The 2024 Regional Review in Africa provides Member States, alongside intergovernmental organizations, United Nations bodies and other stakeholders, an opportunity to assess their progress in implementing the objectives and principles of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. 

This publication provides insights into how African Member States are implementing each of the 23 Global Compact objectives, serving as a benchmark for policy discussions at the Intergovernmental Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 9 and 10 October. Drawing on data from the Migration Governance Indicators (MGIs) – IOM’s flagship initiative on migration governance – this regional policy brief highlights key trends in migration governance across 40 African countries. 

The analysis compares these trends to global benchmarks, breaks them down at the subregional level, highlights possible policy responses and illustrates how African countries have implemented these in different contexts through more than 60 selected examples. 

The MGI programme stands out as a unique data source for this review due to its alignment with these international frameworks: The MGI methodology is grounded in target 10.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and there is a direct correspondence between the MGI indicators and the 23 objectives of the Global Compact for Migration.