IOM, the UN Migration Agency, has developed a Strategy on Migration and Sustainable Development designed to maximise the potential of migration to achieve sustainable development outcomes. The strategy builds on the organization's forthcoming Vision 2025, which recognises that when well-managed, migration can be both a development strategy and development outcome. The strategy directly responds to recent changes in both the global governance of migration and the UN Development system to foster increased collaboration in support of the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda.

The IOM Migration and Sustainable Development Strategy has three main outcomes that drive efforts and shape deliverables: human mobility is increasingly a choice; migrants and their families are empowered as development actors; and migration is increasingly well governed. The strategy recognises mega-trends related to migration such as increased transnationalism connected to globalization of economies, demographic imbalances between regions, the digitalization of work and the rapid urbanization of the world. In addition, the strategy accounts for three cross-cutting issues: (i) inequalities; (ii) environment and climate change; and (iii) gender, understanding that systematically addressing these issues is critical to sustainable development.