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Add to Preferred SourcesThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) is currently launching five campaigns to prevent the risks of irregular migration and encourage informed decision making among potential young Central American migrants.
Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras have already presented their campaigns Migrar Informados, Échale ganas and Ponele plan a tu vida. El Salvador is currently preparing to launch the Conectá con tu futuro campaign for the month of September. That same month, Nicaragua and UNICEF will present the #YoCamino campaign.
All campaigns are based on IOM’s experience in Asia with the hugely successful IOMX project, which used the Communication for Development (C4D) methodology.
The five campaigns were developed based on the results of more than 2,800 interviews, coordination spaces with more than 100 local partners and the validation of the audience to which the campaigns are directed.
In Mexico, results showed that 97 percent of migrants in transit would make a great effort to obtain the documents needed to regulate their stay in the country, but 59 percent do not know which documents they need.
In addition, 49 percent mentioned not knowing where to look for information to migrate in a regular way. In response to these needs, the Migrar Informados campaign seeks to raise awareness about the existence and benefits of migration regularization routes in Mexico.
In the three countries of the Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador), initial research showed that more than 80 percent of people wish to receive information on regular migration channels and most would make an effort to get their documents for regular migration. In addition, between 59 percent and 70 percent of people interviewed would be willing to engage in local education, employment or entrepreneurship opportunities as an alternative to irregular migration.
Original source: IOM
Published on 27 August 2019