UNHCR notes ongoing challenges with respect to access to employment for refugees from Croatia in host countries in the region, whether due to existing restrictions based in law or a lack of implementation of more favorable provisions where these exist. Within the context of the RHP, UNHCR has continuously reiterated to Partner Countries the commitment they made in the Belgrade Declaration of 7 November 2011 (Joint Declaration on Ending Displacement and Ensuring Durable Solutions for Vulnerable Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons) to ensure that a comprehensive solutions-oriented approach is taken to ensure sustainability. This should include measures to provide for better employment and livelihood opportunities. UNHCR has, inter alia, requested RHP Partner Countries to provide more detailed plans for economic and socio-cultural sustainability for any new sub-projects, including examination of social integration and employment programme opportunities, and has encouraged good practices from nationally or externally-funded programmes in the region to be integrated into RHP sub-projects with financial resources identified for this purpose. UNHCR is pleased to confirm all the newly submitted RHP project proposals provide more detailed information and corresponding actions that would be undertaken to achieve the comprehensive, sustainable solutions of the RHP beneficiaries. UNHCR continues to advocate for improved employment opportunities through income generation programmes as part of projects undertaken to support the Regional Durable Solutions Process. d) Access to acquired pension rights There was no progress on resolving the issue of outstanding pension payments between Croatia and Serbia. Consequently, the issue of due, outstanding pensions remains open. The issue remains on the agenda of a regular coordination body of the RHP, Regional Coordination Forum, as it is an integral part of the agenda of the Regional Durable Solutions Process (the Sarajevo Process). In June 2017, the International Labour Office (ILO) issued its Second supplementary report of the Director-General: “Report of the Committee set up to examine the representation alleging non-observance by Croatia of the Maintenance of Migrants’ Pension Rights Convention, 1935 (No. 48), made under article 24 of the ILO Constitution by the Association of Trade Unions of Pensioners of Serbia (USPS)”.26 In the ILO Report, the following was inter alia concluded: “With regard to persons who resided in the occupied territories, the situation is extremely complex as the period during which they resided in the occupied territories varied for each beneficiary, certain pensioners were able to get judicial redress while others were not and many received payments from the para-funds. Moreover, as the facts date back to more than 25 years ago, it is uncertain how many persons 26 GB.330/INS/7/2 http://www.ilo.org/gb/GBSessions/GB329/ins/WCMS_559242/lang--en/index.htm 20