Sensitization Days – 12th December 2009, 16th December 2009 « Retour et Réintégration : favoriser la réintégration des migrants de retour dans leur pays d’origine par une approche socio-économique »

dicembre 20th, 2009

As scheduled in the project plan, Returnet partnership planned & realized a “sensitization event” in Senegal, in order to achieve a useful dissemination of ReturNet’s activities. On those basis, two days of raising awareness actions on “migration and return” have been organized in Kaolack and Dakar, respectively on 12^th December 2009 and 16^th December 2009. Thanks to their great experience in organizing conferences and symposia on migration issues, NGO COOPI had been charged of the responsiblity to plan both events, and acted with the support of local and national organizations interested in social reintegration matter (ANEJ Dakar; CNTS Dakar; Former Ministry of IOM – International Organization of Migrants; PARI, Point d’Accuiel pour les Réfugiés et les Rapatriés; PANEL, Pan-African Network of Leaders; USE- Union pour la Solidarité et l’Entraide; ANEJ- Agence Nationale pour l’Emploi des Jeunes, office in Kaolack; CNTS Kaolack -Conféderation Nationale des Travailleurs Sénégalais, ONFP-Office National de la Formation Professionnelle). COOPI stressed the importance of promoting an event characterized by a manifold participation, where all levels of migration and return could be represented and could have an opportunity to express and exchange opinions and proposals: the result was a significant participation, more than 200 people in both events, with a really diversified audience.

The “sensitization events” realized in Senegal aimed at promoting the importance of reinstatement of returned migrants to communities of origins of migrants (Thiaroye sur Mer and Kaolack) and at informing returned migrants and young potential migrants on socio-economic reintegration opportunities offered by actors operating in the migration sectors.

See the documentary of the Sensitization days.

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