Evaluation Of IOM's Approach For Providing Assistance And Protection To Migrant Children, Including Unaccompanied And Separated Ones

With an increase of large scale mixed migratory flows in the last decades, IOM has paid renewed attention to the exploitation of migrants in vulnerable situations and to the need to assist specifically migrant children, including unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) and migrant children victims of trafficking (VoTs). The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) notes that during 2012–14, over 63,000 victims were detected in 85 countries, with almost 30 per cent being boys and girls aged 17 and below1 .

According to IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC)2 , IOM assisted more than 60 million people during humanitarian crises or post-crisis situations since 2010; out of this number, more than 95,000 were trafficked persons3 , approximately one third of whom were migrant children. The evaluation explores the operational strategies and fields of activity implemented by IOM to assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of IOM migration assistance to migrant children, including unaccompanied and separated children. The scope of evaluation also covers IOM’s effectiveness in developing innovative strategies and proposing new fields of activity, as well as the collaboration with various partners working in the child protection (CP) area.