Skills for Reintegration. Target-Group-Specific Approaches to Reintegration for Education and Technical Vocational Education and Training in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

This study is a research study to review and revise sector concepts, strategies and approaches in a reintegration situation. With this overview of existing instruments and methods, it aims to strengthen practical development support towards countries and communities facing reintegration challenges. It argues that successful reintegration of displaced populations forms a key element in post-conflict recovery, reconstruction and peacebuilding situations, and that within the reintegration context, education and TVET are cornerstones and key sectors in rebuilding societies and sustaining peace. 

The study is divided into seven chapters:

• Chapter 1 provides the reader with some background information that led to the commissioning of the study.
• Chapter 2 introduces the topic of forced displacement and the German government responses and provides some general information on education and TVET.
• Chapter 3 provides the reader with an understanding of the reintegration concept.
• Chapter 4 introduces the different target groups to be supported in their efforts to reintegrate into society.
• Chapter 5 addresses the role of education and skills development in reintegration by looking at selected formal and non-formal, as well as cross-cutting and wider, approaches.
• Chapter 6 summarises some lessons learned from past interventions and tries to find out what has worked and what has not worked by analysing the reasons for success and failure.
• Chapter 7 concludes the study by making recommendations on the three levels of policy/strategy, institutional/organisational and operational/programme.