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Migration and refugees

Migration and Refugees

Violent extremism and climate change are just two of the reasons why the number of displaced people in West and Central Africa continues to rise. Learn more about why migration and internal displacement are major challenges in the region and discover the various ways in which volunteering can contribute to finding inclusive and sustainable solutions to these issues.

Migration and refugees

Migration and Refugees

Violent extremism and climate change are just two of the reasons why the number of displaced people in West and Central Africa continues to rise. Learn more about why migration and internal displacement are major challenges in the region and discover the various ways in which volunteering can contribute to finding inclusive and sustainable solutions to these issues.

Migration and refugees

Awareness Campaigns on the Rights and Needs of Migrants

Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Trade Union Experiences for the Rights of Migrant Workers in Africa and Europe (fr)

UNHCR: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants – What are the Differences? (fr)

IOM: Cash-based Interventions - Annual Report and Case Studies 2021

IOM: Glossary on Migration

UNHCR: Main Glossary of Terms of the UNHCR (fr)

UNHCR: The Protection of Refugees and Other People in Movement in the ECOWAS Space (fr)

Université de Kinshasa: Migration in Central Africa: Characteristics, Challenges, and Roles in the Integration and Development of Countries in the Region (fr)

IOM: Mali - Annual Report on Migration 2022

IOM: Guide for Focal Points for Sensitization (fr)

IOM: Migrant Welfare Systems in Africa

UNESCO: Labour Migration and Human Rights Protection in Africa: Obstacles to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in Sub-Saharan Africa (fr)

IOM: Niger - National Review for the Implementation of the Objectives of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (fr)

IOM: Migration in Senegal: National Profile 2018 (fr)

IOM: Migration in Côte d’Ivoire: National Profile 2016 (fr)

Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers: A Challenge for Labor Law? (fr)

IOM: Africa Migration Report (fr)

Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Migrant Worker in Mali: Current Situation (fr)

Context and Consequences of Migration Movements

GRIP: Management of Migrations in West Africa (fr)

JRC: Identifying the Factors Driving West African Migration

OECD: Interactions between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Burkina Faso (fr)

OECD: Interactions between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Côte d'Ivoire (fr)

OECD: Interactions between Public Policies, Migration and Development (fr)

Economic Development in Africa: Migrations in the Service of Structural Transformation (fr)

ILO: Statistics of Migrant Workers in West Africa (fr)

IOM: National Study of the Labor Market in Côte d'Ivoire (fr)

IOM: Report on the Monitoring of Population Flows: Analysis of Registration Data and Individual Surveys (January-March 2023) (fr)

The Kampala Declaration

IGAD: Annex to the Kampala Declaration: Plan of Action on Jobs, Livelihoods and Self-Reliance for Refugees, Returnees and Host Communities in the IGAD region

IGAD: Kampala Declaration on Migration, Environment and Climate Change (fr)

IOM: Kampala Declaration on Environment for Development

Kampala Declaration on Working Towards Child Labour Free Zones

The Kampala Convention and the Right to Not be Arbitrarily Displaced

UNESCO: Reporting on migrants and refugees handbook for journalism educators

The IGAD Kampala Declaration on jobs, livelihoods, and self-reliance: from declaration to reality

Migration, Environment and Climate Change

Africa Regional Migration Programme: Analysis of public policies related to migration, environment and climate change in Senegal (September 2022) (fr)

Belgeo: Environmental Changes and Migration in West Africa: A Review of Case Studies (fr)

IOM: Climate Change, Food Security and Migration in Chad (2021)

IOM: Environmental Migration, Disaster Displacement and Planned Relocation in West Africa

IOM: National Study on the Link between Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Niger (fr)

Mixed Migration Centre: Climate-related Events and Environmental Pressure Factors: Impact on Migration in West and North Africa (fr)

The World Bank:  Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

IDOS: Human mobility and water in the context of rural development in Africa

OHCHR: Human Rights Climate Change and Migration in the Sahel

IDMC & GRID: Global Report on Internal Displacement

IOM: Regional Mobility Mapping in West and Central Africa (June 2022)

IOM: Migration and Agroecology in West Africa

IOM: Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) in West Africa

OHCHR: Advancing a rights-based to climate resilience and migration in the Sahel

UNHCR, IOM & Georgetown University: Planning Relocations to Protect People from Disasters and Environmental Change

Technical Summary to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL)

Global Compact for Migration Objectives: Transhumance Tracking Tool a regional perspective of mobility in West Africa

United Nations: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants - Note by the Secretary General

Rights of Refugees

UNHCR: Protection and Durable Solutions in Chad: The case of refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors (fr)

Review of the state of implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Chad (fr)

Congo: Asylum rights and refugee status (fr)

UNHCR: Cameroonian refugees in Chad seek means of self-support

Refugee Activities

HIAS: Overview 2022-2023 for Chad (fr)

IOM: Migration Governance Indicators Profile 2023 | The Republic of Chad (fr)

UNHCR: Assessment of the new influx of Central African refugees in the provinces of North and South Ubangi (outside camp) / Democratic Republic of Congo (fr)

UN Network on Migration: Voluntary National Review Report on the Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Cameroon (2022) (fr)

IOM: Displacement Monitoring Report - Republic of Cameroon (fr)

GIZ: Strengthening the Socio-Economic Participation of IDPs, Refugees and Vulnerable Host Communities in Mali (fr)

UNHCR: Teaching about refugees - Activity guide, ages 15-18 (fr)

Refugees in Gabon: between a desire for integration and a misunderstanding of rights (fr)

Refugee Statistics

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Regional Refugee Response Plan Dashboard (June 2023)

UNHCR: UNHCR operations in Burundi - August 2023: Overview (fr)

USAID: Democratic Republic of Congo - Complex emergency, March 2023 (fr)

UNHCR: Gabon: Statistics on refugees and asylum seekers in urban areas, September 2023 (fr)

UNHCR: Publications

UNHCR: Refugees and Asylum seekers from Burkina Faso in coastal countries (July 2023)

UNHCR: Two Thirds of School-Age Refugee Children and Adolescents in West and Central Africa Remain Out of School (September 2023)

UNHCR: Regional Education Dashboard: 2022-2023 School Year

UNHCR: The Situation of Malian refugees in Niger (2002) (fr)

UNHCR: Gabon: Statistics on refugees and asylum seekers in urban areas (fr)

Campaigns and Repatriation of Refugees

European Union & IOM: Joint Initiative for migrant protection and reintegration in the Sahel and Lake Chad region

The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) - 2023

UNHCR: Here in Douala, refugees talk about refugees (fr)

Guidance for landscape management approaches in situations of displacement in sub-Saharan Africa Case study from Cameroon: Experiences from the Garoua-Boulaï refugee site and surrounding communes (fr)

O-CR: Refugee Reception Zone Intikane, Niger (fr)

O-CR: Refugee Reception Zone Ampain, Ghana (fr)