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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported on Wednesday it had co-published a handbook on refugee resettlement, focusing on issues like initial reception, education and employment while incorporating the experiences of resettled refugees.
Published by UNHCR and the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, "Refugee Resettlement: An International Handbook to Guide Reception and Integration" is targeted primarily at programme planners in countries or communities that are planning to receive resettled refugees.
The handbook addresses issues such as initial reception of resettled refugees, ways of preparing receiving communities, language training, education, employment, and the special needs of children; and is targeted primarily at programme planners.
UNHCR said that the production of the handbook was one of the outcomes of the April 2001 International Conference on the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees, which was hosted by the Swedish government. The conference endorsed refugee resettlement and successful integration as important pillars of the international system of refugee protection, UNHCR reported.
[A full account of the UNHCR report]
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