Children in displacement

Community-Based Approaches to MHPSS Programmes: A Guidance Note

Community-based approaches to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (CB MHPSS) in emergencies are based on the understanding that communities can be drivers for their own care and change and should be meaningfully involved in all stages of MHPSS responses. Emergency-affected people are first and foremost to be viewed as active participants in improving individual and…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

The Children of Kabul – Discussions with Afghan Families

The study explores three main topics : well-being goals for Afghan children; the threats children face in achieving well-being; and the coping resources children already have for dealing with their difficulties.The findings of the research are relevant for all who seek to provide assistance to Afghan children – and war-affected children worldwide – as they…

Publication year: 2003
Content Type: Report

UnSettlement: Urban Displacement in the 21st Century

The increasingly long-term and intractable nature of displacement, particularly for people in low and middle-income countries, means that camp settings are not a viable option in the long term. In the 21st century urban centres have increasingly become destinations for internally displaced people. This is not a new phenomenon, but its real scale at regional…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

The Implementation of UNHCR’S Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

Since the publication of its 2009 policy on urban refugees, UNHCR policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas, the topic of urban refugees has become increasingly prominent amongst humanitarian actors. It is widely acknowledged that refugees are more often ﬂeeing to cities instead of camps. The body of literature on urban refugees is…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Report

Psychosocial Intervention for War-Affected Children in Sierra Leone

PLAN international and UNESCO worked on a psychosocial pilot project to normalise ‘displaced children’s lives and alleviate psychological distress by participating in non formal education, trauma healing and recreation activities’. A psychosocial assessment study was conducted with 8-17 year-old displaced children in Sierra Leone to assess emotional and mental health of the children after the…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Academic paper

Block by Block

Block by Block is a global initiative that uses the popular video game Minecraft to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would like to see their cities in the future. The project is a collaboration between Mojang, the creators…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Other document

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

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

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

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

The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children’s Narratives

This study examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan Indian children living in 2 refugee camps in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Conventional assessment instruments were adapted for use in this unique context, and semistructured interviews were utilized to gather phenomenological data from children regarding various developmental, sociocultural, and political topics.…

Publication year: 1996
Content Type: Academic paper

Refugees and the City: The Twenty-First-Century Front Line

This report assesses the characteristics of urban displacement and identifies challenges and opportunities confronting cities. In the process, it challenges myths associated with the “refugee burden” in cities, offering preliminary recommendations for stepping up international, national and municipal cooperation.

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Child Development and Family Mental Health in War and Military Violence: The Palestinian Experience

The article reviews developmental research among Palestinians living in Gaza. The aims are, first, to analyse how exposure to traumatic events associates with children’s mental health and their cognitive, emotional and social development. Second, we aimed to model familial and symbolic processes that can either harm or protect the mental health of children. Third, we…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Academic paper

Depressive Symptomology Among Namibian Adolescent Refugees

Symptoms of depression have been considered rare in sub-Saharan populations. Using a standard assessment measure of depressive symptomatology, the Beck Depression Inventory, the prevalence of symptoms of depression was obtained from a group (N = 56) of Namibian refugees (ages 12-23) residing in a sub-Saharan host country. Average time spent in host country 5 years.…

Publication year: 1985
Content Type: Academic paper

Housing, Land & Property Issues in Lebanon: Implications of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The urgent need for basic shelter has pushed many Syrian families to live in poor conditions, frequently in spaces not designed as shelters. The situation is further exacerbated with the arrival of new refugees, reducing hence the availability of housing and increasing the risk of eviction. The presence of these refugees has also had adverse…

Publication year: 2014
Content Type: Report

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