To facilitate a sustained dialogue with NGOs having a mandate related to migration, since 2011 IOM organizes Annual CSO Consultations. 

The Annual CSO Consultations have addressed various themes as follows:

• 60 Years Advancing Migrant Rights and Migrant Protection (11 November 2011)
• Enhancing Dialogue, Cooperation and Partnership on Migration (25 October 2012)
• Migrants and Development (12 September 2013)
• Follow up to the 2013 UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development (9 October 2014)
• Protecting and Positively Impacting Migrant Lives (18 September 2015) and
• Post–19 September Summit (4 November 2016). 

Since 2015 IOM also organizes annual IOM-NGO Humanitarian Consultations for NGOs engaged in humanitarian aspects of migration, including:

• IOM’s role and emerging policy in humanitarian response and partnership (13 June 2016)
• Partnerships (30 June 2015)