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Guideline
27 July 2020

Durable Solutions for Children Toolkit

The Toolkit allows practitioners to build evidence-based and child-focused, long-term solutions and advocacy interventions. It provides substantial direction on issues of return and re-integration and outlines options, actions and legal guidance related to local integration and resettlement. It can help measure child specific gaps in displacement and...
Leaflet/booklet
27 July 2020

Advanced Academic Update Overview: Return, Reintegration and Development

On 27 June 2012 the IS Academy: Migration and Development project hosted an Advanced Academic Update (AAU) on Return Migration, Reintegration and Development. The purpose of the AAU was to provide state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of return, reintegration and development and to engage in lively debate amongst policy makers, representatives from non...
Initiatives
June 19, 2020

MAGNET II project. Joint approach in the field of job placement for Iraqi returnees

Built upon the success of the MAGNET pilot phase (January 2012 - June 2013), MAGNET II aimed at strengthening the link between local authorities, private sector representatives and returnees to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) to contribute to their reintegration by facilitating information and access to existing job opportunities. More than 2,800 Iraqi...
Leaflet/booklet
18 June 2020

Projets de réintégration. Initiative conjointe UE–OIM pour la protection et la réintégration des migrants en Côte d’Ivoire.

Le Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire et l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM), avec l’appui de l’Union européenne, mettent en œuvre depuis 2017 l’Initiative conjointe UE–OIM pour la protection et la réintégration des migrants en Côte d’Ivoire. À travers cette initiative, l’OIM Côte d’Ivoire fournit aux migrants ivoiriens une aide au retour...
KMH Good and Innovative Practice Series
17 June 2020

Reintegration good practices #9 - Boosting returnees’ employment through support to SMEs in Iraq

The Enterprise Development Fund (EDF) encourages rapid, large-scale private sector job creation and economic recovery through tailored support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Implemented by IOM in Iraq since 2018, the EDF is a financing mechanism that provides SMEs with financial capital to contribute to their recovery and/or expansion. It targets...
Publication

IOM Launches Reintegration Handbook in French, Spanish and Arabic

With this Handbook, IOM aims to share its expertise, as well as that of its partners, to provide practical guidance on the design, implementation and monitoring of reintegration assistance to migrants unable or unwilling to remain in host or transit countries and returning through assisted voluntary return or through returns organized by host governments and...
Initiatives
June 04, 2020

Return and Reintegration in the Northern Triangle of Central America

The program tackles fundamental reintegration needs of returning families and unaccompanied children to break the cycle of migration. Activities include psychosocial support, school reintegration for children and humanitarian aid for all returning migrants. The program also helps strengthen the capacity of institutions and local governments to improve...
Publication

Reintegration assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series. A new factsheet on community-based planning and small infrastructure construction in Somalia produced by the Knowledge Management Hub.

The Knowledge Management Hub is releasing today a new factsheet on community-based planning and small infrastructure works in Somalia as part of the “Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series”. Community-based planning (CBP) is a community-centred approach used by IOM in some post-crisis and recovery contexts to engage local...
KMH Good and Innovative Practice Series
29 May 2020

Reintegration good practices #8 - Revitalizing Economy and Enhancing Social Cohesion through Community-Based Planning and Community-Prioritized Infrastructure Works: the Construction of a Bridge in Somalia

As part of its community stabilization and community-based reintegration interventions in Somalia, IOM built a bridge in the town of Baidoa, in southern Somalia. This activity benefitted the entire population of the area including 30,000 IDPs, 37,500 returnees (including returning IDPs, returning refugees and returning migrants) and 82,500 members of the...
Position paper
08 May 2020

Re/integration of trafficked persons. Working with trafficked children and youth

This paper was developed in the context of the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP), which funds NGO’s in several countries of Southeastern Europe. It is the fifth of a series that aim to shed light on good practices in the area of re/integration as well as on important lessons learned. This paper addresses the issue of the re/integration of...
Study
08 May 2020

Reintegration and Development

Why do some return migrants reintegrate back home better than others? Why do patterns of reintegration vary so much? To what extent does gender impact on reintegration? Which factors shape the ability of some migrants to transfer their skills and social rights after return? Which resources (e.g. human capital, financial capital, networks and social capital)...
Leaflet/booklet
27 April 2020

Making Life Better for Children on the Move. Promising practices for working with and supporting children on the move

Destination Unknown is working to ensure children and young people on the move can exercise their human rights, have hope for the future and thrive in inclusive societies where they are free from discrimination. This new booklet, ‘ Making life better for children on the move: Promising practices for working with and supporting children on the move‘ presents...
Report
24 April 2020

Distant Dreams: Understanding the aspirations of Afghan returnees

This report is based on 56 in-depth interviews with former Afghan migrants and refugees who have returned from Iran, Pakistan and Europe. The research reveals returnees’ aspirations and hopes for their future, including psychosocial challenges when reintegrating and how those suffering from more severe psychosocial conditions after return have also...
Report
20 April 2020

An Assessment of the Implementation of the Legal and Policy Framework for the Reintegration of Repatriated Persons in Kosovo

The report assesses the progress in the implementation of the legal and policy framework for the reintegration of persons repatriated to Kosovo. It covers the period 2014 – 2015 and notes the improved performance of municipal institutions following the process of decentralization culminating in the adoption of Local Action Plans, the improved data collection...
Report
20 April 2020

Assessment of Voluntary Returns in Kosovo

The report provides an overview of the current status of voluntary returns in Kosovo, including internally displaced persons and persons displaced in the region. It covers the period from January 2015 to December 2018 and provides updates to the OSCE 2014 report on voluntary returns.
Guideline
02 April 2020

Reintegration Counselling: A Psychosocial Approach

The present guide is intended to provide key information on the importance of a psychosocial approach to post-arrival reintegration counselling, describing the basic counselling and communication skills necessary to conduct a successful and psychologically informed reintegration counselling interview with a returned migrant. It is a practical tool to support...
Publication

Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series. Knowledge Management Hub releasing first factsheets

The “Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series” aims at highlighting innovative reintegration activities along with operational details and recommendations that will allow reintegration practitioners to learn more about these activities, understand how they are implemented and how they could be replicated or adapted in their...
KMH Good and Innovative Practice Series
30 March 2020

Reintegration good practices #2 - Skills and employability enhancement in Burkina Faso

In preparation for the national Independence Day, the Government of Burkina Faso invests massively in public works and civil engineering. Every year, in a different region, many construction projects are launched, including housing construction, road upgrading, etc. These projects offer excellent job opportunities for many Burkinabè returnees who were...
KMH Good and Innovative Practice Series
30 March 2020

Reintegration good practices #1 - Cash-for-work, Guinea

As of mid-July 2018, 452 individuals were included in cash for work (CFW) activities in the capital of Guinea, Conakry. Benefitting both returning migrants and prospective migrants including community members in vulnerable situations, this initiative has provided them with cash support when they usually need it most (transition period between return and...