The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes migration as a core development consideration — marking the first time that migration is explicitly integrated into the global development agenda. Implementation of the SDGs provides an opportunity to protect and empower mobile populations to fulfil their development potential and benefit individuals, communities and countries around the world. But the migration-SDG connections reach far beyond just implementing migration poli-cies, and entail integrating migration across governance sectors. 

It is within this context that IOM has developed the "Migration and the 2030 Agenda: A Guide for Practitioners" which aims to help policymakers integrate migration into local and national development planning by equipping states and development actors with relevant guidance and tools to better understand the migration-SDG connections and to take practical action to integrate migration into SDG implementation in part-nership with all relevant actors. This was developed in consultation with relevant UN partners and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation within the context of the Mainstreaming Migration into National Development Strategies Transi-tion Phase programme. 

The guide contains a thematic exploration of direct and indirect connections to migra-tions throughout the SDGs and their targets, and operational guidance for imple-menting migration aspects of the SDGs. This operational guidance follow a flexible and adaptable step-by-step process, going through several phases of the implemen-tation process: kick-off, prioritization, implementation and monitoring & reporting. 

It is accompanied with two complementary tools that illustrate the linkages between migration and the SDGs:

• (i) a comprehensive booklet which outlines the linkages be-tween migration and each SDG and
• (ii) a poster which summarizes these linkages.

The publication is available in English, French and Spanish, as well as the booklet and the poster. It has also been translated into Russian and Chinese.