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Bridging Together Youth, Diaspora and Local Authorities for an Integrated Approach to Promote Employment and Address Irregular Migration in the Gambia, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau This project aims to promote safe migration and create alternatives to irregular migration and to contribute to respond to gaps and challenges identified in youth employment and implementation of migration and development policies by fostering youth agency and employment in communities of origin in 3 countries. Regarding Gambia, IOM will conduct activities to better target migration and capacity building activities, further reinforce the diaspora engagement for the country development, support local authorities to implement actions contributing to youth employment by rolling out awareness raising campaigns on safe migration and on alternatives to irregular migration. Regarding Guinea-Bissau, 200 youths will develop their skills and micro-enterprises in line with local market, community’s needs, and environmental sensitive options. The project intends to develop 5 community-based projects that will also attract Guinean students from abroad to train youth. Regarding Guinea, IOM will support the government to boost diaspora engagement and will intend to support local authorities in concluding at least two partnerships with enterprises and local actors to provide 200 youth with skills and create small business outsourcing. Also, IOM will support to the Master Programme for local development that Diaspora professionals of IULM University of Milan have submitted to two public universities in Guinea.
Provision of Critical Humanitarian Assistance Including Coordination and Access to Ensure the Provision of Emergency Shelter/NFI/CCCM and Protection Activities to People Affected by Earthquake The 14 August earthquake in southwestern Haiti destroyed buildings and homes, damaged critical infrastructure and roads. The Sud, Grand'Anse and Nippes departments were the hardest hit. As of 18 August, 136,000 families have been affected (more than 650,000 people). Many of these people have fled their homes, fearful that they will collapse, seeking refuge in evacuation shelters and host families. In addition, protection issues, such as trafficking and access to emergency services are an increasing concern for humanitarian partners on the ground, notably for the most vulnerable populations (women, girls, people with disabilities, and the elderly). The proposed intervention aims at providing critical humanitarian assistance to 45,000 vulnerable people affected by the August 2021 earthquake. This includes strengthening access activities to ensure the provision of emergency shelter, non-food items, camp coordination and camp management and protection activities.
Procurement of Services and Supplies under the Program of Cooperation for Internal Security between Senegal and the European Union (SENSEC-EU) Strengthen the capacities of internal security against cross-border organized crime by enhancing the capacities of border security, infrastructure renovation and provision of mobility and technical equipment.
Contributing to Evidence-Based Labour Migration Policies for Healthcare and ICT Sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina The project will gather evidence on the scope of the emigration of healthcare and information technology professionals (including gender and age specific trends within each sector), assess its impacts on current and future labour shortages of these sectors in the country, analyse labour market gender gaps and other gender-specific issues and provide tailored recommendations. The project will conduct gender-sensitive research focusing on the emigration trends in the healthcare and the technology sectors, impacts of emigration on communities at the local levels as well as on the information technology industry (using deliberative polls) and how relevant governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, including the private sector, can play a role in addressing identified challenges in a sustainable manner. Recommendations will include innovative solutions to mitigate the effects of brain drain, maintaining quality healthcare and technology services in the country, including through investments in new technologies (digitalization) and forms of employment.
Assisted Voluntary Return REAB 2021 The objective of the programme is to support the Belgian government in facilitating the safe and dignified assisted voluntary return of eligible migrants, and by contributing to foster the sustainable reintegration of the beneficiaries in their countries of origin (CoOs), while taking into account their possible vulnerabilities.
Supporting Women-led MSMEs and and Women Involved with Cross-Border Trade in Zambia with Increased Access to Credit Facilities Necessary to Rebuild Their Enterprises and/or Recover from COVID 19 Pandemic Effects IOM is supporting the United Nations Development Programme in the implementation of a project which seeks to address the economic challenges faced by women Small Scale Cross Border Traders (SSCBT) in Nakonde and Kasumbalesa border areas. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity and resilience of SSCBTs for improved livelihoods, incomes and opportunities of SSCBTs while reducing their vulnerabilities. The project has two outputs, namely strengthened capacity of 500 female SSCBTs in Nakonde, Kasumbalesa Chipata and Kazungula to improve their livelihoods, incomes while both increasing their opportunities and reducing their vulnerabilities and strengthened resilience of 500 female SSCBTs in Nakonde, Kasumbalesa, Chipata and Kazungula through the provision of alternative livelihoods and financial support to increase their business opportunities. IOM will provide capacity building training to women small scale cross border traders to enable them to identify some new business opportunities given the challenges caused by COVID-19. The project will also support to provide capacity building support in business skills, financial literacy and on increasing income generating activities to women in self-help groups that have been affected by COVID-19.
