IGAD:2020-2024 Regional Refugee Management
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As per the data at the end of March 2019, there were almost 13 million people displaced in the IGAD region- comprising of approximately 9.2 million IDPs and 3.7 million refugees. The main driving factors are conflicts, degradation of the environment, natural and human-made disasters, and poverty that forces people to migrate in search of economic opportunitie...
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As per the data at the end of March 2019, there were almost 13 million people displaced in the IGAD region- comprising of approximately 9.2 million IDPs and 3.7 million refugees. The main driving factors are conflicts, degradation of the environment, natural and human-made disasters, and poverty that forces people to migrate in search of economic opportunities. Accordingly, IGAD has developed a three years project proposal that seeks to promote sound, and harmonised approach to manage refugees and asylum protection in the region and submitted to the Embassy for funding. The main rationale for the project is fact that effective protection is often beyond the reach of a single state and a successful regional framework permits responsibility for refugees protection to be distributed equitably across states, based on principles of equity, respect for sovereignty, reciprocity and solidarity. Absence of harmonized refugees response mechanism and low implementation status of international and regionally agreed standards, conventions and treaties related to refugees are some of the challenges of the region. The main objective of the project is to promote a fair, predictable, gender-responsive and harmonized approach to refugees management and asylum protection in the IGAD region. The expected outcomes of the project are:- . Harmonized refugee protection and managment policies, legislation and practices are improved and strengthened; . Regional exchange and implementation of innovative and effective practices enhanced; . Technical assistance and advocacy for IGAD and its member states enhanced; The total budget planned for the intervention is 35 Million SEK for the duration of three years (2020-2022). The project will be implemented by IGAD secretariat in collaboration with UNHCR, seven IGAD Member States and other relevant actors. The ultimate beneficiaries of the planned project are refugee and asylum seekers-women and men across the IGAD region, who owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, are outside the country of their nationality. The project also benefits national ministries in charge of refugees affair, immigration departments and foreign affair among others.
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The following are some of the results reported under each outcome level: Outcome 1: Harmonized refugee protection and management policies, legislation and practices are improved and strengthened, the following results have been reported: - The development and endorsement of the IGAD Policy Framework on Refugee Protection, which will be a common regional framework that will promote harmonized refugee management responses in the region - Contributed to a strengthened policy environment for Refugee Protection by supporting MS in the development and revision of regional and national legislations and policies on refugee management; for example, the support to Sudan and South Sudan Durable Solutions Strategy and Plan of Action to respond to the refugees, returnees, and host communities in their countries, as well as the development and endorsement of the Regional Solutions Strategy and Joint Action Plan for Sudan and South Sudan to respond to the displaced population from these two countries. Furthermore, MS have been supported with reviewing and developing their refugee management strategies, for instance, the program supported the development of Uganda's National Refugee Policy Outcome 2: Regional exchange and implementation of innovative and effective practices enhanced The program facilitated learning and exchange amongst the MS but also across regions with joint conference between EAC and IGAD MS, the following are some of the results under this outcome area: - IGAD-EAC High Level Ministerial Conference on Durable Solutions for Refugees focused on enhancing coordinated regional approaches to the refugee situation in the East and Horn of Africa, which also allowed the sharing of knowledge and best practices across these two regions - The program facilitated MS to have a learning visit to Uganda's largest refugee hosting areas, to observe Uganda's policy implementation on refugee protection and document best practices, which includes their admission and asylum procedures, implementation of settlement approach, and access to essential services for refugees. - Facilitated multi-stakeholder National Dialogues in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. Outcome 3: Technical assistance and advocacy for IGAD and its member states enhanced -The program convened a regional Training of Trainers (ToT) where 22 experts from the seven IGAD MS attended a four day training session that covered international protection, access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, and comprehensive durable solutions. This facilitated knowledge transfer by these experts in refugee protection agencies within their national agencies and operations, and contributed to strengthening the capacity of refugee management agencies. - At the national levels, the program provided training in Ethiopia and Somalia targeting 35 technical field staff from each country. The training aimed to enhance the capacity of experts in these two countries in areas such as Refugee Status Determination principles, standards, and procedures, and to ensure front line staff have the capacity to handle various challenges efficiently.
The overall goal of the planned contribution is to enable IGAD region to have a fair, predictable and gender-responsive harmonized refugee management and asylum protection system in place. The expected outcomes of the project are the following. - Regional refugee protection and management policies, legislation and practices are improved, strengthened and harmonized; - Regional exchange and implementation of innovative and effective practices enhanced; and - Technical assistance and advocacy for IGAD and its member states enhanced. The intervention will also improve refugee management situation in the region by facilitating cooperation and coordination among the member states which will lay the ground for burden sharing and working towards durable solutions. In addition, the planned project will boost the capacity of the different ministries and/or departments responsible for managing refugees and enable them to meet minimum standards of operation regarding the refugees management.
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