. The Organization ensures that referral mechanisms for GBV are well-established, with strong coordination between PSEA focal points, GBV focal points and relevant teams. IOM maintains safe, accessible, and gender-sensitive complaint and feedback mechanisms, including complaint boxes and focal points speaking the local languages, at all operational locations, ensuring proper follow-up and addressing concerns raised by affected populations. These efforts are designed to mainstream protection principles, ensuring that all programming and interventions are responsive to the safety and dignity of those IOM serves.


Camp coordination and camp management
IOM will continue to support accountable and equitable responses for the displaced population in Nigeria by ensuring access to basic services, lifesaving protection, and improved living condition for displaced population in camps and camp-like settings through:
- Management and coordination of displacement sites to ensure minimum camp standards and site-level coordination to monitor the gaps and needs.
- Implementation of site improvements and mitigation efforts to address climate change-related hazards, ensuring a safe and accessible camp environment.
- Reception centre management to provide immediate assistance for new arrivals.
- Promotion of accountability and people-centered approaches in camps through community-based feedback mechanisms, communication with communities, community led-projects and tailored activities for women and girls through the Women’s Participation Project.
- Community sensitization and awareness-raising on early messages (EMs) on flooding and flood mitigation measures.
- Coordination of all the CCCM and SNFI Sector responses, working with NEMA and SEMA, to prevent duplication, ensure accountability in the response and enhance coordination mechanisms to ensure effective responses, common policies, and inter-sector coordination at the state and national levels to advance localization and sustainable solutions.
- Capacity building and advocacy for coherent, protection-oriented humanitarian responses for displaced populations through a strengthened inter-sectoral approach in CCCM, Shelter, and NFI responses while advocating for durable solutions across BAY states
- Complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFMs) to improve the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian programmes and services rendered to internally displaced persons in Northeast Nigeria. CFM Desk in placed strategically in the camps and camp like-setting, house-to-house visits especially to the extremely vulnerable individuals, community meetings, focus group discussions, key interviews, and radio listening groups. IOM works closely with relevant partners and affected communities ensuring information and mechanisms are established.
- Supporting the transition from camp life to durable solutions, facilitating safe, dignified, and voluntary returns, resettlement, and integration into local communities. By 2027, it is anticipated that the Government will have made significant progress in its return strategy, with the closure of all IDP camps in Borno State

Health
IOM will continue to ensure access to health care services for crisis-affected populations in close collaboration with local government and humanitarian partners. IOM will focus on:
- In parallel with the activities which will continue from 2024, increased focus on capacity development of government stakeholders and local health actors to strengthen their ability in responding to public health concerns, increasing their autonomy and gradually decreasing their dependence on humanitarian aid.
- Support to the enhancement of the Nigerian government's communication and information dissemination on public health-related system through private companies for community engagement and effective risk reduction.
- Continuing transition, recovery, and solutions efforts, by collaborating with the Ministry of Health, Primary Health Care Development Agency, Health sectors/clusters, and its partners to strengthen the health system and restore adequate and dignified health care services for crisis-affected communities by targeting 20 primary healthcare (PHC) facilities in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Kano, and Katsina states.
- Using its Health, Border and Mobility Management (HBMM) Framework, implementing activities that combine a better understanding of population mobility with disease surveillance. The focus will be on creating tailored responses and improving disease outbreak preparedness and response, particularly at border areas for outbreaks like mpox, in accordance with the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR). Key activities will include:
- Strengthening health systems along major mobility routes.
- Collaborating with relevant authorities to enhance cross-border and point of entry (PoE) surveillance for public health events of international concern.
- Providing technical assistance for the development and effective implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for managing infectious diseases.
- Conducting public risk communication and community engagement initiatives among travelers and within cross-border host communities.
- Promoting multisectoral coordination and collaboration, including cross-border efforts.
- Advancing the development and integration of migration health policies into Nigeria's crisis response framework, ensuring the formulation of inclusive health policies that address the needs of migrants, IDPs, and host communities, with a focus on healthcare access, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and coordination with national and international health stakeholders.

