CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 3
SOLUTIONS
REFUGEES NEED LONG-LASTING
SOLUTIONS TO LIVE IN DIGNITY AND PEACE
In addition to providing international protection,
finding durable solutions that enable displaced
people to rebuild their lives and live in dignity and
peace is a core part of UNHCR’s work and
mandate. Traditionally, durable solutions include
voluntary repatriation, resettlement to a third
country, and local integration. These approaches
have proven inadequate, however, as a growing
number of people of concern to UNHCR remained
in precarious protection situations and with little
hope of a durable solution in the future.
Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework
(CRRF) for emergencies and protracted situations
of forced displacement. 44 This was a recognition
that situation-specific comprehensive approaches
are required to find durable solutions, together
with engaging governments, humanitarian and
development actors, and refugees. A key goal of
the CRRF is to encourage greater international
cooperation to ensure protection and find
solutions for refugees, and to identify new
approaches and pathways to protection and
solutions.
On 19 September 2016, UN Member States
adopted the ‘New York Declaration for Refugees
and Migrants’, committing to develop a
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