On 14-15 March 2012, IOM Azerbaijan organized a two-day First Aid Training for its staff.
The training was conducted by the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society as a contribution to IOM’s staff development efforts to facilitate the IOM Team in Azerbaijan gain necessary skills and knowledge to provide timely and efficient assistance to those in need in emergency situations.
The event was well attended by a total of 12 programme and administration staff member from the Country Office in Baku and the Field Office in Mingachevir, 50 percent of whom were females.
The main objective of the training was to introduce training participants to the basic principles on how to analyze an emergency situation, recognize injuries and respond to the needs of the injured in an adequate manner during emergencies.
The training was delivered by Dr. Shahin Bilanderli, the First Aid Coordinator of the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society.
The following ten topics were covered during the event:

• Human body organs and systems;

• Acute diseases;

• Artificial respiration and cardiac massage;

• How to stop bleeding;

• Types of injury and treatment;

• Types of burn and treatment;

• Fractures and dislocations and treatment;

• Shocks;

• Food poisoning and treatment; and

• Poisonous bites and treatment.

 Based on the feedback of the participants it was determined that the aims of the training were achieved. All participants commented that learning the techniques of first aid was of utmost importance to them and consequently, the training had been very useful, engaging and timely. The vast majority of the staff that attended the training scored above 80 percent in the final examination.
On completion of the training all participants were awarded with the ‘European Certificate on First Aid’ by the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society. 

 2011, IOM celebrates 60 years of assisting migrants and providing support to Member States in migration-related issues. To commemorate this occasion in Azerbaijan, an official ceremony was held by IOM Mission to Azerbaijan in Baku, Hyatt Meeting and Conference Centre on 30th November 2011. The event was attended by senior government officials related to migration management as well as other relevant government representatives of the Republic of Azerbaijan, heads of diplomatic missions and relevant international organizations in Azerbaijan and representatives of the non-governmental organizations.
The event was started with demonstration of the movie on IOM 60th Anniversary. The video showed how IOM missions are striving to help people in need around the world in areas of migration and related issues.
Keynote speeches were delivered by Ms. Renate Held, IOM Regional Director on Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries, Mr. Arzu Rahimov, Head of the State Migration Service and Mr. Gurban Sadigov, Head of the Department for Problems of Refugees, IDPs, Migration and affairs with International Organizations of the Cabinet of Ministers. They all congratulated the achievements made by IOM in Azerbaijan in collaboration with the government and highlighted the importance of the role which IOM is playing for individuals benefited by the each project implemented and security of the country.   
Mass media representatives filmed and covered the ceremony and interviewed senior officials for broadcasting.
IOM, which was established in 1951, is an inter-governmental organization that promotes humane and rights-based approaches to migration and development and which assists governments in facilitating and regulating migration and in fighting human trafficking. 
The IOM Mission in Azerbaijan started operations in January 1996. Activities in Azerbaijan include counter-trafficking; capacity building in migration and border management and technical assistance; migration related legislation development and adjustment; migration and development / environment; movement programmes; assisted voluntary return and reintegration

 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Trust Fund (ITF) in the frame of the project “South Caucasus Socio-Economic Reintegration Programme for Mine Victims” organized

 

an event on presentation a documentary film “A Way to Reintegration” about the project activity and its results. This official ceremony  was held  in Baku, Hyatt Meeting and Conference Centre on 29th November 2011. The programme is being financed through the International Trust Fund by the Austrian Development Cooperation / Austrian Development Agency (leading donor), Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action, Baku International Rotary Club, Slovenian and Korean governments