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External Evaluations
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Final Evaluation Of The Project "Strengthening The Identification And Protection Of Victims Of Trafficking Among Refugees In Rwanda", USAID/IOM, By R. Zebedee, June 2020
Ex-post Evaluation: Mapping Ethiopian Diaspora Residing in the United States of America, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, June 2020
Enhancing Protection and Improving Knowledge on the Risks of Irregular Migration in Sudan - Phase V Final Evaluation, IOM, by A. Bakr Al-Shareef, May 2020
Evaluación Final del Proyecto Retorno y ReintegraciReintegración en el Tri Triángulo Norte de CentroamCentroamérica, USAID/OIM, por E. Lucchi y E. Capa, Abril 2020
Final Evaluation of the Project "improving knowledge, enforcement, and coordination in counter-trafficking", IOM/USAID, by Z. Ruramira Bizimana, April 2020
Ex-post Evaluation: Enhancing Mechanisms for Prevention, Detection and Treatment of HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis Among Migrant and Mobile Populations in the South Caucasus Countries, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, March 2020
Final External Evaluation of the project "Improving Information Management and Planning Capacities of Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration", IOM/SDC, by J. Gušić, March 2020
Ex-post Evaluation: Development and Implementation of a Central American Joint Initiative on The Health of Migrants, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, February 2020
Ex-post Evaluation: Enhancing the Reintegration Programme for Overseas Filipino Workers in line with the Migration and Development, and Crisis Management Frameworks in the Philippines, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, February 2020
Ex-post Evaluation: Support to the Government of Senegal to Establish a National Migration Policy, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, December 2019
Final External Evaluation of the project "Technical Cooperation on Migration Management and Capacity Building", IOM/EU Montenegro, by J. Gušić, December 2019
Évaluation finale du Projet « FORAS — Renforcement des opportunités de réintégration », OIM, par T. Van Lidth, Décembre 2019
Final Evaluation of Technical Support to Government of Nepal to implement Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Act Project, IOM/USAID, by N.Kumar Bishwakarma, December 2019
Synthesis of Rohingya Response Evaluations of IOM, UNICEF and UNHCR, IOM/UNHCR/UNICEF, by L. Sida and E. Schenkenberg, December 2019
Final Evaluation of the Project "Enhancing Social protection for Migrants in Vulnerable Situations in Serbia", IOM, by P. Rafailovic, December 2019
Ex-post Evaluation: Supporting the Development of a Migration Policy in Albania, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, November 2019
Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the Drought Response in Ethiopia 2015 – 2018, IAHE/IASC, by Dr. J. Steets, C. Meier, D. Berhanu, Dr. S. Tsehay, A. H. Abreha, November 2019.
Final External Evaluation of the "Enhancing Cooperation Measures to effectively Combat Trafficking in Persons through Capacity Building and Technical Assistance in Azerbaijan phase VI (ECMCT)" Project, IOM/INL, by C. Bugnion de Moreta, November 2019
Action to Support the National Coordinating Committee on Combating and Preventing Illegal Migration and Trafficking in Persons (NCCPIM&TIP) to Create a Safe and Secure Environment in Egypt – Final Evaluation, IOM, by A. Bakr Al-Shareef, November 2019
Evaluación Final del Proyecto « Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad Nacional y Local para la Implementación de los Acuerdos de Paz en Colombia » (also available in English), OIM/Canada, por P. Gonzales, Noviembre 2019
Positive Alternatives for Egyptian Youth At-Risk of Irregular Migration (PLAYA) – Final External Evaluation, IOM, by N. Hassan, September 2019
Ex-post Evaluation: Setting Standards on Protection and Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants in support of the Global Action to Prevent and Address Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants, IOM/IDF, by OwlRE, August 2019
Strengthening Labour Migration Governance through Regional Cooperation in Colombo Process Countries – Final External Evaluation, IOM/SDC, by Migration Policy Analysis, August 2019
Rapport d'Evaluation Intermédiaire du Projet IDEE – Initiatives pour le Développement des Entreprises au Niger, OIM, par A. Takoubakoye Boureima, Août 2019
Evaluación de Efectos de la Estrategia Comunitaria de la Agencia para la Reincorporación y la Normalización ARN, OIM, por Impact HUB Colombia, Agosto, 2019.
Midterm External Evaluation of the Project "Fostering Health and Protection to Vulnerable Migrants Transiting Through Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen", IOM/Finland, by N. Hassan and A. Baldin, August 2019
Evaluation of the Project for Promoting Ethical Conduct and Professionalizing the Recruitment Industry in Sri Lanka, IOM/ILO/SDC, by Centre for Development Research and Interventions, July 2019
Final External Evaluation of the "Enhancement of National Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking in Azerbaijan (ENCT)" Project and "Supporting the Enhancement of National Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking in Azerbaijan (SNCT) Project, IOM/EU/IDF, by C. Bugnion de Moreta, July 2019
SRHR-HIV Knows No Borders: Improving SRHR-HIV Outcomes for Migrants, Adolescents and Young People and Sex Workers in Migration-Affected Communities in Southern Africa – 2016–2020, IOM/SC/WSPH, by L. Ibisomi, T. Ogunlela and T. Mawadzwa, July 2019
Upholding the Rights of Migrant Workers in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) by Ensuring Supply Chains are Exploitation Free: Viet Nam, Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic, IOM/IDF, by E. Dimni, June 2019
Mid Term Review of EU–IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa, IOM/EU, by Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, May 2019
Independent Evaluation of IOM Project: "Reinforce Capacities to Implement the Counter-Trafficking Legislation in Tunisia - Share II phase two", IOM, by RCG, April 2019
Enhancing the Migration Evidence Base for the Development of Tanzania – Final Evaluation, IOM/IDF/UNFPA, by L. Sanga, February 2019
2014-2018 Final Evaluation IOM X Asia Campaign, IOM/USAID, by F. Garabito, K. Garven, December 2018
Building Sustainable Peace and Promoting Human Security of Cross-border Communities and Mobile Populations through Integrated Border Security and Management and Community-Based Peacebuilding Activities, IOM, by RL Consultants (Pty) Ltd Lesotho, December 2018.
Real Time Evaluation of IOM's Response to the Rohingya Crisis, IOM, by Conflict Management Consulting, November 2018
IOM's L3 Procedures and Practices through the Lens of the Rohingya Response, IOM, by Conflict Management Consulting, October 2018
Evaluación Ex post de la Iniciativa de Gestión de Información de Movilidad Humana en el Triángulo Norte – NTMI, OIM/USAID, por Cedes, Octubre 2018
Aide aux Enfants et Femmes Vulnérables dans les Régions Frontalières entre la République d'Haïti et la République Dominicaine, OIM, par C. Brunetti, Septembre 2018.
Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Criminal Justice Actors in the Caribbean to Counter Trafficking in Persons Using a Victim Centered Approach Project: Final Evaluation, IOM/J-TIP, by J. Morgan, September 2018.
