The United Nations (UN) and other international organizations, governments and regional stakeholders recognize deficiencies in data collection and analysis aimed at, amongst others, understanding the nexus between migration and development. The Government of Lesotho has requested the assistance of IOM to strengthen its capacity to collect, analyse and utilize migration data, and ultimately to prepare a migration profile, i.e. a data repository, coordination and capacity-building tool, which is country-owned and prepared in consultation with a broad range of relevant stakeholders. Improving migration management at a national level has been identified as their priority. The request from the Government comes at a time when migration dynamics in the country, region and indeed globally, have become increasingly complex; however, at present in Lesotho there is a severe lack of reliable migration data and analysis on which to base policy formulation and planning. The project aims to strengthen the Bureau of Statistics capacity to coordinate among stakeholders and produce migration related data and analytical report. The Phase I (this project) will be the basis for the Phase II (production of Migration Profile).