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Cash Transfer Programming and Persons of Concern Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand

Join us at the Centre Point Hotel Chidlom in Bangkok on March 14-15, 2016, for an overview of Persons of Concern contexts in Asia. Explore key questions, stages of displacement, operational contexts, and more in this engaging workshop. Learn from UNHCR and IDMC experts about the Asia regional overview, including the varying operational contexts and major trends in displacement. Discover insights on the profiles, vulnerabilities, and special considerations of asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons, and more.

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Cash Transfer Programming and Persons of Concern Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand

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  1. CaLP Asia Cash Transfer Programming and Persons of Concern Workshop Centre Point Hotel Chidlom Bangkok, Thailand 14-15 March 2016

  2. Overview of Persons of Concern contexts in Asia Lam Nguyen

  3. Content Asia regional overview and trends Key questions Stages of displacement Varying operational contexts

  4. Asia regional overview Source: UNHCR and IDMC

  5. Asia regional overview Only 14 out of 32 countries in Asia* are signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Protocol (*Asia in this context is East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and South East Asia)

  6. Asia regional overview Majority are from Afghanistan & Myanmar; hosted in border countries Other populations in Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, China Majority of PoC are in urban areas (80%) Local integration is rarely an option Resettlement is declining as ... High hopes for repatriation Increasingly protracted New displacements

  7. Key questions • 1. What is the profile of the persons of concern? • Are there any special considerations based on being an asylum seeker, refugee, • stateless person, internally displaced person, returnee or other? What special vulnerabilities exist? 3. What is the specific operational context? • 2. What stage of the displacement journey?

  8. Stages of displacement Displacement Migration Durable Solution Assessment At which stage of displacement is the PoC situated? Country of origin or habitual residence Returnee Country of transit Migration Root cause of displacement Internal displacement Detention Refoulement Country of asylum Registration Identification Indefinite detention Forced return NO Refugee Status Determination Repatriation YES Local integration Resettlement Further displacement because of host government decision, detention, search for shelter, search for livelihoods, natural disasters, insecurity Country of resettlement

  9. Varying operational contexts Camp setting • Where does your context • fit within this? • Enclosed environment • Access to services within camp • Identification/registration • Access to economic/financial • services • Access to community • healthcare & education • Access to public • education & healthcare • No legal right to work • No legal recognition • Risk of refoulement • Insecurity/violence • Family separation • Risk of detention • Durable solutions • Social cohesion Limited protective spaces Extensive protective spaces • Greater exposure to local authorities/community • Relative freedom of movement • Access to competitive markets Non-camp setting

  10. Questions? Thank you!

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