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Dear Forced Migration list members,
I am currently supporting a few local authorities in Serbia in developing a human rights based approach in their work, as a mentor-consultant of the Swedish ICLD. One of the authorities I am supporting is in the process of revising their "Action Plan to improve the status of refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees under the readmission agreement” and adding to it “Response to migratory crises.”
They have already established a working group that includes the only local representative with a mandate on forced migration issues, as well as health, social protection, police, security, local economic development representatives as well as those of the Red Cross Society and NGOs representing minorities (Roma) and those with a track record of supporting forced migrants. They will be expanding it with representatives of the education and employment sectors.The Action Plan dealt with forced migration in former Yugoslav states, but they are now expanding it with a chapter on how to respond to forced migration crises given that this local authority might well be on one of the new routes that refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan might be taking soon.
I would like to share with them some regional (Balkan, South-East Europe) or international studies, good examples, lessons learned of such Action Plans. Understandably, I am looking to steer this process more towards a human-rigts based approach and away from the existing “security issue” approach (In particular as I am a former fellow of the RSP Forced Migration generation of 1995). More precisely I am looking for local authority/municipality action plans on forced migration that include examples of:
- human-rights based approach (in terms of examples of plans that use human rights terminology and do not portray forced migrants as a danger, but rather as a population in need of support),
- concrete steps, procedures and means required to adequately respond to high influx of forced migrants,
- institutions required to partake in responding to support to forced migrants, and
- best practices and lessons learnt from situations of high influx of forced migrants.
Any information, links, contacts you can provide would be most appreciated.
All the best,
Lejla Somun-Krupalija
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