The event opened up a space for government representatives, partners, returnees and IOM staff to share their experiences and lessons learned from the FORAS approach.
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In the framework of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, IOM in Côte d’Ivoire has responded to the challenges encountered by different groups of returnees by organizing tailor made workshops. Thanks to an experience-sharing approach, these workshops aimed to foster self-confidence and entrepreneurship skills, and to...
The East and Horn of Africa is prone to dynamic mixed migration flows, whereby migrants face a wide range of protection risks. To respond to these challenges, the proposed project will seek to contribute to effective migration management in the East and Horn of Africa through safe and dignified return, post-arrival assistance and reintegration of vulnerable...
The project aims to contribute to the socio-economic and productive stabilization of the Colombian returnee population in a vulnerable condition (registered under Law 1565 of 2012) and to the host communities where these returnees are to develop their productive projects. The initiative will offer the migrant and/or returned population opportunities for...
This project will help strengthen the economic reintegration of Moroccans returning from Germany, through the development of self-employement and / or professional integration activities. In a transversal way, this action will also contribute to ensure a sustainable and holistic reintegration approach where the social and psychosocial needs of returning...
This summary provides and overview of the Reintegration Handbook with practical guidance for designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating reintegration assistance programmes. The Handbook has been conceived as a hands-on tool, targeting the various stakeholders involved in the provision of reintegration-related support at different levels and at...
This project aims to continue the successful cooperation between the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the field of migrant protection and assistance and builds on IOM Ghana’s existing Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) structure and ongoing projects, including...
The Knowledge Café on "How an Integrated Approach to Migration, Sustainable Reintegration and Development Can Accelerate the 2030 Agenda" focused on how practitioners can integrate migration into their work from an integrated policy perspective.
Overall, the project is aimed at strengthening the foundations of peace by fostering positive economic and social interdependencies between returnees and host community members by facilitating sustainable and holistic reintegration that will contribute to enhanced social cohesion and inclusion. Furthermore, it aims to create an opportunity for increased...
According to administrative data, 105,277 persons forcefully returned to Guatemala in 2019. Approximately, 30 percent of Guatemalan migrants returned to the departments of Huehuetenango, Quiché, and Sololá during 2019. Considering the Guatemalan Government initiatives QUEDATE centers and the Regional Attention Offices for returning migrants, and IOM...
The proposed project of 24-months will be jointly implemented by IOM and ILO and will contribute towards the sustainable socioeconomic reintegration of returnee migrant workers. Specific objective: By 2022, the target beneficiaries of the project will have recovered from the impact of COVID-19 and will be sustainably engaged in an income generation activity...
This project supports existing training structures that offer support to the most vulnerable segment of the population, including returnees, namely the Centers for Professional Training (CFP). These centers offer various training courses, such as masonry, hotel management, carpentry, electronics, sewing, among others. This project will work on two axes...
Released in English in 2019 and expanded to French in 2020, the Return and Reintegration Platform through its new Spanish version continues to consolidate itself as a global tool for information and knowledge sharing.
El Programa “Retorno y reintegración: acciones de reintegración esenciales para la construcción de la paz en El Salvador” financiado por el Peacebuilding Fund, es un programa enfocado en crear y consolidar espacios de coordinación multi-actor para atender las necesidades de la población migrante retornada en El Salvador, este tiene como objetivo crear y...
REWIRED builds on Connected Women’s flagship program Elevate AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Data Annotation) and will train 40-50 OFW returnees and future returnees in artificial intelligence (AI) data labeling, to equip them with skills for remote work. The program includes 2 webinars and a 3-week training program. The introductory webinar held on 23 March...
IOM launched in September 2021 an online open-source toolkit for migrant centre administration and management.
This call for applications primarily targets in English speaking reintegration practitioners based in the Sahel and Lake Chad, Northern Africa and the Horn of African regions, as well as target countries in Asia.
El programa regional “Integración y reintegración de niños y jóvenes en riesgo de migración irregular en Centroamérica – ALTERNATIVAS”, tiene como objetivo fortalecer las ofertas de integración familiar, social, escolar y profesional para jóvenes y niños retornados o en riesgo de migración irregular con el fin de disminuir los factores de expulsión y...
The counsellors in this project provide information on existing return and reintegration programmes and help migrants organize their return journey, assisting them in the reintegration phase. They might advise them on job opportunities in their countries of origin or accompany them to return counselling centres for the voluntary return application process...
IOM supports Djiboutian migrant returnees to return home voluntarily from other countries around the world. Enabling migrants to (re-)establish economic self-sufficiency, reach social stability within their communities and achieve psycho-social well-being are at the core of IOM’s approach to reintegration and are key to support sustainability. In particular...