Evaluation of the Department of International Protection’s Protection Information Section (PIS)

Following the dissolution of the Centre for Documentation and Research
(CDR), a Working Group recommended that the former CDR’ core protection
functions of research/analysis and legal information become integrated into the
Division of International Protection (DIP). As a result, the Protection Information
Section (PIS) was established in December 2001.
 

The stated aims of PIS at its inception were ‘to support UNHCR’s protection
role, in particular in the area of research, the provision of country of origin and
legal information and the issuing of Refworld. . .and assist the refugee protection
efforts of governments by providing pertinent country analysis and refugeerelated
legal information in order to ensure accurate and sound decision-making
and policy formulation relating to refugee protection.’