Humanitarian Assistance in Shelter and Site Management Support for Vulnerable Populations Affected by Cyclones Batsirai and Emnati IOM is providing assistance for the rehabilitation of shelters damaged by Cyclone Batsirai and Emnati in Mananjary and Nosy Varika districts in Madagascar through cash and in-kind support as well as providing site management services for 17 temporary sites through support to the National Disaster Risk Management Office.
Support of the Independent Review for the Implementation of the Joint Inter-Sectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF) 2021 The Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF) is a methodologically new approach to analyzing the multiple needs of populations in crisis. Version 1.0 of the JIAF was introduced by the international humanitarian community into the Humanitarian Programme Cycle guidance in 2020. The JIAF offers a common method, process and tools to conduct a ‘people-centred’ holistic analysis of needs. The JIAF reflects an important evolution in the humanitarian community’s ability to systematically and transparently identify the most vulnerable populations, where they are, the combination of needs they face, and their severity. The JIAF was designed with the objective of providing a solid evidence-base to inform humanitarian responses, and where necessary, facilitate the prioritization of financial resources to populations and localities where intersectoral needs are the most severe. This project contributes to the supporting costs of the JIAF independent review, which is due to take place between May-September 2021. The review is being commissioned in order to independently assess whether the current JIAF 1.0 conceptual framework and methodology are fit for purpose, and what changes need to be made before the JIAF is fully institutionalized globally (JIAF 2.0).
Promotion of Migrant Women’s Social Inclusion in Public Policies in Central America and the Dominican Republic: Prevention of Gender-Based Violence The objective of this proposal is to contribute to the efforts of the Council of Ministries of Women (COMMCA) of the Central American Integration System (SICA) through capacity building to promote within public policies of social inclusion the integration of migrant women in Central America and the Dominican Republic, as part of the commitments made by SICA and its member States. The project will also support migrant women impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Common Transport Services for Humanitarian Partners in South Sudan The Common Transport Services (CTS) is a free-for-user service that transports key humanitarian supplies on behalf of humanitarian actors. CTS serves as a critical link in the supply chain, contributing in enabling products and materials that arrive from regional and international suppliers to rapidly move onwards to partners located deep in the field. Through the effective management of the CTS, IOM aims to support organizations' preparedness measures to mitigate risk associated with increased insecurity, looting/theft of humanitarian supplies, critical access impediments to very vulnerable people. Together with other common and free-for-user services provided by the Logistics Cluster, CTS aims to reduce expensive transport costs in order to support the timely response to the needs of the affected populations. With this funding, IOM directly works with 80 humanitarian organizations located in different areas enabling them to deliver critical life-saving humanitarian services and assistance items.
Rapid Response Fund for Humanitarian Emergencies in Sudan Through this project, IOM will continue to manage the grant fund Rapid Response Fund (RRF) in Sudan. The RRF is a grant fund managed by IOM that provides grants to International and National NGOs for humanitarian emergency interventions across all states in Sudan.  Up until May 2019, the RRF has been the only fast, flexible emergency funding mechanism that supports critical life-saving humanitarian interventions in Sudan. RRF’s streamlined, flexible grant application and disbursement process allows organizations to implement short-term, effective and quick impact projects that assist internally displaced persons, returnees, vulnerable host community members, and other vulnerable persons. Through this project, the RRF in Sudan supports the following sectors of programming: non-food items, shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene, health, protection, and humanitarian coordination and information management.
Establishing a Pilot Skills Development Centre for Potential Labour Migrants in Uzbekistan The project is designed to support the Government of Uzbekistan in its efforts to provide Uzbek youth with the skills relevant to the labour market in both Uzbekistan and in main destination countries, and thus contributes to reducing instances of irregular migration, in particular from the pilot Namangan region (with a possibility of providing up-to-date training opportunities for potential trainees from neighbouring Andijan and Farghona regions). Graduates from the pilot skills development centre (SDC) are expected to have a significantly high employability both in domestic and external labour markets, thus contributing to the overall employment rates in the pilot region. The SDC will focus mainly on training skilled personnel for the hospitality (service provision) sphere.
