Guiding Principles for Urban Refugee Programming

In December 2012, the High Commissioner's Structured Dialogue on NGO-RCRC-UNHCR Partnership provided a series of recommendations for strengthened partnership, particularly around protection, capacity building and urban refugees. Please contact UNHCR if you would like additional information.

The following are principles intended to guide the identification and formulation of good practices in urban programming for refugee protection. They are neither exhaustive nor rigid and do not need to be fulfilled in their entirety for a good practice to be shared. Rather, they constitute goals organizations should strive toward when designing and implementing their programs in favor of displaced persons in urban settings.