The Prevention of Violent Extremism in Central Asian Countries Through Strengthening Social Cohesion Among Labour Migrants, Returnees, and their Families Project was implemented by Search for Common Group (Search) and its partners in three countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) from February 2020 to June 2022. It had two main components. Within the first component, the project aimed at enhancing the social cohesion and resilience of labour migrants to violent extremism (VE) by capacitating key state and non-state actors. The second component of the project focused on rehabilitation and reintegration mechanisms for returnees from conflict zones by capacitating key actors in case analysis, management, and monitoring at the individual and community levels.
Rehabilitation and reintegration of returnees from the conflict zones is a recent phenomenon in Central Asia. The project created a unique opportunity for Central Asian countries to exchange their knowledge and best practices in this field. The final evaluation has identified the project interventions as relevant to the context of government and civil society efforts in providing rehabilitation and reintegration support to returnees and working on the issues of labour migrants.
