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Among the migrants hosted in IOM transit centres are many vulnerable people, children, pregnant women and those injured in their journey. Photo: Monica Chiriac/IOM © International Organization for Migration
IOM launched in September 2021 an  online open-source toolkit for migrant centre administration and management.
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Women beneficiaries of the GOALS Programme working together
The regional model on reintegration will provide a sustainable solution to address gendered social, psychosocial, economic, including labour market opportunities and challenges for returning migrant workers.
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A participant of IOM’s GMFF Participatory Video Project, holding a camera in Pintolandia Shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil. IOM 2018 / Amanda NERO
KMH is seeking to contract the services of a professional multimedia production company to produce audio-visual materials aiming to encourage pro-active communication and a renewed narrative over migrant return and sustainable reintegration.
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IOM staff in Tripoli checks documents one last time before departure. Photo: IOM/Moayad Zaghdani
More than 106,700 stranded and vulnerable migrants returned home to date with support from the EU-IOM Joint Initiative. The Programme marks its 5th anniversary this December.
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Community discussion among two women and two men.
The Community, with its 750+ members around the globe, allows for peer-to-peer discussions and aims to promote exchanges and knowledge sharing between practitioners in host, transit and origin countries.
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Frontline workers at the IOM Point of Entry health screening point in Bunagana encourage travellers to wash their hands and check each passer-by for symptoms of Ebola before they can cross the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda | Muse Mohammed © International Organization for Migration
IOM invites Service Providers/Consulting Firms to provide Technical and Financial Proposals for Research studies on the impact of health-related needs on sustainable reintegration outcomes and the impact of debt on sustainable reintegration outcomes.
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Children playing at IOM's Multi-Purpose Community Hall (MPCH) in Yola, Adamawa state, Nigeria. IOM/Natalie Oren © International Organization for Migration
The recruitment of a dedicated consultant will serve the preparation of a comprehensive guidance as well as a dissemination plan for the implementation of the Toolkit, in collaboration with relevant colleagues at IOM Headquarters as well as regional and...
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Cover image of the Training on Monitoring and Evaluating Return and Reintegration Programmes
This call for applications primarily targets monitoring and evaluation practitioners working on return and reintegration. Priority will be given to candidates working in Northern Africa, Sahel and Lake Chad, the Horn of Africa and Bangladesh.
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Cover of the documentary ''In the Words of Migrants
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...
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Returnees in the midst of plastering a building being rebuilt Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. © IOM 2021/Mohamed Aly DIABATÉ
This call for applications primarily targets French-speaking reintegration practitioners working in the field of reintegration in in the Northern Africa, Sahel and Lake Chad, the Horn of Africa and Bangladesh
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IOM worker in a conversation with a migrant woman. IOM/Muse Mohammed
Mapping and desk review of existing research, tools, practices and guidelines, within and outside IOM, on the inclusion of migrants with diverse SOGIESC and a research study on the protection needs and vulnerabilities of migrants with diverse SOGIESC
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Migrants staying at the transit centres are regularly sensitized about COVID-19 prevention measures. ©IOM / Daniel Kisito Kouawo
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...
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Returnee woman who received IOM Mauritania assistance for her reintegration project. Sibylle Desjardins / © International Organization for Migration
The  Cooperation on Migration and Partnerships to Achieve Sustainable Solutions (COMPASS) programme, funded by the Dutch Government, was designed to provide direct protection and assistance services to vulnerable migrants whilst developing long-term...
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Fifteen Hondurans depart Belize on 30 June 2020. Credit: IOM
The widespread impact of COVID-19 on global human mobility due to travel restrictions, border closures and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus left millions of migrants stranded across the world. In a September 2020 report on COVID-19’s Impact on...
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Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) banner
KNOMAD is seeking a consultant to elaborate a methodology for a comprehensive longitudinal study on reintegration outcomes of returnees in selected regions and countries. This methodology will be made available for stakeholders interested in carrying out or...
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Diverse children holding IOM flags. Alexander Bee/IOM
A Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) has been established by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2017 under the EU-funded Pilot Action on Voluntary Return and Sustainable, Community-Based Reintegration.
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Collection of IOM portraits displayed as phone calls for virtual counselling
In 2019, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has introduced the Virtual Counselling project. Funded by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, this project allows migrants living in Germany to contact IOM staff via social media and...
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Man sitting down to fill out a form
A Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) has been established by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2017 under the EU-funded Pilot Action on Voluntary Return and Sustainable, Community-Based Reintegration. The KMH aims at assisting the...
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Participants from the training of trainers organized in São Paulo, Brazil. October 21-22, 2019
IOM Portugal started in 2019 the implementation of the project Joint Complementary Mechanism for Sustainable Reintegration in Brazil (SURE).
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Omar, an eight-year-old who in 2016 left with his father for Libya in an attempt to reach Italy, accompanied by his mother Mali. Photo: IOM/Miko Alazas
Read here this story of return published by IOM on Medium! The story was written by Miko Alazas, IOM’s Communications Officer in The Gambia.