The current outbreak of COVID-19 has affected global mobility in complex and unprecedented ways in the form of various travel restrictions, suspension of air travel, and border closures. To better understand this, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has developed a global mobility database to map these impacts on human mobility, across global, regional, and country levels. Furthermore, COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations in camps and camp-like settings as well as exacerbated the vulnerabilities of mobile populations who may now be stranded owing to COVID-19 related mobility restrictions. This data is particularly important when addressing specific needs faced by migrants and mobile populations.

IOM has developed a global mobility database mapping the status of different Points of Entry (PoE) and Key Locations of Internal Mobility, globally. These include airports, land border crossing points (could be rail or road), blue border crossing points (sea, river or lake), internal transit points, and areas of interest. For each point of entry, data is collected on the type of restriction, measured applied, and the timeframe, as well as the population category that may be affected by the restrictive measures. This workstream uses direct input from IOM missions and this dashboard displays regularly updated mobility restrictions at the location level.

In The Gambia, DTM conducts Flow Monitoring activities at several important transit locations in:

1) Barra (FMPs are located at the ferry terminal  and the main garage);

2) Farafenni (FMPs are located at Farafenni main  garage, Farafenni Ballan-Ghar garage, Farafenni McCarthy and Sanjally  garage, Farafenni turntable garage and the truck garage);

3) Basse (FMPs are  situated at the main garage and the bus station in Basse Santa-Su) and 

4) Brikama (FMPs are located at the main garage and the Bus station).

These activities enable DTM to  monitor the movements of passengers within, out of and towards The Gambia as well as the movements of those passengers transiting The Gambia.

This report presents the key results from the Flow Monitoring Survey conducted from the 1st to the 29th  of  October 2021 excluding weekends.. The report presents data collected on flows, routes, departure, destination and demographic profiles of travellers observed at the FMPs.    

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.