Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0938-5

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Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-07T21:43:38Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-07T21:43:38Z
dc.date.issued	2017-06
dc.description.abstract	The Syrian refugee crisis has galvanized attention to one of the world’s foremost challenges: forced displacement. The total number of refugees and internally displaced persons, now at over 65 million, continues to grow as violent conflict spikes.This report, Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts, produced in close partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), attempts to sort fact from fiction to better understand the scope of the challenge and encourage new thinking from a socioeconomic perspective. The report depicts the reality of forced displacement as a developing world crisis with implications for sustainable growth: 95 percent of the displaced live in developing countries and over half are in displacement for more than four years. To help the displaced, the report suggests ways to rebuild their lives with dignity through development support, focusing on their vulnerabilities such as loss of assets and lack of legal rights and opportunities. It also examines how to help host communities that need to manage the sudden arrival of large numbers of displaced people, under pressure to expand services, create jobs and address long-standing development issues. Critical to this response is collective action. As work on a new Global Compact on Responsibility Sharing for Refugees progresses, the report underscores the importance of humanitarian and development communities working together in complementary ways to support countries throughout the crisis―from strengthening resilience and preparedness at the onset to creating lasting solutions.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0938-5
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0938-5
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25016
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	FRAGILITY
dc.subject	DISPLACEMENT
dc.subject	REFUGEES
dc.subject	FORCED MIGRATION
dc.subject	HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
dc.title	Forcibly Displaced	en
dc.title.subtitle	Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts
okr.date.disclosure	2016-09-27
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0938-5
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	210938
okr.identifier.report	117479
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Human Migrations & Resettlements
okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Conflict and Fragile States
okr.topic	Social Development::Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement
okr.unit	GCFDR