The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), through its mission in Rome, is launching a project envisaging a comprehensive mechanism by which failed asylum seekers or other migrants who are not eligible for residence and wish to return home may do so in safety and dignity.

The project, being carried out in collaboration with the government of Malta, is named Pilot Initiative To Foster Assisted Voluntary Return In Malta and will have a seven-month duration, until December 2006.

It is funded by the European Refugee Fund - ERF, co-funded by the Maltese Ministry for Justice and Home Affairs and the IOM.

The project envisages a number of activities in Malta, including four training/information sessions involving government officials and social workers to promote the option of assisted voluntary return among the migrant population residing on the island.

The IOM has just held its first one-and-half-day seminar on return policies and practices.

For more information, contact IOM at +39/06/44186226 or via e-mails gfalzoi@iom.int or agiustiniani@iom.int.

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