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The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) celebrated the first anniversary of the Return and Reintegration Platform and released the 10th factsheet of the Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series.

Since its launch in December 2019, the Platform continues to grow and engage with practitioners globally. It has received more than 90,000 page-views from over 180 countries and its membership expanded to more than 590 members across the regions. Close to 500 public resources on return and reintegration are made available, and a series of public webinars have been organized, reaching close to 700 participants.

The KMH has released the 10th factsheet on “Supporting SMEs and former returnees to create jobs for migrants returning to Afghanistan” from the Reintegration Assistance: Good, Promising and Innovative Practices Series.  

The 10th factsheet describes how IOM, through the Reintegration Assistance and Development in Afghanistan (RADA) project funded by the European Union, supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a potential for growth to expand their production capacities and their market reach, with the aim to create jobs for returnees.  

The support provided not only allowed hiring returnees, but also developing their skills (on-the-job training) and strengthening productive enterprises in a complex economic and security environment.  

The series, launched in 2020, aims at highlighting innovative reintegration activities along with operational details and recommendations that will allow reintegration practitioners to learn more about these activities, understand how they are implemented and how they could be replicated or adapted in their respective contexts. 

Check-out the good practices' factsheets from the series!  

• Practice #1: Cash-for-work, GUINEA 

• Practice #2: Promote employment through training in BURKINA FASO   

• Practice #3: Support for Entrepreneurship in BURKINA FASO  

• Practice #4: Support for Returnee Employability and Empowerment Through Vocational Training and Job Search in MALI    

• Practice #5: Establishing a Permanent Dialogue with the Government to Foster Ownership and Sustainability of Reintegration Mechanisms and Activities in CAMEROON  

• Practice #6: Pre-departure reintegration assistance in the NETHERLANDS: material and shipment support 

• Practice #7: Pre-departure reintegration assistance in MOROCCO: orientation, counselling and training 

• Practice #8: Revitalizing Economy and Enhancing Social Cohesion through Community-Based Planning and Community-Prioritized Infrastructure Works: the construction of a Bridge in SOMALIA

• Practice #9: Boosting returnees’ employment through support to SMEs in IRAQ 

• Practice #10: Supporting SMEs and former returnees to create jobs for migrants returning to AFGHANISTAN

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