Children in displacement

Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF)

The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) sets out a wide range of measures to be taken by the international community in response to large-scale refugee situations across the whole cycle of displacement, from admission and reception to meeting ongoing needs and searching for solutions.

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Other document

Handbook for Self-reliance

Self-reliance is a key component in any strategy aimed at avoiding or addressing protracted refugee situations, enabling agencies and refugees to find durable solutions that are truly sustainable; providing a foundation for building towards the Millennium Development Goals; and developing capacities contributing to the pursuit of the Agenda for Protection. This handbook is about social…

Publication year: 2005
Content Type: Toolkit

The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children

This study provides overview of the effect of conflict and displacement on children’s physical and mental health. It gives insight into particular vulnerabilities of child soldiers and unaccompanied minors and separated children; and it presents an overview of some studies that have worked on interventions to mitigate effects of conflict and displacement on children’s physical…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Academic paper

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a legally-binding international agreement setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities. The UNCRC consists of 54 articles that set out children’s rights and how governments should work together to make…

Publication year: 1989
Content Type: Other document

Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies and Displacement

The Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies and Displacement describes the process IOM MHPSS programme managers should follow to design and implement relevant programmes in the aftermath of an emergency and with displaced populations. While designed for IOM MHPSS programmes, the manual was compiled with the support of 100 experts…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

Bridging the Gap. Save the Children’s transitional Housing Project after the Tsunami in Ampara district, Sri Lanka

The publication documents the shelter construction process in Ampara district, Sri Lanka, following the 2004 tsunami. Under this project, the first 100 houses were declared by UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) to be the best among the thirty kinds of transitional shelter constructed in Ampara district. Save the Children’s shelters met international criteria…

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Report

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

The Global Compact on Migration aims to foster international cooperation by setting out guiding principles and providing examples of multilateral political framework. It deals with the complex nature of international migration by addressing a wide range of migration-related aspects, such as border management, smuggling and trafficking in human beings, migrant documentation and return and readmission,…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Refugee Education in Urban Settings

An Urban Refugee Task Team webinar led by UNHCR Education teams in Nairobi and Geneva, discussing the role of education in urban settings. It uses Nairobi as a case study, providing good practices, lessons learned and challenges plus general recommendations for programming focusing on mainstreaming and inclusion, partnerships and community participation.

Publication year: 2014
Content Type: Other document

Contribution to the Expert Symposium on International Migration and Development

This report has sections on 1) urban actors and local authorities for the implementation of the Global Compact and the integration of migrants in urban areas for migration and development, 2) ways to achieve global frameworks on (urban) migration and development, and 3) research and data for urbanization trends.

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Report

High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges: Protection and Solutions in Urban Settings

This report elaborates on the UNHCR’s dialogue on protection challenges which: 1) recognizes the important role of cities, local authorities and communities, including individual citizens and other local actors and partners, in protecting and assisting refugees, returnees and internally displaced and stateless populations, 2) takes stock of existing inter- and intra-city support measures and commitments,…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care

Usually more than half of any refugee population are children. Refugee children are children first and foremost, and as children, they need special attention. As refugees, they are particularly at risk with the uncertainty and unprecedented upheavals which are increasingly marking the post-Cold War era. In order to improve and enhance the protection and care…

Publication year: 1994
Content Type: Book

UNHCR Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

This report details UNHCR’s policy and approach to securing the rights of urban refugees, providing them with protection, and implementing protection strategies in urban settings, and updating the earlier policy on refugees in urban areas from 1997.

Publication year: 2009
Content Type: Report

Map Kibera

Map Kibera is an initiative that in 2009 empowered young residents of Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, to create the first digital map of the area, which was previously a blank spot on the map. The initiative has since expanded into a full community information and media project that uses tools like mapping, SMS,…

Publication year: 2009
Content Type: Toolkit

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