 Perfect, I think we can start. So good morning, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. This public webinar is organized by the EORM Knowledge Management Hub, the Hub on Return Migration and Sustainable Integration. And this session is part of the set of webinars aiming to present specific reintegration practices and encourage experience sharing. So let me share with you some technical indication about this webinar. The most important simultaneous interpretation is available in English and French. So you can click the logo in the black bar at the bottom of your Zoom page to select the preferred language channel to follow the event. If you have any technical problem, please contact us at the email address you find on the screen. Please feel free to ask your question through the chat. They will be collected and addressed during the QA session after the speaker's presentation. As a last point, this webinar will be recorded and made available in the Return and Reintegration platform. So this webinar today marks the two years of public events organized by the Knowledge Management Hub. The first webinar in July 2020 was indeed a presentation on the first phase of the FOROS project. So we are very happy to discuss with you all today about what we called the FOROS approach and the lessons from the project. Implemented in two phases between September 2017 and April 2022, the FOROS project is part of a regional program funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its objective is to improve the socio-economic reintegration of migrants enrolled in the Aviator Program in their countries of origin through pre-departure capacity building activities, including training and counseling session. So before we dive into the initiative, I quickly introduce myself. My name is Francesco and I'm pleased to welcome you today to this webinar. I work as Knowledge Management Officer at the Knowledge Management Hub, funded by the European Union and implemented by IUM through its Protection Division. So we are very pleased to bring together today different voices and experiences from the implementation of the FOROS initiative. We will have Mada Moushani from the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jorge Dominguez de los Cura from IUM Morocco. We will share with us some remarks about what FOROS is, its impact and lessons. So thanks for being here with us. Following their interventions, Mada Maria from the Assecute Association will share with us key lessons of the pre-departure training implementation. Right after, we will be glad to hear from Mada Dansoco from Mali and Mr. Mamadou Dian from Genia that will tell us about their experience as the returnees benefiting from the FOROS support. After this intervention with the help of Yusra Benani from IUM Morocco, we will move to the interactive session where we will ask panelists to address the questions that you will kindly share with us during this webinar. So we can now start our conversation and I'm very glad to give the floor to Mada Moushani from the department in charge of Moroccan Residing Abroad of the Ministry on Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad. Mada Moushani leads and participates in the development of projects for the economic integration of migrants and refugees in Morocco and she ensures the coordination of the mechanism for the assisted voluntary return and reintegration of migrants in their countries of origin. Please Mada Moushani, the floor is yours. Hello everyone, thank you for giving me the floor and giving me the possibility to be with you today in this important webinar. Indeed, the idea today is to share with everybody participating to this webinar some of the key lessons of the FOROS project. I'd like first to thank IOM for the support which is much appreciated and I think you have contributed heavily to the implementation of the migration policies here in Morocco for almost eight years now. I'd like also to thank everyone of the various contributors and participants who have helped Morocco in establishing and developing its policy. In 2013, Morocco decided to adopt a new policy in the field of migration based on the need, in our opinion, to have a humanist approach. In doing so, we have carried out two massive regularization processes for many migrants. We've also developed a series of reintegration projects within the Moroccan society for migrants living here locally with the contribution and participation of many actors. And then based on that same approach and in order to ensure a better management of migration flows here in full respect of human rights, because this is, of course, an important dimension of this migration policy. So we want in Morocco and we did, together with the support of IOM, we managed to establish a voluntary return and reintegration program. Again, this is based on respecting the rights of migrant people. This is carried out with the support of the countries of origin and with actors of civil society. I must also mention the fact that we need to understand that any reintegration process must be envisaged as a global process and as a process that must allow those who want to go back home, must give them the ability to do that and also to reintegrate themselves into society in full respect of their rights. So voluntary return is not only something that is important for the migrants whose ability to stay has been denied, but it is also something that helps the person to settle back in their country of origin without trying again to migrate abroad and falling maybe into the hands of irregular migration processes. So we think that what has been done here is quite interesting. This approach works. It works because first and foremost, it has allowed us to make migrants aware of the real possibilities that exist for them to reintegrate into their home society. And we've of course