Mental health and psychosocial support
IOM will continue to provide a comprehensive range of MHPSS services to address humanitarian needs and support durable solutions and peacebuilding efforts in the northern regions (Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara) and other parts of Nigeria (Benue, Plateau). MHPSS activities are delivered through IOM’s interdisciplinary Psychosocial Mobile Teams (PMTs) and tailored to individual or problem-based needs while ensuring that protection aspects are considered in all MHPSS services. All services and activities will be provided through a community-based approach and aim at strengthening local capacities, including:
- Capacity strengthening and training initiatives targeting government, humanitarian and civil society actors are facilitated to improve MHPSS service delivery and strengthen capacities.
- Support collective healing and foster social cohesion to increase the resilience of communities, facilitate the (re-) integration of IDPs, combatants and their dependents as well as returnees and contribute to peaceful coexistence and development, while continuing the activities planned for 2024.
- Sustaining its investment in MHPSS as implemented in 2024, aiming at system strengthening. Planned activities contributing to this include:
- Cooperation with and support to academic institutions;
- Continued coordination and technical support provided to the MHPSS Technical Working Groups in Borno, Adamawa and potential new states.

Protection
IOM will respond to the needs and uphold the rights of at-risk and affected individuals through continued specialized protection programming and integrated programming:
- Supporting GBV survivors by ensuring services, referral mechanisms, and information are available for them and the broader community members.
- Reinforcement of information, prevention and training on counter trafficking and training on GBV core concepts, safely and ethically handling GBV disclosures for government actors (including NAPTIP, NPF, NSCDC) and humanitarian/civil society partners, given the increased numbers of GBV cases and TIP cases.
- In addition, given the protection needs of survivors of GBV and TIP, integrated support to survivors is foreseen for 2025, including basic needs, safe housing, multi-purpose cash assistance, food and non-food items and reintegration activities combined with protection assistance.

Water, sanitation and hygiene
To support the prevention and control of waterborne and sanitation-related diseases, like cholera, typhoid, and diarrhea, IOM will continue its commitment beyond the services provided in 2024 by monitoring and assisting the management of WASH infrastructure in both the community and displaced population sites.
- Water and sanitation services remain crucial for improving the living conditions of the IDPs, and therefore the planned activities for 2025 will mirror those of 2024.
- Enhancing WASH preparedness and reduce risks, the mission will maintain the activities started in 2024 in 2025, including efforts to strengthen WASH services to withstand climate-related shocks, conflicts, and public health challenges.
- Ensuring uninterrupted access to essential WASH NFI kits for IDPs and vulnerable populations.
- Continuing to invest in the development of improved water management systems and tools for better resource management and risk mitigation related to water for consumption and drinking. This will include drilling, upgrade, maintenance and operation of water supply systems.
- Construction, rehabilitation, maintenance and operation of communal and households' sanitation facilities.
- Hygiene promotion including sensitization and awareness raising to mitigate public health risk

Shelter and settlements
Since 2021, IOM has implemented various approaches to deliver sustainable housing solutions that are adaptable to diverse social, cultural, environmental, technical, economic, political, and governmental contexts. Access to dignified shelter and settlement assistance, which provides families and communities with a place they can call "home," is both lifesaving and life-enabling, playing an integral role in fostering protection and recovery. Against this backdrop, IOM remains committed to improving the living conditions of IDPs, returnees, and host communities by providing safe and dignified living environments. This includes ensuring access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services for vulnerable and displaced populations, with a focus on gender considerations. Activities will include:
- Site and settlement planning and upgrading of settlement infrastructure.
- Support for upholding, improving, or restoring security of tenure.
- Market-based interventions, including cash-based interventions to facilitate access to shelter and non-food items (NFIs) and basic emergency needs; direct rental subsidies assistance for shelter; rental subsidy via rehabilitation for rent; and household and personal items (NFIs) distributed by cash/voucher.
- Provision of material, technical, and/or financial assistance for self-recovery.
- Pre-positioning and/or distribution of shelter materials and household items.
- Design, construction, and upgrades of individual and collective emergency shelters, transitional/core shelters, and housing.
- Repair and retrofitting of damaged homes.

