ICMPD and Bangladeshi organisation BRAC have formalised long-term collaboration to promote safe and regular migration, mobility, return and reintegration, and tackle irregular migration. Signed through a Memorandum of Understanding on 29 June 2026 in Dhaka, both organisations will focus on facilitating legal and skilled labour mobility pathways for Bangladeshi workers to Europe, as well as supporting the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants.

Long before there were Migrant Resource Centres (MRC) — before the counselling sessions, community outreach campaigns, and the networks reaching thousands of people across regions — a simple observation emerged from a Budapest Process meeting in Pakistan: “Too many people were making life-changing migration decisions, with too little or no reliable information,” says Sedef Dearing, now Deputy Director General at ICMPD.

The Senior Officials´ Meeting of the Prague Process on 23-24 June 2026 highlighted the role that each participating state and partner plays in finding whole-of-route solutions to common migration challenges. At the meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia, plenaries and panel discussions also centred on the evolving migration dynamics in all Prague Process¹ countries, including European Union Member States, the Schengen Area, Türkiye, the Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership, and Central Asia.

At this year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Poland, Director General Susanne Raab reaffirmed ICMPD’s commitment and long-standing cooperation with Ukrainian stakeholders, ICMPD Member States, and European Union Member States and institutions. The three-day gathering in Gdansk on 24-26 June 2026 hosted heads of state, ministers and heads of agencies, and civil society in high-level meetings, workshops and exhibitions, and panel discussions on the most pressing aspects of Ukraine’s recovery from Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Since 2016, Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) have expanded across the Silk Routes region, adapting to changing migration realities while continuing to support people in making informed migration decisions: helping people make informed migration decisions through access to reliable information and support.

ICMPD and the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC) brought together senior officials in Warsaw to discuss post‑conflict recovery, migration governance, and emerging policy priorities. The meeting on 9 June 2026, under the ICMPD Steering Group chairmanship of Poland, opened with welcoming remarks and a keynote by Maciej Duszczyk, Undersecretary of State at the Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration.