Protracted Refugee Situations

PDES Background Documents, October 2010

A wide-ranging collection of UNHCR documents on the issue of protracted refugee situations, published since 1999.

I. UNHCR EVALUATION REPORTS

II. OTHER EVALUATION REPORTS

III. RESEARCH PAPERS

IV. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

V. STATISTICS

• I. UNHCR EVALUATION REPORTS
  
  
  • 1. October 2010
    Joint Evaluation: Evaluation of the protracted refugee situation (PRS) for Burundians in Tanzania, by Gitte Robinson and Maria Riiskjaer
  • 2. December 2002
    Review of CORD community services for Angolan refugees in Western Province, Zambia
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2002/14
  • 3. December 2002
    Review of CORD community services for Congolese refugees in Tanzania
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2002/13
  • 4. July 2002
    Responding to protracted refugee situations: A case study of Liberian refugees in Côte d'Ivoire
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2002/07
  • 5. July 2002
    Responding to protracted refugee situations: A case study of Liberian refugees in Ghana
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2002/06
  • 6. June 2001
    Evaluation of the Dadaab firewood project, Kenya
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2001/08
  • 7. May 2001
    Lessons learned from the implementation of the Tanzania security package
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2001/05
  • 8. January 2001
    A beneficiary-based evaluation of UNHCR's programme in Guinea, West Africa
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2001/02
  • 9. November 2000
    Minimum standards and essential needs in a protracted refugee situation: A review of the UNHCR programme in Kakuma, Kenya
    Doc Symbol: EPAU/2000/05
    
    

• II. OTHER EVALUATION REPORTS
  
  
  • 1. July 2002
    Participatory Poverty Assessment of Nakivale and Oruchinga Refugee Camps in Southern Uganda: Livelihood Characteristics, Economic Constraints and Recommendations for Change
  • 2. March 2002
    Peace Education Programme in Dadaab and Kakuma, Kenya: Evaluation Summary
    
    

• III. RESEARCH PAPERS
  
  
  • 1. January 2009
    A surrogate state? The role of UNHCR in protracted refugee situations, Amy Slaughter and Jeff Crisp
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 168
  • 2. June 2008
    Local integration: an under-reported solution to protracted refugee situations, Alexandra Fielden
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 158
  • 3. January 2008
    The impact of environmental degradation on refugee-host relations: a case study from Tanzania, Leah Berry
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 151
  • 4. October 2004
    Refugee integration in the intermediate term: a study of Nepal, Pakistan, and Kenya, Susan Banki
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 108
  • 5. September 2004
    International cooperation and the targeting of development assistance for refugee solutions: Lessons from the 1980s, Alexander Betts
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 107
  • 6. April 2004
    Self-image and the well-being of refugees in Rhino Camp, Uganda, Wiebke Hoeing
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 103
  • 7. October 2003
    Forced migrants as an under-utilized asset: refugee skills, livelihoods, and achievements in Kampala, Uganda, Michela Macchiavello
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 95
  • 8. September 2003
    Local integration as a durable solution: refugees, host populations and education in Uganda, Sarah Dryden-Peterson and Lucy Hovil
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 93
  • 9. March 2003
    Towards self sufficiency and integration: an historical evaluation of assistance programmes for Rwandese refugees in Burundi, 1962 – 1965, Nathaniel H. Goetz
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 87
  • 10. March 2003
    Moving beyond long-term refugee situations: the case of Guatemala, Christine Cheng and Johannes Chudoba
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 86
  • 11. March 2003
    The role and impact of humanitarian assets in refugee-hosting countries, Melissa Phillips
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 84
  • 12. March 2003
    Community services in refugee aid programmes: a critical analysis, Oliver Bakewell
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 82
  • 13. January 2003
    No solutions in sight: the problem of protracted refugee situations in Africa, Jeff Crisp
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 75
  • 14. February 2002
    Liberians in Ghana: living without humanitarian assistance, Shelly Dick
    Doc Symbol: Working Paper No. 57
  • 15. July 2001
    The repatriation predicament of Burmese refugees in Thailand: a preliminary analysis, Hazel Lang
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 46
  • 16. July 2001
    The forgotten solution: local integration for refugees in developing countries, Karen Jacobsen
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 45
  • 17. May 2001
    Mind the gap! UNHCR, humanitarian assistance and the development process, Jeff Crisp
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 43
  • 18. April 2001
    The humanitarian hangover: transnationalization of governmental practice in Tanzania's refugee-populated areas, Loren B. Landau
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 40
  • 19. April 2001
    Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya, Cindy Horst
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 38
  • 20. October 2000
    UNHCR's withdrawal from Kiryandongo: anatomy of a handover, Tania Kaiser
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 32
  • 21. August 2000
    Are refugee camps good for children?, Barbara Harrell-Bond
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 29
  • 22. June 2000
    Refugee identities and relief in an African borderland: a study of northern Uganda and southern Sudan, Jozef Merkx
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 19
  • 23. December 1999
    A state of insecurity: the political economy of violence in refugee-populated areas of Kenya, Jeff Crisp
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 16
  • 24. June 1999
    Changing opportunities: refugees and host communities in western Tanzania, Beth Elise Whitaker
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 11
  • 25. June 1999
    Angry young men in camps: international assistance and changing hierarchies of authority amongst Burundian refugees in Tanzania, Simon Turner
    Doc Symbol: WPNo. 9
    
    

• IV. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
  
  
  • 1. 22 December 2009
    Executive Committe Conclusion on Protracted Refugee Situations
    Source: Executive Committe Conclusions. Executive Committee 61st session, Extraordinary Meeting of 8 December 2009. Available in French
    Doc Symbol: No. 109 (LX) – 2009; contained in UN GA document A/AC.96/1080
  • 2. 20 Nov 2008
    Protracted Refugee Situations: A discussion paper prepared for the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Geneva, December 2008
    Source: Standing Committee
    Doc Symbol: UNHCR/DPC/2008/Doc. 02
  • 3. 2 Jun 2008
    Protracted Refugee Situations: Revisiting the Problem
    Source: Standing Committee
    Doc Symbol: EC/59/SC/CRP.13
  • 4. January 2006
    Acute Malnutrition in Protracted Refugee Situations: A Global Strategy UNHCR/WFP
    Source: UNHCR/WFP
  • 5. 10 Jun 2004
    Protracted Refugee Situations
    Source: Standing Committee
    Doc Symbol: EC/54/SC/CRP.14
  • 6. 1 Nov 2001
    Addressing Protracted Refugee Situations in Africa
    (Prepared for the Informal Consultations on New Approaches and Partnerships for Protection and Solutions in Africa, 14 December 2001)
    Source: Global Consultations
  • 7. 1 Oct 2001
    Discussion Paper on Protracted Refugee Situations in the African Region
    (Prepared for the Panel Discussion of 3 October 2002, During ExCom's 52nd Session)
    Source: Global Consultations
    
    

• V. STATISTICS
  
  
  • 1. 10 Jun 2004
    Protracted Refugee Situations
    UNHCR policy and data on 38 major long-standing refugee situations, including 6.2 million refugees
    Source: Statistics
    Doc Symbol: EC/54/SC/CRP.14