IOM: Gender Report 2010

The Gender Coordination Unit (GCU) supports the implementation of IOM's gender policy by providing advice and technical guidance to Headquarters departments and the Field. GCU aims to ensure that IOM mainstreams a gender perspective into all of its programmes and policies and within its human resources management. GCU strives to raise awareness at the international level on gender and migration-related issues, actively cooperating with partners at the inter-agency level to promote cooperation and create synergies.

2010 marked the fifteenth year of the IOM gender policy and has been an extremely rich year for the Unit. GCU takes pride in the undeniable progress achieved at the Headquarters and Field levels since 1995 in giving more visibility to women in migration and catering to the needs of migrant women, whether they be in dire situations or settling successfully into new societies. Nonetheless, there are still many challenges to better understanding the various faces of women's migration, while at the same time responding effectively to the specific needs and potential of migrant women and men throughout the world.