UNHCR'S INITIATIVE ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT 2020 2021
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UNHCR’S INITIATIVE ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT 2020 – 2021
Population figures Stepped-up engagement in situations
at a glance of internal displacement
In setting out his Strategic Directions 2017-2021, the commitment to strengthen its preparedness,
79.4M High Commissioner committed to repositioning
UNHCR to be more decisive, predictable and
operational delivery, coordination leadership and
the search for solutions within the inter-agency
Persons of Concern
effective in situations of internal displacement, framework. Specific organizational keystones and
working alongside States and partners in planning enablers are articulated in the Policy and
and delivering a protection and solutions driven elaborated in its accompanying Guidance Package.
response.
43.9M IDPs To ensure a consistent organization-wide
The updated Policy on UNHCR’s Engagement in approach, compliance with the 2019 IDP Policy
Situations of Internal Displacement – issued in has been made mandatory.
September 2019 - is a clear example of UNHCR’s
Internally displaced across regions
Operationalizing UNHCR’s commitments:
42% 19% 6.5% 6%
the IDP-Initiative
26.5%
Africa Americas Asia and MENA Europe
Pacific As a complement to agency-wide efforts across all
The main objectives of the
its IDP operations, UNHCR’s engagement in
internal displacement will be further concretized, IDP-initiative are to:
supported and driven forward on a focused and 1. Generate examples of good practices to
demonstrative basis in nine target operations, inform the continued operationalization of the
which span the internal displacement spectrum IDP Policy.
42% of all IDPs are in three countries from emergency preparedness, to response, and
to solutions. 2. Contribute to heightened visibility and
advocacy on the impact of internal
The target countries are drawn from displacement on affected populations.
geographically diverse situations of internal
7.9M 6.1M 4.5M displacement and include: Ethiopia, South Sudan, 3. Inform resource mobilization strategies and
Colombia Syria Democratic Republic
of the Congo (DRC) Sudan, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the equitable resource allocation.
Congo (DRC), Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and
Colombia. 4. Facilitate focused support to the nine target
operations on specific thematic, strategic and
operational issues.
SOURCE: UNHCR MID-YEAR TRENDS 2019
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IDP-INITIATIVE TARGET OPERATIONS IDP-INITIATIVE TARGET OPERATIONS
IDP-Initiative Ukraine
Most IDPs – 1.5 million as of mid-2019 –
Target Operations
in Ukraine have been living in
displacement since the peak of
hostilities in 2014, unable to return in the
absence of sustained peace.
UNHCR’s IDP Policy will be implemented Iraq
across all its field operations. The selection of Despite ongoing returns,
there are over 1.4 million
target operations for the IDP-Initiative is
IDPs in camps and
additional to demonstrate a concerted IDP informal settlements.
step-up. These operations have been Sudan
carefully selected taking into account (i) Nearly 2 million Sudanese IDPs in and
out of camps. Humanitarian needs
balanced representation among operations at remain after a year of civil unrest and
various stages of the displacement cycle, political change.
from new or escalating emergencies to Afghanistan
Over 2 million IDPs. In the first half
protracted and post-conflict (ii) magnitude of
of 2019 alone, Afghanistan saw a
displacement (iii) nature of displacement (iv) Burkina Faso further 213,000 displacements as a
the size, effectiveness and coherence of As of February 2020 - over result of shifting conflict dynamics
765,000 IDPs, an increase of and clashes.
UNHCR’s operational and cluster-led Colombia
almost 60% in a four month span.
Protracted displacement
response and (v) the capacity of operations to situation with 7.9 million IDPs.
exhibit practices in specific thematic areas,
and to demonstrate what a stepped-up
approach tangibly entails.
Individually each operation will prioritize the
operationalization of the keystones inscribed
in the updated IDP Policy. Collectively, they Ethiopia
Internal displacement reached a peak of
will demonstrate the scope of UNHCR’s 3.2 million in early 2019 primarily due to conflict but
engagement across the varied dimensions of also due to climate-change. Despite a government
Democratic Republic of the
led IDP return operation in May 2019, partners
its work. Congo (DRC)
estimate over 2 million IDPs remaining.
5 million IDPs - Active conflicts
and political uncertainty
continued to drive significant
displacement in 2019.
South Sudan
1.47 million IDPs primarily due to
conflict and communal clashes, of
which 13% are in UNMISS Protection
of Civilian (PoC) sites.