Disaster risk management
IOM will continue the planned activities for 2024 while expanding efforts to strengthen the capacity of partners, relevant authorities, stakeholders, and affected communities, working closely with the CCCM and Shelter sectors to achieve shared goals of improving site management, enhancing shelter conditions, and ensuring the delivery of essential services and non-food items to displaced populations in order to enhance resilience and prevent future disasters. Complementing this approach, IOM will conduct the following activities:
- Enhancing disaster risk preparedness through tailored training and the provision of technical guidance on displacement management and support, including the piloting and roll out of the displacement scorecard.
- Establishing disaster preparedness mechanisms for climate-induced disasters in flood-prone communities and existing camps and camp-like settings, in collaboration with local authorities and partners such as the Mass Evacuation Planning Guidelines.
- Identifying and assessing collective centers, used as temporary shelters for displaced populations, and strengthening the capacity of community first responders to manage and support these centers effectively. This involves training local responders on best practices for shelter management, ensuring the provision of basic and enhancing coordination mechanisms to improve the overall response to displacement.
- Implementing small-scale infrastructural mitigation works, particularly to reduce flood risk.
- Mapping potential disaster risks and safe areas along identified hazardous zones.
- Constructing and rehabilitating public infrastructure, such as rainwater runoff systems, retention walls, and spate irrigation, to mitigate the impact of climate change, including issues related to seasonal rainfall and flooding.
- Implementing community-led afforestation efforts in areas affected by displacement, including tree planting campaigns, training sessions, and establishing or reviving tree nurseries to mitigate deforestation and disaster risk.
- Promoting the use of alternative, clean cooking energy by leading briquette production orientation and capacity-strengthening training sessions and distribution of briquette and fuel-efficient stoves to community members
- Continuing to implement small-scale infrastructural mitigation works aimed at reducing flood risk.

Data for action, insight and foresight
IOM’s DTM activities will continue to focus on the North East and North West regions of Nigeria through various data initiatives, including:
- Mobility Tracking (MT) to regularly track movements, socioeconomic characteristics, locations and cross-sectorial needs of observed populations in locations of interest to target assistance for planning and response.
- Flow Monitoring (FM) to track movements of people across borders and through monitoring points to improve understanding of migration dynamics and drivers in the region. The data collection is done at key transit and border points to identify the scale and direction of flows and reasons for movement.
- Registration to identify beneficiaries and their characteristics for beneficiary selection, vulnerability targeting and programming and capture biometric data to supply individual identification using the DTM-developed Biometric Registration and Verification Application (BRaVE).
- Solutions and Mobility Index (SMI) to address protracted displacement and identify root causes of fragility on stability, peace, development, recovery, and reintegration dynamics to help achieve durable solutions for vulnerable communities.
- Intention Surveys (IS) to capture data linked to solutions on IDPs’ intentions to return, locally integrate and relocate.
- Perception Surveys (PS) to underscore data linked to the host communities' perceptions of IDPs' return, integration, and relocation.
- Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) to track daily movement of IDPs and returnees providing crucial information for the early delivery of assistance, such as figures of displaced people, their origin and destination as well as more pressing needs.
- Transhumance Tracking Tool (TTT) and Early Warning and Early Response (EWER) linked to peacebuilding and conflict mitigation activities and aiming to provide timely data concerning transhumance migration in the Sahel. Its primary objective is to provide the necessary information along both recognized and unofficial transhumance routes aimed at conflict prevention and peacebuilding through early warning and early response.
- Monitoring and assessing environmental factors contributing to displacement, including land degradation, drought and climate-induced events, examining how environmental changes affect IDPs in Nigeria.
- Sudden/ad-hoc assessments due to sudden displacement caused by insecurity, conflict, floods, fire, and other natural hazards.
- Analysis linked to durable solutions, capacity strengthening of partners on data management and conducting broad-based surveys to gather specific information from the population of interest regarding return, local integration, relocation, displacement, perceptions, and other thematic areas.
- Compiling National Displacement Profiles based on end of year figures. These profiles offer insights into the latest figures, aligning with the objectives outlined by the Data for Solutions to Internal Displacement Taskforce (DSID).

Support services for response actors
IOM currently operates and manages nine humanitarian hubs in North East Nigeria, which include a base camp in Maiduguri (Red Roof) and eight field hubs located in Gwoza, Bama, Ngala, Dikwa, Monguno, Banki (with two hubs), and Damasak.
The hubs provide and will continue to provide:
- Secure accommodation
- Office space
- Meeting and training facilities
- Access to insecure areas
- Critical interventions that improve and save the lives of conflict-affected individuals.
In 2025, IOM will focus on:
Solarization of the humanitarian hubs through:
- Transitioning the energy supply of hubs in Bama, Banki, Damasak, Dikwa, Gwoza, Monguno, and Ngala from diesel generators to solar energy,iming to cover 100 per cent of the hubs' electricity needs through a hybrid Solar power supply system.
Supporting essential connectivity:
- Sustaining the emergency telecommunications sector (ETS) within the hubs, which provides vital internet connectivity in remote areas.
- Ensuring that hubs continue to operate amid security risks and flooding, allowing for:
- Ongoing responder presence in hard-to-reach areas.
- Life-saving assistance reaching the most vulnerable populations.
Provision of support services to key institutions for protecting vulnerable groups:
- NAPTIP for support to victims of trafficking (VoTs). This includes the development and implementation of standardized tools for screening and reporting, as well as providing training to NAPTIP officials to improve their capacity in handling VoTs.
- Ministry of Women Affairs for addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and supporting children. This partnership involves the establishment of Multi-Purpose Community Centres (MPCCs) that offer services such as psychosocial support, skills training, and awareness-raising campaigns aimed at preventing GBV and promoting the well-being of women and children
- Ministry of Health for health-related assistance. This includes conducting health assessments, offering medical care, and implementing public health responses tailored to the needs.

