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About the NTMI

Northern Triangle Migration Information Management Initiative

Under the “Northern Triangle Migration Information Initiative-NTMI”, the IOM is working in close coordination with the three governments at various levels. The aim is to strengthen the governments’ capacity to manage, collect, analyze and share migration information to support humanitarian action and protection of vulnerable populations in the Northern Triangle of Central America.

Background

Before NTMI, there was no available official data on returning migrants and registration coverage was very limited. Furthermore, in some cases the process was made manually and papers were transported from the reception centers to the offices in main cities for data entry. Many forms were lost in the process.

Formerly, there was no available data comparable at a regional level that allowed evidence-based decision making or public policy design. To date, IOM baseline is the only research that covers almost all the NTCA territory. NTMI has allowed disseminating regional information on returning migrant on a regular basis.

Scopes of Works and Recent Results

1: Strengthen Government and relevant stakeholders for registering returning migrants and generate human mobility information in the Northern Triangle of Central America.

Data Integration

  • Development of returning migrants registration systems1 as well as enhancement of unaccompanied migrant children databases to inform humanitarian action and reintegration efforts (including on-the-field activities and service providers).
  • Coordination with government institutions to enable processing and dissemination of different data sources related to human mobility.

 

IT Equipment

  • NTMI provided IT equipment and technical assistance for migration, statistics and human rights institutions in the NTCA4 to strengthen data collection and entry, information processing, analysis and sharing.

 

Software

  • The NTMI developed returning migrants registration systems that allows to reduce re-victimization in the reception process and interviewing times, connect governmental service providers and share comprehensive information on this population (including biodata)5.
  • IOM has also supported CRISTOSAL with the design of the internal displacement case management information system6 to provide a comprehensive and secure service for their regional project.
  • The NTMI supported the development data repositories and official websites7. In addition, the project donated software (MS Office Professional, SPSS, etc.) to the receptions centers and Human Rights Institutions.

 

Capacity Buildings

  • The NTMI team provided training on several topics (data management and analysis, graphic and web design, statistical packages, geographic information systems and mapping) for 14 institutions and more than 200 Government functionaries in the NTCA.
2: Generate reliable information on migration, displacement and its relation with development, for all stakeholders involved in the reception, assistance, and reintegration of returning and potential migrants.
3: Strengthen policy design and implementation by analyzing impact, enabling whole-of-Government approaches and a clear normative of institutional frameworks.

MGI (MIGRATION GOVERNANCE INDICATORS)

 

The NTMI project is supporting the implementation of the Migration Governance Country Profile based on the MGI (Migration Governance Indicators) for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to provide a consolidated framework for evaluating migration governance structures and to act as a potential source for informing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 10.7: “Facilitate orderly, safe, and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies”, particularly the indicator 10.7.2. This effort was executed by the NTMI team with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

MGI Dimensions

 

1. Migrant rights

2. “Whole-government” approach

3. Engages with partners

4. Socioeconomic well-being of migrants

5. Mobility dimensions of crises

6. Safe, orderly and dignified migration

4: Support humanitarian action during emergencies and crisis situations through immediate and reliable information on population and key humanitarian needs for Governments and stakeholders.

Cross-Cutting Themes

From its influence in the persons´ motivations to migrate to the special needs of returning migrant populations, gender remains an essential part of all aspects of international migration.

 

Recently, the Northern Triangle of Central America has been hit by draughts, flooding, plague and other climate-related events that can result in a deterioration of means of livelihood of rural populations, forcing people to seek opportunities elsewhere (nationally or internationally) to provide for their families.

 

NTMI incorporates gender, natural disasters and climate change as transversal axes in its activities of data collection and analysis to identify key needs of families and particularly children for humanitarian action and the development of public policy to contribute to sustainable development of local communities.

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