The second edition of the “A Region on the Move” report provides an overview of population movement trends in West and Central Africa in 2021. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of mobility in the region and showcase the versatility, multidimensionality and nuances of regional mobility ...in West and Central Africa.
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                                                                How to respond to Covid19 pandemic in West and Central Africa
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                MMC Briefing Paper, February 2021
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                As of 21 May 2020, 4.8 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported globally. In South America, COVID-19 was first detected on 26 February 2020, when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This practical guidance is designed to assist programme specialists to implement COVID19 RCCE activities for and with refugees, IDPs, migrants and host communities vulnerable to the pandemic. The guidance highlights key challenges and barriers faced by these people in accessing COVID19 health-relate...d information and presents key considerations and recommendations for planning and implementing RCCE activities. The document can be adapted to countries’ specific context and aligned with national response plans for COVID-19 and national RCCE plans.
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                                                                The regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) for the Horn of Africa and Yemen includes urgent life-saving humanitarian and protection interventions to improve safe and dignified access to basic services for migrants and host communities while ensuring medium- to long-term actions aimed at addressing the... drivers of migration.
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                                                                Eleven (11) districts in Rwanda were initially were considered most at risk of the outbreak, namely:
• Rusizi, Nyamasheke, Karongi, Rutsiro, Rubavu (bordering DRC)
• Musanze, Burera, Gicumbi and Nyagatare (bordering Uganda)
• Kigali city (comprised of 3 localities) due to the presence of Ki...gali International Airport.
The National Contingency plan was revised in February 2019 and two districts added to the list (Nyabihu and Nyanza), bring total districts at risk to 13. During the timeframe, the operation, however covered the 11 initial districts.
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                                                                The Return Counselling Toolkit is a capacity-building instrument aimed at providing a harmonized and coherent approach to return counselling, based on key migrant-centred principles while protecting migrants’ rights. Mindful of the specific needs and rights pertaining to children, this additional ...module on counselling children and families further complements the first five modules of the Return Counselling Toolkit. It provides specialized guidance on how to prepare and deliver return counselling to accompanied, unaccompanied and separated children while upholding child rights and safeguards.
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                                                                Early damage assessments indicate that at least 800,000 people could be directly exposed to minor to severe damages, including communication, access, security, loss of livelihoods, infrastructure, and health services could be impacted.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                An essential component of the return process is counselling, which aims to support  counselling beneficiaries to make an informed decision on their future migration  pathways. Counselling provides the space for migrants to exert their agency,  supports them to prepare for return and positively contr...ibutes to their reintegration  in countries of origin. The question of how to prepare and provide return counselling  is of significant concern for all actors involved in the return process itself, but until 
now very little has been done to offer a standardized approach to return counselling.  The Return Counselling Toolkit intends to address this question and proposes a  rights-based and migrant-centred approach to return counselling, which builds upon 
IOM standards and the Organization’s long-standing experience in providing return  and reintegration counselling to thousands of migrants every year, in a multiplicity of  countries and contexts.
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                                                                Broken Links: Psychosocial support for people separated from family members (Training
module) and the corresponding Broken Links field guide are designed to support staff and
volunteers in a wide range of settings where they may be in contact with families who have
been separated from their loved... ones. The field guide and the training module outline the
causes and consequences of being separated from family members, as well as the types of
contact staff and volunteers might have with families affected by separation.
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