Better Migration Management – A Project implemented in the Horn of Africa

Migration management is often a controversial concept and approach in the development cooperation context, which makes it important to clarify and define precisely what we mean. Should German development cooperation engage at all in this area? If so, in what way? What are the limits of our engagement? In 2016, the Better Migration Management (BMM) project confronted the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with these questions and challenges. Based on experience gained during the design phase of the project, a definition of the term ‘development-oriented migration management’ was created in order to provide guidance for future projects in this sector.