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Capacity Building
Helping Boost Capacity
Strengthening capacity, a core activity in the area of protection, seeks to help states meet their international legal obligations to protect refugees. Through its livelihoods programmes, UNHCR also develops capacity: it helps displaced people become self-sufficient in their places of refuge and enhances the chances of finding a durable solution for refugees.
Capacity building activities are geared towards strengthening national authorities, laws and policies to ensure the proper handling of refugee and asylum issues, the reception and care of refugees, the promotion of self-reliance of refugees and the realization of durable solutions. But the task cannot be accomplished alone. It requires a partnership framework involving host and donor governments, humanitarian assistance and developmental agencies, civil society, including NGOs, together with refugees themselves.
Promoting Refugee Protection
UNHCR is engaged in a range of activities to promote the international refugee protection system, including refugee law.
Livelihoods and Self-Reliance
We help refugees, refugee returnees and internally displaced people tap their potential and build a platform for a better future.
Strengthening Protection Capacity
Tools and strategies to strengthen the capacity of states to receive and protect refugees. This project is now active across five continents.
Refugee Status Determination
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on UNHCR's Refugee Status Determination Project.
Rule of Law and Transitional Justice
Respect for the rule of law and human rights forms the essence of the protection of refugees, returnees and stateless persons.
Handbook for Determining Refugee Status and Guidelines on International Protection
- Guidelines on International Protection No. 7: The Application of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees to Victims of Trafficking and Persons at Risk of Being Trafficked
- Procedural Standards for Refugee Status Determination under UNHCR's Mandate
- Guidelines on International Protection No. 6: Religion-Based Refugee Claims under Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (HCR/GIP/04/06)
- Guidelines on International Protection No. 5: Application of the Exclusion Clauses: Article 1F of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (HCR/GIP/03/05)
- Guidelines on International Protection No. 4: "Internal Flight or Relocation Alternative" within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (HCR/GIP/03/04)
