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.