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COUNSELLING AND SERVICES




IOM ACTIVITIES IN SLOVAKIA AND SUPPORT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been active in Slovakia since
1996. Among its main activity areas are: assisted voluntary returns, migrant
integration, prevention of human trafficking and assistance to trafficked
persons and coordination of the European Migration Network.



In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These goals constitute a
commitment to all countries, regardless of their development status, to address
by 2030 the most serious current global challenges such as poverty, inequality,
environmental degradation, unsustainable production and consumption, and to
achieve a sustainable world with economic growth and prosperity, quality of life
and environmental protection. For more information, visit sdgs.un.org.

Through its activities in the world and in Slovakia, IOM works to successfully
meet several goals of the 2030 Agenda. More information can be found at
www.iom.int.


IOM SLOVAKIA KEY ACTIVITIES:


ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURNS AND REINTEGRATION IN THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN



 * Assistance to illegal migrants and unsuccessful asylum applicants to their
   country of origin including return counselling, assistance with facilitating
   travel documentation, travel arrangements, facilitating return, assistance at
   the departure from the Slovak Republic and assistance in the transit
   countries (since 2009)
 * Reintegration assistance to returning migrants based on individual
   reintegration plans (since 2008)
 * Capacity building and networking of experts participating in the process of
   voluntary return, including the promotion of cooperation among embassies of
   the main countries of migrants’ origin
 * Information dissemination and campaigns aimed at professionals working with
   potential or actual returnees as well as migrants themselves who are
   interested in voluntary return
 * Exchange of experience with other EU countries implementing assisted
   voluntary returns programmes

More information on: www.avr.iom.sk

This IOM Slovakia activity supports Sustainable Development Goals:

  


MIGRANT INTEGRATION



 * Provision of practical integration assistance to migrants including legal
   counselling and labour/social counselling (since 2006 through the IOM
   Migration Information Centre)
 * Promotion of language education, retraining and professional skills of
   migrants enhancing their possibility to participate in the labour market
 * Providing free of charge and open Slovak language coursed and Courses of
   socio-cultural orientation for migrants
 * Promotion of the community life of foreigners in Slovakia, cooperation with
   representatives of individual communities of migrants and capacity building
 * Raising awareness about migrants in Slovakia through organization, promotion
   and granting auspices for intercultural activities between communities and
   the majority
 * Capacity building of professionals working in the field of
   migration/integration at the national and regional levels
 * Exchange of experience and sharing of best practices among key actors and
   experts in Slovakia and the representatives of other EU countries; their
   implementation into practice in order to improve the accessibility of
   services to migrants and to enhance the efficiency of integration measures
 * Research into various aspects of migrant integration in Slovakia
 * Policy guidance – sharing of knowledge and practical experience in relation
   to the creation of integration policies in Slovakia (e.g. the Concept of
   Foreigner Integration in the Slovak Republic adopted in May 2009)

Further information on: www.mic.iom.sk

This IOM Slovakia activity supports Sustainable Development Goals:

                     


COUNTER-TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS



 * Prevention of human trafficking aimed at specific vulnerable groups, e.g.
   secondary school students, disadvantaged Roma populations, young people in
   foster care facilities, etc. (since 2003)
 * Return and reintegration assistance to victims of trafficking (return
   assistance in 2006–2017, reintegration assistance in 2006–2014)
 * National Counter Trafficking Hotline (in 2008–2014)
 * Education and capacity building of experts in the area of prevention of human
   trafficking, and identification and assistance to the trafficked persons (as
   a partner of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic since 2008)
 * Policy guidance in human trafficking, especially with the design of the
   national counter trafficking strategy and the National Referral Mechanism

More information.

Safe Travel – Website: www.bezpecnecestovanie.iom.sk

SAFE Travel & Work Abroad – Mobile Application: www.safe.iom.sk

This IOM Slovakia activity supports Sustainable Development Goals:

     


EUROPEAN MIGRATION NETWORK



 * Coordinator of the National Contact Point for European Migration Network in
   Slovakia (since 2009)
 * Implementation of the EMN National Contact Point activities  in the Slovak
   Republic  aimed at fulfilling information needs of the EU institutions and
   Member States organs through the provision of up-to-date, objective, reliable
   and comparable information on migration and asylum

Further information on: www.emn.sk

This IOM Slovakia activity supports Sustainable Development Goals:

  




OTHER TYPES OF ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS INCLUDED:

 * Resettlement of refugees: Provision of transportation of refugees from
   refugee camps to Slovakia (Emergency Transit Center in Humenne), medical
   services, cultural orientation, language trainings and transport of refugees
   from Slovakia to the country of resettlement - based on the tripartite
   agreement among the Government of the Slovak Republic, UN High Commissioner
   for Refugees and IOM about the humanitarian transfer of refugees in need of
   international protection (since 2009). More information.
 * Research and capacity building in the field of labour migration and migration
   and health
 * Projects aimed at stabilization of vulnerable communities in Eastern Slovakia
   (in cooperation with partner intergovernmental organizations)
 * Humanitarian and social programmes (in cooperation with selected partner
   intergovernmental organizations)

In case of need, IOM is ready and able to provide services in crisis (e.g.
natural disasters, conflicts) through its missions and offices in affected
countries - in 2008 IOM Slovakia provided assistance to internally displaced
persons in Georgia in the aftermath of the conflict with Russia.



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ABOUT IOM

International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the leading international,
inter-governmental organization in the field of migration. It acts in accordance
with the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits both migrants and
society. IOM in Slovakia continuously implements various projects and activities
in the areas of migrant integration, assisted voluntary returns,
counter-trafficking, resettlement of refugees and coordination of the European
Migration Network activities.

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