ICMC Publishes Annual Report 2025
Join us to review highlights from ICMC’s successes, achievements and impact in 2025, as detailed in our new Annual Report
Download the full ICMC Annual Report 2025.
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Supporting the Local Church
As a trusted presence in communities that is oriented toward service, the Church is uniquely placed to respond to emergencies and support long-recovery and rebuilding.
In 2025, ICMC support for local Church action ensured resources were rapidly mobilized to reach the most vulnerable, providing crucial assistance, information, and accompaniment for migrants and refugees around the world. Our strong local partnerships further enabled long-term investment in resilience, wellbeing, livelihoods, and protection for displaced children.
Continued Support for Displaced Persons in Ukraine
As 2025 drew to a close, the war in Ukraine showed no signs of abating. Humanitarian needs continued to deepen, and just under 10 million people were displaced both within and outside of the country.
ICMC continued critical support for Church responses to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine in 2025, ensuring crucial humanitarian assistance for families and children, and addressing the long-term impacts of trauma caused by war.
Strengthening the Global Church
In the Jubilee Year of 2025, ICMC and our Church partners ensured the message of hope proclaimed by Pope Leo XIV informed Church action in support of refugees and migrants.
We continued to strengthen and unify the global Church response to migration, expanding our global Church networks and further supporting regional Church cooperation on migration in Asia. Through the ‘The Future of Work – Labour after Laudato Si’’ (FOWLS) Project, we continued to bring Church voices to global discussions on work and the environment, and support Church and organized labor network cooperation.
Deploying Experts to Support Global Refugee Protection
For more than 25 years, ICMC has been deploying refugee protection and resettlement experts to UN resettlement and refugee response operations across the world. In 2025, the ICMC Deployment Scheme facilitated 56 deployments, providing crucial expertise in areas including resettlement, refugee status determination, and child protection.
Alongside global deployments, ICMC experts continued to provide crucial technical and capacity-building assistance for the national refugee response in Greece, working with UN agencies to build the skills and capacities of national authorities and civil society organizations.
Building Protection, Resettlement and Integration in Europe
In 2025, ICMC continued our support for expanding and strengthening European resettlement, protection, and integration.
ICMC’s EU Resettlement Support Facility (RSF) in Istanbul, operated with Jesuit Refugee Service, facilitated selection missions and pre-departure orientation for more than 1,500 refugees. In Brussels, ICMC’s Share Network continued to engage European partners in strengthening complementary pathways and sponsorship for refugees, advocating for improved migration policymaking, and building welcoming and inclusive communities.
Raising the Voice of Civil Society in Global Migration
In 2025, ICMC continued to build collective global civil society advocacy amid significant geopolitical shifts affecting migrants, refugees, and those working to assist them.
As the secretariat for the Civil Society Mechanism of the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD), ICMC supported global civil society engagement in the 15th GFMD process and GFMD Summit held in Colombia. Coordinated by ICMC, the global, self-organized Civil Society Action Committee looked ahead to the 2026 International Migration Review Forum, developing collective civil society strategies and alliances to take forward into this review of the Global Compact for Migration.
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2025 was a year of unprecedented challenge for ICMC, mirroring the broader crisis facing the global international aid sector. Most importantly, it was an extremely difficult year for the countless migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees facing deeply concerning policies and escalating levels of global conflict and displacement, all around the world.
Inspired by the spirit of the Jubilee, ICMC is mindful that these growing challenges make our mission more relevant and urgent than ever. We continue to bear witness to Pope Leo XIV’s statement in his first Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te: “The Church knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community.”
Rachel Westerby
Independent writer and researcher on migration and refugees.
