IOM’s Canadian Orientation Abroad (COA), funded by the Canadian Government’s Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), is one of our more successful and long-serving migrant training programmes to date.  COA provides orientation sessions for visa-ready migrants bound for Canada –  including refugees, immigrants, and live-in caregivers.  The pre-departure orientation for Canada-bound migrants is designed  to help them adapt to life in their new country.   In FY 2012 a total of  11,261 migrants attended a COA session, and total trained since inception of the program in 1998  exceeds 160,000.