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INTRODUCTION
Against a backdrop of an increasingly complex operational environment where disasters, climate change, conflict and inequality leave an unprecedented 114 million forcibly displaced from their homes and 1.8 billion people without access to adequate housing, IOM has developed its first Global Shelter and Settlements Road Map for 2024–2030 (hereafter the Road Map).
To ensure a comprehensive and inclusive approach, the Road Map was developed through consultations with IOM country offices, strategic donors and partners. This collaborative process highlights the Road Map’s foundation in participatory engagement, reinforcing buy-in with stakeholders and ultimately enhancing its effectiveness.
The Road Map is structured around three core objectives: (a) people and rights; (b) enabling systems; and (c) leverage and influence. Each is designed to treat shelter, housing and human settlements as interconnected elements of a single, cohesive concept of homes and communities. This unified approach ensures a holistic response from the start.
The Road Map ensures continued agility in responding effectively and efficiently to humanitarian crises, while contributing more purposefully towards sustainable development and better reflecting the mandate of IOM as the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration.
The Road Map maximizes the demonstrated strengths of the Organization in the sector, expands its global reach and depth of impact, and leverages its capacities to influence policy and advocate for the needs of migrants, the displaced and other affected communities in all phases of crisis response.
The Road Map contributes to the following: (a) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; (b) Localization Agenda; (c) targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction; (d) IOM Institutional Strategy on Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC); and (e) United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement and supports the humanitarian– development–peace nexus. It builds on the IOM Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF), which guides the Organization’s response to migration crises around the world, including addressing drivers of vulnerability, promoting sustainable and inclusive development, and building resilience in affected communities. It contributes to the Global Shelter Cluster Strategy focused on increased reach and depth of impact.
The Road Map also supports all three key objectives of the IOM Strategic Plan 2024–2028:
• Objective 1: Saving lives and protecting people on the move (by putting safety, dignity and protection at the forefront);
• Objective 2: Driving solutions to displacement (by working to prevent and address the impact of climate change, environmental degradation, disasters and conflict on people’s access to housing, and working to find sustainable solutions to displacement);
• Objective 3: Facilitating pathways for regular migration (by supporting access to dignified accommodation and sustainable housing as a critical element of migrants’ well-being).