$14 million set aside for deportees
Published:Tuesday | February 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM
A total of $14 million has been set aside in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure to strengthen the support framework for deportees.
The programme, which falls under the Ministry of National Security, is slated to end in January 2019 and is being funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
For the upcoming fiscal year, the money will be used to prepare a strategy for reintegration of returned migrants in the local sustainable development planning process, develop public education materials for distribution at help desks in local authorities, and increase the capacity of non-governmental organisations to provide more efficient and effective services to returned migrants.
The money will also be used to prepare a framework and protocol for tracking the reintegration of returned migrants and develop and submit to Cabinet a Reintegration and Rehabilitation strategy.
It will also see the revision of the National Deportation Policy, development of minimum standard operating procedures for managing the reintegration of deported migrants, and the conduct a baseline study and spatial mapping on deported persons.
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