Mid-Term Evaluation "MIDA FINNSOM Health and Education Project - Somalia", IOM, by Axiom Monitoring and Evaluation Limited, August 2018
Final evaluation of the project "Addressing the needs of stranded and vulnerable migrants in targeted sending, transit and receiving countries", IOM/EU, by Altai Consulting, July 2018
"Preventing unsafe migration from Albania towards European Union member states" – final evaluation, IOM, by R. Nepravishta, July 2018
Final External Evaluation of the project "Ghana Integration Migration Management Approach" (GIMMA), IOM/EU, by C. Bugnion de Moreta, June 2018
Tajik-Afghan Integration, Resilience and Reform Building Programme – TAIRR, IOM, by N. Elham, May 2018
- Support to Strengthening Migration and Asylum Management in Serbia, IOM/UK, by A. Ebenberger, April 2018
Final Evaluation Report "Capacity-Building in Integrated Border Management in Southern Mozambique", IOM/INL, by I. Emerson and P. Ravara, April 2018
Final Evaluation of the "Prevention and Reintegration for Adolescents and Youth in conflict with the law in The North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN) of Nicaragua" Pilot Project, IOM/USAID, by R. Centeno, December 2017
Evaluation of the EU-Community Stabilisation Programme In Kosovo, EU/IOM, by T. Vasseur and B. Henry, December 2017
Evaluation of the Camp Coordination & Camp Management (CCCM) Trainings in Cote d'Ivoire, Central African Republic and Sierra Leone, IOM, by R. Dupuis, December 2017
Evaluation du projet "Améliorer la capacité collective de gestion des frontières et protéger les communautés de frontière entre la Mauritanie et le Mali", OIM, par Oversee Advising Group, Octobre 2017
Strengthening Capacity for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of Migrants in a Vulnerable Situation in South America (PRODEHSA), IOM/IDF, by Merits Partnership, October 2017
Voices from the Underground: End of Project Evaluation 2014-2016, IOM, by I. Emerson, August 2017
Evaluation of International Organization for Migration (IOM) South Sudan Health and WASH Response: 2014 – 2016, IOM, by Tango-Consult, August 2017
Strengthening Security in Djibouti and Safety of Migrants Through Counter-Trafficking, Marine Safety and Emergency Assistance, IOM, by M. G. Loretta Peschi, August 2017
Evaluation of the Voluntary Return Assistance in Libya, IOM, by Altai Consulting, August 2017
Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Disaster Risk Management Capacity Building Programme in Southern Africa: PHASE III, IOM, by L. Simango, July 2017
Improving Access to Health, Water and Sanitation Services, Education, and Freedom from Violence in Cox's Bazar, End of Project Evaluation, IOM, by Proaction Alliance, July 2017
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regional Migration Program Models on Providing Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants, USPRM/IOM, by Social Impact, July 2017
Partnership on Health and Mobility in the Mining Sector project (2013-16) in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique: End of project Evaluation, IOM, by Sarraounia Public Health Trust, June 2017
Mid Term Review of EU–IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa, IOM/EU, by Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, May 2019
Impact evaluation of IOM's Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) Programme in Egypt, IOM, by Center for Development Services, March 2017
IOM-led project Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP), IOM/EU, by A. Naud, March 2017.
External Evaluation of the "Strengthening Regional Multi-National Coordination for Increased Protection of Vulnerable and Trafficked Migrant Children Travelling Through the Gulf of Aden Migration Route" Project, EU/IOM, by Subur Consulting S.L., January 2017
Evaluación Final del Proyecto "Centro de Inversión y formación para el emprendimiento en Senegal: formación de formadores y asistencia para el autoempleo en Senegal", OIM/La Caixa, por SocialZink, Diciembre 2016.
Evaluation of the Humanitarian Repatriation for Stranded Migrants in Libya, IOM, by Altai Consulting, November 2016
AGAMI – Agadez Migration Project Final Evaluation, IOM, by V. Falaschi, November 2016
Life-Saving Assistance to Burundian Refugees in Tanzania Project – Terminal Evaluation Report, IOM, by L. Turugari, November 2016
Évaluation du projet « Renforcement de la gestion des flux migratoires en Mauritanie à travers un meilleur contrôle des frontières et l'assistance aux migrants en situation irrégulière », OIM/UE, par A. M. Carrion Lopez et Y. Godiveau, Octobre 2016.
Going Beyond Reconstruction To Enhance Impact – Final Evaluation of Flood Recovery Project "Repair And Reconstruction Of Centres For Children With Disabilities", IOM/Government of Japan, by Subur Consulting, October 2016.
Final Evaluation of MIDA FINNSOM Health Project, Phases IIII, IOM, by Forcier, September 2016
Independent Evaluation of IOM Project: Ensuring a comprehensive approach to address smuggling and trafficking in Egypt including Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, IOM, by M. Melis, September 2016
Convenio de Cooperación internacional entre el Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social de Colombia (MSPS) y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM), Informe final de evaluación, OIM, por Proeval, Setiembre 2016
Iraq Community Revitalization Project – Evaluation of Phases II, III, and IV, IOM, by International Solutions Group, July 2016
IOM Partnership on Health and Mobility in East and Southern Africa (PHAMESA II) – Mid-Term Review, IOM, by M. Rueda Gomez, M.F. Salazar, L. Alcala, L. Gomez, C. Kahabuka, June 2016.
Supporting Community Policing Efforts in Tanah Papua and Maluku: mid-term evaluation, IOM/ The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, by C Finch, June 2016
Independent Evaluation of IOM Project "A Protection Project: Supporting governmental and non-governmental partners to protect migrants' human rights along the East African Route", IOM, by RCG, May 2016
Rapport d'évaluation externe du projet « Soutenir les migrations sûres et informées au Niger », IOM/EU/Ministère Italien de l'Intérieur, par Y. S. Konan, Mai 2016
Independent Evaluation of IOM Project: Enhancing Protection and Improving Knowledge on the Risks of Irregular Migration in Sudan, IOM/Norwegian MOJ, by RCG, May 2016.
IOM/UNDP Joint Conflict Reduction Programme (JCRP) Phase II - Sudan, final evaluation, IOM/UNDP/EU, by I. Candela, May 2016.
Evaluation of the IOM Project: Promoting the Reduction of and Improving the Operational Response to Gender-Based Violence through the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) and Camp Management, IOM, by V. Rames, March 2016
Rapport d'évaluation externe: Projet de réintégration et d'appui psychosocial des migrants retournés de l'Algérie et renforcement de leurs communautés d'accueils à Zinder, OIM/SEM, par Y.S. Konan, Mars 2016.
Independent Evaluation of IOM Project: Enhancing National Capacities and Cooperation for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (TIP), Protection of Victims and Prosecution of Traffickers in Ethiopia, IOM/US J-TIP, by RCG, February 2016.
Joint Final External Evaluation of projects CT 0783 "Helping the Government of Madagascar Address Issues of Trafficking in Persons" and CT 0810 "Strengthening Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking in Post-crisis Madagascar", IOM/USAID, by A.M. Carrión López, January 2016.
External Assessment of CCCM Cluster Co-Leadership Structure – Final report, Global CCCM Cluster, by AshDan SPS Ltd., December 2015.
CCCM Capacity Development Evaluation - Final report, Global CCCM Cluster, by T. Foster, December 2015.
Real Time Evaluation and Support to the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) Programme in Sudan, EU, by Transtec, November 2015.
Equi-Health Mid-term Evaluation, IOM/EU, by H. Jayaweera, September 2015.
Improving the Protection of Vulnerable Migrants Travelling through the Horn of Africa 2013-2015, and Previous Phases, IOM/SDC, by Merit Partnership, June 2015.
- Evaluation of The Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals Project (TRQN) III – including IOM The Hague Management response, IOM, by J. Leith and A.-M. Rivas, June 2015.
- Pare 1+1: Improving Moldova's Remittance-based Investment Program, UNDP/IOM/SDC, by Sipa Columbia University, May 2015.
- Evaluation à mi-parcours du Programme d'Appui à la Stratégie Nationale de la Migration (PASNGM) - Mauritanie, OIM/UE, par IBF et ATC, Avril 2015.
- Assessment Report of the Community Stabilization Project implemented by IOM in Hodh El Chargui, IOM, by Bescad, April 2015.
- Enhancing Resilience and Protection of Marginalized Communities Affected by Protracted Conflicts and Effects of Adverse Climatic Conditions in Kenya, IOM/Sida, by B. Wittbold, March 2015.
- Migration Crisis Support to address Migrant Expulsions in Western Tanzania Project: Terminal Evaluation, IOM, by L. Turugari, March 2015.
- Evaluation of the Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program for Stranded Migrants in Libya (RAVL), IOM/EC, by Altai Consulting, January 2015.
- Evaluation of One Room Shelter Programme for the 2011 Floods Response in South Sindh, Pakistan, IOM, by Shelter Centre, December 2014.
- Second External Evaluation of the Rental Support Cash Grant Applied to Return and Relocation Programs in Haiti, Haiti CCCM and Shelter Cluster, by Large-N Analysis Inc., December 2014.
- Real-Time Evaluation of IOM's Humanitarian Response to the South Sudan Crisis, IOM, by A. Caldwell and A. Oliver-Burgess, November 2014.
- External Evaluation of the IOM-led Shelter/NFI Cluster in Pakistan 2010-2013, IOM/ Global Shelter Cluster/ECHO, by L. Lefcourt, September 2014.
- South Caucasus Socio-Economic Reintegration Programme for Mine Victims (Phase III), Interim Review Report, ITF/IOM/ADA, by S. Taylor, August 2014.
- Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity and Promoting Community Resilience in West Java, IOM, by L. Berman and E.M. Panisales, August 2014.
- Addressing Health Issues of Survivors of Human Trafficking in Jessore and Satkhira in Bangladesh, IOM/ANESVAD, by S. Pervin, July 2014.
- Evaluation of the Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programme for Stranded Migrants in Egypt and Libya, IOM/EU/GoI, by the Global Migration Centre/Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID), June 2014.
