MMC’s Ayla Bonfiglio, PhD participated in the Khartoum Process meeting in Adis Ababa, and was honoured to moderate a panel on ‘Ensuring Sustainable Reintegration and Development for Thriving Communities’.
The panel featured perspectives from the Ethiopian government, academia, civil society, and IOM.
Speakers included:
-𝘔𝘳. 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘧𝘢 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘢, 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭, 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴
-𝘋𝘳. 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘥𝘶𝘨𝘯𝘢, 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘈𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘢 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺
-𝘋𝘳. 𝘈𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘢, 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢
-𝘔𝘴. 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘦, 𝘐𝘖𝘔 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢
Panelists discussed good practices for sustainable reintegration, including:
• Programming focused not only on returning individuals, but also their communities and broader governance structures.
• Collaboration with local private enterprise and strategies for incentivizing private sector partnerships
• Programming that accounts for diverse returnee profiles and experiences, and stigma faced by returnees in home communities.