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serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
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2008 California Refugee Summit
MANHATTAN BEACH 3 September 2008 - The number of refugees who eventually settle in the the United States, as well as where they come from and when they will arrive, is largely a function of the capacity of the UN Refugee Agency, Overseas Processing Entities (OPEs) and service providers working overseas. Today, this capacity needs to be strengthened. There is a general lack of understanding about protection, even in terms of recognizing protection risks, or of recognizing an individual or family in need of protection. Since resettlement is one of our strongest protection tools for refugees, protection capacity needs to be enhanced. The ongoing recruitment of qualified personnel to the ICMC-UNHCR Resettlement Deployment Scheme, in support of the UN Refugee Agency, is one such means of accomplishing this, as is the strengthened response capacity of service providers working overseas with refugees in urban settings. Based on the experiences of caseworkers at the ICMC Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) in Turkey, ICMC Liaison Officer, Jane Bloom, describes the current process for preparing refugees for resettlement, and the tremendous amount of coordination needed to ensure overall positive resettlement experiences.
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