worked with countries of origin to ensure that this is actually the case. Second, it has helped candidates, people who want to go back to have access to training and qualification processes, courses to increase their knowledge. We've also added to that another layer which is our ability to support people from, I would say, from distance-based operations, if you want, so we can help people here, but also when they're away. We've also have collected, I think, quite a lot of testimonies of migrants who have returned home and have successfully become integrated in their society. And also, as I said earlier, the support that we provide is something that is important. And we continue supporting them or ensuring they have the right support to successfully develop their project. All of this would be impossible without the involvement of the countries of origin and also NGO and civil society organizations. Also, I must insist on the fact that, although this works, it can still be improved and it should be improved further. We believe that we need maybe to work further on psychological support. People receive pre-departure training, but maybe psychological support there is needed. That's one thing we should do. Second, we need institutions in the countries of origin to be fully on board, but also maybe the private actors in the countries of origin, countries of return, should be more involved. That would be a second important focus for the future. What is also quite central we think is that we train people before they go home. We must ensure that there is good coordination between the training given before they depart back home and then what happens once they have arrived in the country of origin. That would be a third point. A fourth point would be the need to better coordinate the whole process. That is what happens before and after departure. And I will stop there for this first comment. Thank you for your attention. Merci beaucoup. Thank you so much, Madame Moushani. Thank you for your words, for setting the frame of this conversation. I'm now very glad to give the floor to Orge. Orge is the head of the assisted volunteer integration unit at IEM Morocco. Please, Orge, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, Francesco. Good morning and thanks all for attending this webinar. A special thank you also for the Knowledge Management Hub for sharing and holding this second webinar on this innovative action that we call the FORAS approach based on the name of the project, the project for us, Enhancing Reintegration Opportunities that has been implemented in Morocco between September 2017 to April 2022 with the generous funding of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was implemented first in an initial phase through a national program and in a second stage as part of a larger regional AVRR program involving also Algeria and Egypt IEM missions. So the FORAS approach and FORAS means Opportunities in Arabic is a project that aims at delivering a comprehensive pre-departure training package, counseling and orientation sessions to migrants that are registered to the AVRR program here in Morocco that will effectively prepare them for the sustainable economic, social, psychosocial reintegration once they are back in their countries of origin. It has been targeting eight specific countries, like Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Togo as the most representative for French-speaking nationalities that are registered to the AVRR program here in Morocco. But I will be presented today to the two main pillars of this approach. The first pillar allowed to enrich IOM's AVRR program in Morocco by equipping beneficiaries with knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation to plan for their sustainable reintegration through a set of pre-departure trainings and counseling sessions on reintegration opportunities in countries of origin. The second pillar contributed to the cooperation and the coordination between sending and receiving IOM missions in terms of procedures, continuity of assistance and monitoring of cases, but also to foster dialogue and self-cooperation among these states on return and reintegration. So on the first pillar, I will be highlighting how important it has been to work on preparing well in advance, psychologically, personally, technically, those stranded migrants from the day they registered to the AVRR and allow them to gain some technical tools and skills that can immediately be used upon the return. The main pre-departure activities include orientation and counseling sessions to provide AVRR beneficiaries with accurate and up-to-date information about opportunities, but also challenges associated with the reintegration process and the reintegration assistance that is gonna be available in the eight target countries of origin. More than 4,500 participants have attended those orientation and counseling sessions that have been complemented, as you can see here, with other available information resources that are both online or offline, like in paper, such as country info sheets that contain reintegration opportunities, useful contacts. Also, we have developed more than 40 videos that are available in YouTube and are aiming at informing beneficiaries about the reintegration process, both in Morocco and in countries of origin and enhance their psychosocial preparation before the return. They contain testimonies from beneficiaries, both in Morocco and in countries of origin, testimonies from IOM staff in both sites, and all those resources are also available on the project website, www.foras.mr. And of course, and I will come back later to this, all this content has been developed with the support of our focal points in the countries of origin, IOM focal points. The second leg of this pillar would be the virtual counseling sessions. These came into the project