Now in its 41st year, IOM's AVRR program is part of the organization's core mission, and since 1979 it has provided support to over 1.7 million people.
Of the 63,316 migrants assisted last year, 30,919 individuals, or 49 percent of all AVRR beneficiaries, were reached by IOM in two countries, Germany and Niger.
The training workshops, part of IOM's European Union-funded 'Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme for Stranded Migrants in Egypt and Libya (RAVEL)' project, focused on the basics of
AVRR for DCIM staff working with migrants at the Tweisha Centre - a transit facility for irregular migrants apprehended in Libya - and at Tripoli International Airport.