Under the coordination of the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement, various partners provide immediate support for the reintegration of these children, with an emphasis on access to education and vocational training, and income generating activities.
And it lends added force to demands for their immediate demobilisation - and eventual rehabilitation and reintegration to society.
Reintegration into communities Beyond such immediate concerns, UNICEF and its partners in Haiti are working on long-term income-generating projects, which aim to stimulate economic activity and increase self-reliance among the earthquake-affected population.
World Vision called on governments in the region to stop all support to armed groups and to create conditions to support and encourage the return and reintegration of former fighters, where appropriate, with particular attention to the immediate release of children from armed groups.
UNICEF is committed to working with them to ensure that there is an immediate halt to new recruitments and support a process of identification, verification and reintegration of children".
People with a psychiatric illness benefit from having a volunteer by gaining a close companion from outside of their immediate circle, who does not stigmatize them, and helps to facilitate their social-community reintegration.
To determine the effect of the established polytrauma/traumatic brain injury (TBI) infrastructure on immediate posttreatment functional gains, the long-term sustainability of any gains, and participation-related community reintegration outcomes in a baseline cohort of patients 8 years postadmission.
It is noteworthy that rehabilitation and reintegration are different phenomena, and NGOs have been specifically targeting the rehabilitation aspect with immediate support rather than holistic reintegration of the surviving returnees.
Historically, after 2004, the number of returnees decreased and the immediate needs required for disarmament and demobilization began to shift to the long-term needs required for reintegration [ 19, 29, 31].
"The successful reintegration of these children back into their communities depends on a timely, coordinated response to meet their immediate and long-term needs," said Veitch.