in the second phase and they are basically counseling sessions between foras beneficiaries in Morocco and IOM reintegration officers in the countries of origin, mainly in Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. They are organized or they have been organized every two weeks and they help to share reliable and up-to-date information and advice adjusted to their local realities and IOM's reintegration approach. They also allowed to build trust between beneficiaries and IOM officers and staff in countries of origin. More than 300 participants have joined those virtual counseling sessions during the last year and they have been able to ask direct questions to the teams that are going to support them implementing their reintegration assistance and be able to listen to the testimonies of the returners that have already started their reintegration assistance project in countries of origin. Finally, the third leg would be a set of short pre-departure trainings to strengthen AVR beneficiaries' technical and motivational skills. We have now available two different trainings, one on personal development, life and soft skills and another training on basic skills in business, creation and management and cool entrepreneurship and commercialization. I will not go into many details as our partner as Secute will go in-deep and to explain the content of these trainings, but more than 1,400 beneficiaries have attended those trainings that allowed them to regain confidence, self-esteem and to make the most out of the support of the families, friends and community before they return to get ready for that, but also to achieve self-sufficiency in the country of origin to become active subject of their future reintegration. They have been able to develop beneficiaries' personal, social and self-management skills to succeed upon their professional lives upon their return and learn the basics of the design and implementation of businesses, including conducted market study, prospecting clients, basic accounting and good practices for the success of an entrepreneurial project. We have also included some basic CV writing techniques as an alternative to self-employment. And finally on here, we have also and to ensure the sustainability of the approach, we have developed a capitalization manual on forest achievements and lessons learned from the last year as well as the years, sorry, as well as to training manuals for trainers or other partners that would like to replicate the content of the trainings on personal development and entrepreneurship and commercialization. We have also developed a set of videos on entrepreneurial ideas, like for example, how to have an entrepreneurial idea that is profitable, how to fix a price, how to deal with clients, and those videos will be shared on the KMH platform. They are available on YouTube and we encourage you to use them in your regions. According to the different evaluations and the testimony of the returners, Julia, next slide, please. Thank you. Between expectations, courage, frustration, hope, beneficiaries recognize the usefulness of what they have learned in Morocco in the framework of FORAS, even if the reintegration assistance takes time to arrive to be implemented. The testimony of the beneficiaries are proof of the usefulness of the FORAS approach that help them restore their dignity, give them tools to help them at least a little and without obviously trying to fix all the potential issues once they are back home with family, with their friends in their communities. On the surveys that we did after beneficiaries have participated to the trainings and are returned in the country of origin, 78% of them declared the usefulness of the training to get ready, to get back to their families and to their communities, useful to boost the motivation and their psychosocial reintegration. And 71% of them declared the usefulness of the training to start an economic reintegration project. On the second pillar, on coordination with IOM missions and states, I will highlight as a lesson learned that coordination with missions is crucial. Therefore, IOM, we have some focal points that were selected in the eight target countries of origin to allow for intensive coordination with IOM missions. Their basic role was to define and update the content of the trainings, but also to define and provide updated information to be included in those information and awareness-raising materials that were developed on reintegration challenges and opportunities. And maybe the most important thing is that they act like ambassadors of the project. They participated to the coordination meetings, to they ensured the eminence of forest beneficiaries among their return. During the second phase and to build on this coordination, we developed a specific SOPs that were created outlining the coordination structure between sending and receiving countries. And we call them like a specific and complementary SOPs to the existing return and reintegration SOPs as since the beginning, it was clear that the forest beneficiaries, attending those trainings in Morocco should be treated as the rest of the returners once they are back in the countries of origin and within implementation of their reintegration project. For us has also contributed to foster international cooperation and the exchange of knowledge and dialogue among governmental and non-governmental representatives and civil society from Morocco and from the eight target countries of origin working on voluntary return, reintegration and employability. We organized two exchange visits between governmental and non-governmental actors involved in the AVR program from Morocco, one to Guinea and one to Cote d'Ivoire to strengthen cooperation, promote exchange of experience on voluntary return and reintegration and to analyze the reintegration opportunities that were