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Paulo is an artist and restaurateur who spent the last 20 years in Europe before being assisted by IOM to voluntarily return to Brazil ©IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The report highlights a 70% increase in the number of migrants in vulnerable situations who were assisted to voluntarily return from 4,446 in 2021 to 7,561 in 2022.
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After migrating to Libya, Bernadette decided to return to Cameroon and was supported with reintegration assistance, including psychological one and business trainings. Credit IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The third Knowledge Paper looks at the different approaches and types of interventions that can be envisaged to foster returnees’ waged employment as a key factor for sustainable reintegration.
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Beneficiary of the IOM-UNDP “Making Migration Work for Sustainable Development” project in Serbia © IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The sixth issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series on "Longitudinal Evidence on Sustainable Reintegration Outcomes" is now publicly available.
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IOM's Multi-Purpose Community Hall (MPCH) in Yola, Adamawa state, Nigeria provides a safe space for activities such as lay counselling, basic emotional support, skills development and other activities targeting especially children, teenagers and women. IOM/Natalie Oren 2021
The IOM has published an additional module on Return Counselling of Children and their Families, developed in collaboration with UNICEF and Save the Children. The module is conceived as an integral part of the Return Counselling Toolkit.
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Abu Said (in white clothes), beneficiary of the Prottasha project's reintegration assistance, in a local market © IOM / Beyond Borders Media 2022
The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub has just released the fifth issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series. This fifth Knowledge Bite aims to explore returnees’ satisfaction with different types of reintegration assistance.
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As part of community reintegration, IOM partnered with a local NGO to rehabilitate a multi-purpose community center in Khartoum, Sudan and aims to support host communities and returnees in the area. | © IOM/Muse Mohammed
Nearly 50,000 migrants were assisted to voluntarily return to their countries of origin with more than 113,000 reintegration activities supported globally in 2021 according to the IOM 2021 Return and Reintegration Key Highlights.
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Third country nationals from Uzbekistan await onward transportation in a transit centre in Mlyny, Poland | © Alissa Everett 2022
The Return Counselling Toolkit builds upon IOM standards and the Organization’s longstanding experience in providing return and reintegration counselling to thousands of migrants every year, in a multiplicity of countries and operational contexts.
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Rice cultivation project in Côte d'Ivoire under the joint EU-IOM initiative - Mohamed Aly Diabaté / IOM
The package can be used for the development of results monitoring frameworks, M&E plans and to conduct monitoring and evaluation activities for return and reintegration programmes.
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Environmentally rehabilitated land at Habro District 013 Kebele. A visit by the EU-IOM Joint Initiative’s Program Coordinator, Ms. Sara Basha. © IOM Ethiopia
The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub released the 11th factsheet on “Creating Livelihoods through Environmental Rehabilitation in Ethiopia” from the Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series.
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A capacity-building reintegration training session in Dhaka, Bangladesh. IOM 2021
The new training curricula provide return and reintegration practitioners and stakeholders with ready-to-use materials to organize and deliver training sessions for actors in the field of migrant return and reintegration.
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A woman looking over a fence in an open area © IOM
The study presents key findings of two combined research projects aimed at highlighting the differences in reintegration outcomes among returnees.
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Women work together to manufacture soap © IOM 2020 / Assan Jobe
This study sought to complement these findings on referrals by collecting qualitative information to provide insights into the reasons behind the negative effect of referrals on reintegration sustainability outcomes and satisfaction.
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Returnee in front of his grocery shop in Malawi - © IOM
The Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Bites Series, launched in October 2020, aims to present findings pertaining to sustainable reintegration outcomes emerging from analyses based on the Reintegration Sustainability Survey data and other monitoring and...
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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
This web-based toolkit contains guidance material, tools and design information, with a particular focus on centres established as part of Migrant Resource and Response Mechanisms (MRRMs) in countries transited by migrants.
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Children colouring at IOM's Multi-Purpose Community Hall in Yola, Adamawa state, Nigeria. Photo:  Natalie Oren/IOM
The development of the Toolkit and the identification of good practices were coordinated by the EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) with the financial support of the European Union (EU), in collaboration with Samuel Hall, the European Commission’s...
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KMH releases second issue of the Sustainable Reintegration Knowledge Paper Series
The second Knowledge Paper provides leads to reintegration and development practitioners on how reintegration and development programmes can be better connected to increase the sustainability of migrant reintegration and to maximize the impact of reintegration...
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Dudu and his family taking a selfie in the airport before departing to Georgia. © 2020 IOM/Konstantina Mintzoli
IOM released  key  highlights  from its Return and Reintegration programmes, including trends, figures and initiatives and efforts to assist and reintegrate migrants returning voluntarily to their countries of origin during the past year. 
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A food and goods distribution to returned migrants in Burkina Faso. IOM 2018/Alexandre Bee
This new Knowledge Papers series aims at focusing on aspects of migrant reintegration that have been largely under-researched, not implemented to their full potential, or that have consistently been identified in reintegration programmes’ evaluations as gaps...
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Migrants at the Tripoli Airport preparing to board a flight home. Photo: IOM
The documentary shows how the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration works to save lives, protect and assists migrants all along the migration routes, with migrant rights upheld. It emphasizes the trilateral partnership with African...
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Returnee involved in rice cultivation project in Côte d'Ivoire / Photo: Mohamed Aly Diabaté / © IOM
This second Knowledge Bite explores factors that contribute to higher levels of sustainable reintegration. Specifically, the analysis in this report focuses on investigating sustainable reintegration outcomes following referrals and understanding the effect of...