The International Organization for Migration (IOM), established in 1951, is the leading international intergovernmental organization dealing with migration.  Its objective is to ensure the orderly migration of persons in need of migration assistance throughout the world. 

IOM Uganda has been registered and operational since 1988, when the field mission was established. Throughout the past 20 years, IOM Uganda has processed movements and facilitated information gathering and support towards refugees, internally displaced persons, demobilized child soldiers, trafficked women and other migrants and their specific needs, both on individual and large scale population movement. In addition to operational matters and research, IOM has an important role in enhancing and building national capacity in migration management. The IOM Uganda mission performs all of its interventions in accordance with the specific role and mandate to work globally with migration related issues, and is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society.

IOM Uganda Programmes have consisted:

• Migration Movement Processing and Assistance
• Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration
• Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building in Migration
• Migration Health
• Counter Trafficking
• Response to Uganda’s IDP Populations - Northern Uganda Conflict
• HIV/AIDs
• Disarmament, Return and Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers and Formerly Abducted Children