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KEYSTONES KEYSTONES
Keystones Centrality of protection Emergency preparedness
As in all IDP operations, UNHCR advises and To ensure better preparedness for emergencies
UNHCR’s stepped-up engagement on internal displacement will be supported and showcased in the supports Resident/Humanitarian Coordinators and involving internal displacement, both in its
nine target operations in relation to the keystones articulated in the IDP Policy. Each of the keystones UN/Humanitarian Country Teams in the development operational role and as tri-Cluster Lead Agency,
is being put into practice in the nine target operations, while some keystones will be prominently of overarching protection and solutions strategies, UNHCR is finalising an internal Preparedness
highlighted in particular operations, depending on the operational context. relying upon evidence-based protection and needs Package for IDP Emergencies (PPIE). In line with
analyses developed in cooperation with this tool, UNHCR will ensure strengthened
stakeholders prior to and after cluster activation. participation in inter-agency preparedness
Representatives participate in UN/Humanitarian measures, contribute to UN system-wide, and
Country Teams, to help ensure that protection is government-led or supported, risk assessment
placed at the centre of the humanitarian response and early warning mechanisms, and continue to
(across the IDP spectrum), and guide humanitarian support local and national capacity to prepare for,
Centrality of action, advocacy and engagement. As Protection prevent and mitigate displacement risks. UNHCR
protection Cluster lead, UNHCR will continue to promote will consistently embed protection considerations
Data, protection mainstreaming across all clusters, thereby in the various steps of agency and inter-agency
information Coordination ensuring that inter-agency preparedness and preparedness efforts, and will contribute to
response is shaped by protection considerations. scenario-based contingency planning within its
management leadership
These actions will ensure that all activities take shelter and settlements, and camp/site
& analysis
account of age, gender and diversity considerations, coordination and management, areas of expertise.
as well as the existing skills and capacities of
affected populations.
Operational response
Supporting UNHCR is committed to strengthening operational
Coordination leadership delivery in internal displacement situations in line
localization Emergency
When clusters are established UNHCR will step up with its leadership and coordination
and national preparedness
to its responsibilities in accordance with IASC responsibilities related to protection, shelter and
capacities
commitments and accountabilities. UNHCR will camp coordination and camp management, and
strengthen its preparedness, response and ensuring its contribution as Provider of Last
solutions interventions, through dedicated cluster Resort. UNHCR will bring experience in
coordinators and information management community-based protection approaches to
support, underpinned by a robust operational prioritize interventions for prevention, response
response in each of these sectors. Dedicated and mitigation of the most urgent and immediate
Support to Operational efforts to strengthen internal tri-cluster synergies, protection risks and needs, including engagement
solutions response including through the mainstreaming of protection with the relevant lead agencies, to combat sexual
across all sectors, and to bolster UNHCR and gender-based violence (SGBV) and promote
Integrated
coordination capacities, are ongoing at global child protection. UNHCR will continue to engage in
programming level and across all IDP operations. These will be inter-agency and system-wide efforts related to
and area-based advanced in IDP-Initiative target operations in protection against sexual exploitation and abuse
approaches particular. (PSEA). UNHCR will also apply and systematically
integrate its longstanding expertise in shelter, and
camp/site management into its work with IDPs.
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Integrated programming and Support to solutions Supporting localization and Data, information management
area-based approaches national capacities & analysis
UNHCR will continue to prioritize actions that
contribute to the conditions conducive for safe, In line with 2030 Agenda, UNHCR will support the With dedicated information management capacity
A number of regions are increasingly affected by
dignified and comprehensive solutions. In line with post-conflict transition to local and national actors – for each of the clusters it leads/co-leads and for
overlapping refugee movements, internal
the 2030 Agenda and the principle of “leaving to meaningfully take over operational delivery, its own operational response – UNHCR will ensure
displacement and statelessness, thereby
no-one behind,” UNHCR’s work with partners to coordination and monitoring in relation to IDP timely and impact-oriented assistance and
necessitating a strategic and joined-up approach
secure the inclusion of IDPs in national services, protection and solutions. This will include multi- protection for those displaced and affected. This
to forced displacement that UNHCR is uniquely
social safety nets, and local and national year multi-partner strategies to enhance national will be enabled through sound protection
positioned to provide. UNHCR has initiated
development plans will continue. UNHCR will build coordination and response capacity, including monitoring, needs assessments, and analysis
measures for system-wide integrated
effective approaches to resilience and solutions technical advice and support for national laws and conducted, together with partners, including at all
programming, which will maximize opportunities
that assist IDPs, wider displacement-affected policies on internal displacement, training and stages of internal displacement crises. UNHCR’s
for operations to respond through area-based
communities and their governments to better capacity development. UNHCR will contribute to new Data Transformation Strategy 2020-2025,
approaches that are inclusive of all population
manage and overcome the consequences and UN/Humanitarian Country Team efforts for the envisions strategic partnerships with key data
groups in an operational context, including
effects of displacement. In the pursuit of solutions, gradual de-activation of clusters in support of gathering and analysis actors. The data and
situations where populations of concern are
UNHCR will bolster ongoing contributions to government-led coordination arrangements, information generated and analyzed – by UNHCR
co-located (e.g. IDPs, refugees and asylum
transition strategies that link humanitarian and including in the transition of any IDP sites to and its implementing partners, as well as UNHCR-
seekers, returning refugees and IDPs), and/or with
development action, and activities that build and governments and/or other agreed approaches led cluster partners – will support evidence-based
host communities. Programmes will define a
sustain peace. that facilitate durable solutions planning, response, communications and
mutually supportive and complementary set of
advocacy for protection, assistance and solutions
actions for UNHCR within multi-stakeholder plans.