Demobilization, Disassociation, Reintegration And Reconciliation: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in the Lake Chad Region (Cameroon, Chad and Niger) This regional project will operationalize a Demobilization and Disassociation, Reintegration and Reconciliation (DDRR) program for Boko Haram fighters, associates and victims, including those caught up in related security operations. It will do so through a four pronged approach: assessment, context analysis and national planning, “upstream” government support, individual case management and community based reintegration and reconciliation. IOM’s proposed DDRR approach for the Lake Chad Region for this specific project will geographically focus on Chad, Cameroon and Niger. It will integrate the various elements of the protection, prevention, stabilization, transition and peacebuilding equation to create nationally-tailored, positive ‘off-ramping’ options for individuals who have separated from Boko Haram, along with community reintegration and reconciliation mechanisms, as a critical step for regional peacebuilding and restoration of social cohesion.
Responding to Food Insecurity in South Sudan through Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Frontline and Pipeline Over the last 12 months, South Sudan has experienced recurring floods, which have negatively impacted the population, causing massive displacement, and leading to the destruction of crops and property. Good access to water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) is critical in such contexts as it helps secure nutritional outcomes, since unclean water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices are directly linked to undernutrition. However, WASH coverage across some of these counties has decreased over the years. This project targets beneficiaries in the three targeted counties (Tonj North, Tonj South and Tonj East) and contributes to provide life-saving assistance against food insecurity by addressing the most acute WASH needs whilst increasing access to safe, equitable and dignified access to WASH services.
Building the Social Cohesion of Communities Receiving Youth Returnees as a Bridge to Peaceful and Effective Reintegration The project promotes an integrated and territorial approach to conflict prevention and the effective reintegration of returnee youth in the municipalities of Tacaná and Concepción Tutuapa, San Marcos, Guatemala. The project will strengthen the capacities of local and national government. It will strengthen youth leadership through educational programs and promote participation in decision-making platforms in their communities, facilitating their social, cultural and political reintegration. Through the “Conflict Prevention and Stability” strategy that will invest in productive technical training; adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that reduce climate impact; diversification towards non-agricultural activities, effective rural services and investments in value chains; training for the labor market; decent rural employment opportunities for returnees such as those in receiving communities; inclusion and access to financial resources for women and youth. The project will be innovative, addressing emerging conflict through prevention strategies, and returnees will become crucial agents of change.
IOM Appeal for the Mozambique Cyclone Idai Response This project provides multi-sectoral assistance to cyclone-affected, internally displaced communities in Mozambique in the areas of shelter assistance, camp coordination and camp management, displacement tracking, multi-sector needs assessments, mobility tracking, protection, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Key activities include distribution of non-food items and emergency shelter kits, improvement of services and living conditions in resettlement sites, provision of MHPSS services, and data collection and assessments to understand humanitarian needs and inform interventions.
Providing Emergency Health Services Towards Vulnerable Returnees and Displaced Population in Afghanistan In line with the IOM's Migration Health operational plan for 2020, IOM will provide access to emergency and life-saving health care services through the provision of basic medical services to returning undocumented Afghans from Iran and Pakistan, and underserved vulnerable communities living in adjacent areas, while ensuring that community-based surveillance, outreach and response systems are available to address life-threatening conditions related to communicable diseases such as COVID-19.
Strengthening Protection Assistance at Border-Crossing Points and Transit Centers, and Access to Protection-Related Immediate Basic Needs in Provinces of Return for Undocumented Deportees to Afghanistan The project focuses its efforts on ensuring protection of vulnerable undocumented deportees from Iran through enhanced collaboration with the Government of Afghanistan in protection screening and identification at border-crossing points; providing vulnerable deportees with protection support and assistance from border points to provinces of return; and provision of multi-purpose cash transfers in provinces of return to prevent returnees from resorting to negative coping mechanisms that could result in new protection risks. IOM also responds to these vulnerable returnees' COVID-19 related health and protection needs through risk communication, distribution of personal protective equipment, health screenings and referrals, and national and provincial coordination.
Bolstering Ethical Recruitment Policies and Practice to Enhance Safe and Orderly Labour Migration Pathways, Prevent Exploitation and Better Protect Migrant Workers from Uganda The project addresses safe and transparent labour migration practices through ethical recruitment and protection of migrant workers'; women, girls, men and boys, human social and economic and labour rights. The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Gender Labour and Socal Development, the district local authorities and UAERA, which IOM already has established strong relationships with. It will also benefit from the technical guidance of the IRIS Secretariat. The project plans to implement a holistic ethical recruitment intervention that is tailor-made for Uganda. Bringing in global learning of ethical recruitment and IRIS implementation the project reflects the priorities of the Regional Ministerial Forum on Migration (RMFM) on harmonisation of labour migration policies in East and Horn of Africa, A United Approach on Safe, Regular and Human Labour Migration (Communique and Call to Action Priorities 2020-2023). A similar project has been funded in Kenya and the 2 projects will be moving in parallel.
