EHAGL Regional Knowledge Exchange Social Protection & Forced Displacement

Knowledge Exchange Social Protection & Forced Displacement

  Working Group Description

The social protection and forced displacement knowledge exchange is a forum for organisations working on this topic to come together to learn from each other and external stakeholders, to exchange information and best practices and explore opportunities for joint activities. Membership is open to regional NGOs/CSOs, UN agencies, IFIs, Bilateral Donors and Research Institutes across the humanitarian-development nexus in Eastern, Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes. The Exchange aims to stimulate discussion, research, and sharing of best practices related to the inclusion of forcibly displaced populations and vulnerable or marginalized host communities into emerging national social protection systems and programmes.

The Topic
Africa’s East, Horn and Great Lakes Region is experiencing increased frequency, severity and duration of crises creating a context of substantial and growing needs, with new conflicts swelling displaced and refugee caseloads. This is combined with the increasingly protracted nature of displacement , growing climatic shocks and inadequate humanitarian resources to meet the needs that these scenarios are generating.

However, despite these challenges progress can be seen in the establishment, strengthening and reach of social protection policies, systems and programmes across the region alongside increased investment in these systems. This is primarily development partner resources, but some countries are seeing a growth in government investment also. COVID-19 has accelerated efforts to scale up social protection systems. There is wide acceptance of the role that social protection can play in reducing poverty and addressing lifecycle risks and vulnerabilities. Pilots are developing into government social safety net programmes, delivery systems are improving and there is an increased focus on developing the shock-responsive capacities of these systems. Coverage is growing despite challenges around fragmentation, capacity, coordination and resourcing. This links to the increasing use of cash transfers as a humanitarian response modality and robust evidence of the efficacy of social protection and social transfers in both development and crisis contexts.

Humanitarian assistance has been performing the same role as social assistance for many years. In contexts of increasingly protracted displacement and lack of durable solutions for most refugees, inclusion in social protection systems, backed by international development investments, can contribute to more predictable alternatives to humanitarian assistance. UNHCR is working with governments and international actors to implement an area-based approach promoting access to social protection programmes for displaced and host populations. An increased focus on developing inclusive systems provides opportunities for broadening discussions on how Persons of Concern (PoC) can benefit from social protection to provide more effective, efficient and sustainable solutions to affected populations. This requires re-examining ways of responding to the basic and protection needs of forcibly displaced communities and exploring the role that government social protection systems can play in meeting the needs of PoC, accelerating the agenda of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), promoting area-based solutions, efficiencies, inclusion and sustainability.

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    UNHCR - UNHCR Programme Handbook for Partners - March 2024

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    This handbook is primarily for partners funded by UNHCR, while some of the content may provide useful information for non-funded partners. It reflects the principles, frameworks, rules and systems cur...
    Date de publication: 19 March 2024 (9 days ago)
    Créé: 20 March 2024 (8 days ago)
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    IRC - How Donors Can Better Support Urban Refugees - Policy Paper

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    This paper by IRC's Re:BUiLD team, co-authored with the Center for Global Development (CGD), is based on a reading of secondary literature, clarification interviews with key stakeholders, and Re:BUiL...
    Date de publication: 6 March 2024 (22 days ago)
    Créé: 18 March 2024 (10 days ago)
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    IRC - How Donors Can Better Support Urban Refugees - Brief Report

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    Urban areas in low- and middle-income countries have become home for the majority of the world's refugee population, challenging the conventional narrative of refugee assistance that has traditionally...
    Date de publication: 6 March 2024 (22 days ago)
    Créé: 18 March 2024 (10 days ago)
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    ILO - Designing and Implementing Market-led Interventions in Forced Displacement Settings - January 2024

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    The ILO’s Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) applies the market systems development approach to the context of forced displacement and therefore calls for the design and implementation of tai...
    Date de publication: 24 February 2024 (1 month ago)
    Créé: 14 March 2024 (14 days ago)
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    UNHCR - Improving Digital Livelihood Opportunities for Refugees - February 2024

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    This research explores the needs, priorities, challenges, and risks faced by refugees engaged in the digital economy, drawing on findings from 62 community-based workshops with 541 participants, held ...
    Date de publication: 14 February 2024 (1 month ago)
    Créé: 15 February 2024 (1 month ago)
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    Sudan Regional Refugee Response - May to December 2023 (Revised August 2023)

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    The 2023 Sudan Emergency Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) was launched in May 2023, revised in June 2023, and again in August 2023 reflecting the dramatic and ongoing increases in external displac...
    Date de publication: 4 September 2023 (6 months ago)
    Créé: 4 September 2023 (6 months ago)
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    Social protection responses to COVID-19 for forcibly displaced persons

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    Refugees and other Persons of Concern (PoC)1 to UNHCR have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to serious health, socio-economic and protection impacts. Some governme...
    Date de publication: 30 November 2020 (3 years ago)
    Créé: 24 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    UNHCR Sudan - Solutions and Livelihoods Factsheet - November 2023