Land and property
Building on its 2024 interventions, IOM will continue to implement housing, land, and property (HLP) interventions, focusing on increasing access to safe and dignified shelter solutions and essential household items. This approach will be based on a holistic pathway to solutions that considers environmental variables, due diligence in supporting IDPs and host communities to access adequate land for housing and agricultural/livelihood activities, and promoting their rights to HLP in close collaboration with local authorities. Key activities will be prioritized in 2025 including:
- Conducting HLP due diligence prior to all land-related interventions to ensure seamless access and protect the rights of both landowners and users, with particular attention to women, who frequently encounter additional barriers to documentation and land tenure. This effort includes drafting tenure agreements and assisting with land title documentation.
- In collaboration with local authorities, assistance to affected populations in recovering lost or damaged land title documents. Fresh registration and processing of title documents will also be conducted for vulnerable landowners.
- To strengthen the capacity of land registries, provision of training and material support to improve the registration, processing, and issuance of legal land titles to affected populations.
- Organization of consultative workshops, forums and initiatives aimed at promoting the protection of HLP rights for affected populations in alignment with national and international legal frameworks and best practices.
- Continuing HLP gender sensitive needs assessments across communities to ensure that implementation is well-informed, gender sensitive and data-driven, addressing gender and context-specific needs. Assessments of HLP needs and settlement patterns will explore innovative initiatives such as rehabilitation for rent (R4R), support for the construction and repair of damaged shelters, and assistance in documenting HLP tenure rights

Livelihoods and economic recovery
In response to the ongoing socioeconomic challenges associated with conflict and displacement throughout Nigeria, and particularly in the north, IOM is implementing a comprehensive approach to economic recovery that fosters sustainable development and social cohesion while harnessing migration opportunities. Building on the 2024 activities implemented by IOM in Nigeria, in the coming year, IOM will continue focusing on:
- Socioeconomic reintegration and social cohesion through integrated community-based income-generating activities (IGA) and by grouping beneficiaries in village saving and loans associations (VSLAs), thereby strengthening social cohesion and supporting the reintegration of displaced populations into host communities.
- Building resilience to climate and conflict shocks, by providing training in innovative agricultural practices, supporting climate-resilient livelihoods for farmers, herders, and individuals, implementing sustainable livestock programmes, combating desertification through community quick impact projects (QIPs), and introducing adaptation measures for communities affected by conflict, the disruption of livelihoods and climate change.
- Local economic growth and employment, by strengthening capacities and diversifying income sources to promote sustainable livelihoods and enhance employment opportunities for vulnerable groups, especially women, youth, people with disabilities and ex-combatants and their dependents.
- Increasing support for livelihoods in crisis-prone environments, by expanding access to financial institutions and microcredit opportunities to empower vulnerable populations with financial resources; providing life skills and capacity development programmes that enhance employability and entrepreneurship; delivering financial literacy training to improve budgeting, savings, and financial planning skills; supporting access to local institutions that respond effectively to community needs; and fostering resilience through diversified income-generating activities, tailored vocational training, and mentorship programmes.