existing in the countries of origin that we could inform here in Morocco. These allowed to adapt the content of the trainings as well as to explore synergies to coordinate, follow up the professional orientation sessions that were initiated here in Morocco to ensure continuity. Moreover, the project also allowed for the organization of an international seminar in Morocco back in September 2019 with IOM partners, the main governmental partners in target countries of origin to exchange practices, identify recommendations to improve the impact of professional orientations on the reintegration of beneficiaries and ensure that pre-departured activities in Morocco have a continuity in countries of origin to enhance the success and the long-term impact of voluntary return and sustainable reintegration. Finally, it has also contributed to the elaboration of one mapping of key stakeholders that provide services related to reintegration of returners in Togo and has also support the delivery of two trainings to governmental representatives, CSO and IOM staff in Togo and DRC on AVR and IOMs integrated approach to reintegration. The aim was to increase the capacity of IOM and its partners in those two countries that could not benefit from the capacity-building opportunities that were available under the IOM joint initiative. So to quickly conclude, I think we believe that this approach has shown that it has an added value for migrants as it complements the existing national AVR program here in Morocco, but has also proved to have a high acceptance and interest of the Moroccan government as it is in line with the Air Force deployed by AVR Morocco to support Moroccan national strategy and priorities on migration management, as was mentioned by Madame Oshani, and for sure collaboration with the Moroccan government and the major Moroccan stakeholders working on vocational training and CSO, such as ASTQD, has proved essential and will continue to be the core of the implementation of potential future phases as it allows to strengthen the impact of the action and to ensure sustainability of the initiative in the future. I'll stop here hoping that all is clear and be available to answer later any questions you may have. I will pass now the floor to Cedric and Hafidam, our partner in Morocco, in charge of implementing the pre-departure trainings to share some of the details and lessons learned. Thank you. Thank you so much, Orge. Thank you for giving us this insight about the project. I would like to allow just two brief takeaways from these interventions. Of course, the fact that the pre-departure planning is a key instrument to reinforce the reintegration process considering that it builds trust, it provides a realistic overview of opportunities and challenges, and also it helps to manage returnees' expectations. And on the other side, also, I would like to allow the powerful role of the effective cooperation and engagement among different stakeholders as also highlighted by Mada Moushani. So, we move now to... We go even deeper in analyzing the forest approach with the implementation of the pre-departure training package. We will hear more about this by a secret association that was indeed implementing the activities. Mada Moryad has an extensive experience in associative work in Morocco for over 10 years. She has the position of coordinator of the forest project within the association, within an implementation consortium in partnership with Ayam Morocco. So, over to you, Afida. The floor is yours. Bonjour. Hello. Good morning, everybody. It's a pleasure for me to be part of this webinar. The connection is really bad. I'm sorry. I will try to do as much as I can. So, I would like to thank the IOM and other partners for this partnership we've had for the last three years that has been really, really interesting for us. I will try then to sum up what has been done so far within our training workshops. So, once the person is registered to the IOM, and once the awareness training has been done, the beneficiaries start the training we've mentioned that is organized by several persons, the association, and other studies that are feeding with the training with information. We also have the Sub-Saharan Committee in Morocco that ensure the logistic is in place for the training. So, this training is organized in Casablanca and in Haban, mostly, and has been conceived for the migrants that have been or the returners that are the migrants that are registered to this voluntary return program. Most of them have experienced traumas and have been facing huge challenges during their trajectory from Morocco to the contravirgin and the way back. So, they need a psychological support, really. And they also need to learn technical skills that are required to conceive or to manage a project on a long-term basis once they're back in their contravirgin. The training modules have all been conceived in the same manner. So, they last each of them 10 days. So, the personal development module for a start, that shows us that migrants are facing challenges to make decisions or to make choices in their lives. So, the information or this training, sorry, in personal development helped them to uphold with these challenges through experiences, stimulation and tools that will help them, definitely, to better understand their skills and to reinforce their own skills as well as their capacities and use their potential to face all the challenges that they are being confronted with. So, this first module is divided in two parts, life skills and soft skills. So, for life skills, we're talking about life abilities, to have trust in one's selves, trust in one's capacities, the values, how they influence their behaviors, as well as identifying their skills. And we also work on the self-esteem, of course. We help them also to manage their emotions and to make decisions