 Madagascar, situated off the southern eastern coast of Africa, is the fourth largest island in the world and boasts one of the most unique environments. But despite a wealth of natural resources, the country remains one of the world's poorest and heavily dependent on foreign aid. In the last decade, social and environmental changes have driven many people in Madagascar to increasingly migrate within the country and abroad in search of opportunities. In response to this situation, the IOM Development Fund has been providing support to the Government of Madagascar to address particular areas of migration management. Climate change and environmental factors have long had an impact on global migration flows. Madagascar is one of the country's most affected by climate change, cyclically ridden by droughts and floods and battered by cyclones of increased intensity. The district of Ambovombe in the Androi region is chronically affected by drought and famine, resulting in a daily fight to find food and water. Many people have had to sell their livestock and land and migrate to other regions to find employment. The children and the小 dogs that live and who live and travel the world are in a difficult time. I'm not satisfied with the country's environment. My children are not affected by droughts and storms. How can people do so? How can the family continue to move forward? How can the people of Madagascar not even know the country? Those who no longer have the means to leave fall back to activities such as charcoal production, resulting in deforestation, whilst limited access to water obliges many to walk for kilometres to access a clean source. In September 2016, the IOM Development Fund, in coordination with the Malagasy Ministry of Environment, financed the project Migration, Environment and Climate Change to raise awareness on the interdependence between migration and environmental changes and has led to the development of informed public policy at a national and regional scale. IOM Development Fund, in partnership with the Malagasy Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to raise awareness on the interdependence between migration and environmental changes and has led to the development of informed public policy at a national and regional scale. Labour migration has always been a reality in Madagascar, but the number of departures increased significantly with the effects of the political crisis of 2009, when hundreds of thousands of jobs in the formal sector were lost. Neighboring countries such as Mauritius, Seychelles and the Gulf countries became the main destinations for Malagasy workers employed in the domestic, textile, fishing and construction sectors. But the lack of a well articulated pre-departure on site, paired with return policies for labour migration, has led to many of these workers to be exploited due to irregular and uninformed migration. In 2015, IOM Madagascar, with the financial support of the IOM Development Fund, launched a project to strengthen labour migration management in Madagascar and ensure the protection of migrant workers and their families in national policies. To reach this goal, IOM and the Malagasy Ministry of Employment worked hand in hand to bring all the governmental and non-governmental actors to produce the first analysis of labour migration in Madagascar. In February 2016, the project concluded with the development of a roadmap to ensure that by 2020, migration for the purpose of labour can be leveraged to benefit the country's development. Madagascar is a source country for trafficking in persons to other countries, primarily for labour exploitation of domestic or textile factory workers. It is also home to high levels of internal trafficking. Most of the causes of trafficking and exploitation are related to the poor social economic situation of the country and to a lack of information about the risks of being trafficked. Between 2015 and 2016, the IOM Development Fund financed a counter-trafficking project to raise awareness about the risks of being trafficked in Madagascar, Lebanon and Kuwait. We have been able to work in a campaign of information and public awareness, which has been broadcast on all of the national territory to make people vulnerable to this crime. The reality of the trafficking of people in Madagascar. We have opened a line of assistance dedicated to the victims of the trafficking and this assistance line allowed to denounce a situation of being able to carry assistance. Thanks to the awareness campaign, many victims of trafficking contacted IOM to receive help and to denounce other cases of trafficking. Their biggest achievement was to regain their confidence and trust. Since its creation, the IOM Development Fund has implemented hundreds of successful capacity building projects worldwide. To learn more about the IOM Development Fund activities, please visit our website.