outcomes, by UNHCR and the rest of the
humanitarian community. Data, Identity
Management & Analysis (DIMA) units are being
established in each Regional Bureau to support
Country Operations, including with IDP data.
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AFGHANISTAN AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
Almost two-thirds of the 35.5 million population While UNHCR’s preparedness and response to
of Afghanistan continue to live in areas directly evolving emergency needs will continue,
affected by conflict, population movements and operational focus will be enabled in 20 priority
forced displacement. Recurring violence, loss of areas of return and reintegration in Kabul, Parwan,
livelihoods, and limited access to basic services, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kandahar, Jawzjan, Balkh,
are further exacerbated by chronic vulnerabilities Kunduz, Herat, Bamyan and Daikundi provinces.
including exposure to natural hazards. These will be undertaken through linking
communities with government programs,
Based on its long-standing presence in the particularly the Afghanistan National Peace and
country and knowledge of affected communities, Development Framework and the National Priority
UNHCR is applying an area-based, whole of Programs, and initiatives undertaken by the World
community approach, aimed at mitigating Bank, UN agencies and NGOs. UNHCR’s
protection risks and vulnerabilities of all affected Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
communities while facilitating sustainable (CRRF) interventions in Afghanistan will also
solutions including reintegration of refugee contribute to solutions to internal displacement.
returnees and IDPs. In 2020-21 community-based
interventions will be further built upon to foster Partnerships will continue to form the mainstay of
peaceful co-existence with host communities. UNHCR’s operational response including in areas
Operational delivery will be augmented through of shelter and NFI distribution, community-based
integrated programming modalities. protection and the promotion of self-reliance and
sustainable reintegration. Partnerships for agile
UNHCR will continue investing in its leadership of protection monitoring will be crucial for updated
the Protection and Emergency Shelter/ Non-Food information on protection and assistance needs to
Items Clusters in Afghanistan and will facilitate, as influence impact oriented delivery of assistance.
a strategic and operational priority, the imperative
of championing the centrality of protection and its
mainstreaming across humanitarian action.
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Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$26.8 million
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BURKINA FASO BURKINA FASO
BURKINA FASO
Providing Shelter/NFI and CCCM interventions UNHCR will renew its emphasis on strategic and
for displaced families in times of crises is critical operational priorities as the situation evolves,
to ensure their personal security, self-sufficiency towards strengthened leadership and
and dignity, as well as to mitigate ever-growing coordination of protection, shelter, and CCCM
protection risks. Despite the continuing efforts sectors, accompanied by robust operational
of the authorities to identify new temporary delivery. UNHCR is reinforcing its workforce to
accommodation sites for the provision of support activation and dedicated leadership of
humanitarian assistance and protection, a the Protection Cluster, Shelter/NFI Cluster and
growing number of displaced families are CCCM Working Group.
seeking safety in communities and villages
which are already limited in resources, and Upholding the centrality of protection is a core
remain in dire need of protection, shelter, non- imperative in which UNHCR will ensure further
food items, food, water, education and health. investment, with analysis of available information
on target communities’ needs, and to influence
The deteriorating security situation has severely appropriate protection strategy implementation at
limited humanitarian access to protection services the Cluster and Humanitarian Country Team (HCT)
and assistance for displaced people and host level, in support of the Humanitarian Coordinator,
communities. In 2020-21, UNHCR is gearing its while facilitating protection mainstreaming across
programming to ensure that information about the all sectors.
impact on displaced populations in the rapidly
changing environment is readily available, through Operational delivery is being prioritized, as
emphasis on agile protection monitoring to evidenced by the provision of shelter, NFIs and
identify specific needs, both for advocacy and for protection programs through a variety of
the provision of targeted interventions. modalities, including community-based
approaches, cash-based interventions, and
UNHCR will continue to partner and strengthen community coordination in formal and informal
relationships with local authorities, including the sites, in close collaboration with the national and
Burkinabe Council for Emergency Relief and local authorities. Resource mobilization for
Rehabilitation (CONASUR), to deliver shelter and adequate response capacity will be supported
core relief items, cash grants and protection through evidence-based advocacy.
