Operational Chart

The Return and Reintegration Facility (RRF) is part of the EU support structure that has been established to complement efforts by Member States (MS) to increase the effectiveness of their return and reintegration (RR) programming and implementation. It acts as a laboratory of practices and ideas generated by MS to projects and activities enabling return and contributing to sustainable reintegration. By adopting a transversal thinking, the RRF can operate in the whole spectrum of the RR environment by complementing existing activities, filling institutional gaps and ensuring transferability of results and practices amongst and with MS. Whilst working in close collaboration with EU Member States and Frontex, who also contributed to the creation of the Operational Chart below, the RRF covers all areas of return and reintegration with exception to return operations.

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Host country / EU Member State

Return and Reintegration

Capacity Building, Local Ownership and Referral

Outreach, Counselling and Pre-departure activities

First step in the return process that consists in informing people about possibilities for return and anticipate and solve potential problems leading to complications

Make return feasible

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Return and Reintegration

Second step consists in making the return happen which is handled either by Frontex or national programmes

Make return happen

Capacity building, Local Ownership and Referral

Transversal processes aiming at empowering local organisations that can contribute to sustainable reintegration by connecting returning migrants to existing opportunities in their country of origin

Make return sustainable

Outreach and Counselling

Reaching out to migrants in irregular stay to inform and refer to counselling

Counsel

Engaging in a mutual conversation between counsellors and migrants on the possibilities of return and obstacles that need to be sorted

Prepare

Preparing the return in technical, operational and administrative terms by handling applications and clearing any potential obstacles

Airport desk

Setting up airport structures in countries of origin allows to provide early guidance and reintegration assistance to return migrants

National Programmes

Member States carry out return operations

Frontex

Frontex can assist Member States upon their request in carrying out return operations and in post-arrival and post-return reintegration assistance

Referral Catalogue

Government services

Mapping services provided by government authorities to returnees as well as enhancing capacities of local governmental actors on specific reintegration topics

Civil society organisations

Mapping services provided by civil society organisations to returnees as well as enhancing their capacities on specific reintegration topics

Development cooperation

Mapping and linking reintegration and development practitioners to building and strengthening synergies that could benefit returnees and EU Member States

Private sector

Providing opportunities for return migrants to re-enter labour market and building capacities in a variety of sectors if needed

RRF contracted services

Filling gaps and contracting quality service providers to complement reintegration assistance when services required are not available through referral

Referral portal

Identifying and building catalogues with relevant services for long-term assistance in local contexts in order to make them accessible and available for returning migrants

Capacity Building

Knowledge exchange

Facilitating and fostering knowledge exchange amongst relevant actors covering all areas of reintegration to enhance skills, ensure complementary of activities and provide practices applicable to multiple contexts

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Outreach, Counselling and Pre-departure activities

First step in the return process that consists in informing people about possibilities for return and anticipate and solve potential problems leading to complications

Make return feasible

Return and Reintegration

Second step consists in making the return happen which is handled either by Frontex or national programmes

Make return happen

Capacity building, Local Ownership and Referral

Transversal processes aiming at empowering local organisations that can contribute to sustainable reintegration by connecting returning migrants to existing opportunities in their country of origin

Make return sustainable

Outreach and Counselling

Reaching out to migrants in irregular stay to inform and refer to counselling

Counsel

Engaging in a mutual conversation between counsellors and migrants on the possibilities of return and obstacles that need to be sorted

Prepare

Preparing the return in technical, operational and administrative terms by handling applications and clearing any potential obstacles

National Programmes

Member States carry out return operations

Frontex

Frontex can assist Member States upon their request in carrying out return operations and in post-arrival and post-return reintegration assistance

Airport desk

Setting up airport structures in countries of origin allows to provide early guidance and reintegration assistance to return migrants

Referral Catalogue

Government services

Mapping services provided by government authorities to returnees as well as enhancing capacities of local governmental actors on specific reintegration topics

Civil society organisations

Mapping services provided by civil society organisations to returnees as well as enhancing their capacities on specific reintegration topics

Development cooperation

Mapping and linking reintegration and development practitioners to building and strengthening synergies that could benefit returnees and EU Member States

Private sector

Providing opportunities for return migrants to re-enter labour market and building capacities in a variety of sectors if needed

RRF contracted services

Filling gaps and contracting quality service providers to complement reintegration assistance when services required are not available through referral

Referral portal

Identifying and building catalogues with relevant services for long-term assistance in local contexts in order to make them accessible and available for returning migrants

Capacity Building

Knowledge exchange

Operational Chart

Projects