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countries to provide lessons on hosting refugees to global actors (and other host countries)
The best placed
are the major refugee- hosting countries themselves.”
Maegan Hendow
practical guidance under four main areas helpful to all hosts of refugee populations: analyzing the situation and designing the approach; communicating needs, raising awareness and coordinating response; integrating development perspectives into service provision; and boosting business and decent work for both refugees and nationals. On the latter point, Hendow elaborates, and her explanation is pertinent to the overarching goals of the report, too. “Just as there are nationals in host countries building businesses, so there are refugee entrepreneurs,” she says. “Sustainable approaches require us to respond to the business needs for the entire country,
THE ICMPD REPORT
Bridging refugee protection and development was published in February 2019. Policy options are available in English, Arabic and Turkish. See
https://www.icmpd.org/refugee-policy-options
The report is the result of the project Study on Refugee Protection and Development: Assessing the Development- Displacement Nexus in Regional Protection Policies. The study was co-funded by OFID. Feedback to strengthen the draft report was provided by participants of an OFID-hosted development-displacement nexus roundtable on policy options in October 2018.
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supporting business development among the whole community with the idea of ensuring social cohesion. “The focus of policy makers, donors and development and humanitarian organizations must shift toward a more development-orientated approach – for both refugees and host nations,” Hendow continues. “Stakeholders from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey – host countries operating in complex and challenging environments – highlighted the actions they have taken to try to respond to displacement and development needs, and in turn, the report highlights these practices and related policy actions as ways to marry humanitarian and development approaches.”
See the last edition of the OFID Quarterly for more information
http://bit.ly/ OFIDICMPDroundtable
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