- Evaluating IOM's Return and Reintegration Activities for Returnees and Other Displaced Populations - Afghanistan, IOM/Government of Japan, by Samuel Hall Consulting, June 2014.
- Mid-Term Evaluation of the Ripfumelo project 2012-2016, IOM/PHAMESA, by BACTHA Consulting and IOM, May 2014.
- Evaluation of IOM Psychosocial Assistance for Crisis-Affected Children and Youth and their Families in Libya, IOM, by War Trauma Foundation, March 2014.
- Enhancing Cooperation Measures to Effectively Combat Trafficking in Persons through Capacity Building and Technical Assistance in Azerbaijan – Phase III, IOM/INL, by R. Krcmar, March 2014.
- IOM Partnership on Heath and Mobility in East and Southern Africa (PHAMESA) - End-of-Programme Evaluation, IOM, by Coxswain Social Investment Plus (CSI+), December 2013.
- Community-Based Reintegration and Economic Recovery Support to Vulnerable Communities in the Newly Resettled Villages in the Northern and Eastern Districts in Sri Lanka, IOM, by EML Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, November 2013.
- Reintegration Assistance to Returnee Communities in Counties of High Return: Aweil East and Twic - Final evaluation, IOM/Sida, by Altai Consulting, November 2013.
- Independent Evaluation of IOM's Project "Horn/Gulf of Aden/Yemen: Improving Protection of Migrants – Phase III", Final Evaluation Report, IOM, by R. Stewart, November 2013.
- Evaluation Report: Guatemalan Repatriates Project (GRP), IOM, by MANAUS Consulting, September 2013.
- Support to Reintegration Mechanism in Moldova for Readmitted and Returned Moldovan Nationals (Phase III) - Good Practices and Lessons Learned (Evaluation report), ADC-IOM, by V. Craievschi-Toarta, September 2013.
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of measures for the integration of trafficked persons, IOM/FIIT Project, by J. Van Selm, August 2013.
- External Evaluation of IOM Zimbabwe's Community Based Planning Programme 2008-2013, IOM, by Dovich Development Management Experts (DEMEX), June 2013.
- Mise en œuvre du Programme Conjoint JEM Tunisie «Impliquer la jeunesse tunisienne pour atteindre les OMD»: Evaluation finale, MDG-F/IOM, par D. Boutaud, S. Selmi, juin 2013.
- External Evaluation of the Project "Best Practices on Collecting and Sharing Labour Migration Data for the Improvement of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS)", IOM, by Dinamia S. Coop, March 2013.
- Independent Evaluation: Central Asia Regional Migration Programme (CARMP), DFID/IOM/UN Women/World Bank, by Coffey International Development/IBF International Consulting, February 2013.
- Final Evaluation Report "Capacity Building of Institutions Involved in Migration Management and Reintegration of Returnees in the Republic of Serbia", EU/IOM, independent evaluation, February 2013.
- External evaluation of the Rental Support Cash Grant Approach Applied to Return and Relocation Programs in Haiti, IOM/Sida, by J. Condor, C. Juhn, R. Rana, January 2013.
- End of project evaluation "Building National Response Capacity to Combat Human Trafficking in Zimbabwe", USAID/IOM, by Development Data, November 2012.
- Migration for Development in the Western Balkans (MIDWEB): Final Evaluation, IOM, by Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, November 2012.
- Supporting Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Timor-Leste – Final Evaluation, MDG Achievement Fund (multi-agency joint programme), by A. Arbulú, August 2012.
- Terminal Evaluation Report on the 'SARDD' project implemented by the International Organization for Migration (SARDD - Surviving and Recovering from Disaster and Displacement in Ethiopia), IOM/ECHO, by Geo-Spatial Analytical Consulting Services (PLC), August 2012.
- Evaluation of the project "European Local Cooperation for Integration" (ELCI), IOM/EC, by LSE Enterprise, July 2012.
- Capacity Building of Institutions Involved in Migration Management and Reintegration of Returnees in the Republic of Serbia - Mid‐term Evaluation Report, IOM, by A. Calosevic, July 2012.
- Fairness and Efficiency in Reparations to Conflict Affected Persons: A Joint Project of OHCHR and IOM, IOM/UN Peace Fund in Nepal, by P. Visser, May 2012.
- Strengthening the Role of the Civil Society in Eliminating Human Trafficking in Zimbabwe - End of Project Evaluation, IOM, by Development Data, April 2012.
- Final Project Evaluation: Enhancing the Capacity of the Ministry of Health to Assist Victims of Trafficking in Egypt, IOM/IDF, by G. Baerten-Kidd, April 2012
- Enhancement of socio-economic reintegration opportunities for Rwandan returned refugees and other vulnerable groups - Tracer study: vocational skills training in Western and Southern Province, IOM, by M. Gedde, March 2012.
- Between two societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) programme, IOM/UDI, by A. Strand, S. Bendixsen, E. Paasche, J. Schultz, November 2011.
- External Process Evaluation of IOM's Response to the Libya Crisis, IOM, by STAKEHOUSE International, November 2011.
- Evaluation of the IOM DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) project and DDR (District Disaster Risk) sector in Timor-Leste – Part I, IOM/AusAID, by C. Bugnion, C. Burton, September 2011.
- Evaluation of the IOM DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) project and DDR (District Disaster Risk) sector in Timor-Leste – Part II DRR Thematic Analysis, IOM/AusAID, by C. Bugnion, C. Burton, September 2011.
- Evaluation of the International Organization for Migration's On-going Activities on Support to the Flash Appeal for the Haiti Earthquake and Cholera Outbreak (Sida/IOM Agreement January 2010 – May 2011), IOM/Sida, by R. Rana, J. Condor, August 2011.
- Regional Programme and Dialogue on Facilitating Safe and Legal Migration from South Asia to the European Union - Final Report, IOM/EU, by W. Gera, August 2011.
- Assistance to Discharged Defense Personnel within the Scope of Defense Sector Reform in Serbia, End of Project Summative Evaluation, IOM/Nato Trust Fund, by C. Bugnion, M. Korica, B. Samardzija, April 2011.
- Evaluation of the International Organization for Migration and its Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking, Norad, by J. Berman and P. Marshall, March 2011.
- Zimbabwe Migration Development Strategies Project – End of Term Evaluation, IOM, by K. Maconi, February 2011.
- Cross Border Mobility, Irregular Migration and HIV and AIDS: The Safe Journey Information Campaign 2005-2010 - End of Project Evaluation, IOM/UKaid, by Development Data, February 2011.
- Secondary School Education in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to Prevent Trafficking in Persons, Phase 1 (IOM), Review and Assessment report, CAT/SDC, by Sarah Stephens, February 2011.
- Partnership on HIV and Mobility in Southern Africa, 2nd phase (2007-2010), IOM/PHAMSA, by T. Lee, November 2010.
- Regional Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) Programme for Stranded Migrants in Libya and Morocco (LiMo), IOM, by ISPI (Institute for Studies on International Politics - Milano), November 2010.
- Independent External Project Evaluation of "Iraqis Rebuilding Iraq" Phase II Implemented by The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), UNDP/IOM, by C Bugnion, A. Balasm, June 2010.
- Increasing Public Health Safety alongside the New Eastern European Union Border Line (PHBLM), IOM/EC DG-SANCO, by M. Johnson, May 2010.
- Capacity-Building and Awareness-Raising to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Migration from and through Ghana, IOM/Royal Danish Embassy, by K.G. Amenuvor, April 2010.
- The Evaluation of AUSCO 2009, Australia's Cultural Orientation Program for Humanitarian Entrants, Australian Government/IOM, by DIAC, September 2009/April 2010.
- Capacity Building, Information and Awareness Raising towards Orderly Migration in The Western Balkans, EC-Aeneas/IOM, by R. Verduijn, February 2010.
- Prevention of All Forms of Trafficking in Persons through Enhanced Regional Cooperation, Community Mobilization and Poverty Alleviation, Phase III, IOM/MOWA Cambodia/Government of Finland, by L. Autencio, January 2010.
- Strengthening the Indonesian National Police through Institution Building – Phase II, Part 2 - End of project evaluation, IOM/RNE/EC, by P. Holmes, November 2009.
- Independent final evaluation of the NATO/PfP Trust fund (NTF) programme for assistance to Redundant Military Personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Final report, IOM, by Prism Research, October 2009.
- 'Makmue Gampong Kareuna Dame', Support to Conflict Affected Communities Aceh-Indonesia, External Evaluation, CIDA/IOM, by S. Cunliffe, June 2009.