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    UNHCR Sudan - Solutions and Livelihoods Factsheet - November 2023
    Date de publication: 1 November 2023 (4 months ago)
    Créé: 6 November 2023 (4 months ago)
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    Implementation Guide – Good Practices For Ensuring Data Protection And Privacy In Social Protection Systems

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    This Implementation Guide is aimed at practitioners involved in the design, implementation, and expansion of social protection systems and programmes at the country level, especially regarding non-con...
    Date de publication: 31 August 2022 (1 year ago)
    Créé: 17 November 2022 (1 year ago)
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    Extending social protection to migrant workers, refugees and their families

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    A guide for policymakers and practitioners
    Date de publication: 31 December 2021 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 18 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    EC - Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (SPAN) Operational Note - Forced Displacement

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    Supplement to the Reference Document No 26 on Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. A Game Changer in Supporting People through Crises and provides an overview of the key inform...
    Date de publication: 15 May 2019 (4 years ago)
    Créé: 14 March 2022 (2 years ago)
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    EC - SPaN (2019) Summary: Reference Document - Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. A Game Changer in Supporting Peo...

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    Summary were produced as parts of the European Commission’s “Guidance Package on Social protection across the humanitarian-development Nexus (SPaN)”. This Summary highlights the complementarities betw...
    Date de publication: 10 May 2019 (4 years ago)
    Créé: 14 March 2022 (2 years ago)
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    EC - Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (SPAN) Guidance - Tools and Methods.

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    Reference document by the European Commission on providing Social Protection across the humanitarian-development Nexus (SPaN) for dissemination to practitioners. It provides an overview of the key inf...
    Date de publication: 15 February 2019 (5 years ago)
    Créé: 14 March 2022 (2 years ago)
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    Presentation - UNHCR and JDC : Socioeconomic data, evidence and action in East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region

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    Presentation by UNHCR and World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center (JDC) highlighting a summary of recent trends in forced displacement data and research and discussion by the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Ce...
    Date de publication: 14 September 2023 (6 months ago)
    Créé: 14 September 2023 (6 months ago)
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    Presentation - IPC: El Nino - Humanitarian Impacts and Response Implications for the East Africa region - 03 August 2023

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    Presentation by IPC highlighting the case of Acute food insecurity and malnutrition of East and Central Africa region
    Date de publication: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
    Créé: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
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    Presentation - FAO : El Nino - Humanitarian Impacts and Response Implications for the East Africa region - 03 August 2023

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    Presentation by FAO highlighting the El Nino Humanitarian Impacts and Response Implications for the East Africa region
    Date de publication: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
    Créé: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
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    Presentation - NRC : Pilot project on Flood Rice production in South Sudan

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    Presentation by NRC highlighting the pilot project on flood rice production - diverting flood to an opportunity in South Sudan
    Date de publication: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
    Créé: 3 August 2023 (7 months ago)
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    Presentation - UNHCR: Climate and Displacement - 13 July 2023

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    Presentation by UNHCR on climate related displacement, and highlight findings from a regional CGIAR Fragility, Conflict and Migration Climate analysis
    Date de publication: 13 July 2023 (8 months ago)
    Créé: 13 July 2023 (8 months ago)
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    IGAD Policy Framework on Refugee Protection

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    This Policy Framework on Refugee Protection is a consolidation of the key findings and recommendations that reflect the IGAD Member States’ commitment to providing a safe haven for refugees, ensuring ...
    Date de publication: 31 January 2024 (1 month ago)
    Créé: 5 March 2024 (23 days ago)
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    UNHCR Policy on Cash-based Interventions - 2022-2026

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    Building on the Policy on Cash-Based Interventions (CBI) 2016-20211, this Policy sets the overall direction for UNHCR’s use of CBI from 2022 to 2026 inclusive, with the aim of scaling up and strengthe...
    Date de publication: 5 September 2022 (1 year ago)
    Créé: 6 September 2022 (1 year ago)
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    Emerging Lessons from World Bank Group Social Protection Investments in Refugee-Hosting Areas

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    Emerging Lessons from World Bank Group Social Protection Investments in Refugee-Hosting Areas
    Date de publication: 31 January 2022 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 8 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    INCLUSION OF REFUGEES IN GOVERNMENT SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN AFRICA

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    INCLUSION OF REFUGEES IN GOVERNMENT SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN AFRICA
    Date de publication: 31 January 2022 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 8 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    Leave no one behind: Promoting effective access of refugees in social protection systems in post-pandemic Europe

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    The spread of COVID-19 has challenged all of us to question conventional wisdom, think differently and work together to find solutions to the defining crisis of our times. In Europe, COVID-19 has touc...
    Date de publication: 31 December 2021 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 24 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    ALIGNING HUMANITARIAN CASH ASSISTANCE WITH NATIONAL SOCIAL SAFETY NETS IN REFUGEE SETTINGS

