PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION – UNDP AND UNHCR COOPERATION ON FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND STATELESSNESS Under this regional partnership umbrella between UNDP and UNHCR, anchored in the roles and responsibilities outlined under the 3RP, there are a variety of examples of best practices of productive collaboration between UNDP and UNHCR at country level. In Lebanon, UNDP and UNHCR have developed a strong partnership through the country chapter of the 3RP – the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan includes collaboration on data, analysis and joint programming. The agencies have been collaborating on the Tensions Monitoring System since 2017, which provides recommendations to national and local stakeholders on a more conflictsensitive response. The system uses perception surveys, incident monitoring, conflict mapping and inputs from UN agencies and NGOs to produce wider analysis for partners. As part of the system, UNDP and UNHCR draft a bimonthly update. With national partners, they lead four regional tensions monitoring groups which take early action. References • • • • • • • • 3RP, Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan, website 3RP, ‘Regional Strategic Overview 2023,’ 2023 3RP, ‘Annual Report 2022: Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan,’ April 2023 3RP. ‘Social cohesion: An Overview of Host Community-Refugee Dynamics in the 3RP Context,’ July 2022 3RP, ‘Integrating Social Cohesion in the 3RP: A Regional Guidance Note,’ June 2022 3RP, ‘Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability and Clean Energy Access in the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan in Response to the Syria Crisis (3RP),’ September 2022 TANGO, UNDP and UNHCR, ‘Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan Evaluation,’ external evaluation of 3RP covering 2015-2021, May 2022 TMK, Localisation Advocacy Group and 3RP, ‘From global to the national: Moving localisation forward through the launch of the National Reference Group,’ January 2023 © UNDP Lebanon In Türkiye, UNDP and UNHCR have supported the establishment of a National Reference Group on Aid Localisation in 2023. The group accelerates progress on the quality and quantity of funding that NGOs can access and enhances their role in decision making. It also ensures that humanitarian and development programmes are grounded in local realities and are implemented in ways that strengthen local NGOs. The reference group is led by the Refugee Council of Türkiye (TMK) and the Turkish Localisation Advocacy Group, with UNDP and UNHCR as the primary UN members. Türkiye was also one of the pilot countries for use of the UNDP–UNHCR Appraisal Tool on Inclusion on the Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced and Stateless Persons in National Frameworks for the Achievement of the SDGs. During the piloting, UNDP and UNHCR focused on data and refugee inclusion in municipalities. The findings indicated that only a few municipalities included refugees in their plans, and those that did were treating the refugee situation mostly as a burden. 14 U N H C R a n d U N D P | PA R T N E R S H I P I N A C T I O N – U N D P A N D U N H C R C O O P E R AT I O N O N F O R C E D D I S P L A C E M E N T A N D S TAT E L E S S N E S S