With almost a hundred projects across over 50 countries, the Migration Partnerships Facility (MPF) has marked a meaningful first decade. The wide range of MPF's work continues to nurture partners with the tools they need, the resources to succeed, and the chain of positive change they bring to their communities.

From labour mobility and skills development to legal pathways and addressing irregular migration, from integrated border management to addressing cross-border crimes such as human trafficking and migrant smuggling; from protecting vulnerable people to strengthening capacities in emergencies; and from innovation and technology to addressing harmful misinformation – the MPF continues to grow. In this episode, MPF Senior Programme Coordinator Jennifer Tangney talks about ICMPD's work on the European Union's 'toolbox' for migration partnerships; how the MPF has steered multi-country, multi-sectoral, multi-level initiatives with real-world impact across Europe and beyond.

Read more about the full spectrum of the MPF's work here.

Another year of Russia's full-scale invasion, another year ahead of questions as the extension of the Temporary Protection ends in March 2027.

With a view to that full year ahead, our Project Manager for ICMPD's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Roman Makukha discusses the ongoing complexities of the displaced Ukrainians' situation in the EU; and what the continued attacks mean for those still at home in Ukraine. Our Coordinator for the Ukrainian Consultation and Community Centre (UCCC) in Prague, Anna Kurnytska, also joins us in this episode. She shares the various evolving challenges and growing needs – but also real-life stories of human resilience – of the displaced Ukrainians in the Czech Republic.

Now entering the fifth year since Russia's full-scale invasion, the one common thread that ties everything and everyone together in this conflict is the resolve to continue. For ICMPD and its Ukrainian Consultation Centres across some of the largest-hosting EU Member States, it's the support for the displaced in the EU; helping them navigate life amidst uncertainties. More importantly, for the communities at home in Ukraine, the survival and resilience to continue with life is keeping them warm – even in the winters weaponised by their invaders.

Lean more about the Ukrainian Consultation Centres here; as well as ICMPD's ongoing response and collaborations for Ukraine here.

From declining irregular migration to Europe’s continued work to strengthen border security efforts, from the growing discourse of return and reintegration to filling the region’s labour demographic gaps more strategically, and to the deepening of relations with migratory route countries. ICMPD presents the 10 key migration issues in the year ahead that can shape not only European, but more broadly international migration.

In this episode of The Migration Podcast, main author of the Migration Outlook 2026 and ICMPD’s Principal Advisor Martin Hofmann provides deeper insights into how the drivers of displacement from conflicts remain volatile everywhere. These include the worsening peace and security situation in more than 87 countries, and major crises that can rapidly shift migration routes; risking to destabilise key regions and increase pressures.