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Strengthening Social Cohesion and Building Trust between the Police and the Population through Community Policing, Democratic Dialogue and Economic Recovery in Kasai Province This project led by IOM, in partnership with UNDP and UN Women, seeks to remedy the different drivers of insecurity through the combination of a community policing approach, democratic dialogue and economic recovery. The project's intervention strategy is part of an inclusive and participatory approach aimed at ensuring the participation of populations and security actors in issues related to security governance. In particular, through this project, IOM aims at addressing the structural and underlying causes of conflict by seeking to address the current security vacuum, the strengthening of trust between the population and State actors and the strengthening of community resilience through the development of sustainable socio-economic opportunities, particularly for those most vulnerable.
IOM Global Assistance Fund for Vulnerable Migrants This project will contribute to the aims of the Global Assistance Fund (GAF), which seeks to ensure that all migrants in vulnerable circumstances have access, as a last resort, to the lifesaving protection and assistance services required to resolve their vulnerabilities, achieve a state of well-being and empower their independence.
Reinforcement of Emergency Infrastructure, to Improve Access to Basic Services in Bentiu and Rubkona Since the onset of the flooding crisis in Bentiu and Rubkona, South Sudan in October 2021, following the inundation of urban areas, neighbouring payams and counties in Unity State, IOM in collaboration with the State Government, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and World Food Programme (WFP), deployed available machinery and technical experts for construction of emergency flooding mitigation infrastructure to protect civil and flood crisis internally displaced persons (IDP) and host population from displacement, loss of property and livelihoods. The three agencies formed a flood response technical working group through which a response plan clearly outlining the division of responsibilities and geographical coverage was developed and adopted. According to this inter-agency agreement, IOM is continuing with the rehabilitation, maintenance and monitoring of berms and dykes in Bentiu and Rubkona Town respectively, around Bentiu IDP Camp and the waste management site while UNMISS will be covering the dykes along the road to Rubkona and around the airstrip with WFP ensuring accessibility of main supply routes to Juba and Sudan.
India: Promoting Regular and Assisted Migration for Youth and Skilled Professionals (PRAYAS) India is the world’s largest recipient of remittances. Remittances accrued from Indians living abroad stand at USD 87 billion in 2021 constituting roughly 4.6 percent of the country’s GDP. Well-managed emigration can thus be an unsung asset for origin states. However, the increase in immigration intake in destination countries in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in irregular migration, due to lack of awareness of, or faith in, regular channels. Additionally, increasingly, students are applying for higher education in countries abroad. State governments play a very important role in mobility management and welfare. Many states are invested in empowering outgoing migrants through pre-departure training instilling greater control over the pre-decision and pre-departure phases of migration and curbing mobility through informal channels.IOM India (in consultation with the Ministry of External Affair (MEA), Government of India) proposes this project with the objective to contribute to facilitating safe, orderly, and regular migration for aspiring Indian migrant workers and students through policy recommendations in collaboration with the MEA, NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog – an apex think tank of the GOI, and State Governments thus facilitating better migration governance from India. This will be achieved through background research, round tables, and consultations with state governments and the MEA. Furthermore, the project will promote the dissemination of communication materials to aspiring students and migrant workers on safe and orderly migration pathways. This will strengthen the proactive engagement of State governments, encourage sharing of good practices and perspectives, facilitate the allocation of resources for emigrating migrants, and identify challenges and gaps, thereby enhancing the availability and flexibility for regular international migration pathways.
STFA Joint Programme for the Southern Region of Afghanistan: Addressing Basic Human Needs through the ABADEI Strategy  - Outcome 1 Essential Services and Community Infrastructure Within the Afghanistan Special Trust Fund For Afghanistan program in the Southern Region (Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Uruzgan and Nimroz provinces),  IOM will participate in all four of the programme pillars. These areas of intervention are: Output 1 - Essential services and community infrastructure including for health, education, agriculture and energy supply are functional, sustained and expanded to meet different needs of women and men; Output 2 – Livelihoods, businesses and the local economy are recovered and more resilient to instability; Output 3 – Communities have improved infrastructure, access to water and preparedness mechanisms to protect farm-based livelihoods and cope with environment and climate shocks and natural disasters; Output 4 – Social cohesion, human rights promoted, access to justice and social cohesion are strengthened at local level.This project covers Outcome 1: Essential services and community infrastructure including for health, education, agriculture and energy supply are functional, sustained and expanded to meet different needs of women and men.
