IASC weekly meeting: Durable Solutions for IDPs
Geneva
Meeting Documents
1. Guiding the durable solutions process for internally displaced people
1st Presentation
Nina M. Birkeland, Head of Policy and Research Department at IDMC/NRC, will present latest developments in the implementation of the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons and explain the process for its development. Ms. Birkeland represented IDMC/NRC on the Steering Committee that drafted the Framework.
2nd presentation
Nadine Walicki, Country Analyst and Focal Point on Protracted Displacement at IDMC/NRC will focus on local integration as a settlement option for internally displaced people (IDPs), highlighting examples and related conclusions from the 2011 Second Expert Seminar on Protracted Internal Displacement. Her presentation will draw on examples from a recent mission to the North Caucasus and Georgia.
Background:
In some 40 countries, IDPs have not achieved a durable solution and cannot fully access their rights as a result. To guide the durable solutions process, the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons was developed to assist all stakeholders in their work. The Framework clarifies the concept of a durable solution and outlines key principles and criteria that can be used to identify suitable strategies and activities to assist IDPs and to gauge the achievement of a durable solution. While discussions of durable solutions have had a particular focus on return, the Framework places no hierarchy among settlement options for IDPs. This allows for consideration of local integration and settlement elsewhere on a par with return.
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