Among the top UK Home Office’s priorities is to tackle illegal migration by removing individuals with no right to be in the UK and protecting the vulnerable.
Among the top UK Home Office’s priorities is to tackle illegal migration by removing individuals with no right to be in the UK and protecting the vulnerable. This is in consonance with Reintegration which is a key component of Objective 21 of the Global Compact for Sale, Orderly and Regular Migration to ‘cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration’ with the Home Office seeking to reduce the burden in states when receiving their nations and help them to become self-sufficient and reintegrate sustainably. As part of the Home Office Reintegration Programme funding packaging, the Home Office is investing in grant-funding for each financial year until March 2025 with the support aiming to successfully reintegrate returning individuals into their country of origin.
The purpose of the funding relates to satisfying one of the core aims and objectives of Immigration Enforcement (IE) amongst which include facilitating the return of nations to their countries of origin. It is based on the fact that Reintegration assistance can incentivize return by offering practical support to those returning, demonstrating a person-centric immigration system which is responsive to the needs of potentially vulnerable individuals. It reduces the push factor of irregular re-migration upon return, reduces the burden on fragile infrastructures in countries of origin and increases their capacity to accept their nationals.
In the framework of the above services and the Home Office Reintegration Programme, the International Returns and Reintegration Assistance (IRARA), an NGO registered in Belgium has been engaged to provide returns and reintegration services to THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Home Office). The purpose is for IRARA to deliver reintegration services to support returning individuals from the United Kingdom (UK) in 10 countries and this is to be achieved by providing counseling and referral services, enabling the returning individuals to build up their lives through tailor-made reintegration assistance.
IRARA secured 8 out of the 10 countries where the programme is being implemented including Ghana and Nigeria.
To deliver the reintegration services in Ghana, the Network for Community Planning and Development (NECPAD) is collaborating with IRARA to implement the programme in Ghana NECPAD will deliver country-specific reintegration services as aforementioned, ultimately assisting returning individuals to live decent lives in Ghana.
The scope of Home Office actions for bidders included:
- Pre-departure information (counseling and country specific literature.
- Provision of immediate support to the returnee on arrival (airport pickup, emergency housing, support with organized onward travel, mediate needs payment, provision of care/hygiene packs and PPE along with COVID testing if required).
- Signposting to locally available services, such as housing, health services, social support, educational support, legal services, redocumentation and financial services.
- Family tracing and reunification.
- Support with setting up a business or educational opportunity.
- Entrepreneurship fund, including co-payment between the returning individual and the bidder to establish a business opportunity.
- Assist with returning individuals obtaining the necessary documentation/ID.
- Counseling and referral up to 18 months after first contact with the returnee.
- Management of an entrepreneurship fund.
- Communication material and adhoc support to the programme.
- Legal migration pathways and ethical recruitment. Monitoring and evaluation of returning individual’s reintegration Outcomes.
Client’s Name
Home Office Reintegrated Programme
Project Cost
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Address
International Returns and Reintegration Assistance,
Rue Breydel 36, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium
Contact:
Rue Breydel 36, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium
