Partnership in the Reintegration and Empowerment of Return Migrants in Nigeria: The Need for Co-Created Interventions

The project aims to address the challenges return migrants face and the programs that support them as they reintegrate into social, cultural, economic, and political life. It will provide cost-effective intervention models and baseline data for policies and programs to support the returnees in their communities. The study will map stakeholders using a cross-sectional research design. . It will explore the perspectives of service providers on available programs and design an action plan for improved collaborations and reintegration policies. The study will use an action-oriented process to address the reintegration and empowerment of return migrants through participatory, collaborative, and cyclical approaches. The ultimate goal is to generate data and foster partnerships among key stakeholders. The study will be conducted in three phases: baseline, intervention, and post-intervention. During the baseline, data will be obtained on the existing programmes for reintegration as well as challenges encountered in implementing the programmes. The intervention stage will involve addressing some of the identified challenges at levels of return migrants and relevant stakeholders. For return migrants, interventions will include inculcating entrepreneurial, financial literacy, and psychosocial skills, while the skills deficits among state and non-state actors (stakeholders) will be addressed. The co-creation approach will be adopted at the three stages of the study and all stakeholders will be engaged via seminars, workshops, and other hands-on training processes.