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activities as well as provide support for civil
documentation. UNHCR’s support to State
capacity to manage displacement, including in and
out of sites, will gain further ground in 2020-2021.
Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$15.5 million
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COLOMBIA COLOMBIA
COLOMBIA
While international attention has shifted from Protection Cluster partners supported by UNHCR
internal displacement, towards the mass arrival will be encouraged to work together to gear their
of Venezuelans to Colombia, the objectives of operational interventions to specific needs
the country’s peace agreement continue to be through agile protection monitoring for
pursued in the face of numerous challenges. Key strengthening communities to cope and expand
among these are the recent calls for re- their ability to manage their situations including
armament by certain leaders of the through access to local services. These efforts
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). among others will also contribute to early warning
Protection challenges persist in and around of conflict and potential displacement triggers.
FARC demobilization areas, along the country’s
border with Venezuela, its southern borders, and In order to further its long standing approach
the Pacific Coast. towards localization and national capacity building,
UNHCR will contribute to responsible transition to
UNHCR leads the Protection Cluster in Colombia government ownership through: (i) provision of
coordinating a variety of organisations for a guidance and support to State institutions with
balanced protection oversight and response. In legal and policy frameworks on prevention,
2020-21, in line with the IDP Policy, UNHCR will protection and solutions for the displaced
enhance its work to deliver integrated ‘protection population; (ii) promotion of consolidation and
and solutions-oriented’ programming, to equitably transfer of solutions processes and good
assist all populations of concern to UNHCR practices to State institutions, while advocating for
(Venezuelan refugees, IDPs and IDP-returnees, enhanced public policy on solutions for IDPs; and
and host communities) through area-based (iii) support to institutions created under the Peace
approaches in informal settlements and other Agreement with a focus on victims’ participation in
settings where they are co-located. truth, justice and reparation processes.
Building on its experience in community
engagement, UNHCR’s will undertake robust
operational delivery, particularly through
community-based interventions and strengthened
support for solutions. UNHCR will continue to
support the solutions processes, in particular in
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urban informal settlements where populations
arriving from Venezuela co-reside.
Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$13.5 million
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF THE CONGO (DRC)
shelters and protection interventions enabled housing, land and property working group. Shelter,
through monitoring and needs identification. In Protection, and CCCM will work together to
2019 UNHCR launched a large-scale community- enhance the coordination between the three
based protection project in Ituri, South Kivu and sectors and the centrality of protection throughout
North Kivu to strengthen the capacity of local their response.
communities to receive IDPs during emergencies.
UNHCR is strengthening preparedness for new
In 2020-21, UNHCR will emphasize its key emergencies and consequent displacements,
strategic and operational priorities through linked to promoting resilience of communities and
reinforcing its operational delivery and creating alternatives to camp-like situations.
coordination leadership of Protection and Shelter UNHCR is currently working on contingency plans
Clusters, and provincial CCCM Working Groups; and preparedness measures for South Kivu, North
strengthening its emergency preparedness; Kivu and Ituri.
optimizing area-based approaches and integrated
programming; and improving data and information In response to the massive new displacements in
management analysis to better serve its 2019, UNHCR is scaling-up its operational
programmes and those of the rest of the response, adopting strategic area-based and
international community. UNHCR will support community-based approaches, with a focus on
areas where IDPs have returned, in coordination protection monitoring and assistance, integrated
with provincial authorities and other key shelter interventions, NFI distribution, and support
stakeholders (e.g. community markets built for IDP to returnees in return areas. UNHCR will provide
returnees and communities in Tanganyika support where site management needs exist (e.g.
province). in Kalemie).