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    The purpose of this document is to share learning and considerations on how operations have or could progressively align humanitarian cash assistance for refugees to national social safety nets (SSN)...
    Date de publication: 31 December 2021 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 24 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    Mapping of the National Social Protection System in Ethiopia, including Social Health Protection

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    The mapping of the national social protection system in Ethiopia, including social health insurance, is carried out as part of a joint technical study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) a...
    Date de publication: 31 December 2021 (2 years ago)
    Créé: 24 February 2022 (2 years ago)
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    UNHCR - UNHCR Programme Handbook for Partners - March 2024

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    This handbook is primarily for partners funded by UNHCR, while some of the content may provide useful information for non-funded partners. It reflects the principles, frameworks, rules and systems cur...
    Date de publication: 19 March 2024 (9 days ago)
    Créé: 20 March 2024 (8 days ago)
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    IRC - How Donors Can Better Support Urban Refugees - Policy Paper

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    This paper by IRC's Re:BUiLD team, co-authored with the Center for Global Development (CGD), is based on a reading of secondary literature, clarification interviews with key stakeholders, and Re:BUiL...
    Date de publication: 6 March 2024 (22 days ago)
    Créé: 18 March 2024 (10 days ago)
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    IRC - How Donors Can Better Support Urban Refugees - Brief Report

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    Urban areas in low- and middle-income countries have become home for the majority of the world's refugee population, challenging the conventional narrative of refugee assistance that has traditionally...
    Date de publication: 6 March 2024 (22 days ago)
    Créé: 18 March 2024 (10 days ago)
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    ILO - Designing and Implementing Market-led Interventions in Forced Displacement Settings - January 2024

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    The ILO’s Approach to Inclusive Market Systems (AIMS) applies the market systems development approach to the context of forced displacement and therefore calls for the design and implementation of tai...
    Date de publication: 24 February 2024 (1 month ago)
    Créé: 14 March 2024 (14 days ago)
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    UNHCR - Improving Digital Livelihood Opportunities for Refugees - February 2024

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    This research explores the needs, priorities, challenges, and risks faced by refugees engaged in the digital economy, drawing on findings from 62 community-based workshops with 541 participants, held ...
    Date de publication: 14 February 2024 (1 month ago)
    Créé: 15 February 2024 (1 month ago)
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    UNHCR - Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024-2030

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    UNHCR’s newly released Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024-2030 builds on the Strategic Framework for Climate Action to operationalize its commitment to reduce and manage the effects of climate cha...
    Date de publication: 13 December 2023 (3 months ago)
    Créé: 16 February 2024 (1 month ago)
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    UNHCR - Uganda: Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Strategic Directions 2023 - 2028

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    UNHCR Uganda: Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Strategic Directions 2023 - 2028
    Date de publication: 7 August 2023 (7 months ago)
    Créé: 8 August 2023 (7 months ago)
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    UNHCR Kenya - Multi-year Strategy 2023 - 2026 - Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion

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    This Multi-Year Strategic Plan 2023-2026 is developed jointly with government and non-government partners working on refugee self-reliance in Kenya. It provides a framework for UNHCR’s engagement in t...
    Date de publication: 1 March 2023 (1 year ago)
    Créé: 15 March 2023 (1 year ago)
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    Handbook on social health protection for refugees: Approaches, lessons learned and practical tools to assess coverage options

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    The purpose of this handbook is to guide UNHCR public health and programme staff and ILO staff working on social protection at country level on the considerations and practical steps required to asses...
    Date de publication: 9 November 2020 (3 years ago)
    Créé: 7 February 2022 (2 years ago)

  • Working Group Key Contacts
    • Clare Gardner

      UNHCR Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, Nairobi, Kenya  Senior Social Protection Officer
    • Shana Hoehler

      ILO  Technical Officer – Social Health Protection for Refugees and Host Communities
      Links
    Social assistance in crises roundtable: knowledge gaps and policy challenges
    BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research is a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) funded programme examining why, how and when to use social protection approaches in different crisis contexts, to deliver more effective social assistance so that vulnerable people cope better with crises and meet their basic needs. This online roundtable discussion will be a dialogue with other researchers and practitioners on the ground.
    Fragility Forum: Emerging Research on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Displacement
    Fragility Forum, a podcast summarising UNHCR studies and the ongoing WB-DFID Trust Fund and OECD studies on inclusion of refugees in SP systems and a roundtable with representatives from Mauritania, Republic of Congo and Yemen.
    Guidance Package - SPaN resources
    The European Commission (EC) created the Guidance Package (GP) on Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (SPaN) to provide concrete and practical guidance to social protection as an effective short- and long-term response to multivariate shocks, protracted crises and displacement based on the current body of knowledge, including brief definitions, and processes of social protection approaches in most challenging settings. The variety of contexts covered by the GP also includes countries where social protection systems are nationally led and those without any structures in place.
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