- Anti-Trafficking Passport Inserts Assessment Report - Combating Trafficking in Persons in Mongolia: Return and Reintegration Victims' Assistance and Capacity-Building, IOM, by U. Tsedev, June 2009.
- Développement de la micro entreprise en faveur de la jeunesse déshéritée de Guinée, Rapport d'évaluation conjointe Direction de Développement et de Coopération Suisse/OIM, Juin 2009.
- Programme régional de réduction de la vulnérabilité des jeunes face au VIH/SIDA et IST et de renforcement de leur santé génésique et sexuelle dans les communautés frontalières à fortes mobilités sous-régionales en Afrique de l'Ouest (2006-2009) - rapport d'évaluation, OIM/ASDI/Norad, par J.-P. Tchupo, Mai 2009 (also available in English).
- Informe de Evaluación independiente - Tercera fase de intervención del proyecto "Trata internacional de mujeres para la explotación sexual comercial en el Perú", OIM/Mininter, por S. Macher, Abril 2009.
- Mid-Term Review of Partnership on HIV and Mobility in Southern Africa, IOM/PHAMSA, by K. Butcher, April 2009.
- Evaluation of Reintegration Activities in Afghanistan: IOM, DFID/FCO, by Altai Consulting, March 2009.
- Third Joint Donor Review of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Programmes on Emergency Assistance to Mobile and Vulnerable Populations in Zimbabwe, Humanitarian Assistance to Returned Migrants and Mobile Populations at the South Africa-Zimbabwe and Botswana –Zimbabwe Borders, and the Safe Journey Information Campaign, DFID/Sida/USAID/ECHO/the Netherlands Embassy/IOM, by M. Pratt, P. Holdsworth, J. Smith, March 2009.
- Informed migration project: Regional Dialogue and Program on Facilitating Managed and Legal Migration Between Asia and the European Union, IOM/AENEAS, by U. Mishra Hayes, February 2009.
- 'Integration: A Multifaith Approach' Pilot Project (IAMA), IOM/EU, by M. Säävälä - Population Research Institute Finland, January 2009.
- Study of the International Organization for Migration and its humanitarian assistance, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency/IOM, by B. Bengtson, L. Florin, A. Olin, November 2008
- Evaluation of the National Immigrant Support Services in Portugal (ACIDI ), Government of Portugal/IOM, by Maria Abranches, October 2008
- Counter-Trafficking Interventions in Prevention, Protection and Prosecution for Victims of Trafficking in Persons in Bangladesh: End Project Evaluation, GoB/IOM/USAID, October 2008.
- Mid-Term External Evaluation Report "Support for National Police Reform in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam - Addendum to the Project: Strengthening The Indonesian National Police Through Institution Building – Phase II", IOM/The Royal Netherlands Embassy/EC, by K.Supelli and B. Herry-Priyono, October 2008.
- Combating Trafficking in Persons in Mongolia: Return and Reintegration, Victims' Assistance and Capacity – Building, IOM, by S.Skrobanek, September 2008.
- Independent Mid-term Evaluation of The NATO/PfP Trust Fund Programme for Assistance to Redundant Military Personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, IOM/Nato Trust Fund, by the University of York - PRDU, August 2008.
- Evaluation du Programme MIDA Grands Lacs Phase III, OIM, par SEE - Société d'Etudes et d'Evaluation sarl, Août 2008.
- Return in Dignity, Return to What? Review of the Voluntary Return Programme to Afghanistan, IOM/Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, by A.Strand, A. Akbari, T. Wimpelmann Chaudhary, K. Berg Harpviken, A. Sarwari, A. Suhrke, May 2008.
- Evaluation of the project "Coordination of the Return and Reintegration Assistance for Voluntary Returnees to Moldova", IOM/Austrian Development Cooperation, by Study and Assessment Ltd (S&A), April 2008.
- "2da. Evaluación Programa Trabajadores(as) Agrícolas Temporales a Canadá", Evaluación conjunta Gobierno de Guatemala/OIM, Cuadernos de Trabajo Sobre Migración 25, Marzo 2008.
- The HIV Prevention Project Zambia - Angola, Project Evaluation Report, IOM/Sida, by Technical Support Facility (TSF) Southern Africa, February 2008.
- Evaluation of the Program for the Enhancement of Transit and Irregular Migration Management in Libya, IOM, by Sciences Po - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, January 2008.
- External Independent Evaluation of the Project 'Assistance to Discharged Defence Personnel within the Scope of Defence Sector Reform in Serbia', IOM/Nato Trust Fund, by C. Bugnion, January 2008.
- Evaluación Externa "Proyecto Piloto Regional de Prevención de la Trata y Tráfico de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes y Reforzamiento de Conocimientos sobre Salud Sexual y Reproductiva", OIM Lima/BID, por T. Muñoz C., Octubre, 2007.
- Counter-Trafficking Interventions in Prevention, Protection and Prosecution for Victims of Trafficking in Persons in Bangladesh, Mid Term Evaluation Report, IOM/USAID, by A. Rahman, August 2007.
- Evaluation Report IOM Project Part I, Phase II, 'Strengthening the Indonesian National Police Through Institution Building', INP/the Netherlands/IOM, by S.Tiwon, K. Jen Pol, L. Dahlan, A. Bunyamin, August 2007.
- COSWA, Community-Owned Sustainable Water Use and Agricultural Initiatives' Project - Azerbaijan, Phase II, Report of the External Review, SDC/IOM, by A. Tarnutzer, A. Sadangi, P. Yusifov, July 2007.
- Return, Reception and Reintegration of Afghan Nationals to Afghanistan, External Evaluation - Final Report, EU/IOM, by L. Hunzinger, July 2007.
- Evaluation de la Mise en Œuvre du Projet "Assistance Technique à la Gestion de la Migration et au Retour Volontaire des Migrants en Transit par la Mauritanie", OIM/UE, par Béchir & Co, juillet 2007.
- Second Joint Donor Review of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Programmes on Emergency Assistance to Mobile and Vulnerable Populations in Zimbabwe, Humanitarian Assistance to Returned Migrants and Mobile Populations at the South Africa-Zimbabwe Border, and the Safe Journey Information Campaign, DFID/Sida/USAID/ECHO, by B.M. Mvumi, M. Pratt, H. Robson, June 2007.
- Evaluation of National Immigrant Support Centres - Portugal (English version), ACIME/IOM, by Maria Abranches, June 2007
- Evaluation of the IOM's Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to Mobile and Vulnerable Displaced Populations Programme (EHAMVDP) in Rural Zimbabwe, ECHO/IOM, by Stanlake Kaziboni, May 2007
- Impact Assessment of the Community-Owned Sustainable Water Use and Agricultural Initiatives (COSWA) Project, SDC/IOM, by R. Maharramov, April 2007.
- Mid-term evaluation of Direct Health and Psychosocial Assistance Project-2 of the Post-Conflict Reintegration Programme in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia, IOM, by I. Harry Minas and Pandu Setiawan, April 2007
- Combating Human Trafficking in Indonesia through Law Enforcement: an Evaluation Report on IOM Project supported by NZAid, IOM, by Wiladi Budiharga and Antarini P. Arna, April 2007
- Partnership on HIV/AIDS and Mobile Populations in Southern Africa (PHAMSA): End-of-project Evaluation, IOM, by Mark Colvin, Genieve Lemmon and Shalote Chipamaunga, March 2007
- Evaluation of the Humanitarian Assistance to Deported Migrants at the South Africa-Zimbabwe Border (Beitbridge): A Reception and Support Centre, IOM, by Sciences Po - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, February 2007
- Qualitative Evaluation of "The Economic and Social Stabilization Programme for Potential Victims of Trafficking in the Border Regions of FYR Macedonia - ESS", IOM/CEB/Norway, by the Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women, December 2006.
- Evaluation of Counter Trafficking: Prevention and Capacity Building Activities in Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro) and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Finnish MFA/IOM, by Päivi Äijälä and Venla Roth, November 2006
- Evaluation of Anti-Trafficking Activities in Central Asia Financed by Sida, IOM/Sida, by Språngbrädan, October 2006
- Evaluation of the IOM's implemented Immediate Distribution of Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced and Destitute Households in Urban Areas Evicted or Affected by Operation 'Restore Order' (Murambatsvina) in Zimbabwe and Institutional Strengthening of IOM Capacity to Respond to Humanitarian Crises, Final Report, IOM/ECHO, by Stanlake Kazibonia, August 2006
- Information Campaign to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children in Cambodia, Final Evaluation, by Candice Sainsbury, August 2006
- Economic Rehabilitation for Survivors of Trafficking in India, IOM/GoI, by Lacey Ilene Ruben, July 2006
- Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme - Evaluation Report, IOM Afghanistan, by Dr. Alpaslan Özerdem, July 2006
- Joint Donor Review of IOM Emergency Assistance Programme for Mobile and Vulnerable Populations in Zimbabwe, by DFID, Sida, USAID and ECHO, May 2006.
