Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration

In the field of Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR), IOM provides services that include assistance throughout the entire process of return, including pre-departure, during travel and post-arrival, and comprehensive AVRR information sharing and outreach. A range of services is provided to migrants returning to North Macedonia, including virtual counselling in local languages, transportation arrangements and related assistance services, as well as reintegration support (housing, education, reinsertion in the form of employment facilitation and micro-business set-up).

In addition to capacity building for AVRR practitioners, IOM is also working to facilitate and enhance consular and diplomatic cooperation between the Western Balkan countries, as transit countries in the current migration flows, with countries of origin in the context of assisted voluntary returns, gathering government representatives responsible for return and representatives of relevant embassies.