Duration: 15.12.2005 to 31.01.2010
IOM Vienna is implementing the project "Coordination of Return and Reintegration Assistance for Voluntary Returnees to Moldova". The project aims at the sustainable return and reintegration of voluntary returning Moldovan citizens, who have the status of
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Particular consideration will be paid to the case-management-approach, especially in the case of vulnerable persons such as unaccompanied minors, elderly, women, ethnic minorities and medical cases. In Moldova, IOM Chisinau together with national and local project partners (e.g. National Employment Agency with its regional offices, micro credit institutions.) is implementing the reintegration measures. The available reintegration measures consist of:
A further crucial element is the extension of the assistance measures to the local community in order to diminish possible tensions between needy people from the community and the returnees and at the same time to have a general positive effect on the development of the community.
Following its successful implementation until December 2007, the prolongation of the project was selected for funding until January 2009.
This project was funded by the European Refugee Fund (ERF), The Austrian Ministry of Interior and the Austrian Development Agency. The project was available to all return counselling centres in Austria (provincial refugee offices and NGOs).