To better understand and capture how COVID-19 has been affecting global mobility, IOM developed a global database (the Mobility Restriction Monitoring, MRM) which maps, tracks, and analyses the changes and trends in operational status of and mobility restrictions at Points of Entry (PoEs) including airports, blue border crossing points (such as seaports and river crossings), land border crossing points and other key transit points and locations of internal mobility. Outside of operational status for key locations of internal mobility, MRM collects data on border management and public health measures adopted at PoEs, as well as coordination systems and referral mechanisms in place at Points of Entry and some internal mobility points, as well as populations impacted by COVID-19 mobility restrictions.

Such information is meant to serve IOM member states, IOM, and its UN partner agencies in responding adequately, and in a targeted manner, to the current and evolving crisis period. In West and Central Africa, IOM missions were involved in providing information on the situation at the PoEs in their respective countries. 

This report presents the findings from data collected on the operational status of PoEs as of 31 December 2021 (and compared with similar data collected in March 2021 and April 2020), at 670 Points of Entry across the region, including 431 land border crossings points, 54 airports,

This infosheet provides a description of the deployment of the Migrant Management Operational System Application (MiMOSA) in West and Central Africa, as well as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to the deployment of MiMOSA in the region. 

This infosheet provides an introduction to the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) in West and Central Africa, as well  as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to the project.

This infosheet provides an overview of data collection tools developed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to these tools. 

This infosheet provides an overview of transhumance related data collection, analysis and dissemination activities carried out by the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in West and Central Africa, as well as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to these activities. 

This infosheet provides an understanding of the actions, initiatives and safeguards taken by the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa to secure and guarantee data protection in the context of data collection, analysis and dissemination activities, as well as requirements for data sharing. 

This infosheet provides an overview of migration related data collection, analysis and dissemination activities carried out by the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in West and Central Africa, as well as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to these activities. 

This infosheet provides an overview of displacement related data collection, analysis and dissemination activities carried out by the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in West and Central Africa, as well as the role and function of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Regional Office for West and Central Africa in connection to these activities. 

This infosheet provides a snapshot of the activities, objectives and structure of the Regional Data Hub at IOM's Reginal Office for West and Central Africa.