LocationsUNDP supports Member States to implement return and reintegration measures that are human rights-based, ensuring that the rehabilitation and reintegration of men, women and children comply with international law. Aside from resocialisation, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), education and skills development for returnees, UNDP also supports receiving communities through community preparedness and the promotion of de-stigmatisation of returnees.
Successful reintegration comprises of (but is not limited to) three key parts:
Local stakeholders, such as law enforcement officers and front-line professionals must be capacitated to provide rehabilitative programmes that ensure their deradicalization, healing and uptake of social and livelihood skills so that their eventual return to society does not pose a security risk
Returnees, especially women and children, regardless of the real or perceived former association with VEGs, need to be able to obtain official identification, safe shelter, a dignified source of livelihood, and access public services as well as psychosocial support
Communities must be prepared with the help of partnerships with influential community leaders and anti-stigmatisation programmes. UNDP supports receiving communities through community preparedness and the promotion of destigmatisation of returnees.
17
COUNTRIES
supported by UNDP in successful Return & Reintegration of former terrorist fighters and people associated with violent extremist groups
>100
REPRESENTATIVES TRAINED
in Central Asia by UNDP to support reintegration processes
>800
RETURNEES
provided with livelihood skills training and support to facilitate reintegration
In 2022, UNDP facilitated national-level discussions in multiple countries around strategies to support the reintegration and rehabilitation of former terrorist fighters and people associated with violent extremist groups.