DP - Emergency Response and Assistance to Displaced Populations in Niger Niger is one of the least developed countries in the world, with one of the poorest socio-economic and development indicators and the highest demographic growth. As reported in the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) 2022 and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2022, Niger continues to face acute and complex humanitarian crises marked by the impact of various shocks. This project aims to deliver humanitarian assistance to improve the living conditions, resilience, dignity, and protection of crisis affected populations in Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua, and Tillabéry, which are four conflict-affected regions in Niger. The intervention aims to provide emergency shelters, transitional shelters, non-food items kits, and needs-based protection-specific kits including hygiene kits inclusive of menstrual hygiene management items, baby kits, and education kits. The intervention is also preventing, mitigating and responding to protection risks such as gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, while reinforcing the capacities of field practitioners and community members to anticipate, identify and address those risks. In addition, the project is promoting the mobilization and empowerment of communities, as well as strengthening access to protection assistance, mental health and psychosocial support, education, and water, sanitation and hygiene services.
Enhancing the Protection of Crisis-Affected Mobile Populations in Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia through the Provision of Life-Saving Assistance and Multi-Stakeholder Advocacy at the Regional and Local Levels Complex mobility flows remain a dominant feature in the Southeast Asia region, stemming from the multi-dimensional crisis in Myanmar. The systematic human rights violations against the Rohingya people and the February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar have forced people to flee the country and seek refuge in neighbouring countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This, combined with the lack of sustainable solutions and reduction in assistance provided in Cox's Bazaar, has led to an increase in maritime and land movements from Bangladesh and Myanmar to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This action contributes to overall efforts to enhance protection of refugees and migrants, including Rohingya refugees, and other conflict affected populations undertaking maritime and land movements in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is providing multi-sectoral assistance that is people-centred and context specific to over 1,850 refugees. Sectoral assistance includes Health, Food, Non-Food Items, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Shelter, Protection and multi-purpose cash grants to new arrivals and residual caseloads. IOM also continues to gather, analyze and share data on complex mobility in the region with a particular focus on land and maritime movements of Rohingya refugees and cross-border mobility between Myanmar and Thailand.
Return and Reintegration Assistance Program for Migrants under the Foreigner Law in the Canton of Vaud (Phase XIV) The cantonal program provides assisted voluntary return and reintegration assistance to people in vulnerable situation wishing to return to their home country.
Displacement Tracking and Evidence for Migration Analysis and Policy in Asia (DATA) The Overall Objective of the Action is to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian and development efforts on migration and displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The Specific Objectives (Outcomes) of this Action are to: Specific Objective 1 (SO1): Improved and sustainable policies on migration, displacement and return in the target countries, including from a gender perspective Specific Objective 2 (SO2): Enhanced regional interoperability and harmonisation of migration and displacement data collection initiatives Specific Objective 3 (SO3): Improved generation, utilization and management of migration and displacement data by relevant government institutions in Bangladesh, Central Asia, and Pakistan.
Multi-Sectoral Humanitarian Assistance to Drought-Affected Displaced Communities in Marsabit and Isiolo in Kenya Compounded by climate change, communities in the dry region of Kenya are driven to migrate in search of essential assistance and resources. The vulnerable population displaced by prolonged droughts face significant challenges in accessing basic needs such as food, water, hygiene, health, education, and infrastructure. 
 
In this project, IOM is providing multi-purpose cash assistance to internally displaced persons and host communities in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties. The cash assistance is informed by deployment of IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) to generate up-to-date data on climate-induced displacement and the needs of the internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Accommodation Support to Conflict-Affected Populations in Ukraine Crisis Under this project, IOM is providing accommodation assistance to conflict-affected populations in Ukraine. The support is being provided in Ukraine and neighbouring countries impacted by the crisis.
Leveraging Digital Technology to Strengthen the Identification of Victims of Trafficking (VoTs) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (Hong Kong SAR, China) The objective of the proposed project is to contribute to the protection of the rights of victims of trafficking in diverse employment sectors in Hong Kong SAR, China. In pursuit of this objective, the project will engage frontline responders in participatory and consultative processes to adapt the existing “Apprise” screening tool for identifying signs of labour exploitation and human trafficking, to the Hong Kong SAR, China context. The project will also organize a number of consultations with identified key public and private sector actors to ensure that they have equal knowledge of and access to more efficient referral mechanisms in Hong Kong SAR, China.