- Mass and Micro-Information Campaign Awareness Impact Assessment - Information Campaign to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children in Cambodia Project, Joint evaluation MOWA/IOM, March 2006.
- Fortalecimiento Institucional para el Mejoramiento de la Prestación de Servicios a Jóvenes en Proceso de Reincorporación Social, OIM/Embajada del Reino de los Países Bajos, por Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, Febrero 2006.
- Rapport conjoint de la seconde Evaluation du programme MIDA Grands Lacs - Programme de développement des pays des Grands Lacs à travers la mobilisation des ressources de la Communauté burundaise, congolaise et rwandaise de l'extérieur, OIM/DGCD, Février 2006.
- Evaluación Proyecto Trabajadores(as) Agrícolas Temporales a Canadá, Evaluación conjunta Gobierno de Guatemala/OIM, Cuadernos de Trabajo sobre Migración 22, febrero 2006.
- An Evaluation of the EU-RQA Program, IOM/EC, by Altai Consulting, November 2005.
- Medición de Impactos del Programa Red de Seguridad Alimentaria, OIM, por Econometria, Julio 2005.
- Evaluation of 'IOM Reintegration Activities Targeting Vulnerable Returnees and Displaced Populations in Angola', joint evaluation IOM/Chevron/MINARS, July 2005.
- Evaluation of the IOM Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration of Ghanaian Child Victims of Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in Yeji Fishing Communities, Republic of Ghana, IOM, by Sciences Po - Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, June 2005
- Etude d' Impact du Programme de Réinsertion au Mali des Enfants Maliens Victimes de Traite Transfrontalière, OIM, par Sciences Po - Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, Juin 2005
- Evaluation for the International Organization for Migration: Internally Displaced Persons Program in Iraq, IOM, by Sciences Po - Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, May 2005
- Evaluación Externa Proyecto "Trata Internacional de Mujeres para la Industria del Sexo en el Perú" (also available in English), OIM, por A. Ludeña, Mayo 2005
- Final Review of "The Return of Judges and Prosecutors to Minority Areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina" Project, IOM, by Centre for the Promotion of Civil Society - Sarajevo, March 2005.
- Programme de Démobilisation, Réinsertion et Réintégration des Ex-combattants (PDRRI): Mission de Suivi, Evaluation et Orientation du Programme, Guinée Bissau, par S. Arzeni, E. Cesanelli, S. Pes, Décembre 2004.
- Evaluation of IOM's Integrated Project for the Return and Reintegration of 500 LRA Reporters Through Information, Counselling and Referral Services (ICRS), IOM, by Sciences Po Paris (Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris), June 2004.
- Evaluation Finale du Programme de Reconstruction des Infrastructures Communautaires à Pweto, Evaluation conjointe CE/OIM, Mai 2004
- Evaluation du Programme de Mobilisation des Ressources Humaines et autres de la Diaspora Africaine de Belgique en faveur du Développement des Pays d' Origine - Migration pour le Développement en Afrique MIDA Belgique / Région des Grands Lacs, Evaluation conjointe DGCD/OIM, Avril 2004
- From Barracks to Business: An Evaluation of IOM's Transitional Assistance Program to Former Soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, IOM, by Columbia University, April 2004
- Evaluation of the 'Let's Talk - Social Mediation for Refugee Communities in Europe' Project, IOM, by J. Salonen and J. Iivari, January 2004
- Capacity-Building in Border Management on the East Timor-Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia Border Project, IOM, by Yanuarius Koli Bau (Evaluation Team leader) Timor-Leste/Indonesia, December 2003
- Support to the Child Centre in Bucharest and Prevention of Irregular Migration, Czech Republic/IOM, by Institute of International Relations Prague, December 2003
- Turning Soldiers into a Work Force: Demobilization and Reintegration in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bonn International Center for Conversion/The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, Tobias Pietz, Shay Duffy, August 2003
- IOM Regional Counter-trafficking Programme in the Western Balkans, SIDA/IOM, by SIDA, July 2003
- Evaluation of the Technical Assistance to the Government of Kyrgyzstan in the Implementation of the Plan of Action - Combating Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings, IOM, by A. Rysalieva, July 2003
- Etude de l' Evaluation de l'Impact des Avantages Distribués durant la Démobilisation, OIM Guinée-Bissau, par l' Institut National d'Etudes et de Recherches (INEP), Juin 2003
- Evaluation of the Counter-Trafficking Program in Moldova, SDC/IOM, SDC/HA, June 2003
- Evaluation du Projet de Réinsertion des Ex-miliciens et de Ramassage des Armes Légères - République du Congo, PNUD/OIM, by C. Bugnion, June 2003
- From Prevention to Reintegration: An Evaluation of IOM's Support Programme for Ex-Combatant Children in Colombia, by Columbia University Evaluation Team, 2 May 2003
- "L'ombre de la guerre : perspectives pour le désarmement, la démobilisation et la réinsertion en République du Congo", Evaluation conjointe pour la Commission Européenne, le PNUD et le Secrétariat du PMDR, par Robert Muggah, Christian Bugnion, Philippe Maughan, Mars 2003
- Evaluation of FALINTIL Reinsertion Assistant Program (FRAP) in Dili, East Timor, by John McCarthy (June 2002)
- Bridging the Gap: An Assessment of the IOM's Community Assistance Programs in East Timor. Report prepared for IOM by the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), May 2002.
- Evaluation of the IOM Programme for the Prevention of Illegal Migration and for the Voluntary Return and Reintegration of Asylum Seekers from the Region of Kosice (Slovakia) currently living in Belgium, by Marianne Verdurme, Immigration Liaison, Aliens' Office, Ministry of the Interior, Belgium (31 October 2001)
- The IOM Project 'Reconstruction, Capacity Building and Development through the Return of Qualified Nationals to Bosnia and Herzegovina', an Evaluation, by Claes Sandgren, (September 2001)
- Children First Programme, by Timo Halttunen, University of Turku, Centre for Extension Studies, Finland (September 2001)
- OIM-USAID Evaluación de los Proyectos del Programa de Salida (Junio de 2001)
- Return and Counselling Assistance Programme to Asylum Seekers from Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia, currently living in Belgium, Finland and the Netherlands, by Eckart von Malsen, Consultant (January 2001)
- Integration Through Training - A Joint IOM/OSCE Project for Non-Estonian and Estonian Women, by K. Hallik, Consultant (November 2000)
- Programa de Retención de la Migración Rural Urbana (PMRU), by Consultant G. Cárdenas (November 2000) (Spanish only)
- Return of Qualified African Nationals - Phase 3, by Transtec, Belgium (October 2000)
- Economic Opportunity Enhancement in Nakhichevan through Community Mobilisation and Micro-credit Schemes Project (UNDP/IOM), by Manoj Basnyat, SURF, Bratislava (September 2000)
- Programme for Return of Qualified Nationals (RQAN) - Ethiopia, prepared by B. & M. Consultants (July 2000)
- From Warring to Working: Reintegrating Former Combatants in Kosovo, Report prepared for IOM by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs (April 2000)
- Assistance to the Return and Reintegration of Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers from Finland, by Consultant Orest Nowosad, (March 2000)
- Domovini Project - Step by step to Minority Return and Reintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by S. Miettinen, University of Tampere, Finland (January 2000)
- Return and Reintegration of Trafficked and other Vulnerable Women and Children among Selected Countries in the Mekong Region, by Consultant Ms Panadda Changmanee (March 1999)
- Guatemala Demobilization and Incorporation Program, by Office of Transition Initiatives, Bureau for Humanitarian Response, USAID (January 1999)
- Return of Asylum Seekers from Belgium (REAB) (December, 1998) (full text in Dutch, French summary available)
- 'Mobile Employment Service'. Joint evaluation conducted by the State Employment Dept., Min. Labor and Social Protection of the Kyrgyz Republic, IOM and the GTZ (1998)
- Haiti Demobilization and Reintegration Program, prepared for the US Agency for International Development by the CNA Corporation (March 1997)
- The Information and Referral Service/Provincial Fund, Maputo, Mozambique, Creative Associates International Inc. (March 1997)
- Mid-term evaluation findings of the programme for the Return and Reintegration of Qualified African Nationals (RQAN) - Phase III, supported by the EU, European Commission (January 1997)
- Focus Groups and a Survey of the Former Fad'H in Haiti, by Winner/Wagner & Francis (October 1996)
- Evaluation of the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives and IOM Haiti Communal Governance Program, Management Systems International (February 1996)
- Reintegration of Qualified African Nationals (EEC – IOM Project 1983-1991), prepared by CEC Consultants (January 1992)
- EEC-IOM Project for the Reintegration of Qualified Latin American Nationals in Five Central American Countries (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) (1984-1989) - prepared by CEC Consultant (December 1989)


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Sam's wish not only filled him with incredible joy, but touched the lives of an entire community.
