Global Progam on Forced Displacement (World Bank)

The current forced displacement crisis concerns primarily developing countries, which host 89 percent of refugees and 99 percent of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). To make things worse, they are mostly in some of the most unstable regions in the world. The humanitarian system alone is unable to deal with a record caseload of 65.4 million people[1], who remain displaced for an average period of 17 years (UNHCR, 2016). As a result, this has also become an important development issue. The World Bank, together with UNHCR and others, has increasingly gotten engaged in addressing forced displacement as a development challenge. Within the World Bank, the Global Program on Forced Displacement (GPFD) plays a leading role in analytics and facilitating concrete solutions. It is now assisting Country Management Units (CMU) in setting up new large programs under IDA18 to help mainstream the forced displacement agenda in all of the Banks’ relevant interventions. 

[1] GPFD addresses specifically the issue of people displaced by armed conflict or persecution. There are other instruments dealing with the larger Migration phenomena.

The World Bank successfully scaled-up and fostered sustainable solutions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through increased collaboration between humanitarian aid and development cooperation.

External: Governments, UN organisations including within the humanitarian community, civil society, the private sector, academia

Internal: World Bank decision makers (Global Practices, Regional Units, Senior Management)

• Operational support: Strengthen the World Bank and other partners’ development responses for displaced persons.
• Enhance synergies and partnerships with governments, multilateral organisations, donors, academic institutions, and NGOs to ensure a coherent response to forced displacement.
• Strengthen evidence base and knowledge management particularly on sustainable solutions for the forcibly displaced.

Resultados previstos:  

• GPFD country visits and remote support to provide technical advice to governments and CMUs;
• Quality eligibility notes for the IDA18 window for refugees and their hosts as part of the mainstreaming of forced displacement into WB strategies;
• Trainings on various aspects of long-term forced displacement;
• Further increase the evidence base, e.g. by integrating micro-data on the profile of persons of concern inform durable solutions for IDPs in Sub-Saharan Africa
  

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

Creation of evidence base, including including the landmark WB-UNHCR study “Forcibly Displaced — Toward a development approach supporting refugees, the internally displaced, and their hosts”; 

Technical support to new large programs established in the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes, and the Sahel;

Example Tanzania: Assist the government in the integration of 200’000 long-term refugees from Burundi. Contribution to government-led plan to address issues, such as new settlements, where they have more livelihood opportunities;

Successful awareness-raising for the introduction of a specific USD 2bn regional funding window for refugees and their hosts during the IDA18 replenishment;

Less successful awareness-raising within the World Bank on IDPs and returnees (to be improved).

• Swiss Humanitarian Aid and its partners working on forced displacement, especially UNHCR;
• Swiss bi-lateral South Cooperation with its focus on addressing root causes of fragility, conflict and violence;
• Other Swiss initiatives and financial support, such as the UN-World Bank Fragility and Conflict Partnership Trust Fund, UN Global Compact, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), etc.
  

Fase 4 01.07.2017 - 30.06.2020   (Completed)