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Migration Trends Early Warning System, Czech Republic The project aims at contribution to preparedness of the Czech Government for humanitarian and safe management of the current migration situation in the European context. The project will specifically contribute to increased awareness of high senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic about up-to-date migration trends, developments and expectations by providing daily reports and analyses of the most recent migration trends.
Multi-Purpose Cash, Shelter and Non-food Items Emergency Response to the Conflict in Ukraine IOM aims to provide lifesaving assistance through shelter, non-food items, and multi-purpose cash assistance for the most vulnerable people affected by the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine. This project aims to maintain and restore the dignity of people affected by conflict, address the essential needs of the most vulnerable people when they are unable to do so themselves because of the ongoing hostilities and the loss of livelihoods, and mitigate protection risks or gaps.
Maldives: Strengthening Government Capacity in Migration Health Policy Development At the request of the Government of Maldives (GoM), the proposed project pursues the objective of contributing to the promotion of migrants right to health through technical assistance to develop a migration health policy. The project will develop a national migration health policy framework and enhanced capacity of the technical committee on migrant health. Beyond the project duration, the technical committee will take leadership in utilizing this framework as a foundation to establish the legal basis to ensure the rights of migrants to healthcare. Enhanced sensitization for high level government officials and other stakeholders on the health rights of migrants will be important to operationalize the policy once developed. The national migration health coordination mechanism will serve as a structure to advocate for the implementation of the policy framework and development of a migrant health policy in Maldives.
Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) Expansion at Air Borders in Nigeria The project aims to enhance Nigeria's migration and border management capacity and achieve an increase in identification of serious transnational organized crime cases by enabling the further use of operational data; integration of INTERPOL databases and other relevant watchlists; and strengthened capacity of individual NIS officers. Under this project, approximately 60 NIS officers are expected to benefit from the planned training opportunities.
Migration Management Framework (MMF) The program strengthens governments’ capacity to support evidence-based migration management and builds on the work done on IOM’s Migration Governance Indicators (MGI). The MGI helps governments, upon request, take stock of their migration policies and strategies, to identify good practices as well as areas with potential for further development. By focusing on government ownership of the process, the MGI’s ultimate objective is to help governments make progress on their migration management priorities and gradually improve their migration management systems. This program cycle envisages to conduct 28 MGI assessments at local and national level.
Support for Asylum Seekers in Bulgaria With this project, IOM will provide support to 1000 asylum seekers in Bulgaria during the initial adaptation phase at registration and start of asylum procedure in Bulgaria by the IOM protection programme (social, legal, administrative, and psychological consultations, linguistic and cultural mediation, interpretation services; and support in accessing social and health services). Special focus of the project will be further developing the safety zones for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), established by IOM Bulgaria as part of previous projects funded under the European Union's Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2014-2020 Emergency measures and the provision of assistance to 300 UASC.
Phase I - Strengthening Kuwaiti Governmental Efforts to Promote Ethical Recruitment of Foreign Workers This project will contribute to strengthening Kuwait’s Global Positioning pillar under the Kuwait National Development Plan (KNDP) 2035, particularly in the context of secondary COVID-19 response, by promoting national mechanisms on good migration governance to facilitate inward flow of labour mobility at all skill levels and to improve their migration experience. Phase One of STRENGTH will promote ethical recruitment and enable national agencies to update the evidence-based policy and programming thereby increasing national efforts to improve the institutional governance of foreign workers. These updates will address the defaults in the system which have been revealed during the COVID-19 crisis where thousands of foreign workers have been exploited by visa traders. The updates will include the introduction and rollout of the International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS) as a social compliance scheme intended to promote ethical recruitment among employers and recruitment agencies and the skeleton of a mobile application connecting employers-employees-labor inspectors to regulate employment relationships.
Reinforcement of Border Management in Northern Benin This project will strengthen the capacity of the Government of Benin to effectively manage its borders and reinforce material and technical capacities of the One Stop Border Post of Malanville. In doing so, it will seek to enhance the ability to perform cross border movement controls, modernize border post infrastructure as well as promote coordination, partnerships and effective cooperation with neighboring countries.