Sam – decked in a spotless new uniform - walks out of his limousine- to the center-field gate with the theme song from "Rocky" blaring from the donated sound system, as he is welcomed by both teams and 370 cheering fans.
Baseball is this 11-year-old's favorite pastime taking him to a blissful world of sunshine and freshly cut grass. But his cherished days on the field were put on hold when he received his neuroblastoma diagnosis – a life-threatening cancer affecting the nervous system.
Upon meeting his Make-A-Wish® volunteers, this 11-year-old knew he wanted nothing more than to play baseball again with his friends. So he asked if he could have a field in his backyard allowing him to play whenever he wanted.
While this is a pricey venture, the wish team knew it was Sam's one true wish, so they pulled all their resources – seeking support from volunteers and donors – to make it possible.
The grounds crew from the University of Mississippi and Itawamba Community College agreed to help. The community donated sod, clay, fencing, a backstop, an irrigation system and even a scoreboard. Everything was set and ready for opening day.
Sam invites 18 friends to play on his team, the Mantachie Muddogs. To create a major-league atmosphere and make Sam's day truly spectacular, the teammates' parents donate popcorn, soda and hot dogs to the field.
Farris Field – named in honor of Sam's surname – becomes the buzz of the small town as everyone gets ready for the opening game. A local radio personality volunteers to announce the game and neighbors agree to sing the national anthem and participate at umpires. Sam's pastor joins the excitement eager to dedicate the field. Sam's doctor even takes her seat in the stands to see her patient.
There wasn't a better way to make the game even more extraordinary than for the Muddogs to play against the Briarcrest Christian School junior varsity team – the Saints.
Former Briarcrest player Brandon Henson – an active supporter of Make-A-Wish – was killed in a car accident in 2002. In an effort to continue his legacy, Brandon's family sponsored Sam's wish and arranged for the enthusiastic Briarcrest team to participate.
Sam's friends and relatives, the media and half the community are ecstatic when Sam throws Farris Field's first pitch to his brother Dennis. With Sam scoring a run and a base hit, the Maddogs earn a resounding 11-6 victory.
Sam's wish experience not only filled him with incredible joy, but touched the lives of an entire community.
This wish received the Make-A-Wish annual Infinite Wish Award, given each year to a chapter that involved an entire community in making a child's wish come true.
An aerial view of Farris Field shows off the sell-out crowd.
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International financial institutions have promised $38 billion more to four Arab countries trying to transition to democracy, nearly doubling a previous pledge.
French Finance Minister Francois Baroin announced the pledge Saturday at the second day of talks involving finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven nations, plus Russia, in Marseille, France.
He said the $38 billion will be made available to Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan from 2011 to 2013.
The pledge compares with $20 billion announced at a meeting of G7 nations, plus Russia, in May.
Separately, the International Monetary Fund said it will recognize the Transitional National Council in Libya as the country's official government. IMF chief Christine Lagarde told reporters of the decision Saturday in Marseille, paving the way for the council to benefit from IMF aid.
In other news in Marseille, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he wants his deputy, Joerg Asmussen, to replace Juergen Stark on the executive board of the European Central Bank. Stark, who has been critical of the bank's bond purchases, resigned on Friday.
Officials from Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia are explaining to G8 nations how they plan to launch their economies and hear what help they can expect from the world's major economic powers.
The Marseille discussions began one day after U.S. President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress in Washington and proposed a $447-billion plan to ease U.S. unemployment, which stands at around 9 percent, and revive the economy. Since Mr. Obama took office in 2009, Republicans in Congress have rejected almost all of his economic proposals, objecting to increased spending and deficits.
Elsewhere, there are reports that Greece is about to default on its sovereign debt. Greek officials have denied them as speculation intended to hurt the euro. Last year, Greece received a $159-billion bailout from the IMF and European Union.
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International financial institutions have promised $38 billion more to four Arab countries trying to transition to democracy, nearly doubling a previous pledge.


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RENO, Nev. — The last remaining building on the grounds where the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel once stood went up in flames Sunday.
The 48-room, 20,000-square-foot structure known as the Mustang Ranch II annex was destroyed as part of a firefighting training exercise.
"It's out with the old and in with the new," said a woman who goes by Air Force Amy, who once worked there. "The day of the $20 roll in the hay in a trailer is gone."
The building was the last at the former site of the Mustang Ranch, the state's first legal brothel. The government padlocked the ranch, located just east of Reno, in 1999 after years of tax problems.
In 2003, the government auctioned off the annex for $8,600 to Dennis Hof, a brothel owner who planned to use it as a museum. Moving it was too expensive, so he donated it to fire crews.
Amy, now employed by Hof, said the annex was built in 1983 for male prostitutes but the plans didn't fly. It later housed about 20 women compared with 50 women at the busier main building.
The government sold the gaudy pink stucco buildings that formed the heart of the complex for $145,000 to another brothel owner, who moved them to another site and continues to operate them under the famous name.
The BLM plans to return the Mustang Ranch land to a natural state and use it for public access to the Truckee River.
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MSPP #139: Many Point Scout Camp 2014 Opening Campfire P1stevejb68 on July 13, 2014 in campfire, podcast, summer camp
The opening campfire of a week of Boy Scout summer camp. It is time to meet the staff that will play an important role during the success of your troop's time at camp. Is the staff enthusiastic? Are they energetic? Are they ready to provide you with the totally awesome program you have come to expect from camp? Are they a little bit crazy? In the case of the 2014 Many Point Scout Camp Buckskin staff, the answer is yes to all the above, and their opening campfire was a great demonstration of how enthusiastic and crazy they could be.
This video was recorded during the July 6, 2014, opening campfire. This will be the first of a few videos filmed during the campfire that will be posted to the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast. As you can see when you watch this, this year's staff was pumped to start working with a new week of Boy Scout campers. This video features the staff introductions and the singing of the Many Point Rouser. As all "repeat after me" songs, it gets pretty loud and rowdy by the end.
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When a project is over, and the analysis is done, those artifacts must go back into storage. PAF has storage facilities both at Binghamton University, as well as at an off-site facility. Today, our lab director, Claire H. is preparing boxes to go into remote storage, off site. So far there are about 118 boxes ready to go.
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Private or external study bursaries are available from South African companies to capable students on a yearly basis. This year De Beers, Old Mutual, SA Institute of Race Relations, SA Weather Service, Spoornet and Vodacom are just a handful of bursaries available to promising students. Owing to our country's scarce and critical skills list, many mining and engineering companies in particular provide contract bursaries (repayable via one year of work for every year of study); it's just matter of applying for them.
You can also check the Bursary Register, which you will find at your university or school's financial aid office, or your local library (it costs about R120), and will provide a full list of bursaries available in your chosen field of study. Remember, a bursary is a gift that does not have to be repaid unless you fail.
Bursary criteria differ per company, but generally when granting bursaries companies ask that a learner is studying towards a degree or qualification at a South African university that is in line with their field of expertise (for example, a bursary through the Auditor General South Africa asks that you be studying towards a qualification as a Chartered Accountant (CA) at a South African University accredited by the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants.)
Learners need to maintain a good academic standard through their degree or first/second years of study in order to qualify for a bursary. Sometimes this means an overall average of 65%, or sometimes it means producing a portfolio of work – this is company dependant. Bursary holders may also need to have done some kind of volunteer work or perhaps worked in the industry at some point during their degrees in order to qualify. Some bursaries also stipulate that learners be registered for full-time programmes of study, and that students are Senior i.e. in their final year of study.
