With the financial support of the EU, IOM is implementing a project "Sustaining Border Management and Migration Governance in Georgia. The action aims to enhance the capacities of Georgian authorities in the areas of integrated border management and migration governance in line with relevant EU-Georgia cooperation frameworks and government action plans.

IOM Summarizes Achievements under the More for More Project The overall aim of the EU-funded project "Reinforcing the Capacities of the Government of Georgia in Border and Migration management" (More for More) has been to enhance the capacities of Georgian authorities in integrated border management and migration management and to ensure that key targets under the Visa Liberalization Action Plan (VLAP) were met. Drawing on EU expertise the project has supported significant advances on developing risk analysis in the Ministry of Interior and the handling of identity documents across government, has facilitated the sustainable reintegration of Georgian migrants returning home and has supported the fight against transnational organized crime. These successful interventions have play...

Reintegration Assistance Referral Guide Has Been Released IOM has produced the 2017 reintegration assistance referral guide in close cooperation with its partners in the governmental and non-governmental sectors. This publication shall serve returning migrants with substantial information on the conditions that they can expect when coming back to their native Georgia and thus help them in getting back on their feet without undue complications. This publication has also been designed to guide organizations that provide assistance to returned migrants by listing a comprehensive set of assistance programmes that are available within the governmental sectors and are offered by NGOs and other civil society partners. With this publication IOM has finished its direct involvement in assisting stat...

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Comprehensive Publication on Counter-Trafficking Released Over the last half decade, IOM has implemented many counter-trafficking actions in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Although there have been major improvements in efforts to combat trafficking in human beings (THB) within these countries, as the modes of operation of traffickers continue to evolve, States need to ensure that interventions continue to address the needs of victims on the ground while at the same time focusing on targeted capacity-building of law enforcement. Therefore, at the end of 2015, IOM undertook a project funded by the IOM Development Fund to improve planned THB interventions in the countries in the South Caucasus by making available a comprehensive assessment of the overall THB situation in each country. As a...