Cluster leadership and coordination are being UNHCR will strengthen data and information
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prioritized for appropriately resourced tri-cluster management through the launch of a Protection
leadership, particularly through workforce Monitoring Platform, to enable evidence-based
investment to activate and enhance national programming and targeted operational delivery,
Shelter Cluster and national/regional CCCM as well as to influence the broader UN Country
Working Group coordination capacity. In this Team’s response.
respect, UNHCR has assumed leadership of the
Shelter Cluster and is working on boosting the
Active inter-communal conflicts and political spontaneous returns. Return movements have
instability continued to drive significant also been observed in Kasai Oriental and some
displacement in 2018 and 2019, with new parts of Kasai Central province, with a national
displacements mostly affecting North Kivu, the estimate of 2 million people returned since 2018.
Greater Kasai, Ituri, South Kivu and Tanganyika
provinces, resulting in approximately five million UNHCR’s emergency response in Ituri, North Kivu Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
people displaced across the country in the last and South Kivu Provinces includes reinforcement
two years. Nevertheless, improved security
across some territories in Tanganyika facilitated
of site management, NFI distribution to IDPs
residing in sites, the construction of emergency
$55.5 million
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ETHIOPIA ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIA
Conflict-induced internal displacement began in Operational delivery will be reinforced, with a
significant numbers in 2017 along the Oromia focus on protection, assistance and solutions in
and Somali regional borders. In 2018, Ethiopia affected areas, including through systematic
witnessed large numbers of persons fleeing their protection analysis in areas where displaced
homes, reaching an estimated 3.19 million IDPs populations reside or are reported to have
by the start of 2019, with approximately 80% returned, including rehabilitation of communal
displaced due to conflict and 20% displaced for infrastructures, community engagement and
climate-change related causes. Reports of social cohesion activities.
large-scale return began in 2019 and by the end
of May, upwards of 1.3 million IDPs were noted While responding to emergency needs, UNHCR
to have returned to their areas of origin, will simultaneously contribute to the drive for
including to areas where conditions were not solutions, including through partnership with the
fully conducive due to security risks, and not all UN Durable Solutions Initiative. Enhanced local
returns were sustainable, resulting in some government and community relationships will
secondary and tertiary displacement. ensure that these initiatives are guided by
protection considerations to which UNHCR is
In this evolving situation, including recent flood committed as an integral part of the UN Country
related displacement, UNHCR has revised its Team UNCT).
operational and strategic stance towards
strengthened inter-agency engagement
supporting the larger humanitarian response
through 2020-21. As lead of the Protection Cluster
and co-lead for the Site Management Support
(SMS) Working Group, UNHCR is underpinning its
approach with robust operational delivery
implemented through area-based approaches, for
enhanced protection and solutions for IDPs and
affected communities.
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Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$28.3 million
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IRAQ
Ongoing IDP returns in Iraq are hindered by Support to the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT)
enduring insecurity, tribal disputes, explosive will continue with operationalization of the
hazard contamination, housing, land and centrality of protection, following the September
property damage or destruction, and 2019 endorsement of an HCT Protection Strategy
discriminatory attitudes and practices by some and Action Plan, co-leadership of the Inter-Agency
local authorities and communities due to Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
perceived affiliation to extremists. Safe, (PSEA) Network and the establishment of a
voluntary, informed and sustainable return of Communication with Communities (CwC) /
displaced people remains an overarching priority, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Task
however many IDPs report being subjected to Force at the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group.
coerced departures from camps and informal
sites towards situations of secondary Efforts to prioritize actions that contribute to
displacement. sustainable solutions will continue including
through advocacy with local and national
In addition to leading/co-leading the Protection, authorities for the inclusion of IDPs in national
Shelter and CCCM Clusters, UNHCR will continue services and social safety nets. Within the UN/
working closely with partners in 2020-2021 to Humanitarian Country Team, UNHCR will
facilitate the centrality of protection across the contribute to transition strategies that bridge
response and strengthen its operational stance by humanitarian and development efforts.
availing opportunities to respond through
integrated programming and area-based
approaches that are inclusive of refugees, IDPs
and IDP returnees, particularly in the Kurdistan
Region of Iraq.
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Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$332.5 million
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SOUTH SUDAN
In South Sudan, the signing of the revitalized UNHCR leads the Protection Cluster and co-leads
agreement on the resolution of conflict in the CCCM Cluster, through which it contributes to
September 2018 and the February 2019 inter-agency preparedness, response and
announcement of the formation of a unity solutions. In 2020-21 UNHCR will strengthen its
government offers opportunities for role in the Shelter Cluster as well as continue to
de-escalation of conflict in certain areas. respond to humanitarian needs in conflict-affected
The conflict nonetheless continues in areas. Strengthened facilitation of the centrality of
several regions. protection in the inter-agency response will
remain paramount ensuring that humanitarian
This is notable in Yei, Central Equatorial Region, actors are aware of the protection impact on
due to the activities of the National Salvation affected populations and plan accordingly.
