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Natia migrated to Belgium to seek better opportunities for her family but had to return to Georgia to closely support her son. Credit: IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The Platform takes steps towards the fulfilment of international accessibility standards and recognizes the rapid evolution of digital ecosystems and tools.
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IOM colleagues celebrating the closure of a Labour Market Assessment training in SNNPR, Ethiopia. Credit: Haileleul Shemels, IOM Ethiopia
In the framework of the COMPASS Programme, IOM Ethiopia will conduct a labour market assessment of destination countries for Ethiopian labour migrants.
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Happy and another community member, walking in an agricultural field. Happy was assisted with IOM's support to return and reintegrate in Malawi. CREDIT IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
These improvements specifically targeting the accessibility have been implemented while recognizing the rapid evolvement of the digital ecosystems and tools, and therefore the need to consider them as part of a continuous work in progress.
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Kateness migrated from Malawi to South Africa in search for better opportunities when she saw her cousin taking that same path. However once there, she didn't found what she hoped for. Having reached out to IOM, she was assisted with return and reintegration support. She attended business trainings and together with her mother she now runs a little castor oil production business in Blantyre. Credit  IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The evaluation, which was undertaken by an independent expert, assessed the performance and achievements of the KMH, with a special focus on providing findings on lessons learned and good practices.
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An IOM staff in El Salvador visiting a returnee's barber shop, opened as part of a reintegration programme. IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022 © International Organization for Migration 2022
The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) has made available the package of tools  for the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of return and reintegration programmes in three languages, English and French and now also Spanish.
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Kazi Sabuj, a beneficiary of the Prottasha project’s reintegration assistance in Bangladesh, with his foamily © IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The tools, developed through the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) are a complement to the IOM Reintegration Handbook’s module “A Child Rights Approach to the Sustainable Reintegration of Migrant Children and Families”, co-developed by IOM and UNICEF.
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Banner of the IPPN Knowledge Café.
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.
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Maye is a Venezuelan woman who tat works as a chef in a special restaurant in Quito and uses a portion of its earning to support local Venezuelan families in need. Photo: Muse Mohammed / © International Organization for Migration
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.
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A displaced woman registers for aid with IOM in Gedeb town, Gedeo Zone. Credit: Olivia Headon / © International Organization for Migration
IOM Ethiopia is implementing COMPASS to contribute to the long-term outcomes of focus on the protection and assistance of people on the move and decreased irregular migration.
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Women beneficiaries of the GOALS Programme working together
The regional model on reintegration will provide a sustainable solution to address gendered social, psychosocial, economic, including labour market opportunities and challenges for returning migrant workers.
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Screen capture of the United Nations Network on Migration's website, showing the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub among its Repository of Practices.
The Repository of Practices showcases replicable practices to inspire those working to implement the Global Compact for Migration from global, national, regional and local levels.
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A beneficiary from the Joint Complementary Mechanism for Sustainable Reintegration in Brazil (SURE). IOM / SURE Project
The Return and Reintegration Platform is celebrating its second anniversary! Check its footprint and the upcoming features.
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A participant of IOM’s GMFF Participatory Video Project, holding a camera in Pintolandia Shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil. IOM 2018 / Amanda NERO
KMH is seeking to contract the services of a professional multimedia production company to produce audio-visual materials aiming to encourage pro-active communication and a renewed narrative over migrant return and sustainable reintegration.
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IOM staff in Tripoli checks documents one last time before departure. Photo: IOM/Moayad Zaghdani
More than 106,700 stranded and vulnerable migrants returned home to date with support from the EU-IOM Joint Initiative. The Programme marks its 5th anniversary this December.
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Community discussion among two women and two men.
The Community, with its 750+ members around the globe, allows for peer-to-peer discussions and aims to promote exchanges and knowledge sharing between practitioners in host, transit and origin countries.
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IOM worker in a conversation with a migrant woman. IOM/Muse Mohammed
Mapping and desk review of existing research, tools, practices and guidelines, within and outside IOM, on the inclusion of migrants with diverse SOGIESC and a research study on the protection needs and vulnerabilities of migrants with diverse SOGIESC
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Returnee woman who received IOM Mauritania assistance for her reintegration project. Sibylle Desjardins / © International Organization for Migration
The  Cooperation on Migration and Partnerships to Achieve Sustainable Solutions (COMPASS) programme, funded by the Dutch Government, was designed to provide direct protection and assistance services to vulnerable migrants whilst developing long-term...
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Fifteen Hondurans depart Belize on 30 June 2020. Credit: IOM
The widespread impact of COVID-19 on global human mobility due to travel restrictions, border closures and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus left millions of migrants stranded across the world. In a September 2020 report on COVID-19’s Impact on...
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Returnee woman trained on a rice farming project through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative. Photo: Mohamed Aly Diabaté / IOM © International Organization for Migration
The French version consolidates the Platform as a global tool for information and knowledge by reaching out to a larger audience around the globe and ensuring more inclusiveness.
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Flyer of the Return and Reintegration Platform describing its sections
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) with support from the European Union, today (06/12) launched the Return and Reintegration Platform.