Promoting Peace and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19 in Juba, Bentiu and Wau The objective of this project is to promote peaceful co-existence, social cohesion and combat stigmatization, engendering the cooperation needed to limit and respond effectively to the spread of COVID-19 in South Sudan. In particular, IOM is training women and youth-led community-based organizations on mediation, conflict resolution and negotiation, as well as supporting them in encouraging messages of solidarity and in combating hate speech. The project also creates media platforms for community-based organizations and the communities that they represent to interface with relevant government bodies regarding the COVID-19 response, including the High-Level Task Force and the Ministry of Health.
Reinforcing the Turkish Coast Guard’s Capacity to Respond to Mixed Migration Flows in the Sea The overall aim of this project is to contribute to the ongoing efforts of the Government of Turkey in addressing the migration and refugee crisis through supporting  search and rescue operations at sea in order to save lives and further strengthen the protection of refugees and migrants in Turkey’s waters. This project will support the Turkish Coast Guard (TCG) in its efforts to mainstream a human rights-based approach and institutionalize trainings for its staff to ensure safe and orderly migration and the rescue of migrants at sea.
Improve the Protection Environment for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants through Humanitarian Assistance and Socioeconomic Integration Colombia continues to be the main destination for thousands of Venezuelan nationals that left the country due to the socioeconomic and humanitarian crisis. According to Migración Colombia (the official border management entity) it is estimated that 1.7 million of Venezuelan nationals reside in Colombia. While hundreds enter through irregular and regular crossings at the Colombo-Venezuelan border every week, IOM Colombia and its partners located at entry routes, estimate that only 23% of this influx transits to another country (Ecuador, Peru, and Chile) as destination, which means 70% prefer to stay in Colombia. Through this project, IOM is aiming to improve the protection and integration environment for Venezuelan refugees and migrants, Colombian returnees as well as host communities through the provision of direct services to people with specific protection needs and scale up the response in Bucaramanga city. The main activities of the project are the information and orientation activities, the identification of people with specific protection needs to be addressed, the subsequent referral for the provision of tailored assistance, temporary shelter accommodation, non-food item distribution and socioeconomic integration activities.
Additional Financing for Health Sector Support Project Strengthening health system to improve access to health care services among forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals and surrounding vulnerable host communities living in Ukhiya and Teknaf - Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Creating Models of Ethical Recruitment Practices in Bangladesh As a global leader in promoting ethical recruitment, IOM will engage key stakeholders in Bangladesh's overseas labor recruitment industry to adopt the necessary industry reform towards new business models that encourage ethical practices. The project will support committed ethical recruitment agencies to achieve self-sustainability and scalability by establishing linkages with like-minded employers in destination countries and exploring business relationships in new safe migration corridors. The project will additionally engage with other interested recruitment agencies and provide them with training, tools and support to shift towards ethical recruitment practices through the International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS) Labour Recruiter Capacity Building Programme. The project will also help to raise awareness of ethical recruitment among communities, sub-agents and second- and third-tier recruitment agencies through targeted community-level engagement in Cumilla, Dhaka and Noakhali. It will also encourage the formalization of sub-agents through established business relationships with licensed recruitment agencies and their sub-offices.
Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme for Migrants in a Vulnerable Situation (I-VARRP) This return programme, with post return reintegration or arrival assistance, offers key support to those irregular migrants in a situation of vulnerability, who may otherwise fall into increasing destitution or vulnerability. This caseload is geographically spread throughout Ireland, and not only in the capital and larger cities. IOM will provide its assistance to all qualifying beneficiaries regardless of location in Ireland.
Preventing the Recruitment and Use of Children, Adolescents and Young People into Illegal Groups in Casanare, Colombia This project contributes to the prevention of recruitment and use of children, adolescents, and young people in non-state armed actor groups part of the conflict and organized criminal groups in the municipalities of Tauramena and Monterrey in Casanare, Colombia. To do so, the project strengthens individual, community, and institutional capacities and skills to prevent violations and ensure the comprehensive protection of children, adolescents, and young people. This will be achieved through three main components: 1) Strengthening of individual and community capacities to prevent violations against children, adolescents, and young people. 2) Coordination with territorial institutions to strengthen their capacities to prevent the recruitment and use of children, adolescents, and young people into illegal groups. 3) Provide support in the construction of life plans for children, adolescents and young people through the design and implementation of community initiatives for prevention, focused on the empowerment of this population group.
Provision of Multisectoral Lifesaving Assistance for Flood-Affected Population in Bentiu and Rubkona Under this grant, IOM is reaching beneficiaries affected by severe flooding in Unity State in South Sudan through multisectoral lifesaving assistance including health, shelter and non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene, and camp coordination and camp management.
