Report on UNHCR’s Annual Consultations With NGOs - 2009
Date Submitted : 21-Aug-2009
Themes : Consultation, UN, Refugees, NGOs
This report provides highlights of the Annual Consultations with NGOs, which this year brought together some 310 representatives from around the world, representing 179 different NGOs, UN and international organizations, of which 73 of these NGOs were national NGOs.
The consultations were opened by the UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner Protection and featured seven Thematic Sessions and five Regional Sessions with the active involvement of some 80 resource persons from NGOs, academia, member states, and international and UN organizations. Participating NGOs also had space to organize ten side-meetings. The related sessions addressed were:
• Internal Displacement Situations: Getting the numbers and facts right – The Global Needs Assessment: Why it is important and what it means for partners – Disabilities in Displacement – Displacement in Urban Settings – Protracted Refugee Situations – NGOs and Resettlement – Security and Safety of Staff .
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Submitted By:
Andrew Cummings
Executive Officer
SCOA
Phone : 02 8065 5225
Email : andrew@scoa.org.au
Website : www.unhcr.org