The UN Network on Migration supports Member States in the implementation, follow-up and review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Network has been established to ensure effective, timely and coordinated system-wide support to Member States. FAO has been an active member of the Network since its launch in December 2018, and participates in several workstreams and activities promoted by the Network, both at global level and in the corresponding regional and country-level networks.

The Network also hosts the Migration Network Hub, a virtual space where governments, stakeholders and experts can access and share migration-related information and services, including a library and repository of practices.

To support the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration, a Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund was launched in 2019. The 23 objectives of the Global Compact have been clustered under five thematic areas, and migration and climate change has been recognized as a cross-cutting priority for the Fund. The Fund finances inter-agency programmes and in five years has mobilized USD 57.4 million and financed 21 joint programmes, including a new FAO-led programme on climate change and migration in India, implemented together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and a joint project bringing together FAO, IOM, UNICEF, and UN Women to support families left-behind in Tajikistan. 

The Fund is governed by a multi-partner steering committee, chaired by the Director-General of IOM. In July 2022, FAO joined the steering committee for a three-year term.

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