Practices by Stakeholder 5

Migration and mobility mapping

In line with their specific mandates and expertise, international organizations can support States and other stakeholders to collect and analyze data on migrants. Tools and methodologies to map migration and mobility include:

• Research on migration trends;
• Migrant registration systems;
• Migrant community profiles; 
• Surveys on migrants’ intended movements;
• Migration monitoring mechanisms;
• Creating local mechanisms for data collection, particularly in natural disaster-prone areas;
• Consolidating and maintaining databases on cross-border movements;
• Developing country-specific criteria and indicators to measure migrants’ access to services;
• Mapping and assessing migrants’ specific vulnerabilities that may affect their resilience in the face of crises, such as language and cultural barriers, immigration status, and access to social services;
• Establishing and leading national or regional, multi-stakeholder taskforces to monitor in-country and cross-border movements.

Stakeholder outreach mechanisms

In line with their specific mandates and expertise, international organizations can reach out to relevant stakeholders to share pertinent information on migrants. Ways to do this include:

• Mapping and reaching out to relevant consular posts;
• Mapping and reaching out to relevant civil society actors, including migrant associations;
• Mapping and reaching out to employers, recruiters and placement agencies, and relevant private sector industry groups and associations;
• Setting up information-sharing mechanisms;
• Creating and regularly updating contact lists.