Migrants in Vulnerable Situations

The third Ministrial Dialogue addressed multiple topics related to migration management, with a particular focus on protection of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC). The objective of the meeting was to foster dialogue among Ministers responsible for Home Affairs in the SADC region on improving the region’s coordinated response to mixed and irregular...

The IOM Experience in Libya analyses the effect that the Libyan crisis has had on migrants caught in the crisis and the wider implications. The report considers the challenges and lessons learned with regard to the following in the international response to the Libyan crisis: the role played by State actors, cooperation mechanisms, evacuation as a form of...

This joint report aims to gather and share the lessons learned through the implementation of both projects, suggesting a way forward for the establishment of transnational referral mechanisms between European Union Member States and third countries. The issue of transnational referral mechanisms is a key priority in the current European Union anti...

This Manual has been developed to facilitate capacity building of first line officials to establish and/or implement ‘protection‐sensitive processes, procedures and systems’, with the aim of effectively responding to the protection needs of vulnerable migrants in Zambia. The Manual was developed as part of a Joint Programme that is being implemented by the...

The Guidelines were developed as part of a Joint Programme that is being implemented by the International Organization for Migration, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), supporting the Government of the Republic of Zambia to build the capacity of national actors in responding to mixed migration...

This document summarizes the practices, methodologies, and processes used, as well as lessons learned by the IOM during the three years of implementation of the Guatemala Repatriates Project (GRP). This report is geared toward the Government of Guatemala and any organization dedicated to assisting repatriated Guatemalans. The practices presented in this...

The present report forms part of the evaluation of the Swiss Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme mandated by the Federal Office for Migration (FOM) in 2012. It is to contribute to reaching the evaluation’s objectives and providing answers to the three principal evaluation questions (see box) by presenting data and experiences from Kosovo...

The present report is part of the evaluation of the Swiss Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) mandated by the Federal Office for Migration (FOM) in 2012. The report aims at contributing to reaching the evaluation objectives and providing answers to the three principal questions by presenting data and experiences from Georgia. At the same time...

As the starting point for a large-scale project on return migration, the PRIO team conducted a literature review with the aim of developing the conceptual framework, theoretical background and hypotheses for our research. In preparation for the review, publications were classified according to thematic and regional keywords. This bibliography, which contains...

This chart provides guidance on the different stages of assistance to vulnerable migrants requiring protection assistance. The chart promotes coordination of national stakeholders for provision of effective and comprehensive protection assistance to selected categories of vulnerable migrants in line with national legal frameworks and international best...

In southern Africa, the phenomenon of undocumented child migration is now a serious issue. This book captures the voices of children who have made perilous journeys across borders of their own volition but without any idea of the dangers they would meet on the way. They are vulnerable to sexual abuse, exploitative labour and have little or no access to...

The Return, Reception and Reintegration of Afghan Nationals to Afghanistan program was developed within the frame of the EU Plan for Return to Afghanistan for facilitating and assisting voluntary returns and sustainable reintegration into Afghanistan. RANA was designed to complement existing national assisted voluntary programs while providing enhanced...

IOM’s Post Conflict Reintegration Program in Aceh included intensive medical services to amnestied prisoners and ex-combatants and to conflict-affected communities throughout Aceh province. IOM’s Information, Counselling, and Referral Services (ICRS) served as an entry point for many beneficiaries where they learned about other aspects of the Post Conflict...

The Second Joint Donor Review of IOM Harare was commissioned by DFID, Sida, USAID, and ECHO as a follow-up to the first review in 2006, with a particular focus on the progress achieved in response to the recommendations put forth in the first review report, as well as a more in-depth examination of the activities in Beitbridge, which had only just begun at...

The present report is a result of a series of groundbreaking Participatory Assessments (PAs) with children living in refugee and returnee situations in Southern Africa, which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) carried out between 2005 and 2007. Its aim was to address the following questions: how children are being treated, how they...

This evaluation report summarizes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a multistakeholder team using participatory approaches to an evaluation of IOM’s reintegration projects in the Angolan provinces of Huambo, Moxico and Kwanza Sul. It reflects the application of a “learning-focused” process, aimed more at identifying lessons learnt than at...

The report assesses the relevant laws, policies, services and infrastructures available in Armenia for returning migrants with acute health problems and their degree of implementation. It identifies the gaps in health care system for migrants and returnees with medical problems and suggests specific recommendations to this end. The report dwells on the...

The Guide covers the various issues related to reintegration such as citizenship, residence, return documents, entry to Armenia and registration; pensions, benefits; economic and social reintegration; employment and self-employment (entrepreneurship) services for returnees, vocational training services; training and re-qualification; education and language...

This report provides insight into the lived reality of voluntary returnees with chronic medical conditions who returned to Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ghana, UNSC resolution 1244-administered Kosovo, Mongolia and Morocco. The report was developed in the framework of the IOM project Measures to Enhance the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration...

In this paper, the IOM and SRC propose the following main initiatives for the future management of public return assistance programmes: (a) opening up of return and reintegration assistance programmes to a wider group of migrants; (b) introducing inovative approaches to return assistance; and (c) strengthening cooperative work in Europe, particularly the...