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[Event] National Training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Banjul, The Gambia

• BICC, together with the Small Arms Division of the ECOWAS Commission, supported a national training on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) with a special focus on the storage of ammunition for 20 participants from both the Gambian Armed Forces as well as the Gambian Police.
• Monday, 14 October 2019: This course, conducted by the German Verification Center (ZVBw) and financed by the German Foreign Office, aimed at using as well as tailoring international small arms and ammunition control standards to local contexts. It follows an official request by the Gambian government earlier this year to the ECOWAS Commission to support the nation’s weapons and ammunition storage capacities. It was generously funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

[Project] Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change

•   Over the course of four years (2019–2023), the qualitative and multi-sited research project “Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change” conducted a long-term investigation of the reintegration trajectories of returning migrants and (internally) displaced persons.The study investigated the living conditions of returnees and asked for their perceptions, experiences and strategies against the background of the socio-political context in...

[Page] Refugee Advisory Board for Germany

• Nyima JadamaNyima Jadama is a Gambian TV moderator and advocate with over ten years of experience in journalism media competence and community empowerment Driven by her commitment to empowering marginalised communities especially women Nyima hosts Nyimas Bantaba and the Unfiltered Podcast where she highlights migration integration and womens empowerment She uses her platform to amplify underrepresented voices and foster social change She also founded the Bantaba Academy which off...

[Page] Refugee Advisory Board for Germany

• Nyima JadamaNyima Jadama is a Gambian TV moderator and advocate with over ten years of experience in journalism media competence and community empowerment Driven by her commitment to empowering marginalised communities especially women Nyima hosts Nyimas Bantaba and the Unfiltered Podcast where she highlights migration integration and womens empowerment She uses her platform to amplify underrepresented voices and foster social change She also founded the Bantaba Academy which off...

[Page] Refugee Advisory Board for Germany

• Nyima JadamaNyima Jadama is a Gambian TV moderator and advocate with over ten years of experience in journalism media competence and community empowerment Driven by her commitment to empowering marginalised communities especially women Nyima hosts Nyimas Bantaba and the Unfiltered Podcast where she highlights migration integration and womens empowerment She uses her platform to amplify underrepresented voices and foster social change She also founded the Bantaba Academy which off...

[PDF Document] WP_1_22_Return_and_Remigration_neu.pdf   (853.13 KB)

[Publication] Talking at Cross-Purposes? On Ambigous Relationships between International Policies on Return and Reintegration and their loc...

• Talking at Cross-Purposes? On Ambigous Relationships between International Policies on Return and Reintegration and their local Conceptualisations in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal
• This Working Paper explores and compares return to and reintegration in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal while setting different positionalities of migrants against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The Paper first highlights the trajectories and motivations of migrants and returnees, including a group-centred perspective on the continuous relevance of relations with the communities of origin. Then, it relates migrant journeys to diverging national ...

[Project] Capacity development and advice on SALW control in Africa

• This project continues the work undertaken in two previous projects: Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM), capacity development and technical advice in West AfricaPhysical security and stockpile management (PSSM), capacity development and technical advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The project’s focus lies on supporting national and regional bodies in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and West Africa in the field of small arms and light weapons control (SALW) and physical secu...

[Press] New Publication \ Preparation and Networks are Key for Returning Migrants: Findings based on Four Years of Research at BICC on Returnees' Reintegration Trajectories

• Migrant receiving countries in Europe have set up assistance programmes to facilitate the return and reintegration of rejected asylum-seekers, migrants with no legal status or those wanting to return. The question is: Do assistance programmes actually do so, and how do reintegration trajectories take shape from the perspectives of the returnees themselves? These were key questions in the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)-funded research project ‘Trajectories o...
• Friday, 31 March 2023: Results of the comprehensive empirical research are synthesised in BICC’s latest report: The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report).This report summarises the findings of four case studies conducted in the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Albania, Kosovo), West Africa (Ghana, Senegal and the Gambia) and the Middle East (Iraq). With the support of local researchers, the BICC team condu...

[Publication] The Role of Return Preparedness, Assistance and Networks in Returnees’ Reintegration in Origin Countries (Synthesis Report)

• Across the destination countries of migration, i.e. migrant-receiving countries, in Europe there has been an increasing emphasis on return and reintegration programmes. These programmes particularly target rejected asylum-seekers forced to return, irregular migrants unable to legalise their stay in the migration country and migrants wishing to return of their own volition. Reintegration commonly refers to the processes that unfold after the return of migrants, refugees and internally displaced p...