 This project provided Afghan nationals residing in Sweden with information and counselling on voluntary return and reintegration possibilities made available to them in Afghanistan. The information services complemented the separate project “Reception and Reintegration of Afghan Nationals to Afghanistan” implemented by IOM Kabul in Afghanistan.
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 This project facilitated the sustainable reintegration in Iraq of 460 voluntary returnees from Sweden to Iraq during 2010. The returnees benefitted from in-kind reintegration assistance in Iraq through 441 personal reintegration projects in 16 of Iraq’s 18 governorates.
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 Representatives of religious communities can play an important role in the integration of their communities’ members into new societies. The project ‘Dialogue for Integration: Engaging Religious Communities’ (DIRECT), implemented during 2009-11 in seven EU countries, aimed at exploring this role in more detail by conducting research and through the promotion of an active dialogue between representatives of religious communities and host societies. DIRECT emphasized genuine two-way dialogue and integration, while employing a multifaith approach that seeks to include all religious denominations.
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 Over the last three years IOM has carried out pre-arrival cultural orientation training for 1300 refugees over the age of fifteen. In the classes, IOM Helsinki, in close coordination with IOM offices in those countries where refugees are residing, provides refugees information on the practicalities of living in their new host country. As a result, Finland-bound refugees have factual and realistic expectations on their new lives in Finland. The training also assists them to become self-sustainable as early as possible, minimizes cultural shock, and helps refugees begin the integration process quickly after they arrive in Finland.
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 Funded by the European Commission, this transnational pilot project tested the usefulness of civic education for migrant religious leaders as a tool for the integration of migrants. Through civic education, religious leaders of various denominations gained a greater understanding of the values, freedoms, and responsibilities of an open, democratic society based on core European values as well as the history, culture, laws, and multicultural nature of their host societies. At the same time, religious leaders were offered a forum to discuss specific expectations and needs of their congregations and possible solutions for common challenges faced by diasporic religious communities.
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 Through this project, IOM supported the development of the health sector in Somaliland and Puntland by strengthening the human resource base of the region’s public and private health-care institutions. the project was implemented during July 2008 to December 2009. Working with a comprehensive range of stakeholders, and the IOM office in Hargeisa, the project identified essential gaps in the regions’ health sector to be filled temporarily by health professionals from the Finland-based Somali Diaspora.
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In this seven-month project, IOM provided the Finnish Immigration Service with reliable and objective country of origin information for a selected number of countries and regions (Angola, Afghanistan, Congo DRC, Iran, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Somaliland region of Somalia, the Kosovo Province (Republic of Serbia), and the three northern governorates of Iraq). Based on specific questions formulated by the Finnish Immigration Service, the information was raised through IOM’s extensive global network of local missions and local knowledge. The project built on experiences and lessons learned during the COIF pilot project which took place in 2007.
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 QUESTS-MIDA is a joint initiative between IOM and UNDP Somalia that supports the development of institutions of government by facilitating the transfer of skills, knowledge and experience from qualified Somali expatriates in the diaspora through short-term, capacity-building assignments in key public Institutions in Somalia.
The QUESTS-MIDA project is an extension of the previous QUESTS project that UNDP has implemented over the last 4 years and which will now be implemented through IOM using their experience of the Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) strategy.
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 The Judges Online-project was a follow-up to IOM Helsinki’s previous “e-Learning Tool on Anti-discrimination for the Judiciary” project (2005). The project aimed to contribute to the coherent and efficient application of legislation against discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, gender, or sexual orientation through capacity building and awareness raising among the judiciary in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia.
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