This case study presents the story of Kamala and Mohan, two people living in Dhankuta, Nepal whose lives have been affected by migration and who want to open small businesses. Mohan has just returned after years living and working abroad, and Kamala's husband is still working in another country. How do the local government and community organizations create...
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The sixth issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series on "Longitudinal Evidence on Sustainable Reintegration Outcomes" is now publicly available.
This sixth Knowledge Bite focuses on the analysis of the DTM REMAP’s Returnee Longitudinal Survey (RLS). The RLS was conducted in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Pakistan based on three rounds of data collection in each country. The analysis follows previous Knowledge Bites that relied on the Reintegration Sustainability Survey (RSS) and focuses on four...
This Knowledge Paper is the third issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Papers Series published by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH). Migrant reintegration programmes have been largely focused on the set-up of microbusinesses. Self-employment and entrepreneurship fit the profile and preferences of many returnees: they allow returnees to...
Invitation to the Prottasha project closure event “Prottasha – Hope for Migrants” on 13th December 2022 from 9.30 am to 7.00pm (UTC +6).
The West and Central Africa Regional office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub organized a workshop on the integrated approach to reintegration in the West and Central Africa region on November 14-15.
The Joint Initiative broke new ground in migration governance by engaging with countries on the sensitive topic of return and reintegration of returnees, setting the stage for effective voluntary return processes – even amid COVID-19 border restrictions. The multi-faceted approach of capacity building, material support and engagement of national and local...
This reintegration evaluation of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative provides an assessment of reintegration outcomes after three years of program implementation, on the eve of the COVID 19 pandemic. It finds that the intervention has been both relevant and effective, with an 84 per cent beneficiary satisfaction rate and substantive evidence of positive outcomes for...
The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub has just released the fifth issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series. This fifth Knowledge Bite aims to explore returnees’ satisfaction with different types of reintegration assistance.
The Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series aims to present findings pertaining to sustainable reintegration outcomes emerging from analyses based on Reintegration Sustainability Survey (RSS) data and other monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data centrally available on the IOM’s institutional case management system. This fifth Knowledge Bite aims to...
Cette recherche s’inscrit dans le programme « Sécurité, Support et Solutions le long de la Route de la Méditerranée Centrale » financé par le Royaume-Uni à travers le département du développement international (DFID) dont l’un des objectifs est d’améliorer la compréhension des gouvernements, des agences humanitaires et des organisations nationales sur les...
Cette étude consacrée au trafic et à la traite des migrants ivoiriens de retour le long de la route méditerranéenne centrale et occidentale a été rendue possible grâce aux données collectées et analysées dans le cadre de l’Initiative Conjointe Union Européenne (UE) – Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) pour la protection et la réintégration...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the unexpected return of many Cambodian women migrant workers to their home provinces. Job losses caused by lockdowns, border closures and a general fear of being separated from family members during the pandemic forced large numbers of women working abroad or in Cambodian cities to return to their home provinces. Since...
IOM through the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub, together with UNICEF, have developed the following tools as a complement to the Reintegration Handbook’s module “A Child Rights Approach to the Sustainable Reintegration of Migrant Children and Families”. Please, refer to the "Introduction" section...
The Eastern Route, which runs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has long been the busiest and most relevant migratory corridor in the East and Horn of Africa region. In 2021, movement trends along the Eastern Corridor have significantly increased by 71% compared to 2020, suggesting that migration...
The Asia–Pacific Migration Data Report series is the flagship publication for the region since 2020. The Asia–Pacific Migration Data Report 2021 consolidates the latest evidence on the migration landscape in the region in 2021, principally through the lens of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of 2021, Asia and the Pacific endured COVID-19...
Read here the sustainable reintegration story of Fofana, part of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative!
The Impact of COVID-19 on Ethiopian Migrants and Their Households in Five Communities of High Emigration (July 2022) is the fifth publication in a series of thematic reports that build on the analysis of data collected by the IOM Regional Data Hub for the East and Horn of Africa for a multistage research project aimed at better understanding the migration of...
Under the overall objective of contributing to the Government of Georgia's efforts to support sustainable reintegration of returning migrants and community revitalization, the project seeks to pilot innovative interventions supporting the development of local livelihood opportunities for returning Georgian migrants and contributing to the revitalization of...
The proposed activities of this initiative seek to enhance and support community structures such as the Centre de Formation aux Métiers (CFM) - the vocational training centre of Kantché - through the provision of equipment, in order to strengthen their capacity to effectively assisting/training youth in developing the necessary skills to facilitate their re...