Supporting
Next Steps in
Integration Initiatives
An Inventory of Needs and Opportunities in the Integration
of Resettled Refugees
A Project of the Annual Tripartite
Consultations on Resettlement
implemented by the
Canadian Council for Refugees
March 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PRE-DEPARTURE (Under Construction)
1. Integration elements in identifying and selecting refugees for resettlement
2. Selecting and developing placement communities
3. Pre-departure country / cultural orientation
ARRIVAL AND THE FIRST FEW WEEKS
4. Arrival and reception
5. Early settlement and social support
6. Orientation Programmes and Processes
7. Resources development of orientation programmes
8. Promoting access to language assistance
9. Target language training and acquisition
10. A healthy start: access to health care
CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE RECEIVING COMMUNITY
11. Building social support for newly arrived refugees in the receiving community
12. Promoting welcoming and hospitable communities (Under construction)
MOVE ON / TRANSITIONING TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY (Under Construction)
13. Building bridges to economic self-sufficiency
14. Access to secure and affordable housing
15. Planning for optimal mental health
RESETLEMENT OF PARTICULAR GROUPS OF REFUGEES (Under Construction)
16. Taking account of gender
17. Refugee children and young people
18. Refugee elders
NATIONAL CONTEXTS FOR THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMMES
(Under Construction)
OTHER (Under construction)
SUMMARY OF NEEDS AND INTEREST IN CAPACITY BUILDING
INTRODUCTION
This
(draft) inventory is part of the activities of the Next Steps in
Supporting Integration Initiatives Project, undertaken through the
UNHCR Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement and implemented by the
Canadian Council for Refugees.
A
survey on ‘Needs and Opportunities’ gathered information on the resettlement
and integration practices of countries with refugee resettlement programmes.
The results of the survey have been used to build this inventory as a mechanism
through which resettlement partners may share information, offer resources and
seek assistance on refugee resettlement and integration subjects with the goal
of enhancing their national resettlement efforts and thereby increasing refugee
resettlement capacity globally.
The
survey has two parts, administered between November 2003 and April 2004 and
focuses on:
Ř
elements
of the pre-arrival phase that support successful integration;
Ř
the
first weeks and months;
Ř
transitioning
to successful establishment;
Ř
resettlement
of particular groups and/or communities;
Ř
capacity
building in the receiving community.
The survey seeks information
on:
Ř
needs that could benefit
from linkages;
Ř
new initiatives that may
be of interest to others;
Ř
resources available to
offer in support of other resettlement countries, including areas of
specialization, opportunities for exchanges, listserves that people could join,
conferences that people might usefully attend;
Ř
suggestions of possible
sources of funding for exchanges, for example foundations that might fund a
person from an emerging country to go to a conference or do a placement in
another country.
Distribution of the survey is
as follows:
|
Inventory Focus Areas |
Distribution |
Return |
Initial results posting |
|
Part 1 Reception and the first weeks and months |
Early November 2003 |
December 2003 |
February 2004 |
|
Part 2 (A) Elements of the Pre-Arrival Phase (B) Capacity building in the receiving country (C) Transitioning to successful integration (D) Resettlement of particular groups / communities. |
February / March 2004 |
30 April 2004 |
June 2004 |
Responses to the survey Part 1 - Arrival and the first few weeks, have been received from governments and NGOs in Australia, Benin, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. Other partners have indicated they will be forwarding their responses in due time and all submissions will be accepted until 30 April 2004.
This draft inventory is constructed from the results of the first survey and will be further developed when more submissions are received. The Table of Contents indicates which items are still under construction awaiting the results of Part 2 of the survey. The inventory is intended to be a ‘living’ document and countries may update, add or edit their submissions during the time of the project. It is expected that the inventory will continue in some format as a dynamic, useful tool for resettlement partners. In the meantime it is available on the Canadian Council for Refugees website at http://www.web.net/~ccr
The inventory is currently organized by subject area and, under each heading, alphabetically by country. The contents are largely unedited in an effort not to dilute what are already the summaries of countries’ programmes.
Users may access the inventory for various purposes. For example:
- to seek information on current practices and models on a particular aspect of integration;
- to seek information on practices, models and initiatives in a particular resettlement country;
- to identify particular needs and interests in building capacity in various aspects of integration, by subject and by country;
- to match a need for capacity building with what other partners can offer
- to find information on upcoming conferences, current reports, recent research and other current material;
- to link to websites containing additional information.
If you have comments on the draft inventory, please provide them to the Canadian Council for Refugees at ccr@web.net or to the project coordinator, Liz McWeeny at emcweeny@tbaytel.net
If you wish to provide additional information for the inventory, please send them to the project coordinator at the same coordinates.
An interim report to the UNHCR tripartite meeting on resettlement in March 2004 will focus on responses and activities to date and a full report on the inventory is scheduled for the Annual Tripartite Consultations in June 2004.