Evaluation and Research
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Policy Development and Evaluation
UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service, or PDES, is committed to the systematic analysis and assessment of UNHCR projects, programmes, practices and policies. PDES also promotes research on refugee, humanitarian and migration issues and encourages an active exchange of ideas and information between humanitarian practitioners, policymakers and the academic community. PDES welcomes your comments and questions on all aspects of its work and is also pleased to receive expressions of interest from suitably qualified consultants and interns. The unit can be reached at: E-mail PDES.
UNHCR Evaluation Reports
- Refugee protection and international migration: a review of UNHCR's operational role in southern Italy (Pre-publication edition)
- UNHCR's engagement with integrated UN missions: Report of a lessons learned workshop
- Surviving in the city: A review of UNHCR's operation for Iraqi refugees in urban areas of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria
- Money matters: An evaluation of the use of cash grants in UNHCR's voluntary repatriation and reintegration programme in Burundi
- Refugee protection and international migration: a review of UNHCR's role in the Canary Islands, Spain
New Issues in Refugee Research
- National and international responses to the Zimbabwean exodus: implications for the refugee protection regime, Alexander Betts and Esra Kaytaz
- The integration and onward migration of refugees in Scotland: a review of the evidence, Emma Stewart
- Household energy in refugee and IDP camps: challenges and solutions for UNHCR, Eveliina Lyytinen
- A tale of three cities: internal displacement, urbanization and humanitarian action in Abidjan, Khartoum and Mogadishu, Eveliina Lyytinen
- Household energy in refugee and IDP camps: challenges and solutions for UNHCR, Eveliina Lyytinen
Other Evaluation Reports
- Inter-Cluster Diagnostic Mission to Pakistan (Islamabad and Peshawar), 13-17 July 2009
- Tertiary Refugee Education Impact and Achievements: 15 Years of DAFI
- Asylum seeking single women, women head of families and separated children: Reception practices in Greece
- An Assessment of the Iraqi Community in Greece (pre-publication edition)
- Emergency preparedness in South Africa: Twenty-four lessons from the Zimbabwean elections
Protracted Refugee Situations
A wide-ranging collection of UNHCR documents on the issue of protracted refugee situations.