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Assisted Voluntary Return In line with the principles and objectives outlined in IOM’s Policy on the Full Spectrum of Return, Readmission and Reintegration, the main objective of this project is to provide enhanced support to facilitate the safe and dignified return of migrants wishing to return to their countries of origin but are unable to do so.
The United Kingdom’s Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) and Mandate Scheme The project aims to resettle around 3,000 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 is facilitating 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 (UKCO) 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.
Enhanced Resiliency and Living Conditions for Vulnerable Communities Addressing Economic, Health, and Food Security Challenges due to Impacts of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone is a low-income country marked by food insecurity and limited access to livelihoods. Food availability and affordability have increasingly become low. As the country relies on imported goods, including most of its staple foods, food prices spiked across the country, leading many households in a spiral of poverty. According to the Household Hunger Scale, 73 percent of households suffer from hunger, among which six percent suffer from severe hunger. As a response to these urgent challenges, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are jointly implementing a programme which seeks to strengthen the capacity of the Government and communities to prevent and mitigate public health challenges, and provide resources to improve livelihoods and address obstacles to improved food security for enhanced community resilience.
Supporting Food Security via the Rapid Provision of Multipurpose Cash Assistance and Health Services in Yemen Under this intervention, IOM is providing one off multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) and health services with an aim to contribute to reduced food insecurity for crisis-affected populations in Al Hodeidah and Taiz governorates.
Phase V: Global Led Priorities to Carry Out Principled, Effective, and Accountable Responses for the Benefit of Crisis-Affected Populations The need for lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection is at an all-time high in 2022. New waves of violence and protracted armed conflict, climatic shocks such as floods, droughts, or earthquakes, and emerging and recurrent epidemics and diseases have pushed millions of people to live in extremely dire conditions. IOM stepped up to provide support to a number of large emergencies, higher than at any other time in its history, stretching its capacity to the limit. As the institutional lead on directing operational activities, setting strategic policy, and fostering strategic partnerships in support of crisis affected populations, IOM's Department of Operations and Emergencies must continuously adapt and strengthen its ability to respond effectively and efficiently to the complex challenges facing the world. This institutional strengthening project contributes to ensuring that IOM is better equipped to respond to emergencies in a principled, effective, and accountable manner. To achieve this overarching objective, IOM is implementing its capacity building strategy for humanitarian response and is consolidating its work in four priority areas which are closely interrelated and lead to mutually reinforcing outcomes: good programming; institutional capacity; data and evidence; and information management and digitalization.
Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme for Non-EEA Nationals (VARRP) The project will contribute to the Government of Ireland’s comprehensive management of migration by providing return support to applicants in the international protection system, victims of trafficking and other vulnerable cases willing to return voluntarily to their countries of origin and support for their immediate reintegration. IOM Ireland will provide holistic assistance to beneficiaries of the programme through all stages from pre- departure to the post- departure and reintegration phases. The programme comprises four stages: information and outreach and referral into the programme; preparation for return including referral to psycho-social supports, virtual counselling, and preparatory training courses; return/travel phase including specialized supports for particularly vulnerable applicants including victims of trafficking; and reintegration support employing the virtual counselling service and expertise with referrals into local support networks.
Supporting Transitional Justice, Community-Based Reintegration and Economic Recovery in the Context of Spontaneous Surrenders in Kasai, Kasai Central and Tanganyika Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo A needs assessment identified the lack of reintegration support for spontaneously surrendered former combatants of local militias, returning displaced populations, at risk youth and vulnerable populations as a key impediment to sustainable peace, reconciliation, and confict management by the Government in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To address these challenges, this project supports transitional justice activities coupled with community-based reintegration and efforts to revitalize local economies under a consortium consisting of UNDP (lead), the MONUSCO Joint Human Rights Office (JHRO) and IOM. In particular, through this project, IOM works on these much-needed peacebuilding processes as well as to engage with other donors to ensure a more longer-term investment in stabilization in the target areas.
