In its role as a Commission, ICMC is dedicated to bringing local Church actors together for improved advocacy and coordination of services benefitting displaced persons─particularly as they relate to the protection of human dignity and the right to family unity. 

ICMC maintains a permanent working relationship with its Members engaged in activites that contribute to the prevention of forced migration and the protection and assistance of migrants and refugees, and works towards a closer coordination of the work of the Church in these fields.

In 2008, ICMC─together with Members─began building the first of several new regional platform processes, which bring together leaders of Catholic programmes serving migrants, refugees and internally displaced countries for consultation on regional migration issues and priorities, and establish a framework for continued Church networking and action.