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ICMPD in conjunction with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and our local partner, the India Centre for Migration, launched a study on Indians in Ireland with a virtual event on 26 February, 2021.

February 2018, The Land Border Regiments’ Training School (CTS), a small, unassuming unit of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is established with a simple yet ambitious goal: to become an integrated border management training centre of excellence. Against all the odds, but with the continuous support of ICMPD’s Netherlands’ Assistance to Lebanese Border Agencies (IBM) Project, the School has grown to become one of Lebanon’s most sought–after and trusted training institutions.

In the framework of its monthly missions to Libya, ICMPD representatives visited Tripoli in January 2021 to meet with Libyan counterparts to discuss ICMPD activities in Libya to finalise the contracting for the ICMPD Libya office. The activity took place under the framework of the EU-funded project "Strategic and Institutional Management of Migration in Libya".

On 17-18 February, ICMPD Turkey held an online training seminar for public officials at the Directorate General for Migration Management in Turkey on Integrated Data Collection and Analysis in Migration Management: Models, Systems and Good Practices.

On 9 February 2021, the SUPREME* project organised a webinar for the stakeholders of the Turkish National Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme on Essential Elements of Reintegration Assistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It is February 2024. Ahead of elections to the European Parliament, several commentators are pointing to the unlikely success of the EU’s migration policy. How did it happen?

The Forced-Return Monitoring III (FReM III) project just released a Gaps and Needs Analysis Report, analysing the national monitoring systems in twenty-two EU Member States and Schengen Associated Countries.

On the 10th of February 2021, ICMPD Jordan organised the first steering committee meeting for the "Document Security Jordan" project, financed by the Netherlands. The event was held in Amman with representatives from the Jordanian Borders and Residency Department (BRD), the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as donor and ICMPD as the implementing organisation with an online format with representatives located in Vienna.

From 26 to 28 January 2021, ICMPD organised a workshop in Tripoli with four local networks of Libyan CSOs working on migration, focused on strengthening and operationalizing the networks. The activity took place under the framework of the EU-funded project "Strategic and Institutional Management of Migration in Libya".

Despite the difficult circumstances brought about by COVID-19, a series of two advanced level trainings on document security were delivered to officers of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Pakistan by a Border Management and Security Senior Advisor of ICMPD and an external expert. The trainings were conducted under the framework of the European Union-funded project Integrated Border Management in the Silk Routes Countries (IBM Silk Routes).

While the COVID19 pandemic affected all countries, cities and societies, it particularly took a toll on vulnerable populations, people on the move, migrants and refugees. It put into question the central objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees to "leave no one behind". Along the same lines, COVID19 demonstrated the significance of adopting whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to achieve the Global Compacts’ goals, especially as the pandemic exacerbated pre-existing difficulties, such as homelessness, poverty, unemployment, and inequalities of all sorts.

ICMPD Turkey releases six new policy briefs on Turkey, offering an analysis of major trends and policy development in 2020 in relation to Irregular Migration, Legal Migration, Asylum and Refugees, Trafficking in Human Beings, Migration and Development and Migration and Civil Society.

New field research conducted under the "Technical Assistance for Cooperation with Civil Society in the Field of Migration Project" sheds light on the potential for further strengthening cooperation between CSOs and public institutions in Turkey for better migration management.

A new cooperation framework between the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the European University Institute (EUI) to enhance effective cooperation in the area of migration governance between the long-term partners.

2021 will be another challenging year for EU migration policy. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused a global health crisis of historic proportions but is also the event that impacted International migration in 2020 more than any other. It will continue to shape the migration year of 2021 according to the “ICMPD Migration Outlook 2021”, a landmark publication released by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).