and find solutions when they are facing problems. And we also help them to communicate their idea. It can be in their surroundings or in particular situations. In the second part, the soft skills part, in this first module, we're talking about personal competencies or skills to enhance self-confidence, to define objectives, how to acquire skills that could feed their needs, how we can interpret the body language and how to express your wishes and how to express what objectives you want to attain. There are also social skills to reinforce their trust in their surroundings, in their security, and improve the way they plan or they manage, let's say, their emotions and their life within their communities. We also teach them self-management skills. Again, we're working on emotion management, how they communicate within the groups and also how they can use resources to face challenges and to plan future projects. So here, as it's been said already, we can insist on their employability skills, how they can write up a resume, how they can perform a recruitment interview, how they can find a job, basically how they can reintegrate it in the labour market. And lastly, the soft skills, we're also teaching them self-evaluation skills. The idea here is to identify their own personal skills. Now, the second module, entrepreneurship and commercialization, it helps the beneficiaries to capitalise on their own experiences, how they can understand how entrepreneurship can generate revenue for them. During this training, they learn the basics of the business plan, how to do project management, marketing, commercialisation, as it's been said, and a better comprehension of accounting and financial management. The content of this module is based on three pillars, first entrepreneurship initiation. This is the first topic that we are teaching within this module. It's a way to prove that beneficiaries do have the required skills that could enable them through simplified techniques to develop projects and maybe implement projects, how to commercialise products and services. That would be the second pillar in the module. And finally, how to offer products and services on a virtual or real market to get the basic knowledge of marketing and competencies. The third pillar, finance and accounting. And that helped them to understand the basics of finance management, capital interests, as well as stakeholders. So these are the objectives at the end of the 10 days of training. The idea is to be able to create a business plan. Why not to deliver some accounting exercises? To make sure that these workshops are working well, we had to take into account the needs of these beneficiaries so that they can really attend the workshops and they can get involved in the training course. Therefore, there's a logistics required to accompany these workshops. So daily meals for each beneficiary each day. We need to reimburse the travel expenses for each training day. We also give them two vouchers of 100 dirhams for this training. And housing is also available for the most vulnerable. In Rabah and in Casablanca, for instance, there are two apartments, flats available for the 10 days of the training. So that was it for the logistics. Next slide, please. Here you see the heterogeneity of beneficiaries. So among the different challenges that we faced, well, one of them is how heterogeneous all the beneficiaries are. So there were all coming from different nationalities, speaking different languages, some French speaking, English speaking as well as other languages, speakers. We also had different level of instructions, level of vulnerabilities that were also different. Some were victim from human trafficking, others were living on the streets. So you see we needed to face all that. There were also women that had their small children with them. So the mother didn't know what to do with them. So they brought them to the training courses. These were the challenges that we faced and the trainers or the people on board were making a lot of effort to help these mothers so they could attend the training. So we needed to find adequate solutions to face all that. We needed to have a pedagogy that could be adopted to each beneficiary. The trainers, we chosen, have been a really, really creative facing how these workshops were being implemented and facing the heterogeneity of beneficiaries. So everybody could really get something from them. We needed to facilitate the content sometimes. We need to explain the content through exercises with games as well so that they could really acquire the knowledge we wanted them to acquire. We needed to build the session each day based on the participants' needs. However, most of them have shared that this was a really interesting experience for them on which they could capitalize. There was a technique implemented in order to help the beneficiaries to elect a member among themselves that had maybe a higher level of instruction so that they could monitor the rest of them. There were also advisors appointed and some beneficiaries who spoke different languages were doing the interpretation for those who could not understand, especially for those who were speaking dialect from their own countries. So the good practices from that would be from this training are the following. So the program as such is a good practice. It's something innovative in Morocco. It helps the returnees to return by preserving their dignity. It enables them to get more empowered and therefore to take their future into their hands in their country of origin and to make sure their integration is efficient. The training sessions were also exchanged for a forum between the participants. They could exchange about their experiences, their good practices. We saw that having several parties executing the same program were reinforcing the implementation of the program