[1] Additional figures were disclosed by the German government upon request by Andrej Hunko, Michel Brandt, Christine Buchholz, other members of the European Parliament and The Left.

[7] As of 2021, ICMPD has been implementing the "integrated border management programme" together with the Italian Ministry of the Interior, which is financed by the EU Trust Fund for Africa (2021–2027) over €7.39 billion.

[11]: 3  The project has intended to promote voluntary return, resettlement in the home country by means of benefits in kind in the form of social advice and support, among other things, with the help of finding accommodation, visits to authorities, children's schooling, medical matters and assistance in job search and vocational training, the long-term improvement of living conditions of the returnees and the prevention of new irregular migration to Germany and Europe and fighting the causes of flight.

[12] Under a so-called "migration and diaspora program", ICMPD carried out training on behalf of the German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on "development-oriented migration" with Albania, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Colombia, Kosovo and Serbia, which it calls "partner countries".

[15] In October 2020, the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) wrote to then Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer, he planned to implement a special kind of digital refugee card in Bavaria, which could serve as a debit card, in cooperation with Michael Spindelegger and the ICMPD, which would serve as a model for similar projects in Europe.

[16] The idea of the debit card carrying other personal data, which could be retrieved by police terminals was developed by Jan Marsalek then CFO of the now defunct wirecard.

ICMPD assumes a pivotal role in furnishing policymakers with a substantive foundation, equipping them for decision-making within the domain of migration.

[34] According to reports in January 2025 former Austrian Minister for Women's Affairs Susanne Raab has applied for a job with the Office of the Director General.