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Project “Return and Reintegration of Unaccompanied Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents”, PHASES I & II Mario Francisco Mena Méndez Salvadoran Institute for Comprehensive Development of Children and Adolescents. Returned Boys, Girls, and Adolescents 2007 – Sept. 2011.
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Project “Return and Reintegration of Unaccompanied Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents”, PHASES I & II Mario Francisco Mena Méndez Salvadoran Institute for Comprehensive Development of Children and Adolescents
Returned Boys, Girls, and Adolescents 2007 – Sept. 2011 Year By Air By Land Total
PROJECT OBJECTIVES To provide assistance for reintegration through three lines of action: a) Institutional and Community Sphere; b) Education, Health, and Comprehensive Development Sphere; and c) Social and Family Sphere. COMPONENTS a) Return of boys, girls, and adolescents to their communities of origin and family reunification; b) Socialreintegration; c) Prevention in communities and schools; d) Research and monitoring.
TARGET GROUP Boys, Girls, and Adolescents Returned by Air from the US PERIOD JANUARY 2010 – OCTOBER 2011
ACTIONS UNDER PHASE I • A pilot plan for the reintegration of unaccompanied migrant boys, girls, and adolescents 52 boys, girls, and adolescents as direct beneficiaries in inclusion into public services with pilot reintegration of RAC.
ACTIONS UNDER PHASE II • Continuity in providing assistance to 12 boys, girls, and adolescents -INCLUSION INTO THE PROTECTION SYSTEM -ACCOMPANIMENT OF FAMILIES -RESTITUTION OF RIGHTS • Local capacity-building Training on human rights for staff from ISNA, Education, and RAC
Sustainability • ASSISTANCE WITH A SUBSYSTEM AND AN AD HOC PROGRAMME • FROM PROGRAMME TO POLICY: STRENGTHENING RAC AND THE LOCAL RIGHTS SYSTEMS • PREVENTING MIGRATION OF WOMEN WITH AN APPROACH OF PREVENTING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
PROGRESS • Highlighting migration of boys, girls, and adolescents as a matter of HUMAN RIGHTS. • Demystifying the acceptance of irregular migration in the community sphere. • Special protection. Sui generis assistance for migrant boys, girls, and adolescents.
References 1) Research on the characteristics and situation of the families of boys, girls, and adolescents that are affected by irregular migration, IOM, SS, November 2010. 2) Memo of Understanding between the Government of El Salvador and IOM on implementation of the Project “Return and Reintegration of Unaccompanied Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents”. 3) Systematizing the Project “Return and Reintegration of Unaccompanied Migrant Boys, Girls, and Adolescents”, PHASE I, IOM, June 2011. 4) Systematizing results from training efforts on the manual for reintegration of returned migrant boys, girls, and adolescents for teachers from the Ministry of Education, IOM, 2011.
FINAL REFLECTIONS Technical cooperation for capacity-building of public institutions. PUBLIC ACTORS SHOULD NOT BE REPLACED. Assistance for migrant boys, girls, and adolescents based on the local rights systems and RAC. The inclusion approach determines the effectiveness of the assistance for returned boys, girls, and adolescents.