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Return Migration: Policies and Practices
Czech Assisted Return Programme by IOM
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CZECH ASSISTED RETURN PROGRAMME BY IOM
Eligible Beneficiaries: • Asylum seekers who withdraw their application for
asylum;
Funding Source: Ministry of Interior
Movements to Date
(end 2001):
• Asylum seekers whose applications for asylum
have been refused;
• Destitute aliens without the financial means to
organize their return.
1,335 migrants have been assisted to return to some
20 countries.
* Building on the regional programme (GRPCE), the Protocol was signed in 2001.
Programme Services
Pre-departure assistance: information dissemination and counselling through partner NGOs,
cash grants of US$ 50 per person.
Transport assistance: transport, documents and formalities and transit assistance of US$ 5 per
person.
Other support measures are implemented in parallel (e.g. enhanced information dissemination,
workshops and capacity building activities for government counterparts, partners and social
workers).
A special project for the Return and Reintegration of Rejected Asylum Seekers and Irregular
Migrants from the Czech Republic to Georgia is currently being implemented as part of a threeyear
programme. It envisages the provision of reintegration assistance (and re-qualification
grants), counselling and referrals to employment opportunities available upon return.
Framework Agreements with Countries of Origin or Transit
IOM Prague and the MOI signed an MOU on 26 September 2001. The Ministry, through the
Aliens and Border Police, informs IOM Prague about cases awaiting return in detention or in
asylum centres. NGOs offer AVR on behalf of IOM Prague.
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