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Pledge description: This pledge aims to galvanize a stronger collective response to create enabling conditions for comprehensive durable solutions (voluntary repatriation, local integration, and resettlement/complementary pathways) for displaced population as well as to strengthen the protection and asylum space in line with the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) by addressing the humanitarian, development and peace-related needs in communities affected by forced displacement in IGAD region.

The pledge will support the operationalization of regional frameworks, agreements, and commitments related to comprehensive solutions for refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees, taking into account age, gender and diversity considerations. It reflects existing regional, sub-regional and country-level initiatives for refugee management, protection, inclusion and solutions, and prioritizes four thematic areas to channel efforts and amplify impact, namely: (i) Education, (ii) Socio-economic inclusion and self-reliance, (iii) Health, and (iv) Return and reintegration.

In addition, the pledge will support the strengthening of member states’ statistical systems to include forcibly displaced and stateless persons.

By creating enabling conditions for durable solutions, this Initiative will also contribute to addressing the drivers of forced displacement in the region.