Returning Home: Evaluating the Impact of IOM’s Reintegration Assistance for Migrants in the Horn of Africa - IMPACT Study Report #1

Original Language
English
ISBN (PDF)
978-92-9268-762-5
Number of Pages
93
Reference Number
PUB2023/147/R
Date of upload

17 Ene 2024

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Returning Home: Evaluating the Impact of IOM’s Reintegration Assistance for Migrants in the Horn of Africa - IMPACT Study Report #1

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the findings of the IMPACT study across all of its components. IMPACT is a study to evaluate how the assistance provided under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative Programme for Migrant Protection and Reintegration promotes the sustainable reintegration of the returning migrants in the Horn of Africa. IMPACT focuses on Ethiopia, Somalia and the Sudan–the three countries that account for the largest reintegration caseloads in the region.

  • List of Acronyms 
  • List of Figures 
  • List of Boxes 
  • List of Tables 
  • Glossary 
  • Executive Summary 
  • 1. Why this study? 
  • 2. Measuring sustainable reintegration 
    • 2.1 Defining sustainable reintegration 
    • 2.2 The Reintegration Sustainability Index 
  • 3. Migration and the JI-HoA 
    • 3.1 Migration routes 
    • 3.2 Approach of the JI-HoA to return and reintegration assistance 
    • 3.3 Delivery of JI-HoA assistance 
  • 4. Evaluation design and methods 
    • 4.1 Main impact evaluation (Component 1) 
    • 4.2 Natural experiment (Component 2) 
    • 4.3 Qualitative research (Component 3) 
    • 4.4 Complementarity of evaluation components 
  • 5. The impact of the JI-HoA assistance 
    • 5.1 The impact of the COVID-linked shock on returnees 
    • 5.2 Vulnerability of returnees to respond to co-occurring shocks 
    • 5.3 Responses of returnees to the COVID-linked shock 
    • 5.4 The impact of IOM assistance 
    • 5.5 Community-based reintegration projects 
    • 5.6 Spotlight on microbusiness assistance 
    • 5.7 Adaptations: In kind and cash modalities 
    • 5.8 Timeliness of assistance 
    • 5.9 Summary of the impact of the JI-HoA 
  • 6. Lessons on improving sustainable reintegration metrics 
    • 6.1 Improving the AVRR data chain 
    • 6.2 Understanding the pre-departure experiences 
    • 6.3 Non-response and revising the RSI indicators 
    • 6.4 The use of thresholds to benchmark reintegration 
    • 6.5 Weights and the relative importance of each variable 
    • 6.6 Alignment to programme evaluation 
    • 6.7 Summary of lessons 
  • 7. Lessons on evaluating reintegration programmes 
    • 7.1 The use of retrospective data 
    • 7.2 Non-migrant calibrations 
    • 7.3 The W model 
    • 7.4 Natural Experiments 
  • 8. Conclusions 
    • 8.1 Returnees’ resilience and coping strategies 
    • 8.2 The impact of the JI-HoA on the sustainable reintegration of returnees 
    • 8.3 Improving the metrics for sustainable reintegration 
    • 8.4 Methodologies for evaluating the impact of reintegration programmes 
  • 9. Recommendations 
    • 9.1 Programme-specific recommendations 
    • 9.2 Methodological recommendations 
  • 10. References