Enhancing the Capacity and Quality of the Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements Response Under this grant IOM proposes the following activities: Global Focal Points for housing, land and property (HLP), are providing surge and technical capacity in their areas of expertise. Supporting through deployments, developing tools and guidance, and supporting various Global Shelter Cluster (GSC) structures and activities. In line with the GSC’s strategic approach to localising humanitarian response, and responding to multiple requests from the field, IOM is translating the guidelines and online courses developed through the Cluster on “Good Shelter Programming” focusing on distribution, site planning and HLP. Shelter Projects in an initiative that for years has contributed to sharing practice and promoting learning. Shelter Projects aims to improve the capacity of humanitarian actors to meet the sheltering needs of disaster and conflict affected populations, by disseminating shelter responses and learning from the experiences. Additionally, IOM is building on data which shows that diasporas are natural multipliers of information to their countries and communities of origin and is conducting a specific communication campaign addressed to diaspora communities on building safe for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and then measuring the impact that this communication has on communities’ increased knowledge and use of safe shelter practices in their countries of origin.
Protection of Vulnerable Conflict-Affected Communities in Ukraine and Provision of Urgent Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Over eight months into the war, millions of people in Ukraine remain in need of humanitarian assistance. The recent wave of attacks on essential civilian infrastructure has worsened living conditions in large parts of the country, where the availability of water, heating and power utilities is now precarious. The dramatic deterioration of the situation may impact mobility dynamics, exposing people to heightened protection risks, and negatively affecting their mental health and psychosocial well-being. Through this project, IOM aims to contribute to safe, dignified conditions and principled mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and protection assistance for the war-affected populations in Ukraine. IOM is also extending its commitment to protect affected populations from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) across all project activities. To empower local organizations, IOM is equipping four civil society organizations (CSOs) to deliver community-based psychosocial activities.
Regional Humanitarian Response to Venezuelan Migrants, Refugees and Vulnerable Populations - Phase II During the COVID-19 pandemic, IOM worked on improving access to health services and strengthen protection and integration assistance to the migrant and refugee population from Venezuela in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru; while seeking to empower Civil Society; and in Venezuela, to strengthen the capacities of shelter and food security of populations in vulnerable conditions, people returning to Venezuela and those in a situation of pendular migration. This intervention is framed within the RMRP from 2019 to respond to the large-scale population movements recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean due to the political, socioeconomic and human rights situation in Venezuela. Through this action, IOM complements the efforts of the Governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to respond to the flow of refugees and migrants from Venezuela. In addition, this project aims to strengthen inter-agency coordination at the regional level for a more coherent, harmonized, inclusive and representative response of all partners of the Inter-agency Coordination Platform, including Civil Society organizations.
Derna Libya: Promoting The Participation Of Flood-affected Populations In The Humanitarian Response And Recovery Process The project aims to enable the direct participation of flood-affected communities in Derna in the humanitarian response and support their economic recovery. It seeks to empower communities and affected populations to participate in recovery and response efforts/activities. Through the project, the community resource mobile teams will be supported to improve access to information, and stakeholders' capacity on Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) and Urban Displacement Out of Camp (UDOC) approach will be enhanced. In addition, the project will provide in-kind grants to support the recovery of Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) impacted by the floods.
SDC Support to the Sudan Response in Chad On the morning of 15 April 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched an offensive against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), leading to open conflict between the two parties in several Sudanese states. Since the outbreak of violence in Sudan, over 370,000 people have found refuge in Chad. 
 
Through this project, IOM aims to contribute to meeting the emergency needs of Chadian returnees from Sudan in the east of Chad through improving: 1) improving living conditions for vulnerable returnees in sites via shelter and settlements assistance, 2) improving access to clean water and hygiene for vulnerable returnees, and 3) supporting the social and economic reintegration of Chadian returnees displaced from Sudan.
Supporting the Government of Myanmar to Combat Migrant Smuggling through Improved Legislation, Operational Skills, Induction Training and Cross-Border Cooperation The project proposes to enhance the capacity of the Government of Myanmar (Ministries of Labour, Immigration and Population, and Home Affairs) to combat migrant smuggling by improving the understanding of the crime of migrant smuggling, promoting the importance of counter migrant smuggling legislation, enhancing the investigation skills, improving induction training for frontline officers, promoting the identifying migrant smuggling and detecting fraudulent travel documentation skills and encouraging cross border collaboration.
