Countries
Benin / Burkina Faso / Cabo Verde / Gambia / Ghana / Guinea / Guinea-Bissau / Côte d'Ivoire / Liberia / Mali / Mauritania / Niger / Nigeria / Senegal / Sierra Leone / Togo
Status
Ongoing
Duration
May 2024
to
May 2029
Donors
European Union
Partners
ECOWAS Commission, ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania, Selected national institutions responsible for migration management, Non–State Actors (Civil Society Organisations, social partners).
Implementing Agency
ICMPD, International Labour Organisation and International Organisation for Migration.
The second phase, FMM II (2024-2029), also implemented by the same consortium partners, will continue supporting the ECOWAS Commission, ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania to maximise the development potential of the free movement of persons and migration in West Africa by supporting the effective implementation of the ECOWAS Free Movement of Persons Protocol and the ECOWAS Common Approach to Migration through three specific objectives:
- Strengthen the ECOWAS Commission's capacities to implement the Free Movement Protocol through intra-regional dialogue on free movement and migration issues, policy development, and harmonisation, as well as monitoring its application and implementation.
- Enhance the capacities of national institutions of the ECOWAS MS and Mauritania in the areas of migration data collection and management, migration policy development, border management, labour migration, counter-trafficking of human beings and mixed migration, diaspora engagement, and human mobility in the context of climate change.
- Increase the capacities of Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in information and protection for the benefit of migrants, returnees and cross-border populations in West Africa.