as such and which was delivering more outcomes than expected. So there have been two phases for the forums. As I said, we've been doing some modifications during the second phase. We've changed the training duration. It has been extended so that we had two more days. And we combined the life skill and the soft skill within the same module to make sure that the knowledge was acquired as we wanted to. The adaptation happened within the training class. We saw that the trainers were really creative in adapting themselves when they faced difficulties and they realized what the beneficiaries needed to be fed or to be covered. As I said, the vouchers have really been positive for the attendees. It was easier to give them vouchers instead of giving them food or hygiene kits. And to conclude, I would like to insist on the expert role who was in charge with the equation or consistency of the program during all the duration of the project. So she's been really in touch with the trainers to understand the quality of the training and to make sure that they were as beneficial as possible for the migrants. So that's the end of my presentation. Thank you very much for your attention. And I'm here for any kind of question for showing us how this was crucial to reinforce the motivation and capacities of returnees also to share some good practices from the implementation of the training. So now we are very happy to hear from those who have actually benefited from the forest support. And I'm very glad to introduce to you Mrs. Aminata Dansoco from Mali that will kindly join the IUM premises today to talk with us. So over to you, Aminata. And thanks for sharing your intervention. Good morning, everybody. My name is Dansoco Aminata. Please address this. I'm working as a representative of the address service in the food industry. It's a pleasure for me to be with you. It's the first time and it's also a new experience for me, of course. I have been the beneficiary of the forest project. It hasn't been really easy at first to make the decision to take part. But thanks to a friend, I've been convinced to register and to integrate the forest project. And it has been really, really beneficial for me. The training has converted me into a courageous, ambitious person which has brought me to create my own project and to implement it. The training we got within the forest project was well prepared. I got housing, food, the expenses, travel expenses were covered. I've been really warmly welcomed. Before the training, I was desperate. It was really hard for me to come back to my own country. The objective was Bamako, Morocco and France. I thought that in Morocco I would then move on to France. But it was the opposite, the savings I had been given to the person who was supposed to make me travel by sea to France. But it was not the case. And I was totally desperate and a friend from Senegal has helped me. I put me in touch with the forest. So I've been supported. I received a training and it was the commercialization and entrepreneurship module. I did. And during this training, I really have been accompanied and helped, supported. I was motivated and I must have been really happy during these 10 days. The teachers and the trainers have been really, really nice with us. And I've been mentally, physically prepared for taking my life into my hands. So then afterwards I went back to Bamako and they've helped me financially and helped me from a logistic point of view to develop my project in the food industry. And the funds I got have enabled me to start my company. And now I have that company and I'm working full time. So it means that now I am an independent and autonomous woman. I manage well my business and I've been participating to fairs. I've been offering my products. I also attended international fairs. We stand to showcase my products and to have a direct contact with potential customers. And I could sell my products that are starting from raw materials up to finished products. There are several steps to follow. And I've been able to put them on the market. So it's true that within the entrepreneurship there are higher ups and downs. But I am bold. I always have new ideas to move on and to develop my business. And in the coming days, I really want my business to grow. I want my brand to be recognized at the national and international level. And I would be glad to have other trainings on business management and how to develop my business. I could also benefit from human resources training. So far, the first training I attended in the food industry have really helped me to move on and to develop my company. That's what I wanted to share with you. Thank you so much, Renata, for sharing your story. We really appreciate your openness and availability today. Thank you so much again. So I'm now very pleased to give the floor to Mr. Mamadou Dian. Over to you, Mamadou. The floor is yours. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Si Mamadou Dian. I'm a beneficiary of the Forest 2 project that took place in September and October 2021. And that's been financed by the IOM and coordinated by Astikud. I arrived on the 25th of November, 2021. And during my training, I've been able to acquire some skills in the entrepreneurship and personal development areas. In the personal development module, I've been able to gain self-confidence and to develop a team spirit and sharing spirit. Within the entrepreneurship module, I've been able to develop my creativity to select one project idea to make the difference between a problem and a need and also to do my daily accounting. Before I came back, I've decided to choose a sector such as general mechanics. And IOM Guinea has really afforded me to present my application towards the ministry. I'm able now to create a revenue generating activity within the transport sector. And the IOM has offered me