Support for Evidence-Based Migration Management in the Western Balkans Since 2017, mixed migration flows have increased significantly in the Western Balkan (WB) region, emphasizing the critical role that WB partners including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo* (WB6) can play in improving migration management along this important route.The overall objective of the project is to strengthen Western Balkan partners' capacities to sustainably address mixed migration flows. Using the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) tools and methodologies, the project will support the systematic collection and analysis of migration flow data, and provide critical information on migrants' presence, profiles, experience and intentions. Furthermore, the project will build local capacities for data collection, analysis, and informed migration response. Moreover, IOM will support dialogues and capacity-building for the Western Balkans partners to build more effective return, reintegration and readmission systems and foster access to Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) to help migrants make informed choices about returning to their country of origin.
Strengthening Capacity for COVID19 Response through the Roll Out of mSupply for Vaccine Visibility and Functionality of Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) in Papua New Guinea In collaboration with UNICEF and Ministry of Health, IOM shall support Public Health Assistants to facilitate the logistics, coordination and management of quarterly visits to 300 deployment sites of the mSupply vaccine supply and monitoring system.
Stabilising Conflict-Affected Communities in Eastern Chad This project has been designed to deliver urgent stabilization support to communities that have been affected by the Sudan crisis and influxes of returnees from Sudan, with a view to establishing the preconditions needed to promote longer-term development of these areas. At the same time, the project will increase access to essential services, addressing immediate needs and improving the living conditions of vulnerable returnees, whilst also helping to mitigate the risk of intercommunal tension.
Strengthening the Capacities of the Government of Mexico for a Safe, Orderly and Humane Border Management Mexico has a strategic position in the Americas as one of the main origin countries of migrants (ranking second globally with approximately 11 million emigrants as of 2020) coupled with significant degrees of return migration. Furthermore, Mexico is one of the most transited countries, with hundreds of thousands of individuals from Central America, South America and the Caribbean entering the country each year, often with the aim of traveling northward toward the United States –approximately 310,000 migrants were registered in migration centers in 2021 alone (the highest numbers ever recorded). These migration dynamics add to broader dynamics of human mobility, including significant levels of travel and tourism, and pose significant challenges to the Government of Mexico’s ability to effectively implement integrated immigration and border management (IBM) processes such as humanitarian border management to counter migrant smuggling, border security, travellers’ identification, biometric data collection, screening and referral, etc.In light of this context, and at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE for its initials in Spanish), this project aims to enhance the Government of Mexico’s capacities to implement integrated IBM operations according to international standards and good practices.The project aims to achieve this objective through six main components: 1.1) the development of a comprehensive IBM diagnostic assessment that holistically reviews the country's IBM framework and provides recommendations; 1.2) the development of a detailed institutional roadmap for IBM capacity-development; 2.1) the development of gender-sensitive Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to improve IBM processes; 3.1) the implementation of training programmes to sensitise IBM actors on the SOP manuals and the improvement of an IBM system; 3.2) the availability of easy-to-use materials for frontline federal IBM officials with information on IBM best practices, guidelines, and SOPs through the implementation of an internal communications campaign; and 3.3) a high-level technical exchange to share good practices between IBM officials in Mexico and IBM government counterparts from another country.
Caribbean Component: Implementing Global Policies on Environmental Migration and Disaster Displacement at the Regional Level Caribbean countries are amongst the most vulnerable worldwide to the impacts of climate change, both in terms of sudden onset hazards (hurricanes, floods) and slower onset processes (droughts, coastal erosion, sea level rise). Different patterns of human mobility related to climate change have been reported across the region, including disaster induced displacement and evacuations, labour migration and urbanization in contexts of environmental degradation, and planned relocation processes. The overall objective of this component of the programme is to support the development of coherent approaches to address the challenges of migration in the context of sudden-onset and slow-onset disasters, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations from international frameworks.
