Publication For many OECD countries, how to ensure the safe and dignified return to their origin countries of migrants who do not have grounds to remain is a key question. Alongside removal, return and reintegration assistance have become an integral part of the response. Development cooperation is expanding its activity to support the capacity of countries of origin to reintegrate all returning migrants. Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrants: A Better Homecoming reports the results of a multi-country peer review project carried out by the OECD.

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Brief The OECD has published a brief What improves the sustainability of the reintegration component in AVRR? that looks at the conditions under which the programmes can not only support the sustainable reintegration of individual returning migrants but satisfy broader policy goals affecting host and origin communities.

Programme of the launch event

Conference jointly organised by the OECD and IOM

supported by the

German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and GIZ – German Corporation for International Cooperation

15 October 2020 Printable version: Programme

Opening Remarks

• Stefan Oswald (Director General, Directorate-General 2: Marshall Plan with Africa), German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Ulrich Weinbrenner (Director General of department for Migration, Refugees and Return Policy) German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI)
• Stefano Scarpetta, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Keynote Speech

• Antonio Vitorino (Director General), International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Presentation of the main findings of the OECD Report: Sustainable Reintegration of Returning Migrants: A Better Homecoming

• Jonathan Chaloff (Senior Policy Analyst), OECD

Panel 1.  Better targeting of programmes - identifying the target population, matching programme benefits to expectation and promoting uptake

• Christina Jespersen (Special Advisor on Migration Issues) Ministry of Immigration and Integration, Denmark
• James Martin (Senior Program Advisor) Canada Border Services Agency
• Henrik Malm Lindberg (Associate Professor, Department of Economic History) Uppsala University and Migration Studies Delegation, Sweden
• Jo Matyn (Programme Manager, Reintegration), Fedasil (Belgium)

 

Panel 2: New measures to ensure that programmes offering individual reintegration support and contribute to broader sustainability of reintegration in the origin country

• Emmanuel Igbinosun (Deputy Director Department for Wages and Employment), Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment Nigeria
• Nicola Graviano (Senior Specialist, Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration, Migrant Protection and Assistance Division), International Organization for Migration
• Nassim Majidi (Founder, Director and Migration Pillar Lead), Samuel Hall
• Edmond Gashi (National Coordinator) PME/DIMAK, German Information Centre for Migration, Vocational Training and Career, Kosovo
• Mary Delorey (Foundation Representative), Inter-American Foundation

Concluding remarks by Mark Pearson (Deputy Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs), OECD