Protection and Assistance of Venezuelan Migrants Victims of Trafficking The proposed intervention aims to improve the regional prevention capacities and protection services for Venezuelan victims of trafficking and for those at risk of becoming victims. The initiative will rely on IOM's existing operational capacity in the region to support awareness raising among communities and service providers and improve coordination and referral mechanisms.  To achieve this, the project will focus on strengthening skills and knowledge of relevant stakeholders and institutions in the region to provide a counter trafficking response, through the development and validation of a regional toolkit for the early identification of potential victims of trafficking.
Introducing COVID-19 Rapid Tests in Mobile and Conflict Afflicted Population With catalytic support made available through FIND’s Coronavirus Global Response, IOM will pilot the deployment and conduct operational research contributing to the evidence base for safe and effective usage of antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) in crisis settings such as Northwest Syria and settings affected by large scale population displacements in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.
The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 2 (ACRS P2) The project is resettling around 2,000 refugees who are categorised as meeting one of UNHCR’s seven resettlement submission categories. The caseload is determined in discussion with UNHCR and in line with their projected global resettlement needs. For this project, IOM facilitates video/telephone interviewing, provision of pre-migration health activities (i.e. migration health activities, and pre-embarkation checks to establish fitness to travel), three-day pre-departure cultural orientation sessions, facilitation of the visa/travel document processing, and providing movement management and operational support to the final destination including operational and/or medical escorts and the delivery of information sessions to local authorities, community sponsors, and other relevant resettlement stakeholders.
Inter-agency Translation and Interpretation Services Local organizations are at the heart of the humanitarian response in Myanmar, providing immediate assistance to people in need using their local knowledge, skills, networks, and comparatively wider access. Language has been identified as a critical participation barrier for local organizations, and thus simultaneous interpretation in meetings and translation of critical documents from English to Myanmar languages (Burmese and other locally relevant languages) and vice versa are crucial to ensure the inclusion of local actors in coordination structures and enable them to receive clear, timely and actionable information for effective humanitarian response to affected people. IOM, in close coordination with the OCHA Coordination Support section, are working on building a language service team (The Translation & Interpretation Team) to improve information sharing between the various coordination mechanisms and local actors in the right language and format via relevant channels (translation of critical documents, simultaneous interpretation in meetings) at the national level. The objective of this intervention is to strengthen the localized response of national actors through active coordination with international humanitarian partners, including UN agencies and INGOs.
Green Finance Facility to Improve Air Quality and Combat Climate Change in North Macedonia North Macedonia is advancing towards a low-emission sustainable development pathway via the utilization of renewable energy and energy-efficient solutions, benefiting both women and men and vulnerable groups. If access to a financial facility, finance and incentives are improved, then this will trigger prioritization of investments into renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions that will contribute improved air quality, reduced CO2 emissions, and sustained socio-economic growth.
Emergency Assistance to Vulnerable Populations in Northwest Syria (NWS) Of the eight sub-districts in Syria considered to be in extreme or catastrophic need, seven are located in northwest Syria (NWS). In NWS, there are 2.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), of which over one million are residing in last resort sites, in dire living situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate humanitarian needs. Concurrently, the Syrian economy deteriorated greatly over the last year, including in NWS. This has exacerbated existing humanitarian vulnerabilities and increased the use of negative coping mechanisms. As a result, food insecurity has increased dramatically in NWS.
Inclusive Mitigation and Preparedness in Action (Impact) - Republic of the Marshall Islands The increasing intensity of extreme weather disturbances and hazards in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) requires greater investment in disaster risk reduction and mitigation efforts. The Inclusive Mitigation and Preparedness in Action (IMPACT) project contributes to the overall enhancement of capacity within communities and governments to be better prepared for, and more resilient to hazard events and disasters. The project seeks to equip communities with the resources and skills to actively mitigate hazards; prioritize an inclusive approach with traditionally underrepresented populations; and support response planning through joint damage assessments. Community-ownership and government buy-in are critical to sustaining achievements under the project, and IOM works in close coordination with the National Disaster Management Office throughout the project. Furthermore, the project emphasizes multiple visits to the select communities for monitoring purposes and to strengthen the interventions.
Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for the Government of Ukraine – Developing and Implementing Interim Reparative Measures and Reparations for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence The full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started in February 2022, and the preceding hostilities in the Donbas and Crimea regions since 2014, have been characterised by the commission of numerous human rights violations. The project aims to contribute to the development and implementation of inclusive, timely, and effective policies and legal frameworks that ensure the provision of reparations to conflict-affected populations in Ukraine by providing the Government of Ukraine (GoU) with context-specific tools, knowledge, and a strategy.
