Project focus: Institutionalizing early warning systems and promoting inclusive, rights-based migration governance through technical assistance, trust-building, and participatory design.
Lead: María Eugenia Carbone, Director of the Latin America Program & Technical Secretariat of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

• Technical Assistance & Participatory Co-Design
  
  • The program is currently developing three key tools:
    
    • A context-specific Risk Matrix to guide early warning.
    • A Practical Mitigation Toolkit for institutions and civil society.
  • Tools co-designed through workshops, bilateral meetings, and multisector consultations, with completion expected by late 2025.
    

• Capacity Building & Training
  
  • Two virtual training programs (Aug–Oct 2025):
    
    • Foundations in Mass Atrocities prevention
    • Migration and Atrocity Prevention‍
  • Training 25 participants nationwide, creating Argentina’s first community of practice on migration and prevention.
    

• Dialogue & Strategic Planning
  
  • Strategic consultations with the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (Dec 2024–(on going)) set the foundation for the project Prevention of Atrocities in the Context of the Migration Crisis in Latin America.
    
  • From Feb–Jul 2025, supported:
    
    • A national consultative process to co-design the Mitigation Toolkit.
      
    • Dialogue spaces between institutions and NGOs for early risk identification and coordinated response.
      
  • A milestone event: Conversatorio: Migración Irregular y Prevención de Genocidios (May 15, 2025, Buenos Aires), convened with the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones.
    
    
• Conversation and Workshop on Irregular Migration and Genocide Prevention: Strengthening Institutional and Community Capacities for the Protection of Migrants in Salta, Argentina.Salta 
• Training & Cross-Country Learning (June 24)
  
  • Knowledge-sharing sessions, virtual training modules, and publications.
  • Regional webinar series to facilitate cross-country learning and cooperation.
    
    
• Outcomes & Impact
  
  • Strengthened early warning protocols for at-risk migrants.
  • Institutionalized inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
  • Integrated atrocity prevention into migration policy.
  • Promoted inclusive governance and accountability across institutions.

In November 2025, the Latin American Program will hold a National Seminar on Irregular Migration and Genocide Prevention in Buenos Aires. It will be a space to consolidate findings and collaboratively co-create strategies, workstreams, and network-strengthening efforts to ensure the project's continuity in Argentina.

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