M
ore often than not, it is the countries within a region of protracted conflict that shoulder the majority of the responsibility for responding to the needs of
refugees. But these countries nearly always have development challenges of their own. Is it possible to promote refugee protection and development simultaneously in such complex circumstances? Take the Syrian refugee crisis – now eight years long – as a case in point. Millions of Syrian refugees are hosted within the region: approximately 3.6 million in Turkey, 1 million in Lebanon and 670,000 in Jordan according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) – huge numbers in both real terms and in comparison to the host countries’ populations and economies. A new policy report by the International
Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) titled Bridging refugee protection and development provides guidance to policy makers,
donors and development and humanitarian organizations about potential policy options to be implemented in refugee hosting countries. The options provided by the report cater to both the development needs of the host countries and the protection needs of refugees at the same time. “While the report builds on previously-issued policy guidance, it takes its lessons directly from current major middle-income refugee hosting countries: Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey,” says author Maegan Hendow, from ICMPD’s Research Unit. “The best placed countries to provide lessons on hosting refugees to global actors (and other host countries) are the major refugee- r
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hosting countries themselves. This report isn’t aimed at Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey in par – we can all learn from their experiences and act on these lessons; Europe and the rest of the world included.”
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Hendow recognizes that national stakeholders must ultimately define the exact nature of their responses to refugees. But the report lays out workable policy recommendations and
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