The EMN Inform ’Coherent Return and Reintegration Assistance’ has been released, which explores good practices and challenges in the coordination between different stakeholders and between different stages of return and reintegration of third-country nationals in EMN Member and Observer Countries. This inform explains how improved coordination among stakeholders, enhanced institutional frameworks, and effective national strategies can facilitate a consistent and structured approach to return and reintegration across Europe.
The backdrop for this inform is the EU Strategy for Voluntary Return and Reintegration, introduced in 2021. The strategy emphasises the importance of coherence as the foundation for an effective and sustainable return and reintegration policy. Coherence, in this context, is understood as the systematic alignment of various actors and phases involved in return and reintegration at national level.
This inform sheds light on the central role of coherence in achieving effective return and reintegration outcomes. EMN Member and Observer Countries generally have not observed significant incoherence among responsible actors for return and reintegration at the national level, but highlighted that perceived lack of coherence can lead to political debates, reduce program acceptance, cause inefficiencies, and hinder the achievement of national return policy objectives.
