Protection

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 brief guidance note seeks to provide advice on protecting and supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Europe. It describes key principles and appropriate interventions to guide all those who are designing and organizing emergency services and/or providing direct assistance to the affected...

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...

This document represents Chapter Nine of UNHCR's 10-Point Plan of Action on Refugee Protection and Mixed Movements, which deals with Return Arrangements for Non-Refugees and Alternative Migration Options. The 10-Point Plan offers a framework to respond to the protection needs of refugees, stateless people, unaccomanied and separated children, trafficked...

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...

The specific goal of this report is to make a contribution to the discussion on successful and effective AVR(R) policies and programmes for Iraqi nationals. The research underlying this report does so through the comparison of different existing AVR(R) policies and programmes, those apply at Iraqi nationals or open to all. In addition, the results of this...

Through this report we hope to contribute to a better historical awareness of voluntary return measures as integral part of the return policy in the Netherlands. The history of Dutch voluntary return measures includes some distinct moments of a change in policy, which coincide with different government coalitions. The main aim of this report is to provide an...

Supporting the sustainability of return and reintegration is an integral part of UNHCR’s responsibility for the promotion of durable solutions. Traditionally, the Office has exercised that responsibility most directly in relation to refugees. Now that UNHCR has assumed an enhanced role in the inter-agency response to the challenges of internal displacement...

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 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...

The Handbook for Repatriation and Reintegration Activities is a guide for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and partner staff in the field to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate repatriation and reintegration activities. It translates the Repatriation, Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (the 4Rs) component of the High...

As part of the Applied Workshop in International Development at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the International Organization of Migration (IOM) contracted a team of seven students to perform an independent evaluation of the IOM contributions to the problem of child soldiers in Colombia. The Team conducted a process...

This report summarizes the insights gained and lessons learned from the downsizing of the armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the wake of Dayton Peace Accords of December 1995.

The programme Return and Counselling Assistance of Asylum Seekers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania currently living in Belgium, Finland and The Netherlands has been implemented by the International Organisation for Migration in seven countries. Its overall objective is to contribute to the provision of more durable voluntary return options...

Return Migration in Austria is the contribution of the National Contact Point (NCP) Austria to the third European Pilot Study o­n Return Migration in the EU Member States, which is compiled by the European Migration Network (EMN). Besides the Austrian NCP, country studies will be compiled by the NCPs of Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, the...

This summary report provides a detailed analysis of the situation of migrants who have returned home to several West African countries as a result of the conflict in Libya. This report is the full version which IOM’s Policy in Brief – Returnees from Libya: The Bittersweet Experience of Coming Home is based on. It provides an understanding of the factors that...