Enhancing Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment for Migrants and their Families in Uzbekistan The legal framework for countering HIV in Uzbekistan includes the Law on Prevention of Diseases Caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) of 2013 and the Presidential Resolution of 2018. While the Law does not refer to migrants, the Presidential Resolution, which includes the Government Programme on countering the spread of HIV, promotes mandatory HIV testing and pre-departure consultations for labour migrants from Uzbekistan. However, the Programme was envisaged for 2018 only. This means, there is no mechanism of migrant-inclusive programming in the country due to the lack of a policy document on the nexus of migration and HIV. The proposed project therefore aims to contribute to the government’s efforts to counter the spread of HIV through a migrant-inclusive approach to HIV policy development and increasing awareness levels of HIV prevention and treatment among migrants and their families. To do so, the project will determine baselines through gender and age-disaggregated set of questions delivered through a KAP survey for migrants and their family members. Furthermore, the project will contribute to awareness-raising on HIV among local communities, particularly spouses of migrants, capacity building of service providers on migrant-inclusive HIV prevention and care, and policy development.
Provision of TB and HIV Clinical Mentoring Services in Somalia and Somaliland In partnership with the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the project aims to improve human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) services provision in Somalia and Somaliland by setting up a clinical mentoring system to enhance clinicians’ treatment skills. Clinical mentoring will enable health professionals to practice new skills in clinical settings with the support and guidance of a more specialized and experienced clinician. Intensive, practical training is especially important in HIV care and treatment given the diversity of illnesses associated with AIDS and the complexities involved in second/third line antiretroviral therapy and treatment of multi-drug resistant TB.
A Comprehensive Counter Trafficking Program to Address Human Trafficking in Bangladesh The overall objective of this project is to enhance the institutional response to counter-trafficking in persons in Bangladesh and promote accountable and effective governance mechanisms. The project will focus on enhancing the legal and judicial system to effectively identify, investigate and prosecute cases of human trafficking. It will also focus on developing victim-centered prevention and protection services to victims and survivors of trafficking by providing sustainable reintegration support to Cox's Bazar, Jashore, Satkhira, and Dhaka, and by raising public awareness on forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking, and safe migration. The project will also assist vulnerable communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh. IOM has developed a preparedness and response plan identifying interventions in line with the IOM Global Appeal, the ISCG Activity Prioritization Strategy and the Government of Bangladesh's National Preparedness and Response Plan (NPRP). On 18 May 2020, KOICA approached IOM and advised that USD 400,000 could be reallocated to IOM's COVID-19 response activities for seven months (June to December 2020), notably to fund the Rohingya Humanitarian Response Plan in Cox's Bazar and to strengthen the capacity of Points of Entry (POE) of Bangladesh to enhance capacity of beneficiary and co-beneficiary agencies for responding COVID 19 together with supporting stranded migrants and vulnerable groups including returnees. The realigned funding will be used to support protection and livelihoods activities for Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar and to complement ongoing efforts to strengthen the capacity of eight POEs. At POEs, activities will include strengthening of technical infrastructure, improving intra and inter-agency coordination, supporting vulnerable migrants with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other essential items, and enhancing awareness-raising on COVID-19.
Enhancing Knowledge to Inform Responses to Migrant Smuggling and Irregular Migration in Malawi The absence of absence of systematic data collection and analysis concerning migrant smuggling and irregular migration in Malawi limits the potential for evidence-based policy making and the effectiveness of operational responses to counter migrant smuggling and migrant protection.  In 2008, a study conducted by IOM (IOM Southern Dreams) estimated the presence of around 279,000 irregular migrants in Malawi, with an average of 5,000 entering annually. It was further reported that hundreds were being arrested by the authorities due to their irregular status.  While some aspects of migrant smuggling are localized and small scale, both migrant smuggling and irregular migration in Southern Africa is increasingly associated with organized crime and more violent and exploitative measures against migrants. The objective of this project is to contribute to the efforts of the Government of Malawi to counter smuggling of migrants and address irregular migration. The principle results will include i) increased knowledge by policy and strategic decision makers on migrant smuggling routes, hubs and modalities ii) improved understanding by front-line border management officials and other key stakeholders on law enforcement measures required to disrupt smugglers and their networks while mitigating any harm suffered by migrants who use smuggling services, and iii) Increased awareness by media and community leaders of migrant smuggling, relevant protection considerations, and its criminal implications.