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Federal Officefor Migration and
Refugees(BAMF)
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Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration in
Germany
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Promotion of voluntary return

• REAG/GARP
• (Reintegration and Emigration Programme for
  Asylum Seekers in Germany / Government Assisted
  Repatriation Programme)
• ZIRF
• (Zentralstelle für Informationsvermittlung zur
  RückkehrFörderung Information Centre for
  Voluntary Return)
• Ura-2
• (Return and Reintegration Project to Kosovo)

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• Forced Return
• (Länder)
• Voluntary Return
• (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees,
  Länder, NGOs)

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REAG/GARP History

• 1979 REAG
• Travel Assistance (travel expenses, financial
  travel assistance)
• 1989 GARP
• Start-Up Assistance
• 2002 REAG/GARP
• Combination of both programmes

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REAG/GARP

• 500,000 returnees left Germany under REAG/GARP
• (1979 - 2009)

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REAG/GARPFunding

• 50 by the Federal Government
• 50 by the Länder

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Entitled Persons to Benefits

• Asylum Seekers (including rejected aliens)
• Recognised Refugees
• Other Refugees status granted by international
  public law, humanitarian or political reasons
• Victims of forced prostitution and of human
  trafficking
• Other Aliens under particular circumstances

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Entitled Persons to Benefits

• REAG
• All Returnees
• GARP
• Returnees to 27 migratorily relevant countries
  of origin

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Financial Aid under REAG

• Travel Aid
• 200 for adults
• 100 for children up to the age of 12 years
• Costs of Transportation by airplane, train or
  bus
• fuel costs currently 250

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Start up Aid under GARP

• Countries of Origin, Group I
• Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo (Serbs and
• Roma)
• 750 for adults
• 375 for children up to 12 years
• (no maximum amount per family)

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Start up Aid under GARP

• Countries of Origin, Group II
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran,
• Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro,
• Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey,
• Ukraine
• 400 for adults
• 200 for children up to 12 years
• (no maximum amount per family)

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Start up Aid under GARP

• Countries of Origin, Group III
• Algeria, Angola, China, DR Congo,
• Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Lebanon,
• Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
• Syria and Vietnam
• 300 for adults
• 150 for children up to 12 years
• (no maximum amount per family)

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Number of returnees under REAG/GARP

• Declining Number of Voluntary Returnees

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TOP TEN Countries of Origin

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Information Centre for Voluntary Return (ZIRF)

• Zentralstelle für
• Informationsvermittlung zur
• Rückkehr-
• Förderung
• Set up in 2003

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ZIRF Objectives

• Coordinating, closely connecting and organizing
  return support and promotion of reintegration of
  aliens obliged or willing to leave the country
• Improving the advisory services as to issues of
  support and promotion by focusing information
• Efficient use of the funds available for return
  support

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Public Access

• www.zirf.eu
• http//zirf.bamf.de
• zirf_at_bamf.de

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ZIRF Topics

• Assisted Return in general
• Information on existing promotional services and
  programmes
• Information on Countries of Origin
• List of all Counselling Centres countrywide

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ZIRF-Counselling

• Country-Fact-Sheets (CFS)
• (German, English, national language)
• Individual Queries

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Country Fact Sheets for 29 countries

• Ethiopia Irak Serbia
• Afghanistan Iran Sierra Leone
• Algeria Kosovo Sri Lanka
• Armenia Lebanon Syria
• Azerbaijan Liberia Togo
• Bosnia and Herzegowina Turkey
• DR Congo Montenegro Ukraine
• Georgia Nigeria Vietnam
• Ghana Pakistan
• India Russian Federation
• new in 2009 China and Morocco

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ZIRF Counselling Individual Queries
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ZIRF-Counselling Type of Questions
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Return Projekt Kosovo

December 2006 October 2008 Kosovo Social
Return Support Project
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Kosovo Social Return Project

• Objectives
• Improvement of return management
• establishment and consolidation of a network
• for sustaining reintegration of returnees
• Individual support of returnees
• counselling, care and help

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Ura-2

• URA (Alb.) the Bridge

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Aims of the Ura-2-Project

• Continuation of the former Kosovo Return Project
• Reintegration measures for some 200 returnees
• Further improvement of return management

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Contents of Ura-2

• Comprehensive Social Counselling
• Psychological Care
• Reintegration Aid
• Immediate Support
• Further Training
• Job Creation

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