Provision of Emergency Shelter and Camp Coordination and Camp Management Assistance for Populations Affected by the Northern Ethiopian Crisis and COVID-19-Related Health Services for Humanitarian Actors in Tigray In Ethiopia, the internal displacement and humanitarian needs are mainly derived by the ongoing conflicts and floods in the country. The ongoing conflicts, climate shocks and displacements continue to pose serious protection concerns for the affected population. The majority of the displaced population live-in collective sites or in spontaneous settlements where they have limited access to essential services, dignified and safe living conditions and lack necessary resources to sustain their families and communities. The response under this proposed project includes three components camp coordination and camp management interventions targeting 12 internally displaced persons (IDP) sites; emergency shelter assistance targeting 72,000 IDPs; and COVID-19 related health services for staff from United Nations, Humanitarian International Non-Governmental Organizations, and national non-governmental organizations. Proposed interventions address urgent gaps and needs identified through multi-sector assessments in Tigray region, in particularly lack of emergency shelters, inadequate /missing coordination of IDP sites, and lacking COVID-19 testing for staff deployed to this emergency.
Expanded Support for Durable Resettlement and Reintegration in Sri Lanka The armed conflict in Sri Lanka has brought about the forced displacement and formation of a significant refugee population in India. Since 2011, over 2,000 individuals have received facilitated return from India back to Sri Lanka. Along with those who chose to migrate through irregular pathways, returnees face debilitating challenges such as lack of livelihoods and lack of access to essential protection services, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and can be a trigger to relapse into conflict situations. To address these issues, IOM and UNHCR the project will enable sustainable reintegration of migrant and refugee returnees to former conflict affected areas. The targeted intervention increases returnees’ access to livelihood options and income generation opportunities and provide psychological support through increasing organizational capacity of community-based organizations, providing refugee returnees with support to access housing and protection services, and increasing local government officials’ knowledge and skills in providing the aforementioned services.
Emergency Assistance for Persons in Search of International Protection and Community Strengthening in Venezuela Phase XVI The political and social crisis in Venezuela which has increased the vulnerability of its inhabitants inside the country and has resulted in millions displaced across the region, shows no signs of abating. Between the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic up until January 2021, over 146,000 people are estimated to have returned to Venezuela according to data from the OCHA-IOM-UNHCR Working Group monitoring the flows of returnees. In addition, the increase of insecurity, violence and human rights violations in Venezuela have hindered the humanitarian actors to provide assistance and protection services in the country. The pandemic has aggravated the local security context and decreased control on illicit criminal activities in Venezuela's border states. In this context, the proposed project overall objective is to contribute towards improved access to non-food items, health services (including mental health and psychosocial support services), increased food security, and strengthened protection assistance to vulnerable Venezuelans host communities, and Colombian refugees and asylum seekers in target locations.
Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration from the Western Balkans The project aim is to assist migrants to return home based on informed decisions and comprehensive protection of their fundamental rights, as well as to support migrants in reintegrating into communities to which they return. It is designed to respond to both short and longer-term challenges, working to further the institutionalization of a comprehensive, rights-based and sustainable regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration program adapted to national contexts, implemented in full alignment with international standards, while directly responding to the immediate needs of migrants stranded in the Western Balkans.
Promoting Ethical Recruitment in the Hotel and Tourism Industry: Scaling Engagement and Enhancing Impact This project aims to promote ethical recruitment and the IRIS programme in the hospitality and tourism Industry in a multi-faceted and multi-stakeholder manner. This project is built on a three-pillar strategy focused on private sector and employer engagement, private-public dialogue, and migrant-centred and civil society action. Building capacity, encouraging dialogue, and building cooperation towards upholding ethical recruitment are the core goals of this programme.
Flash Appeal for Disembarkation and Protection Support to Rohingya in Indonesia This project will provide critical humanitarian assistance to Rohingya who have arrived by boat through the Andaman Sea and are now stranded after disembarkation in Indonesia, taking into account COVID-19 mitigation considerations and providing temporary shelter and non-food items, emergency health and nutritional support, water and sanitation hygiene, psychosocial and protection support, in close coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Refugee Status Determination (RSD). IOM will also support coordination efforts on the ground with local and national government authorities.
