Transcript Ten Point Plan of Action for Refugee Protection and Mixed

Ten Point Plan of Action for Refugee
Protection and Mixed Migration
‘Protection-Sensitive Entry Systems’:
Good Practices in Belarus, Moldova
and Ukraine
Kate Pooler
Regional Protection Officer
UNHCR Kyiv
8 April 2009
Rationale of the Ten Point Plan
To ensure that persons in need of international protection within
broader mixed migratory movements are identified and
provided with an appropriate response
 Intersection of refugee and migratory movements:
- mixed and irregular movements comprise those in need of
protection and those not;
- refugee movement becomes migratory;
- mixed motivations among those migrating;
- onward movement of refugees who face protection concerns in
countries of asylum;
- changes in countries of origin that may create refugees sur place
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Nature of the Ten Point Plan
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Comprehensive: protection objectives will only be
achieved if incorporated within broader migration
strategy, recognises need for border control and
proposes ideas on how to address protection in a
migration strategy
Cooperative: partnership among governments,
international and national governmental
organisations, NGOs, civil society – Soderkoping,
IOM-UNHCR partnership, EC programes
Regional: involving countries of origin, transit and
destination.
The Ten Point Plan: a checklist for
action
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Cooperation among key partners;
Data collection and analysis
Protection-sensitive entry systems;
Reception arrangements;
Mechanisms for profiling and referral;
Differentiated processes and procedures;
Solutions for refugees;
Addressing secondary movements;
Return arrangements for non-refugees and alternative
migration options;
Information strategy.
Implementation of RPSP and the Ten
Point Plan: Specific activities 20092011
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10PP will serve as checklist to assist in
developing activities
Analysis of the 10PP by stakeholders:
highlight priorities among all points
Concrete plans for targeted locations
Wider awareness of 10PP and use in public
information materials
Protection-sensitive entry systems:
Examples of good practice in Belarus,
Moldova and Ukraine
Protection-sensitive entry mechanisms
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Border and detention/reception monitoring (role of
NGOs and cross-border cooperation), including in
readmission
Advocacy to release asylum-seekers from detention
Interpretation
Access to information
Capacity building and training of border authorities
and legal counsellors
Training of NGOs on early identification of asylum
seekers and persons with special needs
1) Communicating protection
obligations to entry officials
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Instruction on work with asylum seekers included in
2006 in Belarus Border Guard internal manual
Joint Instruction SCNR/SBGS on handover of
asylum applications 2004 in Ukraine
Training provided to SBC staff in all regions of
Belarus under the AENAES Border Monitoring
Project funded by the EC
Training sessions for border officials in 2008 in
Moldova
Joint training of border officials and judiciary in
western Ukraine in 2008 on protection/human rights
in the expulsion process
2) Establishing a dialogue between entry
officials and humanitarian actors
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Memorandum of Understanding signed by
UNHCR, IOM, SBC and NGOs in 2007
Inter-agency meetings and plan of action
established in western Ukraine 2007-2009
ECRE project in eastern Ukraine for NGOs to
hold meetings with border officials and to
provide information and leaflets
3) Assisting entry officials to identify and refer
asylum seekers to the responsible authority
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Standard operating procedures for NGOs in
the region to register and identify protection
concerns and specific needs
Various explanatory leaflets for border
officials and for asylum seekers
4) Ensuring cross-border cooperation on
protection
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Söderköping Process: ten countries crossborder cooperation on asylum, migration and
border management
Cross-border study visits to Slovakia,
Ukraine and Poland under the EC-funded
border monitoring project in Belarus
GDISC/ERIT project in Ukraine involves
governments from three neighbouring EU
MS in exchange of experience
5) Setting up independent monitoring
systems
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Use of the readmission interview form and
information-sharing protocol among NGOs in
Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia and Ukraine.
Observatory Mechanism under the EC-funded
GUMIRA project in Moldova and Ukraine 2009-2010
Independent monitoring outlined in the Belarus MOU
EC-funded ECRE return monitoring project will
include training of NGOs, payment for additional staff
and small grants.
Continuing to exchange examples of good
practice in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
- Maintaining and updating
document on point 3
- Collection of good
practice under other points
of the 10PP