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Its support comes from sources as diverse as development banks and tech giant, Microsoft. However, the agency’s head, Amy Pope, said that elections worldwide are raising questions about future support
The United Nations International Organization for Migration said it has secured billions in new funding and diversified its donor base. This follows a push to increase financial support to bolster its efforts to protect migrants, reduce displacement, and expand avenues to migrate legally.
Its support comes from sources as diverse as development banks and tech giant, Microsoft. However, the agency’s head, Amy Pope, said that elections worldwide are raising questions about future support.
A former migration adviser to US President, Joe Biden, Pope said she is not doing the bidding of any government. Instead, she is focused on addressing migration in all its complexities, rather than narrowing it down to one part of a migrant’s journey.
At a time when right-wing political movements in some Western countries have criticized migrants, the Pope has repeatedly talked up the benefits of migration. The private sector benefits when migration is well managed.
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Pope warned that many migrants risk and lose their lives on perilous journeys. IOM data showed that 2023 was the deadliest in the last decade. Some 8,541 deaths were recorded, in part due to a sharp increase in fatalities in the Mediterranean.