Counter Trafficking in Crisis Contexts Phase II This project aims to expand the knowledge and institutionalization of counter-trafficking activities within the broader humanitarian coordination system. To achieve this goal, activities will continue to target direct field operations such as the continued co-leadership of the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) Anti-Trafficking Task Team; longer deployments of anti-trafficking experts to humanitarian settings; internal and external trainings of front-line stakeholders, and the establishment of a resource hub and moderated stakeholder discussion forum.
European Union Trust Fund – International Organization for Migration (EUTF-IOM) Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration: Regional Action for the Sahel and Lake Chad Region This action contributes to the original initiative “EUTF-IOM initiative for migrant protection and reintegration in Africa”. The initiative covers 14 countries and is made up of specific actions in the 14 countries where it will be implemented. The activities will therefore be mainly implemented at national level but will be coordinated at the regional level in order to ensure harmonization of activities in the different countries and to ensure coherence of the initiative.
Support to Civil Society and Institutional Actors for the Protection of Migrants and Human Rights in Mauritania The general objective of the action is to contribute to improving the protection of the rights of migrants and the governance of migration in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania through the strengthening of the capacities of civil society and institutional actors.  Supporting action in the field of migrant protection and human rights will allow for an integrated approach. Its specific objectives will be to contribute to ensuring direct assistance and protection of vulnerable migrants in Mauritania through civil society and in cooperation with the relevant institutional actors and improve governance of migration and respect for the rights of migrants by Mauritanian institutional actors.
Pacific Climate Change Migration and Human Security Programme The project will support an expansion to the existing Pacific Climate Change Migration and Human Security (PCCMHS) Programme, led by IOM. The PCCMHS supports Pacific Governments and non-government stakeholders to demonstrate strengthened capacity and coordination through a regional response to climate mobility, while simultaneously enabling Pacific governments to develop inclusive and context-specific national policies and programmes to implement actions to avert, address and prepare for climate mobility.
Support to Pandemic Preparedness in the EAC Region / WASH and Health Promotion Sensitization and Awareness on COVID-19 and Other Communicable Diseases in the EAC Region The East Africa Community (EAC) region has experienced communicable and water borne diseases outbreaks in the past and is still at risk of future ones. Access to safe, clean water remains a challenge to a large number of people and more disproportionately to vulnerable groups, particularly at cross border area. The overall goal of this project is to assist EAC to provide timely assistance to member States (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda and South Sudan). on install fixed handwashing facilities and enhance health and hygiene protective behaviours and practices to prevent the spread of zoonotic and water-borne infectious diseases including COVID-19, in selected Point of Entry and high-risk areas along transport and water way corridors. It is estimated to reach more than 1 million of individuals with health and hygiene promotion initiatives, to install 19 fixed handwashing facilities. This regional programme is contributing to the achievement of the regional migration strategy for East and Horn of Africa addressing the health component.
Emergency Shelter Assistance and Non-food Items for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Host Communities in the communes of Barsalogho and Bouroum in the in the Center-North Region IOM, through its implementing partner, is targeting an intervention in communes severely affected by recent displacement, including those of Barsalogho and Bouroum. This intervention addresses the emergency shelters and non-food item needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities.
Reinforce Capacities to Identify and Provide Adequate Care to Victims of Trafficking in Tunisia The overall goal of the project is to reinforce the capacity of the Government of Tunisia to guarantee the protection of victims of trafficking (VoT) through the implementation of the Law n°61-2016. The project objectives are to enhance the capacity to identify, assist and protect VoTs, based on the anti-trafficking in person legislation; improve the implementation of formal procedures to screen and identify trafficked victims among vulnerable groups, in line with the National Referral Mechanism and increase access to adequate protection services for VoTs.
Shelter Projects:  Promoting Better Shelter and Settlements Practices This project aims at improving the global, regional, national and local capacities to address future emergency/recovery shelter issues by reporting on shelter responses across regions on a systematic basis and learning from the experiences through: (1) the development and production of content, including new case studies of shelter and settlements responses, meta-analysis and long-term impact studies; (2) ensuring effective dissemination, maximizing relevant readership and ensuring longer-term engagement in the Shelter Projects publication through increased participation in the content; and (3) promoting the case studies as a learning tool to improve shelter and settlements operations and staff capacity at country and regional level and engaging relevant government authorities.