• Towards Understanding

The project "Towards Understanding” was committed to workers of Lithuanian public service sectors, in which they are directly serving and counselling third-country nationals.

The aim of the project was to improve diversity management knowledge, intercultural competence and to strengthen the capacity to provide services to third-country nationals of civil servants and service providers.

The project consisted of the following main activities:
 - specialised education programmes and pilot trainings for officers and public servants, to develop specific knowledge and skills needed to provide services for the third-country nationals;
- capacity building  of the municipality workers  by preparing and disseminating the "Integration implementation guide” throughout the whole territory of Lithuania.

The specialized Training Programme, was developed together with project partners (University lecturers) and was dedicated to deepening cultural diversity knowledge and strengthening the diversity management skills of Lithuanian officials.

• Accessible Information - Guarantee of Successful Integration

The aim of this project – better integration of third country nationals to Lithuanian society. Through better and targeted information for immigrants, including potential immigrants; the project seeks to decrease cases of unsuccessful migration and violation of immigrant’s rights. 

Main activities of the project were personal consultation/ counseling of third country nationals residing or seeking residence in Lithuania and information spreading regarding the rights of migrants. Also, a specialized information handbook for immigrants was created, printed and disseminated.

In parallel this information was spread among migration and other relevant specialist who are working directly with migrants, so they can refer them to the project.  A special electronic newsletter was prepared in which the experiences of other countries was presented as well as recommendations for Lithuania on how to organize the integration process.

By improving the knowledge of third country nationals on labour, education, and other welfare systems, the public and private services project seeks to facilitate better access for these relevant services, thus creating better conditions for integration.

• Make the right choice: youth empowerment campaign against human trafficking

Project Objective - to inform and empower youth in the Kaliningrad region in minimising the risk of involvement in human trafficking

This project presents the human trafficking problem to the youth in a wider human rights context. The project is dedicated to warning the youth on how to avoid the threats, as well as, informing them how to choose a safe way to migrate, either when searching for employment or study possibilities abroad or in other regions of the Russian Federation. In order to achieve best results parents, teachers, NGOs, local and central education institutions were incorporated into the project.

Project Duration – 30 months ( June 6, 2006 – December 31, 2008 ).

The following tasks are implemented:
- We've enlarged the network of project partners and created the implementation strategy; 
- We've prepared training material and methodology;
- We built NGOs capacity in counter-trafficking;
- We ran an awareness raising educational campaign regarding the threats of human trafficking;
- We organised summer camps for youth; 
- We trained pupils how to write, manage and implement projects and we did practical workshops; 
- We organised various competitions for pupils.

Project partners: NGOs, central and regional governmental institutions of the Russian Federation (particularly from the Kaliningrad region ), schools and youth organisations.

The project is funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida).

• Safe return home: good practice and development of an effective voluntary return mechanism

Summary: Project "Safe return home: good practice and development of an effective voluntary return mechanism “ is managed by the Vilnius office for the International Organization for Migration. The project builds on previous voluntary assisted return projects implemented in previous years. Project Safe return home pursues to ensure the rights and possibilities of asylum seekers to return to their country of origin and to "soften" their reintegration in at home. Such assistance is necessary for refused asylum seekers in Lithuania who are eager to return, but lack the resources to do so.

Project duration: 12 months (January - December 2008)

Funded by: European Refugee Fund

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