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The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has partnered Government in rolling out a 3,2 million euro four-year programme aimed at improving the country’s migration programme. IOM project officer Mrs Memory Mwale told stakeholders during a Cross Border Migration Management Stakeholder Forum (CBMMSF) in Beitbridge that the project was being funded by the European Union.
She said after handing over the running of the Beitbridge and Plumtree reception and support centres to Government recently, the organisation had opted to work on another programme.
The two reception centres are now being managed by the Departments of Social Services and that of Child Welfare and they offer assistance to Zimbabweans deported from Botswana and South Africa. Mrs Mwale said the new programme sought to strengthen public institutions’ capacity on matters around migrant governance.
“The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to the establishment of a migration governance framework (policy, institutional and legislative) in Zimbabwe.
“We are looking at a framework which supports state actors to manage migration in dialogue with non-state actors and in a migrant-centred, gender sensitive, rights upfront-based and development-oriented manner,” she said.
Mrs Mwale said IOM came up with the programme after realising that there was a gap on issues of migration governance in Zimbabwe.
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