Working and discussion papersSeptember 2019Sorcha O'Callaghan, Nicholas Crawford, Kerrie Holloway, Christy Lowe, Alemu Asfaw Nigusie, Freddie Carver and Farah Manji A woman carries grass for her cows through Mahama refugee camp in Kirehe, eastern Rwanda. Photo: Georgina Goodwin/UNHCR On 19 September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. The Declaration focuses on supporting those countries and communities that host large numbers of refugees and promoting refugee inclusion, ensuring the involvement of development actors from an early stage and bringing together national and local authorities, regional and international financial institutions, donor agencies and private and civil society sectors to generate a ‘whole of society’ approach to refugee responses.The New York Declaration called upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop and initiate the application of a Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in specific situations that featured large-scale movements of refugees and protracted refugee situations, with four key objectives:Ease pressure on host countries.Enhance refugee self-reliance.Expand access to third-country solutions.Support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity.Three years in, is this ‘new way of working’ for refugees actually working? These case studies, commissioned by the IKEA Foundation and undertaken by the Humanitarian Policy Group, assess progress made under the CRRF in four East African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.The findings are synthesised in the report The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: responsibility-sharing and self-reliance in East Africa.Read the research The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: progress in Ethiopia Documentpdf The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: progress in Kenya Documentpdf The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: progress in Rwanda Documentpdf The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: progress in Uganda Documentpdf Related The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: responsibility-sharing and self-reliance in East Africa Is the ‘new way of working’ for refugees actually working? This paper assesses progress under the CRRF in four East African countries. Working and discussion papers 24 September 2019 Multi-year humanitarian funding: a thematic evaluation Assessing the effectiveness of DFID’s multi-year humanitarian funding approach in protracted crises. Research reports and studies 18 July 2019 Grand Bargain annual independent report 2019 This report analyses progress made and obstacles met by signatories to the Grand Bargain in 2018, and recommends actions to stay on track. Research reports and studies 21 June 2019 See more:development finance migration and refugees displacement humanitarian policy Kenya Ethiopia Uganda Rwanda
