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The video documentary stresses the importance of assisted voluntary return and a tailored reintegration assistance to returnees. It highlights the protection, reintegration and mental health and psychosocial support IOM provides to migrants during their return journey and upon arrival to their country of origin.

The second Knowledge Paper provides leads to reintegration and development practitioners on how reintegration and development programmes can be better connected to increase the sustainability of migrant reintegration and to maximize the impact of reintegration on sustainable development.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration has been at the forefront of prevention and response efforts, adapting its programmes to continue delivering assistance and protecting vulnerable migrants across the Sahel and Lake Chad region, Horn of Africa, and North Africa.

The webinar presented key lessons and practices from the Joint Complementary Mechanism for Sustainable Reintegration in Brazil (SURE), a project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and co-financed by the Portuguese Immigration and Border Service (SEF).

During the webinar, the ORION project team together with mentors and Samuel Hall presented the results achieved as well as the lessons learnt and good practices that could be replicated elsewhere through this approach. The webinar was also the occasion to present a new video on the ORION mentoring approach.

On 25 May, Africa Day, the INTPA InfoPoint will host an online screening of a new video documentary which shows how the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration works to save lives, protect and assists migrants all along the migration routes, with migrant rights upheld. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with...

The module, result of a collaborative effort between IOM and UNICEF, focuses on the reintegration of children and their families and complements the IOM Reintegration Handbook: practical guidance on the design, implementation and monitoring of reintegration assistance.