Implementing the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal Displacement: Guidance for UN Humanitarian and/or Resident Coordinators and Country Teams
This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of different headquarters and field-based actors in implementing the collaborative response. It includes a one-page, step-by-step Procedural Roadmap on the process of implementing the collaborative response. Moreover, the following annexes are included:
Strategy checklist: Provides guidance on how to formulate the Strategic Action Plan.
Activities list: Outlines the sorts of activities that a given agency might be able to undertake during a given phase of the displacement crisis.
Protection of internally displaced persons: Provides additional guidance to HCs and/or RCs and Country Teams on the nature and meaning of protection for internally displaced persons.
External support: Overview of the different types of capacity-building and training, strategy development, and advocacy support available.
Endorsed by the IASC Working Group on behalf of the IASC Principals, at its meeting of 22-23 September 2004, this document seeks to provide HCs and/or RCs and Country Teams with the guidance and tools required to implement the collaborative response in a more effective, transparent and comprehensive manner.