Countering Trafficking in Persons: Belarus The project supports the Belarusian civil society and renders direct assistance to the vulnerable migrant categories, such as victims of trafficking and risk groups. The proposed action will target the civil society organizations of Belarus and governmental agencies dealing with most vulnerable categories and improve their operational capacity and enhance self-sustainability, strengthen networking and cooperation thus ensuring the novelty of the proposed intervention.
Enhancing Integrated Border Management along the Ukraine-Moldova Border The overall objective of the action is to further enhance integrated border management and improve the transparency and the operational capacity of Ukrainian and Moldovan border and customs authorities in order to facilitate faster, secure and more efficient border control and to decrease queues and waiting times for travellers and transport, with an overall positive impact on the cross-border trade and movement of persons. The overall objective will be achieved by improving the infrastructure, adjusting the premises, improving the information exchange and optimizing the border crossing procedures at Ukrainian and Moldovan border crossing points.
Supporting the Ministry of Migration and Asylum of Greece in Providing Holistic Health Care Response in Islands' Reception and Accommodation Centers In the framework of the Project, IOM will support the set-up and operationalization of biochemistry laboratories and radiology units in the Reception and Identification Centers (RIC) of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos. Through the proposed activities, namely the set-up of the said medical facilities and the deployment of licensed health professionals (senior laboratory technicians and radiologists) IOM seeks to relieve the burden of the national health care system and reinforce the Greek National Organization of Public Health (EODY) that does not have sufficient capacity to serve the RICs' medical caseload due to limited resources, coupled with COVID-19 restrictions and limitations. Ultimately, the project will contribute to strengthening the capacity of EODY in carrying out entry and periodic health screening and medical examinations within the scope of primary health care, thus enhancing the health and well-being of migrants residing in RICs.
Developing an Effective Public Information System within the Border Guard Service of Belarus The project aims to strengthen the State Border Committee (SBC) of the Republic of Belarus' public relations (PR) capacities, through the enhancement of internal and external communication policies and mechanisms, while strengthening the corporate SBC communication culture as a whole. This will be achieved through the organization of a series of capacity building events; the development of a mobile application and the launch of an online PR course. Human rights and gender perspectives will be incorporated into SBC's communication products and tools. Overall, the project will contribute to increase the operational effectiveness of the agency.
Sudan: Reaching Nationals and Diaspora Through Communication and Multimedia The project aims to support the Secretariat for Sudanese Working Abroad (SSWA) to reach potential migrants and the existing diaspora to provide services and information. The SSWA also wants to provide messages to their target audience that promote options for safe and orderly migration; while harnessing the untapped potential of the diaspora to support local and national development initiatives. Therefore, the SSWA has requested the technical and financial support of IOM to establish a media centre to institute sustainable outreach and establish meaningful dialogue with the Sudanese nationals and the diaspora. The project will help establish the media centre by conducting an assessment on technical and material needs and providing equipment and training on multimedia tools, content, and approaches to increase communication and engagement with the target groups. In order to strengthen and support effective communication between the SSWA, Sudanese nationals and the diaspora, representatives from the three groups will come together during an annual conference to discuss and develop a communication plan and recommendations for opportunities to engage in development initiatives.
Providing Refugee Resettlement Assistance to the Government of Ireland in 2020-2021 This project contributes to providing a durable solution to over 1,000 refugees in Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon by facilitating their resettlement to the Republic of Ireland. In particular, this project aims to contribute to the Irish Government’s efforts to provide humanitarian assistance for refugees whose lives and liberty are at risk.  More specifically, for this project, IOM supports the selection missions, facilitate IRPP’s pre-departure orientation  sessions, provide pre-migration health activities including migration health assessments and pre-embarkation checks to establish fitness to travel, and provide movement management to the final destination.
Emergency Assistance for Afghan Returnee, Displaced and Otherwise Vulnerable Populations and Humanitarian Response Strengthening Under this project, IOM is providing humanitarian post-arrival assistance to vulnerable undocumented returnees; unconditional cash assistance to returnees; and non-food items to families in the four major border crossing provinces. Additionally, IOM is ensuring the continuity of essential basic primary health care, including critical COVID-19 response measures, focusing on multiple displaced and mobile populations, as well as responding to critical water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) needs. Further, through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), IOM is implementing Emergency Event Tracking (EET) across Afghanistan and flow monitoring at 10 key border crossings and transit hubs.