a motorbike that enables me to attend a school I've been accepted in that is pretty far away from my house. After the morning session, I'm also working in the afternoon as a taxi driver. I've realized that most of the migrants who are back, the returnees who are back in my country, are benefiting from the transport sector. And this activity as a taxi driver helps me to cover my needs and my family's needs. The training I did in Morocco enabled me really to build up my self-confidence and to find something good to do in my country of origin because what I've seen is that the irregular migration is absolutely not a good way to follow. That's not something I would encourage. This training in Morocco has really helped me to choose reintegration and to measure my profitability. So I thank all the migrants who have had the courage to go through the IOM to return to their country and to attend the Forest 1 and Forest 2 trainings so they could come back at home in their country of origin and start businesses. And I invite all migrants to do their reintegration program before they return. Thank you for your attention. And here's Aminata for your words, for your availability again, for telling us more about the impact of forest training on your social economic reintegration. Without your voices, today's webinar will be definitely not the same. So especially in this effort of capturing lessons and practices from the project. So we have reached the last session of the webinar. We can move now to the question and answer. I'm very happy to leave the floor to Yusera Benani from IOM Morocco who will kindly moderate this interactive session. Over to you, Yusera. Thank you, Francesco. And thank you to all the participants for all the questions that we have received on the chat box. We have received some general questions related to what is for us and what is the beneficiaries and what is the means of for us. So maybe I just will give a quick introduction before to go to very specific questions for our panelists. So for us is the program who allowed the beneficiaries who are registered to do to the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program to benefit from pre-departure preparations in order to prepare their sustainable reintegration. All these detailed information would be available on the PowerPoints, the presentation that we have done today. And for us it means in Arabic opportunities. So that's it related to the specific or general questions that we have received on the chat. And now I will maybe give the floor. I will address questions to specifically Jorge concerning. I think that we had a confusion on the chat also concerning the targeted countries related to the project. So we have received the questions that have highlighted the fact that there is eight countries targeted at the beginning of the project and they have understood that only four have said so maybe the confusion is done vis-à-vis the fact that there is eight countries of origins in general that are targeted by the project and only four countries that have participated to the reintegration counseling. And we have another question related to what are the type of profile of migrants that have been assisted under the for us. So Jorge if you could give us more detail about this question please. Yes thank you Yustram, absolutely. On the confusion on countries yes we target eight specific nationalities that are registered to the AVRR program the main nationalities, friends speaking nationalities registered to the AVRR program and when we decided to implement the virtual counseling sessions with countries of origin as it was still a pilot action we only identified four IOM countries Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire to participate in those virtual counseling sessions but Togo, DRC, Cameroon and Burkina Faso are the other four countries that also which nationalities can also attend the pre-departure training and counseling package. As per the profiles as the for us project is very closely interlinked with the AVRR program from Morocco the beneficiaries are shared and we mostly find 75% of adult men 25 women ages between 18 to 40 for the vast majority of them but we also have on a combined and separated migrant children that can attend the training sessions and the counseling sessions starting from 15 years old more or less so they can better use the content of these trainings. Any other questions? Yes, thank you. So other questions related to the follow-up so first what is the mechanism in put it in place in order to ensure the continuity and sustainability between the trainings offered in Morocco and the reintegration offered in the countries of origin and this question is also linked to another one which is the M&E the monitoring and evaluation how the monitoring and evaluation was done under this project and another one how the management team have done or experienced the pre-decision that allowed us to actually determine the beneficiaries and also how the assistance that has been provided for us has been supportive in order to enhance the safe migration. Okay, a lot of questions in there. On continuity of care and to ensure that what was provided in Morocco before the return can contribute to what IOM offices in countries of origin can implement mostly on reintegration assistance that's why the coordination with the missions was really important. First of all as IOM cannot know what are the countries going to implement so we needed them to provide us with updated information to better inform beneficiaries of what can they expect once they are back in the countries of origin. Some of the work on continuity that we have been on the going to is to ensure that for example if someone here in Morocco attends an entrepreneurial training we can ensure that the content would be enough and the same person doesn't have to attend