More than 200 diverse organizations are signaling their support for the Welcome Corps, a new U.S. government community service program that allows everyday Americans to privately sponsor refugees from around the world.
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A joint commitment from the Bernard van Leer Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will expand Global Cities Fund support to 28 cities with a new chapter focused on delivering solutions for children and their caregivers.
On the sidelines of COP27, the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees announced six additional African cities grantees addressing the needs of migrants and displaced people affected by the climate crisis.
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Bogotá joined Medellín and Barranquilla as a grantee of the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees to establish the city’s first center dedicated to improving the nutritional conditions of migrant and refugee infants and children.
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The Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration convened in Buenos Aires ahead of COP27 to prioritize climate-related migration, welcome three new core members, and ensure no one is left behind in the green transition.
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We at the Mayors Migration Council are proud to partner with UCLG as a co-founder of the Mayors Mechanism and as the only member of the Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments focused exclusively on migrants and refugees.
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The Mayors Migration Council announced they will be joining policymakers and advocates from all over the world as a founding member of the Climate Migration Council.
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During the 2022 United Nations International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees (GCF) announced five new city grantees along with a US $1 million commitment from the IKEA Foundation to add five cities to the pipeline.
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From Milan to Kampala to Montreal, world mayors met in New York City at the first-ever International Migration Review Forum to discuss progress towards the UN Global Compact for Migration and launch the Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees, with 60+ city-led solutions that accelerate the global migration agenda.
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C40-MMC mayors issue vision for inclusive climate action that protects people affected by climate displacement and leaves no one behind in the green transition.
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Mayors and organizations representing 240,000+ cities around the world issued an urgent statement, organized by the MMC, for national governments to immediately open their doors to Afghan refugees, and for governments and donors to provide the resources needed to facilitate resettlement at the local level.
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At the meeting of the Global Taskforce, Vittoria Zanuso, MMC’s Executive Director, reiterated the linkages between the Global Compact on Migration and the SDGs and called on all networks of local governments to ensure better municipal financing to respond to the needs of all citizens.
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On Tuesday, July 6, mayors from around the world came together with representatives of national governments and UN officials at an official side event of the UN HLPF to discuss the pressing development challenges related to climate change and related migration in cities, as well as the interrelated SDGs.
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The MMC's Global Cities Fund supports city governments responding to urgent needs of migrants, refugees, and internally displaced during Covid-19. The new round of city grantees includes Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kampala, Uganda; Medellín, Colombia; and Quito, Ecuador.
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The C40-MMC Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration, launched on June 22, 2021, is a mayor-led initiative to address the impact of the climate crisis on migration in cities. The Task Force will drive forward an Action Agenda to be presented at COP26.
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The MMC launched the inaugural Global Cities Fund for Inclusive Pandemic Response, a $1,000,000 initiative to respond to the unmet needs of cities as they support migrants, refugees, and IDPs during Covid-19.
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MMC Leadership Board mayors launch a global solidarity campaign to advocate for inclusion of migrants and refugees in national and multilateral COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.
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Lead by the Mayors Mechanism, over 80 mayors and officials from 56 cities convened in Quito to participate for the first time as formal stakeholders in the state-led GFMD.
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Vittoria Zanuso has been selected after a global search as the first Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council.
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The MMC was officially launched on December 8, 2018, in Marrakech, on the margins of the UN conference that adopted the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).
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