Front, which has not signed the agreement; in UNHCR will continue to lead efforts to guide the
Western Bahr el Ghazal from March to May 2019, development of national law and policy on internal
due to conflict and insecurity in Jur River County, displacement.
and most recently with the localized conflict in
Maiwut, Upper Nile. Although levels of violence UNHCR will operationalize a solutions-oriented
decreased in other parts of the country, offering approach for returning IDPs, using evidence-
windows of opportunity for transitional solutions, based programming to bridge the humanitarian-
over 60 per cent of the population face severe development nexus, with a focus on housing land
food insecurity, due to late rainfall, loss of and property rights, and access to basic services
livelihoods and the macroeconomic crisis. In some and livelihoods in areas of return.
states, extreme flooding has precipitated further
displacement, loss of shelter and productive Data and information management and analysis
assets, undermining gains made to date. will be reinforced, building on the 2019 profiling of
over 120,000 IDPs from all UNMISS Protection of
Civilians (POC) sites and urban collective sites
across the country. Evidence-based analysis will
inform the protection and solutions strategy,
resource mobilization, programming and
advocacy.
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Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$26.3 million
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SUDAN
To bolster emergency preparedness UNHCR will: Task Force, led by the Humanitarian Coordinator.
(i) preposition stocks of emergency Shelter/NFIs Moreover, UNHCR will continue to work with
to serve as a pipeline for humanitarian partners, UNAMID to enhance protection monitoring,
including in newly accessible areas; and (ii) build protection interventions, and conflict sensitive
the capacity of protection actors and social approaches to durable solutions in Darfur. UNHCR
protection partners on emergency protection will continue to lead the protection mainstreaming
response including protection assessments, capacity building program started in 2018.
continuous protection monitoring and conflict
sensitive humanitarian and durable solutions Strengthened data/information management and
interventions. analysis is key to effective action in Sudan,
particularly amidst the emerging opportunities for
Support to solutions will include contribution to stability. UNHCR will strengthen systematic data
solutions-oriented assessments in areas of return, and information collection and analysis to
local integration or relocation, with a focus on enhance evidence-based programming and
peacebuilding, protection, community support, and advocacy, with a strong focus on protection and
shelter/non-food items. UNHCR will ensure that the durable solutions.
protection of IDPs in search of solutions is regularly
monitored, with a focus on physical safety and Operational delivery will be reinforced by UNHCR,
dignity, non-discrimination, access to civil with a focus on community-based protection,
documentation, land, and services. UNHCR will assistance and solutions in affected areas.
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continue to co-chair the Durable Solutions Working UNHCR response will aim to ensure that: (i)
Group (DSWG), with UNDP at country level, with a vulnerable members of displaced, returnee and
view to guiding the planning and implementation of host communities receive adequate protection
durable solutions for IDPs, returning Sudanese against risks of discrimination, violence or
refugees and host communities in close exploitation, through protection monitoring,
collaboration with the Government of Sudan (GoS), awareness raising, and social cohesion initiatives;
at central and state levels. (ii) displaced people have access to emergency
While the political situation continues to evolve, New displacement continues, albeit at a smaller
shelter and essential non-food items; (iii) the
weak rule of law and lack of adequate social scale compared to previous years. Inter-communal
To reinforce the centrality of protection UNHCR overall humanitarian response is informed by
services represent persistent challenges to the violence in West Darfur from late December 2019
led the development of a Humanitarian Country protection risks facing vulnerable people, through
protection of vulnerable IDPs and returnees, to early 2020 resulted in 65 deaths, some 49,000
Team (HCT) Protection Strategy, endorsed in April advocacy and capacity building; and (iv) conflict
including children, adolescents, women and men. persons newly displaced and over 11,000
2019, wherein HCT members were assigned resolution and durable solution opportunities are
IDPs are still exposed to insecurity within and individuals fleeing to Chad. Intercommunal conflicts
specific responsibilities. UNHCR will continue to explored from the outset of the emergency.
around their settlements. Women and girls are remain one of the main sources of violence and
serve as the Secretariat of the HCT Protection
exposed to serious risks of gender-based displacement, mostly in Darfur. The root causes of
violence (GBV) while pursuing livelihood conflict, mainly linked to land ownership and
activities outside IDP settlements. Access to control over other natural resources, remain
IDPs remains challenging in non-state actor held unresolved and consequently return has only been
areas in the Jebel Marra region of Darfur, South possible for smaller numbers of IDPs and Sudanese
Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
Kordofan and Blue Nile. refugees, mostly to areas with a homogenous
ethnic composition. Local integration of IDPs may
be possible in selected areas, where IDPs and
$32.8 million
authorities are willing to consider this.
