Refugee Coordination Model

|Inclusivity| Predictability| Continuity

Leading, Coordinating

& Delivering

for Refugees & Persons of

Concern

What is it about ?

Key Points

… points..

• RCM is based on best practices from the field and draws on current UNHCR practice and the Transformative Agenda’s focus on leadership, accountability and coordination, while seeking to ensure complementarity and flexibility

• Primary responsibility to protect refugees rests with states. Coordination of the refugee response is determined by capacity and approaches of host government and builds on resources refugees and hosting communities.

• Refugee response does not only include UNHCR’s operations, but those of partners as well.

• Within the UN, UNHCR has primary responsibility for the protection of refugees and maintains direct and special relationship with the host government

• UNHCR remains active member of the Humanitarian Country team and supports the Resident Coordinator /Humanitarian Coordinator

• Service Delivery sectors must be led by government line ministries when feasible

Structures

• A UNHCR Refugee Coordinator to lead and coordinate a multi-sectorial response and ensure participation of sector-leads and all players at the field level, supported by a Multi-sector Operations Team with expertise and capacity to facilitate needs assessment, planning, monitoring, reporting and information management across all sectors.

• A UNHCR-led Refugee Protection Working Group responsible for the coordination of protection services and for mainstreaming protection throughout other operational sectors.

• Service-delivery sectors, led by Government line ministries and/or (co)chaired by partners and/or UNHCR. Sectors are intended to connect to Government-led development mechanisms, if feasible.

• Arrangements on sector coordination and delivery with multiple potential partners, to ensure a predictable response.

Why do we need the RCM?

While UNHCR has effectively led and managed refugee operations for decades per its legal and statutory obligations, it has not articulated a model of refugee coordination that is widely understood by partners.

The purpose of the RCM is to: 1. Clarify how UNHCR leads and coordinates a refugee

response to staff and wider humanitarian community

2. Deliver timely, effective and quality protection, assistance & solutions for refugees

3. Provide partners and others actors an inclusive framework with clear space for them

4. Maintain accountability for refugees in a situations where there are other humanitarian and development systems

5. Demonstrate that UNHCR can and does coordinate and lead in a streamlined, predictable, effective and inclusive manner

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We are bound by our shared duty towards the people we serve and to whom we must deliver protection, assistance and solutions.

That is why good coordination is so essential - good, light and effective coordination.

UNHCR High Commissioner ExCom Closing Remarks- 2014

Refugee Coordination In “Mixed Situations”

UNHCR-OCHA Joint Note on Mixed Situations

An agreement that outlines respective roles and responsibilities

Mixed situations: where IDP and/or other humanitarian response (natural disaster etc) exists with a refugee response in same country. IDPs and Refugees may be located in the same geographic areas.

Interface with other coordination structures/ use of sector or cluster capacities will be determined by operational context and

– Location of responses (geographically together, or separate)– Size of refugee and IDP populations– Capacity of UNHCR sectors / IDP clusters to deliver services according

to the specific needs of both population groups

| Pragmatic | Collaborative | Efficient | Effective|

IDP Response Refugee Response

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UNHCR Representative Leadership RC/HC

Drawing on HCT (standing agenda

item at HCT)

Strategic Planning

HCT

UNHCR Ref Coordinator + Multi-

sector Ops Team Coordination OCHA Inter-Cluster

Coordination

Sectors

Delivery

Cluster A Cluster actor 1 Cluster actor 2

Cluster B…

Inter-Agency Refugee Appeal

Resource Mobilization

CERF and Pooled Fund

UNHCR Representative Advocacy HC

Coordination of Humanitarian Responses

Refugee Response Plan

Refugee Response Plan (RRP) – a comprehensive inter-agency plan for responding in refugee emergencies. May also apply in non-emergency settings.

RRP serves as a base/platform to respond to and advocate for a refugee situation in an inter-agency context with UNHCR leading, coordinating and delivering.

RRP is coordinated with the HC and HCT.

What and Why

Outcomes

• Refugee Response Plan • RRP are centered on the refugee needs and the impact

on the local population:

• Joint needs identification • Participatory planning • Joint appeals and separate appeals

RRMRP – Regional Refugee Migrants Response Plan 2016

• Joint planning • Skopje, 27 November , Hotel Continental

Cameroon Chad Niger

Nigeria situation

Cameroon Chad DRC

CAR situation

DRC Rwanda Tanzania

Burundi situation

Ethiopia Sudan Kenya Uganda

South Sudan situation

Egypt Jordan Iraq Lebanon Turkey

3RP for Syria

Where

Regional Refugee Response Plans

Refugee Coordination Model in Macedonia

• UN Country team , and • Three main coordination mechanisms:

Nutrition coordination group NFI/Winterization coordination group Outreach Protection Coordination group

Nutrition coordination group

• UNHCR • MLSP• Red Cross • Legis • Nun Kultura • AGAPE• DORCAS• JRS• Grainne of Goodness

NFI/Winterization coordination group

• UNHCR, MLSP, Red Cross,UNICEF, IOM, ADRA, MERCY CORPS, CBF, GIZ, Save the Children, Habitat, DRC, Dorcas, Agape, CRS, Operation Mercy, NUN Kultura, Legis, Grainne of Goodness , SOS Children village

Out Reach Protection coordination group

• UNHCR, UNICEF, Centre for Social Welfare (MLSP), IOM, UN WOMEN, UNFPA, CMC, PIN, GIZ, Open Gate-La Strada Macedonia, SOS, Terre de Hommes, Macedonian Young Lawyer Association, Mercy Corps,