Peacebuilding, violence and conflict reduction
Working across various fragile contexts and using community-based approaches, IOM will continue developing its peacebuilding and conflict prevention portfolio through different means:
- Strengthening community conflict resolution mechanisms by establishing and supporting Community Peace Committees (CPCs) at the community, local government area (LGA), and state levels. These committees will receive training in early warning and early response mechanisms, conflict transformation, mediation, and reconciliation. Additionally, the committees will engage in inclusive dialogues with relevant stakeholders.
- Preparing receiving communities for the reintegration and reconciliation of former non-state armed group (NSAG) associates through multi-level outreach efforts.
- Continued support and monitoring of individuals who have left NSAG-controlled areas and are entering host communities, including low-risk former NSAG associates and IDPs, by providing psychosocial and socioeconomic support.
- Collaboration with federal and state governments to develop legal and policy frameworks that support DDRR processes and the prevention of violent extremism in Nigeria.
- Expansion of community-based peacebuilding initiatives to broaden engagement with communities in reconciliation dialogues, enhancing local capacity to address conflicts, promoting transitional justice to address historical grievances, and empowering youth and women through civic and vocational programmes. Through community-based approaches and targeted engagement efforts, IOM ensures that women, youth and other vulnerable groups are particularly considered and given a voice.
- Facilitation of inclusive gender and age-sensitive community dialogues between local communities and IDPs in camps and surrounding areas to promote peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and social cohesion.

Community stabilization and community-driven development
IOM Nigeria will continue its community stabilization programming, using a conflict sensitive approach, across the northern regions in 2025, aiming to address the root causes of conflict and displacement and contribute to resilience and community development. The programming will focus on resource-based conflicts, inter-ethnic tensions, and environmental degradation, exacerbated by climate change, criminality, and poor governance through:
- Dialogues, coordination meetings and capacity strengthening workshops enhancing collaboration and community stabilization capacity with local government bodies, civil society, and international partners to foster coordinated and effective responses;
- Development of community-based action plans with community members together with LGAs to address the needs of key sectors such as education, health, water, and migration;
- Promotion of peace through media campaigns and community engagement initiatives;
- Reconstruction of critical infrastructure identified by the communities themselves in conflict-affected areas;
- Mental health and psychosocial support services for displaced and other crisis-affected populations;
- Enhancement of social cohesion by promoting community dialogues and meaningful women’s participation as well as inter-communal and inter-generational dialogues;
- Support for youth engagement in social cohesion efforts and strengthening of local governance structures;
- Economic empowerment initiatives to rebuild livelihoods and foster long-term stability through integrated income-generating activities.

Integrated policy support
IOM in Nigeria plays a crucial role in assisting the Federal and State Governments in developing integrated policies on migration issues during crisis situations. IOM provides a comprehensive framework of support to ensure that migration management is coherent, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of affected populations, even in the most volatile contexts.
IOM's multifaceted support to the Nigerian Government includes policy development, capacity strengthening, humanitarian assistance, data-driven policymaking, and partnerships. This ensures that migration challenges in crisis contexts are addressed in a coordinated, efficient, and rights-based manner. By fostering resilience and preparedness, IOM contributes to the long-term stability and well-being of both displaced populations and host communities.
IOM’s integrated policy support to the Government encompasses the following initiatives:
- Providing technical and operational support to the Federal Government through the Technical Working Group on Migration and Development to review the National Migration Policy (2015) and its implementation plan.
- Through partnerships with federal and state bodies, IOM helps establish clear protocols and capacity for rapid response, such as the development of crisis-response components within the National Migration Policy and standard operating procedures for emergency situations. This policy-backed preparedness enables coordinated action that directly contributes to protecting and saving lives in emergencies, especially in volatile regions.
- Assisting state governments in developing state-level migration management and crisis strategies.
- Offering technical support for the operationalization of various crisis and migration thematic policies, including the National Diaspora Policy, Standard Operating Procedures on Return, Readmission and Reintegration, and the National Policy on Labour Migration.
- Supporting the Federal Government in implementing the National Policy on Internally Displaced Persons.
- Strengthening migration governance structures by providing technical support across different governance levels in relation to the National Migration Policy.
- Support Nigerian authorities in addressing underlying drivers of displacement by fostering policies that tackle socioeconomic vulnerabilities, conflict resolution, and community stability. This includes technical guidance for policies like the National Policy on Labour Migration and state-level migration strategies, which promote sustainable livelihoods and local integration opportunities.
- Enhancing the operational capacities of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies with crisis and migration-related mandates through capacity-strengthening initiatives aimed at improving evidence-based policies.
- Strengthening the data management architecture in the country by offering tailored support to improve the collection, analysis, and overall management of humanitarian and migration data.
- Providing technical support to the government for its participation in multilateral processes relevant to crisis responses and human mobility.
Nigeria
The map used here is for illustration purposes only. Names and boundaries do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by IOM.
Figures are as of 31 December 2023. For more details of IOM's operational capacity in country, please see the IOM Capacity section.