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UKRAINE
Most IDPs in Ukraine have been living in Through integrated programming, UNHCR will
displacement since the peak of hostilities in enhance community mobilization efforts that bring
2014, unable to return home in the absence of a together refugees, IDPs and host communities so
sustained peace. Prioritizing IDPs’ access to that they can advocate more effectively for their
national services, UNHCR enhances the capacity own protection at the local level.
of the authorities to coordinate and deliver
services, e.g. through coordination of the Shelter To support potential solutions, UNHCR will
Cluster and provision of legal assistance to IDPs. provide technical support to national and local
governments, as well as to IDP communities, to
A multi-year multi-partner strategy covers all adopt and implement a range of durable housing
populations of concern to UNHCR, with integrated solutions for IDPs.
programming of activities such as legal assistance
and community mobilization. UNHCR provides Preparations within the inter-agency coordination
strategic leadership on protection and shelter context for responsible transition and national
through coordination, response and advocacy, ownership will be undertaken as appropriate.
working within the Humanitarian Country Team UNHCR will ensure support to local authorities to
(HCT). A specific focus has been on conflict- take over coordination responsibilities for the
affected populations who have been unable to Shelter sector, make shelter repairs, and deliver
flee due to extreme vulnerabilities. free legal assistance to IDPs along the contact
line. In parallel, UNHCR will continue to advocate
The partnership with the host government is with the new government and parliamentary
supported through regular high-level stakeholders for the adoption of laws and policies
consultations and UNHCR’s contribution to the that protect IDPs and affected populations.
United Nations Partnership Framework. UNHCR in
2020-21 will continue to undertake strategic
leadership, through coordination and operational
delivery, with a focus on ensuring area-based
approaches and integrated programming,
supporting solutions, and advancing localization
and national ownership.
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Financial requirements for IDP activities in 2020:
$22.1 million
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Cross-cutting Partnerships coordination and information management in both
cluster and non-cluster situations, for deployment
Resource Mobilization
UNHCR will rely on a range of partnerships in UNHCR’s engagement in situations of internal
enablers support of shared goals for effective inter-agency
as needed, especially in emergencies. Inter-
Divisional Consultations at Headquarters, and displacement across seven Regional Bureaux will
action through active participation in IASC-led Regional Consultations with decentralized Bureaux be underpinned by an agency-wide resource
Stepped-up engagement in internal displacement processes, meaningful contribution to joint are ongoing for agency-wide coherence and to mobilization strategy. At global, regional and
situations will be supported through agency-wide Humanitarian Needs Overviews and Humanitarian cross-fertilize ideas and approaches. country level, resource mobilization will be
efforts to enable, reinforce and drive forward Response Plans, bolstering accountability to intensified at the advanced preparedness phase
operationalization of the keystones of UNHCR’s affected populations, and advancing agreed and the onset of an emergency and sustained
collective outcomes at country level. Across throughout UNHCR’s engagement. Predictable
revitalized commitments resulting in a step-up on
global, national and regional levels, partnerships
Communications and Advocacy and flexible funding will allow UNHCR to allocate
internal displacement. Key enablers include
strengthened and expanded partnerships, with development and peace-building actors will At the country, regional and global level, UNHCR is resources across programmes and population
investments in staff capacity, and targeted be reinforced to establish or strengthen concrete boosting communications on internal groups according to needs, and will support more
resource mobilization underpinned by evidence- linkages, while focusing on activities and areas displacement, from preparedness through to cost effective area-based approaches. UNHCR will
based advocacy, robust communications, and where UNHCR best adds value. In pursuit of protection, assistance and solutions. IDP voices actively pursue new sources of funding, including
sound risk analysis and management. protection and solutions, in addition to sustained will be central to UNHCR’s communications. through development, peace-building and private
cooperation with UN agencies, national and Proactive communications will highlight their sector partnerships, to support the development
international NGOs, partnerships with non- humanitarian needs, the effectiveness of the and implementation of strategies that contribute to
traditional actors will be pursued, including private operational and cluster-based response and the longer-term outcomes i.e. localization, national
sector, faith-based organizations, academic impact of underfunding on affected populations. ownership and solutions.
institutions, local and international media. Enhanced data and analysis will feed into country-
specific communication strategies and
communication products. UNHCR will invest in Risk Analysis & Management
Workforce Management strategic, evidence-based advocacy –
Investments are being made in sound and
independently and in partnership with
Staff are being supported to acquire diverse skills stakeholders – to foster support for the rights and continuous risk analysis and management across
and competencies necessary to work across the dignity of displaced persons, highlight the impact both situational/contextual risks to inform
full spectrum of forced displacement by of unmet needs, mobilize necessary resources, UNHCR’s operational, managerial, programmatic
developing and updating learning programmes and promote community acceptance and and coordination decisions as well as engagement
including a new managerial Internal Displacement solutions. in preparedness, response and solutions to
e-learning module; updating the Inter-Agency internal displacement.