the same training once they are back in the countries of origin as a first step to integrate or to initiate their integration assistance so this communication is ongoing and on a monthly basis we inform missions of which beneficiaries that have already returned have followed each of or the other training to ensure that there are no overlaps in there. On the M&E part and I saw some of these questions in the chat box in general we saw high satisfaction rates from beneficiaries before returning however we don't have enough quantitative data to prove that actual impact of the pre-departure trainings once they are back as you all know there are other factors that come in when it comes to reintegration and satisfaction and sustainability once they are back in countries of origin but in general the focal points in countries of origin have assessed that the beneficiaries of the FORAS project are usually better prepared and better equipped for their reintegration but of course in the absence of any quantitative data or very low quantitative data and comparative analysis this remains a general impression. IOM uses the M&E available tools the AVRM&E package monitoring tools that measure satisfaction sustainability at programmatic and individual level and what we have done is to adapt those existing tools to add a couple of questions on to try to better measure the impact of this pre-departure training so for instance if someone is returning from Morocco there would be a question like have you attended training before your return if they say yes there will be a couple of questions on the impact at social, psychosocial and economic level of these trainings. Thank you Jorge. So as you mentioned focal points we have received some questions related to the focal points. The first question is how the focal points have been designated are they part of the civil society or from which organism they are working with and the second question was related to the child protection if there is any child protection mechanism or other procedures that have been put in place during this project. Okay on the focal points part they are IOM staff mostly working on reintegration assistance and on the AVRR they are part of the AVRR teams in each mission and they are in direct contact with their governmental and civil society partners in countries of origin. I would agree with the person that asked the question of if they are part of civil society I think that would help to ensure durability of our AVRR approach and they could be more implicated on the follow-up of the returners and during their reintegration assistance but as for now and also to facilitate sharing of information between missions they are part of the AVRR IOM team. On child protection no specific measures under the FORAS program as they are already existing under the AVRR portfolio in Morocco. I think that Hafida was sharing some interesting stories about how we tried to ensure that single parents could bring their children to the trainings to be able to ensure that they can participate and single parents can access the trainings in the same way of any other beneficiary not without challenges but I think that we could overcome them and as I said some and accompanied and separated children could also attend those of training and then return as in the in the normal process to their to the countries of origin. Last question and really sorry for the other questions all the inundressed questions will be on the reintegration on the return and reintegration platform so the last question is related to the intervention of focal points during the reintegration process of the returnees under the program FORAS. That as I said depends on each and every country so I will not be able to answer on the exact work maybe if I don't know if we have the time or we could answer that on the on the platform as we have in the room some of our focal points and they could share also what is their their perspective and how they how they work but as I was saying and what we ask them since the beginning is that even if they are not directly providing reintegration assistance to FORAS beneficiaries they should act as ambassadors and inform their colleagues that there is a specific person attend that there's a specific training so let's make sure that there are no overlaps and not like to share the information that is shared in Morocco and to provide if possible a specific attention to those returnees. Thank you very much. I leave the floor to Francesco. Thank you. Thank you Yusra. Thank you. Thank you everyone for for this very interactive session for interest in the in the FORAS approach as mentioned by Yusra we will address the questions that remain unaddressed in the return and reintegration platform community as you see on the slide the conversation goes indeed online please do not hesitate to register to the communities platform the link will appear soon in the chat and join the reintegration group under which you will find the dedicated forum where you can share comments experiences with us just before leaving the session it will be great if you could take a few seconds to respond to the polls that will shortly appear on the screen and as last information let me remind you that the recording of the webinar will be shortly available on the return a reintegration platform in both English and French so we have reached the end of the session we really hope that was an informative and useful one once again many thanks to the speakers that join us today thanks also a big thanks to colleagues in Rabat and Geneva who helped on the organization and moderation please do not hesitate to contact us directly using the email address you see on the screen and on behalf of the Knowledge Management Hub thank you so much again for attending this session and I wish you a nice rest of the day goodbye thank you very much