Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

The Monitoring Returned Minors (MRM) research project aimed at developing a monitoring and evaluation instrument that contributes to more sustainable and safer return of minors. The project was initiated by HIT Foundation on behalf of the European Commission and was executed in close collaboration with Nidos, Micado Migration, the University of Groningen and...

​This report presents insights from the research project Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG), funded by the Research Council of Norway and led by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Over a five-year period, a core group of eight researchers in Norway and the United Kingdom studied return migration from multiple perspectives. They...

Ethiopia has been facing an increased return of migrants, as a result of mass deportation from countries like Saudi Arabia, The Government of Ethiopia, together with other humanitarian actors successfully managed the return but, due to the absence of a national framework on reintegration, the reintegration component was not addressed. Hence this report...

This information sheet aims to give a brief overview of the VARRP Reintegration Assistance programme under the New Approach from the end of October 2007 to the end of December 2009. The information given in this document is split into two parts. Part 1 gives an analysis of reintegration cases assisted worldwide during the above period and looks at the...

Cette recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés de retour afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau communautaire et national.

This report is a mapping and socio-economic profiling of communities of return in Ghana, based on a field research in Ghana carried out in February 2018. This analysis aims to better understand the communities in which returnees arrive, to make recommendations at local and national levels. Recommendations for IOM Ghana and each communities of return are...

The objective of this report is to support the operationalisation of the Joint Initiative for Migration Protection and Reintegration in Africa and to better understand the communities in which returning migrants return or arrive - to make recommendations at the EU and national level. This document seeks to contribute to understanding Guinea Bissau’s complex...

To enable returning migrants to achieve sustainable reintegration, activities must include, in addition to economic projects, initiatives addressing the social and the psychosocial dimensions of sustainable reintegration. To this end, the analysis presented in this report provides an understanding of the communities in which returnees return to or arrive in...

This document seeks to contribute to understanding Gambia’s complex dynamics to help IOM adapt its reintegration strategy and activities in areas of actual or potential return. To do so, this synthesis report identifies a number of challenges in the context of sustainable reintegration, and proposes levers of action, particularly at the local level. The...

Cette recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre le contexte des communautés de retour afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau communautaire et national.

La présente étude vise à soutenir la mise en place opérationnelle de l’Initiative conjointe à travers: 1) une étude de 6 communautés de retourr et à fort potentiel migratoire identifiées par l’OIM en Côte d’Ivoire et 2) une base de référence socioéconomique pour permettre une évaluation de l’impact des initiatives d’aide au retour et à la...

Cette recherche vise donc à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés dans lesquelles les migrants de retour reviennent ou arrivent afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau...

Cette recherche vise donc à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés dans lesquelles les migrants de retour reviennent ou arrivent afin de formuler des recommandations au niveau...

Cette recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les communautés de retour afin de formuler des recommandations aux niveaux communautaire et national.

La recherche vise à soutenir la mise en place d’activités économiques, sociales et psychosociales favorisant la réintégration durable des migrants assistés au retour. Son objectif général est de mieux comprendre les contextes des communautés de retour – afin de formuler des recommandations aux niveaux communautaire et national.

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the main population movement trends that affected the East and Horn of Africa in 2018. The region continues to exhibit high mobility patterns, both internally within countries and across national boundaries. Migration is triggered by a complex mix of protracted crises, emerging internal conflicts, socio...

Thus far, 2018 has been historic in many ways. Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a landmark declaration of peace and friendship on 9 July, casting aside decades of hostility in a matter of weeks. The announcement of the end to the state of war was met by widespread jubilation in both countries, and was matched by concrete acts of rapprochement, which included...

This report aims to provide an overview of the trends observed in the second half of 2017 on the Western route across Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia and was produced using data from IOM’s Migrants’ Assistance projects and Human Mobility data collection activities in the Horn of Africa and in the Arab Peninsula.

Despite the ongoing crisis that has forced millions of Iraqis flee their homes, the fact that hundreds of thousands of them are able to return to their places of origin is a sign of hope. However, while many may already back, putting an end to forced displacement, for most of them the situation upon returning remains extremely challenging. In order to better...

The report has been prepared as part of the Complex Reintegration Assistance for Assisted Voluntary Returnees to Kosovo (UNSCR 1244)1 project, co-funded by the 2013 Hungarian national allocation of the European Return Fund and the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, and implemented by IOM Hungary in cooperation with IOM Prishtina. The present document is...