In 2012, the organizations DanChurchAid, ICCO Cooperation, and the Fair and Sustainable Development Society (FSDS) launched a joint program called Central Asia on the Move (CAoM).

The CAoM program is a collaborative initiative involving a wide range of partners, focused on the important issue of internal and external migration in the Central Asian region. The significance of this issue has grown steadily since the year 2000 and is likely to remain a key concern for the four countries for at least the next 5–10 years, especially considering the increasing likelihood of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan joining the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC).

The main rights-holders—and thus beneficiaries—of the program are poor communities in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan that have been severely affected by migration and whose rights to social protection, healthcare, education, and political participation are widely neglected. The program works with migrants and the communities they come from (sending communities), as well as those they move to (receiving communities, both internal and external), while taking into account the institutional and political dynamics of both the country and the region.