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International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) was founded in 1993, upon the initiative of Austria and Switzerland. The organisation was created to serve as a support mechanism for informal consultations, and to provide expertise and efficient services in the newly emerging landscape of multilateral co-operation on migration and asylum issues.
ICMPD today is an international organisation with twelve Member States (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland), about 100 staff members, a mission in Brussels and regional offices and representatives throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. ICMPD holds UN observer status. ICMPD strives for comprehensive, sustainable and future oriented migration governance.
As an international organisation with a strong European vocation ICMPD is based in Vienna but works globally.
ICMPD's working philosophy is based upon the conviction that the complexities of migration can only be met by working in partnership with governments, research institutes, international organisations and civil society and its organisations.
This approach is reflected in ICMPD's working method, based on three interlinked pillars: • Research and documentation: with the aim to facilitate co-operation and synergy within and beyond the research community and to respond to an increased demand for a more policy relevant research, ICMPD conducts policy orientated, empirical research with a comparative, interdisciplinary and international approach. • Migration dialogues: with the aim to foster governmental discussion and enhance inter-state dialogue in the current debate on international migration, ICMPD acts as Secretariat to the consultative Budapest Process (50 European and Eurasian states), as an implementing organisation for the Building Migration Partnership Process and to the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit Migration, which brings together European as well as Mediterranean Arab states. It supports the Africa-EU Partnership on Migration, Mobility and Employment (MME). • Capacity building: ICMPD focuses to contribute to good migration governance and to strengthen national and regional capacities in order to deal with the current challenges in various fields of migration, ICMPD develops and organises training and capacity building programmes, facilitates international and interagency co-operation, and supports governmental and administrative bodies in their institution building efforts and legal reform in areas such as illegal migration and return, trafficking in human beings, border management and visa, asylum, migration and development, legal migration and integration. With a solid understanding of the political framework in which migration policies are being developed, ICMPD combines the findings of academic and policy research with a strong acknowledgement of the operational realities of migration practitioners. The organisational structure of ICMPD reflects this approach with its four directorates: • General Affairs and Research: with its focus on close and trustful relations to ICMPD member states and strategic partners. • Human and Financial Resources: including the guarantee of project monitoring and quality assurance • Eastern Dimension, and Southern Dimension covering also the relevant regional processes and including six Competence Centres: Illegal Migration and Return; Trafficking in Human Beings; Border Management and Visa; Asylum; Migration and Development; Legal Migration and Integration. These competence centres reflect the expertise developed over many years at ICMPD and avail of highly qualified staff.
See also www.icmpd.org, www.imap-migration.org