Economic Opportunities and Labour Rights

This third monitoring report presents the survey results from Belizean and Costa Rican beneficiaries assisted by IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs in El Salvador, Guatemala/Belize and Honduras. The survey purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of how migrants reintegrate upon return to their origin countries. To date, IOM has produced two AVR...

IOM monitoring reports present a summary of surveys and interviews conducted with returned migrants, since March 2020, as participants in IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs in North of Central America Countries (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). The objective of these surveys and interviews is to gain a deeper understanding of how...

This monitoring report presents feedback received from 21 migrants who returned to Honduras from Guatemala and from El Salvador to Nicaragua through IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs, funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. In April 2020, IOM started case monitoring of its AVR beneficiaries who...

This fourth monitoring report summarizes 116 surveys that IOM conducted since March 2020 to capture the experiences of participants in the IOM Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs in El Salvador, Guatemala/Belize, and Honduras. The primary purpose of these surveys is to gain a deeper understanding of how beneficiaries reintegrate upon return to their...

Under the RADA project, IOM is contributing to create employment for returnees in Afghanistan by supporting local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to increase their production capacities and their market reach. Applicant SMEs that have a potential for growth and commit to employ a number of returnees, are selected to receive financial and technical...

The migrant population in the People’s Republic of China grew steadily over 30 years before showing signs of decline in the last 5 years. In the paper, push and pull factors identified were associated with the availability of assets both in migration destinations and back at home that the migrants can draw upon for income and livelihoods. These assets...

COVID-19 has posed significant challenges for IOM, affecting the provision of much needed support to migrants and governments alike. It has been particularly challenging for the Organization’s migrant protection and assistance work, where most of the programming involves direct access to migrants, including those in vulnerable situations. Impacts have been...

The module follows the structure of the Reintegration Handbook with the aim of demonstrating child rights and childsensitive approaches to reintegration assistance within the integrated approach. The module has five parts covering key principles for a child rights and integrated approach, child-sensitive reintegration at the individual, community and...

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 to beneficiaries of the programme, the donor and wider sector, and an evidence base to inform future...

In line with the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016) and the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework - preceded by the Brazil Plan of Action (2014) and the San José Action Statement (2016) - countries in Central America and Mexico have committed to implement the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS, according to...

La plupart des migrants de retour au Sénégal sont endettés. Ils ont contracté des prêts soit pour financer leur parcours migratoire, soit pour couvrir des frais personnels et professionnels. Ces prêts créent des contraintes financières et morales qui déterminent leur capacité à participer à la vie économique et sociale dans leur pays d’origine. Cette étude a...

La migration de retour est un phénomène qui a pris de l’ampleur au Mali avec l’insécurité croissante de la région, la dangerosité des routes migratoires caractérisées par la traversée de la mer Méditerranée ou du désert du Sahara, le renforcement des contrôles aux frontières et par les risques grandissants de protection en Libye. Or les rapports sur les...

Les coûts imprévus et les risques liés à la migration irrégulière dissuadent certains migrants qui décident de rentrer dans leurs pays d’origine. Un facteur en particulier va influencer significativement les conditions de réintégration du migrant de retour : il s’agit de son endettement. En effet, le remboursement des montants empruntés va exercer une...

La présente étude s’intéresse à l’impact des crédits contractés par les migrants de retour sur leur réintégration en Côte d’Ivoire. Elle entend: 1) Détailler les montants, les mécanismes et les temporalités des différents types de prêts financiers effectués par les migrants, ainsi que les dimensions symboliques, psychosociales et culturelles de la dette. Il...

Malgré les dangers rencontrés le long de la route de la Méditerranée Centrale, et les prix élevés des passages des frontières, la migration irrégulière a continué d’attirer de nombreux Burkinabè, motivés par l’espoir d’une vie meilleure et sans conflits. Néanmoins, le poids des dettes contractées avant ou pendant la migration peut facilement s’ajouter aux...

The closing event of the IOM ORION (Operationalising an Integrated Approach to Reintegration) project took place on 26 November 2020. This project, funded by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has been running since February 2018 and will end in December 2020. Through this project, a global Reintegration Handbook and related training...