UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training Session Who Are the Refugees?
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training Session Objectives: l Put a “human face” on the refugee population l Overcome the common phenomenon of treating the displacement in gross numbers only without considering the sub-group characteristics of the refugees
whoare InterWorks/UNHCR Basis of People-Oriented Approach: Two Basic Facts 2. Refugees are people with strengths and capacities on which to build emergency programming responses. 1. All refugees are not the same and any single refugee group is not homogeneous.
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training AGE GENDER What are the critical demographic differences? FAMILY STATUS
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training What has CHANGED as a result of this displacement? DEPARTURE FLIGHT ARRIVAL ASYLUM DURABLE SOLUTION?
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training Who does what now? Who is in control now? What did people do before and what do they do now? Who controlled and now controls resources? What determined societal roles and what determines them now? ? ? ?
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training People -Oriented-Planning Framework Three Steps Three Steps 1.Context and Refugee Profile 2.Activities Analysis 3.Analysis of Use and Control of Resources
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training STEP ONE CONTEXT AND REFUGEE PROFILE Institutional Structures Economic Conditions Traditions & Beliefs Political Events Attitudes Legal Parameters Demographics
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training STEP TWO ACTIVITIES ANALYSIS WhatWho Where and When ?
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training STEP THREE ANALYSIS OF USE AND CONTROL OF RESOURCES What was lost? What was brought? What is provided?
UNHCR/e-Centre/InterWorks - Emergency Management Training Q uestion your own assumptions! Photo Credit: UNHCR Learn their story… So you can build on their capacities Conclusion: For effective programming...