NEWS AND RESOURCES
Read all the Mayors Migration Council’s press releases, statements, and media features, as well as our latest research, publications, and knowledge products.
Why I Brought My Son to Bogotá: A Visit to Bogotá’s Centro de Apoyo Nutricional, supported by the GCF
Samer Saliba, the Director of City Practice at MMC, describes his experience visiting Bogotá's Centro de Apoyo Nutricional alongside his son, an initiative supported by the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees.
Children and Caregivers Blog
Montevideo, Uruguay: Resuena
With the support of the MMC Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees, Montevideo is establishing the city’s first-ever early childhood care center for migrant and displaced families. The center will specialize in providing female caregivers with legal, medical, and…
Children and Caregivers City Project
Guayaquil, Ecuador: Municipal Center of Integration
With the support of the MMC Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees, the City of Guayaquil is building a center for arrival and inclusion in its busiest transit center to provide legal assistance and psychological support to migrants, refugees,…
Children and Caregivers City Project
US government announces US$1 million investment to address climate migration in Latin American cities, following call from C40-MMC mayors
At the Cities Summit of the Americas, the U.S. State Department, USAID, C40 Cities, the Mayors Migration Council and the Climate Migration Council convened mayors, funders and U.N. representatives to discuss urban climate migration. USAID announced the launch of a…
Climate Migration Press Release
Climate Migration Necessitates Unified Leadership
In this Global Americans op-ed, Climate Migration Council members Vittoria Zanuso (MMC Executive Director) and Jaime Pumarejo (Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia) discuss the reality of climate-related migration to cities and the need to accelerate city-led responses at the Cities Summit…
Climate Migration Op-Ed
When Political Refugees Become Climate Refugees
In this Bloomberg CityLab Op-ed, Mayor Jaime Pumarejo of Barranquilla, Colombia and Mayor Maribel Escobar of La Palma, El Salvador on how climate change is driving people to cities.
Climate Migration In The News
Cities are key to regional migration solutions, but we must invest in them to succeed
In this World Economic Forum op-ed, the MMC Executive Director Vittoria Zanuso and Mayor Jaime Pumarejo of Barranquilla, Colombia, ask the Biden Administration to partner with cities on regional migration solutions ahead of the Cities Summit of the Americas in…
Municipal Finance Op-Ed
Medellín’s Holistic Housing for Refugees
Supported by the Global Cities Fund, Medellín has provided holistic services and three months paid accommodation for over 1,200 migrants and refugees, half of whom were under the age of 14.
Municipal Finance Blog
Bogotá Joins Cities Supported by the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees to Ensure An Inclusive Pandemic Recovery
Bogotá joined Medellín and Barranquilla as a grantee of the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees to establish the city’s first center dedicated to improving the nutritional conditions of migrant and refugee infants and children.
Pandemic Response Press Release
Bogotá, Colombia: Nutritional Center for Migrant and Refugee Children
About In 2022, the City of Bogotá, Colombia, was selected as a grantee of the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees (GCF), the MMC’s instrument to channel international funding directly to cities to implement inclusive projects of their own…
Pandemic Response City Project
