IDPs - Policy and Guiding Documents

Policy and Guiding Documents

Policy and guidance on the implementation of the humanitarian process and the cluster approach has continued to develop. In addition, UNHCR's important dialogue with the Executive Committee on the Office's evolving role in relation to internal displacement has resulted in various policy documents on the subject.

Many of the documents produced regarding internal displacement will continue to evolve through lessons derived from the Office's operational experience in many IDP programmes around the world and through additional feedback from States.

Key UNHCR Policy Documents

• Policy Framework and Implementation Strategy: UNHCR's role in support of an enhanced inter-agency response to the protection of internally displaced persons, 4 June, 2007
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• The protection of internally displaced persons and the role of UNHCR, Informal Consultative Meeting, 27 February 2007

Overview of IDP Operations

• UNHCR'S role in support of an enhanced humanitarian response to situations of internal displacement: Update on UNHCR's leadership role within the cluster approach and IDP operational workplans, Informal Consultative meeting, May 2007
• Overview of UNHCR IDP Operations, Informal Consultative Meeting, 25 May 2007
• UNHCR's Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to Internal Displacement: Report of a lessons learned and effective practices workshop, November 2006

ExCom, Standing Committee, and Informal Consultation Meeting Documents

• UNHCR's Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to Internal Displacement Situations, 36th Meeting of the Standing Committee, 8 June 2006 (EC/57/SC/CRP.18)
• UNHCR's Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to Internal Displacement Situations, Informal Consulation Meeting, 12 September 2006
• Real-time evaluations of UNHCR's involvement in operations for internally displaced persons and the cluster approach: Analysis of findings
  29 August 2007 (EC/58/SC/CRP.23)
• UNHCR's Role in Support of the Return and Reintegration of Displaced Populations: Policy Framework and Implementation Strategy
  11 February 2008 (EC/59/SC/CRP.5)
• Progress on Mainstreaming IDP Issues in UNHCR and Global Work Plan for IDP Operations
  2 June 2008 (EC/59/SC/CRP.16)
• Summary of the interventions 36th Meeting of the Standing Committee, Agenda item: "UNHCR's Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to IDP", 27 June 2006
• Chairman's Recap: UNHCR's Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to Internal Displacement Situations, Informal Consulation Meeting, 12 September 2006

Background Documents

• UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
• 2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
• Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, 28 October 2007
• International Protection and Assistance for Refugees and the Displaced: Institutional Challenges and United Nations Reform, Paper presented at the Refugee Studies Centre Workshop, 'Refugee Protection in International Law: Contemporary Challenges', Oxford, 24 April 2006
• Addressing Internal Displacement in Peace Processes, Peace Agreements and Peace-Building, Brookings-Bern April 2007