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Classical economic theory suggests that consumers and businesses, responding to market signals such as prices and interest rates, collectively spend, save or invest their money in the most efficient manner. But the growing trove of cash on corporate balance sheets, measuring roughly $2 trillion for the S&P 500 companies, suggests otherwise.
Not only are the funds being deployed extremely inefficiently, but the mountain of cash is in itself a troubling indication that something has gone badly wrong in the economic system. If productive, ongoing concerns operating in highly competitive markets don't have any useful way to deploy the cash equivalent of 15% of U.S. GDP in their businesses, and are putting it instead into money markets and Treasury bonds giving them a negative return in inflation-adjusted terms, it means the economy is not functioning efficiently.
Moreover, if, as some analysts suggest, holding such huge cash reserves has become necessary for companies to protect themselves in a fragile financial environment or to survive the next catastrophic crash, then the economy has become unbalanced and dangerously volatile.
Worrisome Sign
By historical standards, companies now are remarkably cash-rich. Some industries stand out as particularly determined to hoard cash, such as pharmaceuticals, high-tech and telecoms, but blue-chip balance sheets have become cash-heavy across the board. Many big companies now hold more than enough cash to pay off their debts. Microsoft's cash holdings are more than four times higher than the size of its debt, while Google and Intel have enough cash to repay all their debt 10 times over.
This tendency goes beyond what should be considered prudent, especially at a time when companies continue to generate plenty of cash on an ongoing basis. Managing such hoards of cash is expensive. It requires building and maintaining a considerable cash management infrastructure, consisting of human resources and technology. But that's only part of the problem. Corporate cash has to be invested prudently because investors will penalize companies for taking risks with their cash. This means that returns on investing cash are going to be meager in the best of times, well below profit margins achieved by those companies in their core business. But recently times have not been kind to savers.
An article at the online publication 24/7 Wall Street looked at how typical blue chips have built up their short-term holdings. The 10 companies highlighted had $288 billion in cash, cash equivalent and short-term securities, with Google holding $45 billion, Cisco $47 billion and Microsoft over $50 billion. Short-term rates have been at zero for the past five years, so that all that cash is earning virtually nothing and return on investment is substantially below the companies' cost of capital.
Moreover, even long-term interest rates have been well below inflation. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has been hovering around 2%, compared to a CPI rate of nearly 3% in the early months of 2012. In other words, even long-term securities are losing money in real terms, and any further uptick in inflation could accelerate real losses for U.S. corporates. There could be additional losses if bond prices fall from their current historically high levels.
Lost Value
Holding so much cash, then, actually destroys value for shareholders. Even Apple, while making huge returns for investors over the past decade and a half, subtracted some of that value as long as it sat on close to $100 billion in cash, before it made the decision to return about half of its cash to shareholders by announcing that it would resume dividends for the first time since 1995.
Apple is a special case, and its business model has been so successful that it generates profits and cash flow well in excess of what it needs to invest in developing new products or safeguard its market position against competitors. Apple at least has joined a growing number of companies who are returning at least some cash to shareholders. But companies are still clinging to their cash, even though it represents inefficient use of their resources. Google announced after reporting its January-March results that it will, in effect, split its shares, rewarding shareholders but holding on to its cash reserves.
Still, it is puzzling and disturbing that, even amid fierce competition in research-intensive technological fields, high-tech companies are finding no better use for their cash than to pay dividends, buy back stock or hold cash balances — rather than investing in their businesses.
Some analysts have suggested that the reason why companies hold so much cash is fear of another economic collapse. After all, two major debacles hit the U.S. economy over the past decade and a half. Corporate executives are now much more attuned to the possibility of another bubble bursting. They are no longer going to listen to economists who tell them we're seeing the emergence of a "new economy" as they did in the late 1990s, or that homeowners simply don't default, as they did a decade later.
There is now considerable apprehension about possible bubbles in the bond market, in high-tech shares and throughout the Chinese economy. Decision-makers are aware that the world's banking system is in a precarious state due to the ongoing euro-zone debt crisis. The realization has set in that the U.S. economy, far from being a mature, solid juggernaut, is a boom-bust construct.
Another major concern that corporate executives are expressing by holding large cash reserves is about the federal budget deficit and debt burden. In fact, the steady increase in corporate cash holdings is mirrored by the government debt burden, which has been growing at a rate of over $1 trillion annually since the start of the Obama administration. Corporate cash holdings also parallel increases in foreigners' dollar and Treasury bond holdings, which stem from our persistent current account deficit. At the end of last year foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries surpassed $5 trillion.
Imbalances can persist for a long time, but they can't last forever. Cash cannot accumulate indefinitely on corporate balance sheets while U.S. debt mounts at the same time. Either the U.S. government will have to boost corporate taxes or it will cut spending. Higher taxes will reduce the pile of cash on corporate balance sheets directly. Spending cuts will slash aggregate demand (as has been the case in Greece, Spain and other southern European countries) so that lower economic growth will reduce corporate profits and cash holdings over time. In fact, this is exactly what is happening now: slow growth, low investment, low returns and inflation are eroding the real value of corporate cash.
A third alternative, albeit not a realistic one: the U.S. government goes bankrupt, defaulting on all those Treasuries in which companies are investing their money.
Cash-Caused Crash
The U.S. is not going to default, of course, since its debt is denominated in dollars and it can always print more green stuff. But that will create other problems for corporations with enormous cash holdings. They are exposed to deflation of the U.S. Treasuries market as well as to an inflationary surge. The implications for the stock market, which has been in large measure buoyed by the cash holdings, are equally dire. Market capitalization of the S&P 500 index is approximately $12 trillion, of which $2 trillion, or a little more than 15%, comes from corporate cash.
Alexei Bayer is an economist and author based in New York City.


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Sony VW600ES wins Editor's Choice
It took a bit longer to get the 4K source material for the Sony VW600ES testing, but it was worth the wait...
The review of the Sony VPL-VW600ES was posted on Wednesday. We were very enthused to give it our top Editor's Choice award. Rarely does a projector come along that is as beautifully done and transformational as this one. And the most exciting part about it is that you don't need 4K source material to justify it. HD 1080p and even standard DVD looks better than ever on this projector. In our view, even if 4K source material never were to come to market, the benefits of upscaling lower resolution sources to 4K are obvious enough that the price is justified. But plenty of native 4K material will be here soon enough anyway.
The shootout between the Runco X-200i and the Epson 6030UB has been much more of an eye-opening experience than I would have anticipated. Their performance is much closer than their widely disparate price tags would lead one to assume. We are doing full calibrations for each type of source on both projectors and will include this data in the article. So I'm not able to wrap it up this week like I had planned. Next week is a vacation week for me, so the first order of business when returning a week from Monday will be to finish this comparative study.
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SolarCity: Master Backup Servicing Agreement
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013—SolarCity (Nasdaq: SCTY), a provider of clean, distributed energy, has created a new option for its solar investment funds. The company has completed what it believes to be the industry's first master backup servicing agreement with an AA- rated financial institution.
"We're continuing to create enhancements to our investment funds that will attract new investors and expand the sources of capital for the rooftop solar business," said Lyndon Rive, SolarCity's CEO. "Our backup servicing is an optional enhancement that further reduces investment risk by placing an AA- rated entity as a backstop to ensure the continued servicing of our solar power systems."
Developers in a range of mature asset classes such as mortgages, auto financing and student loans often work with large financial institutions to provide investors additional insurance against asset servicing risk in return for a lower cost of capital. Known as "backup servicing", this enhancement is a common attribute of mature asset classes that SolarCity is now making available to its solar investment funds.
SolarCity pioneered solar leasing, zero-down solar financing and the solar performance guarantee and has perhaps done more than any other company to bring new types of asset investors to solar. The company has worked with 13 different banks, utilities and corporations to create 24 investment funds to finance more than $1.6 billion in solar systems.
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Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified
No matter how well you know a topic, or a codebase, it's never to late (or early) to get nailed by a latest bug a over a half-decade old.
DasBlog, the ASP.NET 2 blog engine that powers this blog, is done. It's not dead, but it's done. It's very stable. We had some commits last year, and I committed a bug fix in February, but it's really well understood and very baked. My blog hasn't been down for traffic spike reasons in literally years as DasBlog scales nicely on a single machine.
It was 10:51pm PDT (that's Pacific Daylight Time) and I was writing a blog post about the clocks in my house, given that PST (that's Pacific Standard Time) was switching over soon. I wrote it up in Windows Live Writer, posted it to my blog, then hit Hanselman.com to check it out.
Bam. 404.
What? 404? Nonsense. Refresh.
