High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges: Development Cooperation
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The 2022 High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges, which was held on 07 and 08 December, focused on the theme of development cooperation aimed at advancing protection, inclusion, and solutions for forcibly displaced and stateless persons as well as host communities.
Humanitarian, development, private sector, political and peace actors have accelerated efforts to improve development cooperation in displacement and stateless contexts. As global displacement is hitting unprecedented levels, there is a need for more innovative approaches to identifying sustainable solutions for people forced to flee.
The event allowed participants to discuss how to enhance development cooperation in displacement settings and launch concrete, tangible, multi-stakeholder initiatives to address specific identified challenges.
The Dialogue focused on development cooperation across the cycle of displacement with protection as a central and cross-cutting theme. The sessions were structured around the following:
- Early action: Enhancing development cooperation to anticipate, respond to, and foster longer-term approaches to emergencies
- Inclusion: The role of development cooperation in facilitating inclusion in national systems
- Solutions: Unlocking solutions through enhanced development cooperation
Watch the High Commissioner's Dialogue plenary sessions
Statements
Opening plenary session statements
Closing plenary session statements
- Joint Statement by 2023 Global Refugee Forum Co-Hosts and Co-Convenors 9 Dec 2022
- Development Cooperation Initiative, Localization and Development - Effective Approaches to Promote Evidence-Based Policies and Refugee Inclusion 8 Dec 2022
- Development Cooperation Initiative, Making Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Persons Visible in National Statistics 8 Dec 2022
Speaker’s Corner
Speaker’s Corner is an opportunity for presenters to discuss new research and initiatives related to development cooperation in forced displacement and statelessness contexts.
Preparatory regional roundtables
To help ensure that the Dialogue benefits from regional good practices in relation to development cooperation, UNHCR convened a series of roundtables in October and November 2022, exploring the themes for this year’s event in the context of the unique displacement and stateless situations in each region. These roundtables stimulated reflection on learnings, challenges, and opportunities which served as a foundation for the discussion and envisaged takeaways at the Dialogue itself in December.
Roundtables Outcomes Summaries
- Southern Africa - Roundtable Summary 12 Jan 2023
- Asia and the Pacific - Roundtable Summary 7 Dec 2022
- Americas - Roundtable Summary 6 Dec 2022
Building on the outcomes of the situational roundtables, the Dialogue pursued the discussions at the global level in December and helped inform pledge cultivation and mobilization related to development cooperation for the next Global Refugee Forum in 2023.