PLENARY

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PLENARY 5

• Group Processing Client-Centred Approach
• 23 February, 2007 Vancouver

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• Thank you.

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Group Processing
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Objectives

• Outline the role of group processing in durable
  solutions strategies
• Explain the processes undertaken to identify and
  refer groups for resettlement
• Identify potential reception and integration
  challenges facing those selected through group
  processing and
• Forecast major developments and future directions
  concerning refugee resettlement for UNHCR

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• The average of major refugee situations,
  protracted or not, has increased from nine years,
  in 1993 to 17 years at the end of 2003. 
• (The State of the Worlds refugees 2006)

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Three durable solutions

• Voluntary Repatriation
• Local Integration
• Resettlement

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• Agenda for Protections Goal 5
• Redouble the search for durable solutions.

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UNHCR Resettlement Criteria

• Legal and physical protection needs
• Survivors of violence and torture
• Medical needs
• Women-at-risk
• Family reunification
• Children and adolescents
• Elderly refugees
• Refugees without local integration prospects

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Registration
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What is Registration?

• The recording, verifying and updating of
  information on persons of concern to UNHCR with
  the aim of protecting and documenting them and of
  implementing durable solutions.

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Why is Registration Important?

• Registration facilitates implementation of
• durable solutions,
• effective services and assistance.

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Why is Registration Important?

• Registration ensures that each person is
  individually recognized and known, important for
  the protection of women and children.

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Verification Interview (Tham Hin, Thailand)
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Identifying Special Needs
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Group Processing Group Profile Proposal

• PROTECTION CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS
• The Protection Context
• Characteristics
• Location(s)
• Circumstances of group in country of origin
  pre-flight
• Nature of persecution and flight
• Circumstances in country of asylum
• Exclusion Concerns

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Group Processing Group Profile Proposal

• COMPOSITION OF GROUP AND VERIFICATION OF
  MEMBERSHIP
• Demographics
• Registration/ Documentation
• Fraud and Integrity Issues
• Empirical Identifiable Characteristics
• Family Composition Issues
• Verification
• Particular Vulnerabilities

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Group Processing Group Profile Proposal

• DURABLE SOLUTIONS AND RESETTLEMENT NEEDS ANALYSIS
• Durable Solutions And Strategic Resettlement
  Analysis
• Repatriation
• Local Integration
• Quality and Conditions of Asylum
• Resettlement
• Strategic Considerations
• Political Considerations and Attitude of
  Countries of Asylum/Origin
• Seeking Comprehensive Solutions

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Group Processing Group Profile Proposal

• CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES TO GROUP PROCESSING
• Associated Refugee Movements (Pull Factors)
• Perceptions of Refugee Community
• UNHCR Partnerships

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Group Processing Group Profile Proposal

• LOGISTICAL AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

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Mae La Oon Camp Group Referral sub groups

• Woman-at-risk
• Political activists
• Individuals with urgent security concerns in the
  camp
• Individuals with serious medical conditions
• Ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination in
  the camp
• Individuals with close relatives in Canada

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Reception and Integration Handbook
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Mae La Oon overcrowding
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Future Trends
UNHCR Resettlement Objectives - Improve global
predictability and consistency in referrals -
Maximize use and ensure flexibility in use of
resettlement resources - Promote internally and
externally the design of comprehensive durable
solutions strategies in particular in protracted
refugees
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Future Trends
UNHCR Resettlement Objectives - Implement ExCom
conclusion on women at risk - With all partners,
renew efforts to give a human face to
resettlement activities and to promote the use of
this solution and protection tool, to combat
xenophobia and de-link refugees from fight
against terrorism - Explore with partners options
for resettlement regional transit platforms
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Future Trends

• UNHCR Resettlement Objectives
• - Review with all stakeholders RST related family
  reunion procedures.
• - Invitation to NGOs to UNHCR Training events
• - Open up participation to NGOs at UNHCR
  resettlement training workshops
• - Resettlement Anti-fraud awareness

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Types of resettlement fraud
1. Identity Fraud 2. Family composition 3.
Document Fraud 4. Material Misrepresentation 5.
Bribery 6. Malfeasance 7. Resettlement
exploitation schemes