*heart in chest* Have I been hacked? What's going on? OK, to the logs!
l2 time 2011-11-06T05:36:31 code 1 message Error:System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: utcDate
at System.Web.HttpCacnhePolicy.UtcSetLastModified(DateTime utcDate)
at System.Web.HttpCachePolicy.SetLastModified(DateTime date)
at newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core.SiteUtilities.GetStatusNotModified(DateTime latest) in C:\dev\DasBlog\source\newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core\SiteUtilities.cs:line 1253
at newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core.SharedBasePage.NotModified(EntryCollection entryCollection) in C:\dev\DasBlog\source\newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core\SharedBasePage.cs:line 1182
at newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core.SharedBasePage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\dev\DasBlog\source\newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.Core\SharedBasePage.cs:line 1213
at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) while processing http://www.hanselman.com/blog/default.aspx.
What's going on? Out of range? What's out of range. Ok, my site is down for the first time in years. I must have messed it up with my clock post. I'll delete that. OK, delete. Whew.
Logs, same error, now the file is a meg and growing, as this messages is happening of hundreds of times a minute. OK, to the code!
UtcSetLastModified is used for setting cache-specific HTTP headers and for controlling the ASP.NET page output cache. It lets me tell HTTP that something hasn't been modified since a certain time. I've got a utility that figures out which post was the last modified or most recently had comments modified, then I tell the home page, then the browser, so everyone can decide if there is fresh content or not.
public DateTime GetLatestModifedEntryDateTime(IBlogDataService dataService, EntryCollection entries)
//figure out if send a 304 Not Modified or not...
return latest //the lastTime anything interesting happened.
In the BasePage we ask ourselves, can we avoid work and give a 304?
//Can we get away with an "if-not-modified" header?
if (SiteUtilities.GetStatusNotModified(SiteUtilities.GetLatestModifedEntryDateTime(dataService, entryCollection)))
However, note that I'm have to call SetLastModified though. Seems that UtcSetLastModified is private. (Why?) When I call SetLastModified it does this:
public void SetLastModified(DateTime date)
DateTime utcDate = DateTimeUtil.ConvertToUniversalTime(date);
Um, OK. Lame. So that means I have to work in local time. I retrieve dates and convert them ToLocalTime().
At this point, you might say, Oh, I get it, he's called ToLocalTime() too many times and double converted his times. That's what I thought. However, after .NET 2 that is possible.
The value returned by the conversion is a DateTime whose Kind property always returns Local. Consequently, a valid result is returned even if ToLocalTime is applied repeatedly to the same DateTime.
But. We originally wrote DasBlog in .NET 1.1 first and MOVED it to .NET 2 some years later. I suspect that I'm actually counting on some incorrect behavior deep in own our (Clemens Vasters and mine) TimeZone and Data Access code that worked with that latent incorrect behavior (overconverting DateTimes to local time) and now that's not happening. And hasn't been happening for four years.
Hopefully you can see where this is going.
It seems a comment came in around 5:36am GMT or 10:36pm PDT which is 1:36am EST. That become the new Last Modified Date. At some point we an hour was added in conversion as PDT wasn't PST yet but EDT was EST.
Your brain exploded yet? Hate Daylight Saving Time? Ya, me too.
Anyway, that DateTime became 2:36am EST rather than 1:36am. Problem is, 2:36am EST is/was the future as 6:46 GMT hadn't happened yet.
A sloppy 5 year old bug that has been happening for an hour each year that was likely always there but counted on 10 year old framework code that was fixed 7 years ago. Got Unit Tests for DST? I don't.
My server is in the future, but actually not as far in the future as it usually is. My server in on the East Coast and it was 1:51am. However, the reasons my posts sometimes look like they are from the future, is I store everything in the neutral UTC/GMT zone, so it was 5:51am the next day on my file system.
Moral of the story?
I need to confirm that my server is on GMT time and that none of my storage code is affected my Daylight Saving Time.
Phrased differently, don't use DateTime.Now for ANY date calculations or to store anything. Use DateTime.UTCNow and be aware that some methods will freak out if you send them future dates, as they should. Avoid doing ANYTHING in local time until that last second when you show the DateTime to the user.
In my case, in the nine minutes it took to debug this, it resolved itself. The future became the present and the future last modified DateTime became valid. Is there a bug? There sure it, at least, there is for an hour, once a year. Now the real question is, do I fix it and possibly break something that works the other 8759 hours in a year. Hm, that IS still four 9's of uptime. (Ya, I know I need to fix it.)
"My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written." - Some famous programmer
Until next year. ;)
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Having both worked in publishing for many years, we (Di and Julia) founded Critical Publishing in 2012. We met up in the cafe of the British Library, ordered coffee and cake, and hatched a plan. We felt we could produce learning resources for education and social work students and professionals that were fresher and better than what was already around.
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A Trooper from the Michigan State Police Lakeview Post attempted to stop two motorcycles travelling at excessive speeds near the village of Sheridan last Friday, July 29, and ended up in a high speed chase.
The motorcycles failed to stop for the Trooper and a pursuit ensued, with speeds reaching in excess of 100 mph. The motorcycles split up, but the Trooper was able to stop one of the motorcycles, and a Stanton man was arrested on multiple charges.
Robert Brandon Jaikowski, 25, of Stanton, was arraigned in Montcalm 64-B District Court on charges of fleeing and eluding a police officer 4th degree, driving on a suspended license, and operating without a motorcycle endorsement. He was released on a $7,500 personal recognizance bond. He has a preliminary hearing set for August 8 at 1 p.m.
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ESA joins YouTube Space Lab student space competition
Today, ESA joins the launch of 'YouTube Space Lab', an exciting campaign initiated by YouTube, NASA, Space Adventures and Lenovo that challenges students around the world to design a science experiment for the International Space Station.
The winning experiments will be conducted in space on the International Space Station (ISS), making it the Universe's largest science lesson, streamed live for the world to see via YouTube.
Space Lab is part of a larger YouTube effort, aimed at providing educators access to the wealth of educational content available on YouTube.
Also joining ESA in this launch are two more Station partners, JAXA of Japan and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Stephen Hawking joins astronauts as judges
Individually or in groups of up to three, students aged 14–18 years may submit a YouTube video describing their experiment to www.youtube.com/spacelab.
A panel of prestigious scientists, astronauts and teachers, including the renowned Professor Stephen Hawking, astronauts Frank De Winne, Samantha Cristoforetti and Timothy Peake of ESA, NASA's Leland Melvin, Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA, Chris Hadfield of CSA and Cirque du Soleil's founder Guy Laliberté, will judge the entries with input from the YouTube community.
Six regional finalists will gather in the USA in March 2012 to experience a zero-gravity flight and receive other prizes.
Exclusive visit with ESA astronauts
European finalists will win a visit to the training facilities of the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. This will include scientific discussions and a personally guided tour led by European astronauts.
Finally, two global winners will be announced, for their experiments to be sent into orbit and performed on the Space Station in summer 2012 – live-streamed on YouTube from space.
Additionally, the global winners will get to choose a unique space prize: either a trip to Japan to watch their experiment blast off on the HTV cargo vessel, or a trip to Russia for an authentic space training experience at the facilities where Yuri Gagarin became a cosmonaut.
"As a former ISS crew member, I am particularly pleased that ESA experts are joining this worldwide student competition in support of ISS science," says Thomas Reiter, ESA's Director for Human Spaceflight and Operations.
"I believe it is vital to directly involve youth not only in the challenges of conducting science in space, but also in seeing the wide range of benefits."
"The 'YouTube Space Lab' campaign is an excellent, creative way of reaching out to future generations of scientists, on the ground and in orbit. Today, numerous fundamental and applied research experiments in life and physical sciences, Earth and space monitoring as well as technology and education are performed on our Columbus laboratory on the ISS, closely coupled to terrestrial research programmes and issues."
ESA fosters youth focus on science
ESA is in a unique position to reach out to all European students of primary and secondary schools. It can convey the excitement and use the medium of space to stimulate and nurture children's fascination for sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The regular presence of ESA astronauts on long missions on the Station since 2009 provides opportunities for European schools to participate in 'Take Your Classroom Into Space' activities, which see children perform the same experiments on the ground as ESA astronauts do in space. These events are highlighted by multi-site international video live links to the Station.
Much of ESA's educational material revolves around experiments in Europe's Columbus laboratory on the Station, but also uses the other European-built modules, such as Cupola, to maximise outreach with breathtaking images and videos of Earth.
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