The proposed intervention is founded on the basic assumption that coherent advocacy and capacitation of public institutions, combined with fully integrated approach to addressing Stigma across all activities, at every level leads towards improved services, legislation, policies, mechanisms and practices that impact the lives of survivors.

In order to meet the urgent accommodation and humanitarian needs of irregular migrants and asylum seekers, IOM will support the BiH authorities in ensuring accommodation and assistance to migrants and asylum seekers, especially to particularly vulnerable categories of migrants, ensuring dignified treatment in line with international standards. 1. Migrants and asylum seekers are provided with adequate temporary accommodation 2. Vulnerable migrants have increased access to assistance and protection services, including medical services.

The overall objective of this project is to contribute to the improvement in living conditions of populations affected by the floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the provision of urgently needed life-saving emergency shelter. The intervention shall aim to reduce levels of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable displaced populations returning to flood-affected communities in BiH, with special attention accorded to women, children, the sick and elderly and those with special needs. To date 25 persons died and there is no confirmation about the number of missing persons.

This project will empower young people in at-risk communities and build their resilience against the drivers of violent extremism. The approach of the project is based upon mutually reinforcing components, namely psychosocial support; demand-driven vocational support; the provision of flexible small grants; community debates on sensitive topics; support for youth-led media work; and work with parents as influencers to identify and prevent Violent Extremism.

This pilot project focuses on activities that target at-risk communities and individuals and constitutes one component of a comprehensive strategy for addressing violent extremism. To be fully effective, it must be implemented alongside and in coordination with other strategically interlinked approaches, in the form of law enforcement and counterterrorism activities, as well as capacity building of the Government and other actors to counter violent extremism.

This project will be addressing the problems pertaining to elderly and vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs) and minority returnees in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and their access to health care facilities and services. IOM will facilitate this access using the experience from its other projects, such as the the NATO-Perspektiva Programme, the project providing support for discharged Armed Forces personnel in BiH since 2002.

This project will target vulnerable returnee or IDP families, in line with the Revised Strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Revised Strategy identified obstacles to solutions in the following main groupings: livelihoods, health, education, electrification, water supply, roads and other infrastructure, social protection, housing and property, and compensation for property that could not be recovered. The overall objective of the project is to support the national actors in addressing the remaining obstacles to solutions for displaced persons and returnees.