IOM in the UK currently implements the following programmes:

• Gateway Protection Programme. This programme is run jointly with UNHCR and a partnership of NGOs to provide resettlement assistance to refugees.
• Counter-Trafficking. This initiative facilitates the dignified return and reintegration of victims of human trafficking who wish to return to their countries of origin. IOM UK also runs information campaigns and training courses to various actors involved in the Counter-Trafficking field.
• Migration for Development. IOM UK is working on a number of different projects which seek to engage and mobilize the diaspora communities in the UK to contribute to the socio-economic development of their home countries.
• Heathrow Airport Transit Assistance. IOM UK provides assistance to migrants and refugees who transit at London Heathrow Airport.
• Facilitated Reintegration Scheme. This programme provides post-arrival reintegration assistance to detained migrants upon return to their country of origin.

IOM is the world’s leading international migration agency. Since its foundation in 1951 it has helped over 13 million migrants, in the belief that migration – if dignified, orderly and voluntary – is of benefit to the individuals concerned and society as a whole.

With 132 member states, a further 17 states holding observer status and 420 field locations worldwide, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

The IOM Constitution recognizes the link between migration and economic, social and cultural development, as well as to the right of freedom of movement.

IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management:

• Migration and development
• Facilitating migration
• Regulating migration
• Forced migration.

IOM activities that cut across these areas include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants' rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration.

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The full range of IOM activities worldwide are available at: www.iom.int