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 facilitate the creation of social networks and relations of mutual trust and support.

Entrepreneurship workshops aimed to give returnees (both women and men) the opportunity to enhance their knowledge on how to successfully establish and manage a business, as well as the space to meet other returnees living in the same area, discuss their personal and professional experience and share contacts.