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
- Safeguarding humanitarian space: a review of key challenges for UNHCR. Vicky Tennant, Bernie Doyle, Raouf Mazou. February 2010
- Refugee protection and international migration: a review of UNHCR's operational role in southern Italy
- 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
New Issues in Refugee Research
- Homeward Bound? Towards a new and political understanding of refugee repatriation. Katy Long.
- Creating humanitarian space: a case study of Somalia. Erik Abild
- A promised land for refugees? Asylum and migration in Israel. Karin Fatimath Afeef
- Anatomy of a Resolution: the General Assembly in UNHCR history. Mike McBride
- Climate change, disaster, displacement and migration: initial evidence from Africa. Vikram Kolmannskog
Other Evaluation Reports
- Evaluation of the UNHCR joint organization strategy 2007-2009 with Canada, Denmark and UK
- 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)
Protracted Refugee Situations
A wide-ranging collection of UNHCR documents on the issue of protracted refugee situations.