Launched in 2024, the IOM Innovation Facility creates an enabling environment to collaborate, ideate and develop innovative solutions that can transform the way we address migration challenges.
The IOM Innovation Facility is a dynamic platform that supports novel and transformative initiatives on migration. By offering seed funding, building innovation capacities, and nurturing an innovation ecosystem, it enables the creation and expansion of impactful and innovative projects. The Facility’s approach centers on fostering partnerships and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring that innovative ideas can be effectively piloted and scaled to drive system-wide solutions.
The Facility accelerates progress toward the achievement of the IOM Strategic Plan 2024 – 2028 and the broader UN 2.0, transformative goals in fostering the use of different approaches for greater effectiveness, impact, and sustainability. It also advances IOM’s commitment to global frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM).
Benefits
Innovation projects selected through the Facility can receive funding between USD $50,000 and USD $80,000. The maximum duration for each project is 12 months.
In addition to the funding, the IOM Innovation Facility offers an ecosystem of services through the Innovation and Knowledge Management unit to maximize development impact of every selected project. This includes:
Capacity Development
Networking
Technical Support
Knowledge Exchange
Recognition
Eligibility
All Member States, non-IOM Member States, migrants and their communities are beneficiaries of the Facility.
Applications for funding can only be submitted by IOM Offices, or by IOM Headquarters’ departments, in coordination with the relevant Country and Regional Offices.
