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Promoting Peace: SEEK II Project’s Contribution to Cross-Border Harmony
As we commemorate International Peace Day, celebrated every 21st of September, we turn the spotlight on how the SEEK Project has played a pivotal role in fostering peace and harmony in cross-border regions.
- Region and Country
- Horn of AfricaEthiopiaKenya
- Thematic
- Improved governance and conflict prevention
- Partner
- PACTStrategies for Northern Development

Kenya: A specialised unit investigates crimes affecting children
In Kenya, the national Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit (AHTCPU) rescues approximately 300 children every year from the clutches of human trafficking.
- Region and Country
- Horn of AfricaKenya
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ

Kenya: Protecting and promoting human rights for every person
Alone in a foreign country, migrants face myriad challenges such as the lack of family support, language barriers and missing access to information and services.
- Region and Country
- Horn of AfricaKenya
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ

Arzouma’s successful return story
Arzouma returned from Algeria four years ago.
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSomaliaSouth SudanLibyaGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for MigrationUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

EU-IOM Joint Initiative marks five years of supporting migrants and their communities across Africa
15 December 2021— Daouda is one of the 166 Nigerien migrants who returned from Tripoli to Niamey on a charter flight organised by the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in February 2020.
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSomaliaSouth SudanLibyaGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for Migration

Habi’s return and reintegration story
Habi thought that she could easily earn money working as a maid in Libya and come back to Nigeria to take care of her children with some savings.
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSomaliaSouth SudanGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for MigrationUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

EUTF Success stories: Faustina
Faustina decided to leave Ghana for Libya to look for greener pastures.
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSomaliaSouth SudanLibyaGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for MigrationUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Playground – Empowering young people in Ghana to build their dreams
On 2 July 2021, in Jamestown, Accra, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana, theSports for Education and Economic Development (SEED) Projectand DUNK Grassroots, together with some 200 youth, inaugurated...
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSomaliaSouth SudanLibyaGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for Migration

Son rêve devenu cauchemar en Libye, Zouberou reconstruit au Cameroun et se relance dans la couture
Zouberou a 34 ans et il est parti du Cameroun en 2014 en laissant sa femme et ses deux filles en quête d’une vie meilleure.
- Region and Country
- UgandaEthiopiaEritreaDjiboutiKenyaSudanTanzaniaSouth SudanLibyaGuinéeGhanaCôte d'IvoireSenegalTchadThe GambiaMaliMauritanieBurkina FasoCamerounNigeriaNiger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- International Organization for Migration

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Kenya faces a lack of human rights protection – Report on migrants in detention launched
With human mobility globally on the rise, many governments worldwide have increased the use of detention to manage and discourage irregular migration.
- Region and Country
- Kenya
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