About

Local and regional governments (LRGs) are at the heart of migration and displacement governance. At the local level, pragmatic, principled, and people-centred approaches spearhead and exceed the commitments of global frameworks such as the UN Migration and Refugee Compacts and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.

The Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees captures this political commitment and vast practical experience, with the aim to:

  1. Expand the number of LRGs publicly endorsing the Compacts through the Marrakech Mayors Declaration.

  2. Collect and showcase bold, people-centred local actions that achieve or exceed the GCM and GCR Compacts to facilitate cross-fertilization, peer learning and replication.

  3. Create a cohort of publicly recognized LRG leaders engaged in robust GCM and GCR implementation to motivate scaling, investment and new local-national-global partnerships.

For more information, read our Leaflet in English, French and Spanish.

181

Local Actions from

128 cities

& their networks

141

LRGs support the

Marrakech

Mayors Declaration

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Join the Call to Local Action

Submit Your Action

Are you a city, region, or their network that upholds the rights and dignity of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons—together with host communities?

Join us by submitting your ongoing/future local initiatives (policies, project, campaigns, …) started after January 2024.

Already submitted your action during our previous cycles?

We invite you to review and update your pledges, towards supporting us to measure local impact, identify challenges and lessons learnt, and ultimately shape our global advocacy ahead of International UN Fora on Migration and Refugees.

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Why Join?

By joining the Call to Local Action, your local government gets:

  1. Recognition: you get recognition of political leadership in official UN pledging systems and in the annual Report on Localising the Global Compacts.

  2. Access: you receive invitations to join intergovernmental meetings and summits (e.g. International Migration Review Forum, Global Refugee Forum, Global Forum on Migration and Development).

  3. Knowledge: you receive regular updates about global processes on migration and forced displacement, and can join opportunities for peer-learning and capacity development.

  4. Funding opportunities: you are invited to submit proposals to the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees, as funding rounds become available.

Since its launch in 2022, the Call to Local Action:

  1. Mobilized 181 local actions from 128 cities and their networks

  2. Mobilized 141 Local and Regional Governments supporting the Marrakech Mayors Declaration

  3. Enabled 4 national–local pledges, showcasing concrete partnerships between member states and local governments, such as Ghana, Switzerland, Germany and Brazil

  4. Brought more than 60 representatives of pledging cities to multilateral Summits

  5. Released 4 peer learning sessions and a Massive Open Online Course

  6. Generated knowledge on city action through Call to Local Action Reports and other reference documents

  7. Gained recognition from the UN Secretary General in his 2022, 2024, and 2026 Biennial Reports on the Migration Compact

Our Achievements

The Call to Local Action is an Initiative of:

Supported by external partners and contributors: