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The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in consultation with the Government of Ghana (GoG), hosted the launch of the new IOM Ghana Country Strategy 2022-2025 in Accra 17/05/2022.
Various national stakeholders were present at the event, including: GoG ministries, departments and agencies: development partners, civil society organizations, the private sector; and academia.Ghana has a dynamic migration context as a country of origin, transit and destination for migrants.
These individuals are engines for growth both in their host communities as well as communities of origin. The Country Surategy will amplity positive contributions of migrants on social and economic development in Ghana, while also address the challenges of migration, key among them those occasioned by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In line with the IOM Strategic Vision 2019-2023, the programmatic framework of the new Country Strategy is founded on three main pillars: resilience, mobility and governance. It aims to build the resilience of migrants and their communities of origin: strengthen existing migration management systems so that they are more protection sensitive to mobility induced vulnerabilities: and reinforce the policy and legal framework for migration governance.
Six Strategic Priorities guide the Country Strategy under the following areas of intervention: immigration and border management; counter-trafficking:, assisted voluntary return and reintegration:, migration and development:, migration health; and, emergency, preparedness, response and stabilization. Mainstreamed throughout these Strategic Priorities are the cross-cutting themes of environment and climate change, gender dynamics, migration data, rights-based approach to programming and youth.
The Country Strategy supports global, regional and national development policy frameworks, including but not limited to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). IOM Continental Strategy for Africa, United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership, National Migration Policy. National Labour Migration Policy and Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework, amongst others. Its implementation will contribute towards the achievement of safe, orderly and regular migration in Ghana and the leaving no one behind principle.