International Organization for Migration

Overview: Establishing a Returnee Reintegration Information Management System

December 13, 2011

• Definition of Information Management and Information Management System

• Establishing the RRIMS (Components)• Essential Characteristics and Functionalities of

RRIMS• Key Points

Agenda

• Information Management– Process of capturing, storing and processing

information, (optional) information dissemination

• Information Management System– Tool that enables organizations to process raw

information to intelligent information for decision-making.

– i.e., Returnee Reintegration Information Management System, UNHCR Repatriation and Returnee Information System, IOM’s MIMOSA or Migrant Management and Operation Systems Application

Definitions

Establishing the RRIMS

Create the PrototypeRRIMS

Establish the Business Process(Who, when and how)

Create Process Flow

Data Usage Policy and Guidelines

Deployment

Establishing the RRIMS

Create the PrototypeRRIMS

Data Collection

Data Processing and

Collation

Data Analysis and Reporting

Create Process Flow

Data Usage Policy and Guidelines

Establish the Business Process

Establishing the RRIMS

Data Collection

Capture Information on:• Beneficiary Information• Pre-departure• Movement Information• Assistance Package Information• Monitoring

Create the PrototypeRRIMS

Establishing the RRIMS

Data Collection

Data Processing

and Collation

• Secure • Centralized (CDR)

Create the PrototypeRRIMS

Establishing the RRIMS

Create the PrototypeRRIMS

Data Collection

Data Processing and Collation

Data Analysis and

Reporting

• Promotion of information at national, regional and international level.

• Formulation of technical cooperation projects.• Increase awareness and understanding of the

reintegration process.

Establishing the RRIMS

RRIMS

Establish the Business Process(Who, when and how)

Deployment

Data Collection

Data Processing and Collation

Data Analysis and Reporting

Create Process Flow

Data Usage Policy and Guidelines

• Trend Analysis– Gender and Age– Educational and Professional Background– Ethnicity and Location– Total Number of Returnees

• Movement Tracking or Reintegration Monitoring• Upload Facility• Multi-level Restrictive Access• Audit Facility• CAMS – Customizable, Adaptable, Manageable and

Simple

Characteristics and Functionalities

• Information is power. Information Management is crucial to any organization. RRIMS is an essential tool to Returnee Reintegration Information Management.

• Establish the business process using Data Usage Policies and Guidelines and then create the information management system (CAMS).

• Data Collection, Data Processing and Collation, Data Analysis and Reporting: Three components towards raw information to intelligent information.

• Intelligent information yielded from RRIMS will aid you in planning reintegration assistances, refining reintegration policies and enhancing impact of your reintegration programmes

Key Points

Supplemental Information

• Inter-cluster Information Management Working Group (IMWG)– OCHA, IOM, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF, NRC, AfghanAid,

Care, etc.– Coordinate Activities and Information from each Cluster

including sharing of Information Management Tools (databases, 3Ws, and websites)

– Ensuring that a core set of information management standards are in place for collecting, sharing and storing data.

• Purpose: To ensure that all facets of humanitarian needs are addressed within the Afghanistan community.

• For more information, please email kvelayo@iom.int or Janet O’Callaghan ocallaghan@un.org

Thank you for listening.