Christina Jespersen's presentation - OECD - PGD Expert Meeting

1. Forced Displacement
The imperative of timely solutions

2. Trends
• Today forced displacement due to political unrest
and violence affects over 50 million people
worldwide.
• Not only has the number of refugees and
internally displaced persons continued to grow in
recent decades, but also their length of stay.

3. Durable Solutions
• Voluntary return
– During the past decade some 7.2 million refugees
were able to return to their country of origin
• Third country resettlement
– Some 700,000 refugees were able to resettle over
the last decade.
• Local integration.
– Formal local integration has been elusive

4. Result
• ¾ of the world’s refugees now live in
situations of prolonged exile with the average
duration of displacement increasing
• Camps across the globe have begun to house
their third generations of refugees and IDPs
• Four simultaneous L-3 emergencies in 2014
• Humanitarian responses become long-term

5. Effects on hosting communities
• 46 per cent of the world’s refugees reside in
countries whose GDP (PPP) per capita was
below USD 5,000
• Number of refugees compared to the national
population of the host country; Syrian crisis
displays its full effect
• Emerging evidence of positive impact of the
presence of refugee populations

6. Redoubling solutions efforts
• Critical look at emergency responses
• Taking another look at traditional solutions
• Unpacking elements of solutions
– Legal, economic, social, political/cultural dimensions
of solutions
– The gradual attainment of rights
• Alternative durable solutions models
• Displacement as development
challenge/opportunity
• Measuring results

7. Redoubling solutions efforts
• Shift in approaches – shift in organizational
culture
• Intensified partnerships
• Displaced populations – inclusion in
development plans