Practices by Stakeholder 6

Contingency plans for migrant communities

Local civil society actors can work with migrant communities to help them develop contingency plans. Community-based contingency plans can feed into institutional contingency plans at the local and national levels, in host States and States of origin. Measures to develop contingency plans for migrant communities can include:

• Collecting information on migrants, disaggregated by relevant characteristics, such as age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, disabilities, and languages;
• Conducting vulnerability assessments with a focus on migrants’ vulnerabilities in preparing for and managing a crisis;
• Assessing migrant communities’ levels of and capacities for crisis preparedness, including access to information and services and language, cultural, and other barriers;
• Mapping services and assistance available to migrant populations.