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The IOM Regional Office for the East and Horn of Africa hosted (11-13 of April) a Regional Stocktaking workshop in Nairobi (Kenya) on the evidence on migrant protection and reintegration in the Horn of Africa.
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Case Management is an established practice from medical and social work professions that has been adopted by IOM to provide comprehensive return and reintegration assistance to beneficiaries. This is the first study on case management at IOM. It examines the...
Since April 2023, people in Sudan continue to face all forms of protection concerns and a worsening protection crisis, with women, girls, men and boys in situations of vulnerability experiencing the worst consequences. Approximately 2.3 million people have...
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the findings of the IMPACT study across all of its components. IMPACT is a study to evaluate how the assistance provided under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative Programme for Migrant Protection and Reintegration...
This study examines the consequences that migration, return and reintegration experiences have on the mental health and the psychosocial well-being of returning migrants, with the primary purpose of informing policies, programmes and advocacy initiatives that...
Sudan is at the centre of the East African migration route towards North Africa and Europe. Over the past decade, hundreds of irregular migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees have been transiting through Sudan every month, with some choosing to seek asylum in...
In March 2020, IOM commissioned Itad to undertake an impact evaluation (IMPACT) of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative Programme for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa (HoA) region (hereafter referred to as ‘JI-HoA’). The IMPACT study focuses...
In IOM’s Integrated Approach to Reintegration, community-based reintegration assistance programme aims at strengthening community networks and improving the conditions for sustainable reintegration. Initiatives at this level are implemented using a...
Launched in December 2016 with funding from the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative (JI) for Migrant Protection and Reintegration was the first comprehensive programme to save, protect and assist migrants along key...
In 2016, the EU and IOM launched the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, with an overall objective “To contribute to facilitating orderly, safe, regular and rights-based migration through the facilitation of dignified voluntary...
Launched in December 2016 with funding from the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative (JI) for Migrant Protection and Reintegration was the first comprehensive programme to save, protect and assist migrants along key...
In 2020, IOM commissioned a three-year impact evaluation (referred to as IMPACT) of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative programme in the Horn of Africa (referred to as JI-HoA), focusing on Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan. The study had its own innovative elements, among...
The Horn of Africa region has a high volume of migration flows both into, out of, and within the region. The reasons for migration vary, but deteriorating socio-economic conditions are a significant factor. However, the journey and arrival in transit and host...
How can practitioners and policymakers effectively measure the impact of migration policy programmes? More specifically, how can ex ante baselines be measured in a context of transitory populations, developing countries, and sometimes reactive and hastily...
Irregular migration can be a dangerous, degrading process that deprives migrants of their intrinsic worth and rights as human beings. Too often, on the routes through Africa and across the Mediterranean, human smugglers, traffickers and others take advantage...
Building on the global joint work by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on hunger, migration and displacement in the world from November 2020, this...
The Impact Evaluation of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative Programme for Migrant Protection and Reintegration (Horn of Africa), hereby IMPACT, aims to provide a robust assessment of the impact of IOM’s reintegration assistance, providing an accountability mechanism...
The Sankt Barbara Foundation offers trainings for potential returnees from Germany to conflict-ridden countries of origin. Armed conflict may leave some areas of the country of origin with explosive remnants of war, while other areas are considered safe. One...
In recent years, Sudan has experienced increased attention as a country of origin, transit and destination of mixed migration flows from Africa to Europe and the Middle East. Refugees and other migrants from the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritreans and...
In the context of assisting in the transition and recovery of conflict affected societies and communities, IOM has supported disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programmes for ex-combatants/fighters and their communities of return, through...