Enhancing The Humanitarian and Protection Environment to Refugee Arrivals in Indonesia As part of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s wider regional response in addressing the needs of the displaced Rohingya population, and as a part of a coordinated effort with the Government of Indonesia, international partners, and civil society, IOM is contributing to the enhancement of the government’s capacity in protection, fulfilment of refugees’ basic rights, and strengthening the refugee reception system in Indonesia. More specifically, the project is mitigating the refugees’ vulnerabilities in accordance with established international humanitarian principles while also adhering to the national regulations governing the handling of refugees in Indonesia.
Promote the ‘Green Reintegration’ of Migrants Returning to Haiti through Innovative Reforestation and Agroecology Initiatives Haiti is one of the countries most affected by disasters due to environmental risks due to its geographic situation and its high vulnerability indices. The country is also experiencing a very high rate of deforestation resulting in a major loss of rural areas in Haiti. In addition, Haiti is also experiencing high levels of illegal migration and migrant trafficking. This project aims to provide employment opportunities in the field of reforestation in areas with the highest number of forcibly returned migrants, allowing the reuse of agricultural land and thus offering more economic opportunities locally, reducing the need to migrate to meet their needs in 'return' and also 'denature/origin' zones. The project also includes a major research strand on the links between climate change. migration and deforestation. These activities will be conducted in cooperation with partners such as the National Bureau for Migration (ONM). FAO and UNEP. As part of the project, an awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness of sustainable natural resource management practices will be carried out.
Health Support to Displacement and War-Affected Communities in Zaporizka Oblast The war in Ukraine triggered one of the largest humanitarian crises on record with over 5 million people displaced as of May 2023, with another 4.7 million people reported to have already return to their habitual place of residence (IOM General Population Survey, May 2023). While the warfare continues, physical damage to more than 1,500 health facilities has been registered since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 (RDNA2, World Bank, 2023). Simultaneously, the demand for health services and medicines has increased due to incidence of war-related injuries, exacerbation of chronic diseases, and the greater risk of diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, cholera. 
 
In coordination with the Government of Ukraine (GoU) and local partners, IOM aims to increase access to health care services for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and war-affected communities in Zaporizka Oblast in a manner that upholds their rights, dignity and well-being, through providing essential equipment, medical supplies and medicines to health facilities, and developing capacities of medical practitioners. The project contributes to enhancing resilience and recovery of displacement- and war-affected communities in Zaporizka Oblast through improving the access to health care services.
Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP) This project seeks to address the immediate need for basic services in selected areas of South Sudan and to strengthen local institutions' decision-making capacities, conflict resolution skills, and accountability to citizens. The project supports existing local structures and facilitates proactive involvement from community members to open space for the participation of groups that would otherwise be marginalized. Specifically, the project concentrates on establishing Boma and Payam Development Committees (BDCs/PDCs) and building their capacities, in line with South Sudan's legislative framework on local governance. Once functional, BDCs and PDCs will be instrumental in prioritising infrastructure development at the local level. Active participation of women and traditionally marginalized groups within communities is encouraged throughout the project.
Actions of Social Cohesion for Sustainable Reintegration and Violence Prevention in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras This project seeks to contribute to the prevention of all forms of violence, in particular domestic violence, that youth, youth at risk of migrating irregularly, and youth returnees face in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, through participatory, empowerment, and capacity-building initiatives focused on social cohesion, gender-related issues, psychosocial assistance, reintegration, among others. In coordination with relevant stakeholders and local/return communities, IOM will promote the strengthening of community resilience, coexistence of young people, and regulatory frameworks to address and raise-awareness on violence prevention.
Development and Institutionalisation of the Joint Inter-Sectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF) 2020-2021 This project guides the work of the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Group (JIAG) reflecting the adjusted proposal and adjusted Roadmap and related data entry and exploration platform and capacity building proposals, which needed to be revised due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also serves to elicit commitments from organisations and donors to pool and mobilise staff and funding as much as possible in order to finalise a methodologically robust and provisionally validated inter-sectoral analysis framework until field testing is completed; start building staff capacities for its application; identify the bases for a future sustainable quality control mechanism; and initiate the integration of the JIAF in internal processes for its field application.