At the regional level, the MRP Coordination Unit in Nairobi acts as an overall organizing body for both the strategic and operational coordination mechanisms, bringing stakeholders together, encouraging teamwork and contributing to a streamlined planning, implementation and monitoring the response along the Eastern Route.  MRP partners come together to assess the situations and needs of the target populations, agree on the common priorities and develop a synergistic response to the needs, including direct assistance, operational interventions, resource mobilization and key messages/advocacy on the situation.

Coordination under the MRP provides the following dividends for the response:

• Support service delivery by providing a platform for agreement on programmatic and resource complementarity among partners and elimination of duplication.
• Effective information-sharing, joint planning and building relations.
• Advocacy to address identified concerns on behalf of cluster participants and the affected populations.
• Monitoring and reporting on the MRP plan and results
• Contingency planning, preparedness and national capacity building where needed and identifying existing capacities among the MRP Partners.

The Regional Coordination Committee comprises 16 partners set up at the strategic and technical level. The strategic level comprises Regional Directors  engaged in validating recommendations from the technical level, as the technical level lend support to the Regional Directors in operationalizing the MRP and promoting shared responsibilities towards achieving the collective outcomes. The MRP Regional Migrant Protection Working Group (MPWG) was established to enhance protection standards and ensure coherent and coordinated action in response to the protection needs, risks and vulnerabilities of stranded migrants, returning migrants and host communities along the Eastern Route. IOM and DRC co-chair the MPWG. The Information Management Working Group, chaired by IOM, supports the RCC through a coordinated information management approach to support the MRP programming cycle and facilitate collective advocacy and policy influence. The MRP Communications Working Group, co-chaired by IOM along with two other MRP representative partners, supports the communications and visibility of the MRP and the Eastern Route, in line with resource mobilisation efforts. As guided by the Regional Coordination Committee and in endorsement by MRP partners.