Coordination Learning Programme; launch of the
Global Protection Cluster’s ‘Protection in
Humanitarian Action’ e-learning, on how to
advance the centrality of protection across the
humanitarian response; and the development of a
comprehensive Protection Coordination Training
programme. UNHCR will reinforce ongoing efforts
to identify, train and maintain a cadre of staff with
specialized skills and competencies on
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Displacement (1998-2020)
Building on the momentum of the 20th anniversary to State exchanges have been organized under
of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement the auspices of GP20 to capture current-day
(GP20), UNHCR, OCHA and the Special practice and lessons learned in preventing,
Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs responding to and resolving internal displacement.
spearheaded the launch of a three-year multi- GP20 has likewise galvanized more joined and
stakeholder Plan of Action from 2018-2020 to strategic action by UN agencies and NGOs in
advance prevention, protection and solutions for support of Member States. Several countries have
internal displacement. GP20 has served as a developed national-level GP20 action plans, and
platform for stakeholders, particularly Member have: (i) intensified advocacy and outreach in
States, to share their challenges, achievements countries with protracted internal displacement; (ii)
and priorities in relation to internal displacement, advanced the development of national laws and
including through discussions generated by an policies (e.g. Ethiopia and South Sudan); and (iii)
informal Steering Group in Geneva, national, leveraged GP20 to mobilize multi-stakeholder
regional and global workshop and thematic engagement in solutions to internal displacement
webinars. GP20 has also served to initiate (e.g. Afghanistan and Ethiopia).
thematic research on internal displacement. State
High Level Panel (HLP)
on Internal Displacement
A High Level Panel on Internal Displacement was UNHCR is well placed to support field missions for
established in December 2020 by the UN HLP members, including direct contact with IDPs
Secretary General to develop concrete and affected communities. With its short time-
recommendations for solutions to internal frame, the Panel will furthermore build on progress
displacement. The eight-member Panel draws to date, such as advancements in regional and
expertise from government, international national normative frameworks inspired by the
organizations, civil society and the private sector, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. As a
and has strong representation from countries lead agency on protection, including through
currently managing internal displacement. It is GP20 efforts with states, UNHCR stands ready to
co-chaired by Federica Mogherini, former Vice- share its considerable expertise with the HLP. The
President of the European Commission, and Panel will seek to be innovative in identifying: (i)
Donald Kaberuka, current Chair of the Board of the the means to guarantee financing and funding for
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and long-term efforts to prevent and resolve internal
Malaria. A Geneva-based Secretariat headed by displacement; (ii) mechanisms for capturing and
Assistant Secretary-General George Okoth-Obbo, sharing best practice among States (which is
provides substantive, administrative and logistical already underway with the GP20 Plan of Action);
support to the Panel, which is also guided by a (iii) creating incentives for the inclusion of IDPs in
four-member Expert Advisory Group. With one Sustainable Development Goals action plans and
year to deliver its report, the Panel will rely on a national development plans; and (iv) promoting a
consultative process to prepare its more predictable use of area-based and
recommendations including through field visits. community-based programming.
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Updates
Regular IDP-Initiative updates on the implementation of the
stepped-up approach to internal displacement will be
provided. These will profile activities in target operations
demonstrating successful practices, effective partnerships
and lessons learnt, ensuring impact-oriented
representation. The Updates will also reference
developments with respect to keystones elaborated in the
updated IDP Policy and related cross-cutting enablers,
including resource needs as appropriate from across
UNHCR’s IDP operations.
More information
The High Commissioner has appointed a Principal Advisor
on Internal Displacement to work closely with the Senior
Executive Team, Divisions (including Global Cluster
Coordination teams), decentralised Bureaux and Field
Operations to facilitate a coherent and stepped-up
engagement by UNHCR in situations of internal
displacement.
More information on the IDP Initiative can be
obtained through the Office of the Principal Advisor
on Internal Displacement.
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