Bi-Annual Reintegration Report #1 - March 2019

This report presents the results of the reintegration pillar of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Sahel and Lake Chad region. Launched in December 2016 with the support of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative is the first comprehensive programme bringing together African countries, IOM and the EU around the shared aim of ensuring that migration is safer, more informed and better governed for both migrants and their communities. It is implemented in 26 countries of the Sahel and Lake Chad region, the Horn of Africa, and North Africa.

The EU-IOM Joint Initiative in the Sahel and Lake Chad region is implemented in 12 countries, namely: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.

Reintegration assistance under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative is governed by Framework Standard Operating Procedures for Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (Framework SOPs). These have been adapted and validated in seven countries and are in the process of being adapted in the other five countries.

Coordination and governance structures for reintegration activities have been established in all 12 target countries of origin.
IOM has built partnerships and created reintegration support networks with state and non-state actors in 12 countries to improve reintegration conditions for returning migrants. 

Of the 54,553 returnees eligible for reintegration assistance under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative in the Sahel and Lake Chad region as of 31 January 2019, 38,903 have started their reintegration process (71%). Among them, 7,737 have completed their reintegration assistance process (14% of the total number of eligible returnees).

The reintegration assistance provided through the programme supports the economic, social and psychosocial reintegration of migrants, at the individual, community and structural levels. 

60 community-based projects gathering more than 1,270 returnees and more than 1,400 members of the local communities are being set up in eight countries of the region.

First monitoring exercises suggest that 80% of the beneficiaries surveyed are satisfied or very satisfied about their overall situation; 85% are satisfied or very satisfied about the reintegration support received and 80% can meet their basic needs or most of them.

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