Global Preparations for GRF 2023

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1^st Formal Preparatory Meeting

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2 February 2023

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• Affirmed by the UNGA on 18 Dec 2018

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• Objectives

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• Ease the pressures on host countries;
• Enhance refugee self-reliance;
• Expand access to third-country solutions;
• Support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity.

Purpose of the Global Refugee Forum

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Stocktaking

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Progress towards the GCR objectives assessed through the GCR indicator report and reporting on pledge and initiative implementation

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Pledging

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In 2023: Aim for high quality, pre-matched, joint pledges and initiatives implemented or announced in support of the recommendations from the High-Level Officials Meeting

Learning

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Good practices, opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned shared to inform future action in support of the GCR objective

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Multi-stakeholder and partnership approach and meaningful refugee participation

Advance GCR objectives to ease pressures, enhance self-reliance, expand third-country solutions, support conditions for return (GCR, Part 1)

Facilitated through comprehensive responses and national, regional, and global arrangements (GCR, Parts 2, 3)

Global Refugee Forum (GCR, Part 3)

What we have achieved since 2019

GRF 2019:

• 1,685 pledges announced​
• Over 1,000 pledges received progress updates
• 25% of reported pledges are now fulfilled ​
• 323 new pledges since GRF 2019
• GCR Indicator Framework to track progress
• 50 GCR initiatives launched (support platforms, asylum capacity support group, clean energy challenge, etc.)

GCR indicator report in 2021

• Increase in ODA for humanitarian support, but incommensurate increase in development assistance

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• Stronger policies to include refugees in national systems, but insufficient support for implementation

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• More solutions (resettlement, complementary pathways, voluntary returns) since 2016 than in the previous 5 years, but a downward trend since then

Key Recommendations from the High-Level Officials Meeting

Cross cutting recommendations

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Implement current GRF pledges and develop new ones to address identified gaps and needs.

Enhance access to international protection.

Reduce statelessness.

Make better use of combined humanitarian, development, and peace capacities to achieve the GCR objectives.

Build attention to climate change into how we do business.

Facilitate more systematic, inclusive, and meaningful refugee participation.

Enhance the data available to support effective action and investment in refugee situations.

Strengthen private sector engagement in support of GCR objectives.

GCR objective 1: Ease pressures on host countries

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Intensify efforts towards more equitable burden and responsibility sharing.

Increase development financing in support of refugee situations.

Provide more flexible, predictable, and multi-year funding for refugee responses.

GCR objective 2: Enhance refugee self-reliance

GCR objective 3: Expand access to third-country solutions

GCR objective 4: Support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity

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Increase social inclusion for refugees.

Increase economic inclusion and access to livelihoods.

Expand access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education.

Provide refugees with healthcare through strengthened national systems.

Increase the volume of resettlement opportunities for refugees.

Build additional complementary pathways to third-country solutions.

Mobilise more resources in support of voluntary return.

Strengthen the planning and implementation of voluntary return.

Improve cooperation to address root causes and build peace in countries of origin.

What we want to achieve in 2023

Build on achievements and address gaps to strengthen comprehensive responses based on national ownership complemented by a multi-stakeholder and partnership approach through:

Advancing the arrangements for burden and responsibility sharing:

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• support platforms
• regional and national arrangements
• financing arrangements and tracking
• development cooperation
• inclusion in data systems
• GCR in emergency responses

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Implementing current pledges and developing new ones that are of high quality and impact and focus on:

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• inclusive policy pledges implemented through matching, especially to address gaps
• broadened base of support (expanded partnerships, expanded and deepened engagement of governments)
• expanded opportunities for solutions (3^rd country, local integration, voluntary return, and peacebuilding)
• both international and domestic pledges

Pledging in 2023

A high-quality pledge will ideally be:

• Aligned with the 20 key recommendations from the HLOM
• Additional, quantifiable, and needs-driven
• Multi-stakeholder, jointly developed
• Pre-matched to support inclusive policies
• Developed in consultation with refugees and consider AGD

Multi-stakeholder engagement

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• GCR initiatives/groups of friends
• Focus on pledge implementation, matching, and cultivation
• Report on progress and make calls to action at informal briefings in 2022-23
• Prioritise impactful pledges/initiatives for engagement in GRF “ecosystem” of events

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• NGO reference group 
• Comprised of 15 regional and global NGO networks
• Launched in 2022 as a GRF consultative mechanism and to develop joint pledges

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• Refugee engagement
• Consultations with Internal Advisory Board of Displaced and Stateless People
• Call for refugee experts to engage in the GRF throughout 2023 
• Include RLOs in planned regional NGO consultations 

GRF Calendar of Preparations

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GRF Calendar of Preparations

2023

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Pledge implementation and development

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Key considerations for the GRF programme

• Achieving desired outcomes
• High-level participation
• Ensuring participation of 15 stakeholder groups, including refugees
• Event modalities (plenary, “ecosystem”, and pop-up events)

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