LAW AND POLICY ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE AND TOOLS

Essential Frameworks and Standards

ICRC Internally Displaced Persons and International Humanitarian Law 2017
also available in: ES FR
IASC Framework for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, 2010
also available in: ES
African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala Convention), 2009
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations (W. Kälin), 2008
UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement, 2007
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons, 2006
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Protocol on the Property Rights of Returning Persons, 2006
Brookings – Bern: Addressing Internal Displacement: a Framework for National Responsibility, 2005
United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Final Report of the Special Rapporteur, P.S. Pinheiro 2005
also available in: AR ES FR RU
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998
also available in: AR ES FR RU

 

Guidance Documents and Tools

Brooking – Bern: Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers, 2008
also available in: FR
Brookings – LSE, IDMC, NRC: National Instruments on Internal Displacement: a Guide to their Development, 2013
also available in: ES FR
Brookings – Bern: Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons and their Advocates, 2006
Brookings – Bern: Integrating Internal Displacement in Peace Processes and Agreements, 2010
Brookings – LSE: From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National Approaches to Internal Displacement, 2011
GPC: Handbook for the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons, 2010
also available in: FR AR ES
Protecting Internally Displaced Persons under the European Convention on Human Rights and other Council of Europe standards – A Handbook
UNHCR and IPU: Internal Displacement: Responsibility and Action, 2013
also available in: FR

 

Regional and Country Specific Analysis

Brookings-Bern / Examen du cadre normatif de la République centrafricaine relatif à la protection des personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays, 2011
CoE | Enhancing the National Legal Framework in Ukraine for Protecting the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, 2016
GPC | Examen du cadre normative et institutionnel malien: relatif à la protection des personnes déplacées à l’intérieur du Mali, 2017
GPC | Regulatory Frameworks on Internal Displacement, 2016
also available in: FR ES
ICRC | Internal Displacement in North East Nigeria: Operationalising the Kampala Convention in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, 2017
ICRC | Translating the Kampala Convention Into Practice, 2017
also available in: FR, Sp and Ar
IDMC | A Review of the Normative Framework in Kenya Relating to the Protection of IDPs, 2015
IDMC | A Review of the Normative Framework in Zimbabwe Relating to the Protection of IDPs, 2014
IDMC | Kampala Convention: An Opportunity for Development Actors, 2012
NRC | The Kampala Convention: Make it Work for Women, 2015

 

Training and Workshop Materials

 

Useful links

 

GLOBAL DATABASE ON IDP LAWS AND POLICIES
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PROTECTION CLUSTER COORDINATION TOOLBOX

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