International Conference on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement

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Egypt is the most populous country of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and the third most populous in Africa, with an estimated 92.1 million people as of 2017. In 2016, the economy grew by more than 4%; one of the highest...

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Conference Recordings

Day 1: French Welcome and Opening Remarks / Key Note Speech / High Level Panel (French) Keynote Speech (French) High-Level Panel / Closing Remarks (French) Parallel Session 1A / Plenary Session I (French) English Welcome and Opening...

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Outcome Document

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Conference Background Documents

Speakers' Biographies Conference Report Concept Note

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Country Case Study Profiles

Burundi Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Ecuador Ethiopia Haiti Iran Jordan Kenya Lebanon Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Philippines Somalia Sudan Turkey Uganda Yemen

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 17:02

Burundi: Country Profile

Since April 2015, a political crisis has claimed over 500 lives, displaced 415,854 people (of which 54.6% are children) and led to an economic slowdown and the collapse of social service delivery systems. In June 2017, the International...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 16:46

Chad: Country Profile

Chad is surrounded by several new and protracted conflicts, creating significant potential security and stability challenges. In the East, approximately 310,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in the past ten years; security threats along...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 16:31

Mali: Country Profile

Mali faces an extremely complex humanitarian emergency. A succession of food crises in the last decade significantly weakened the livelihoods of the poorest families. A conflict involving government forces, separatist groups and radical...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 16:24

Kenya: Country Profile

A severe drought in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of Kenya has more than doubled the food-insecure population over a 6-month period. An estimated 5.6 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance,up from 1.3 million in...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 16:17

Philippines: Country Profile

The Philippines is a lower middle-income country. Despite strong economic growth, poverty rates remain high and human development has been slow. Exposure to regular shocks, risks and stresses caused by armed conflict, natural disasters and...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 16:08

Uganda: Country Profile

Uganda’s economy has grown at a slower pace in recent years, reducing its impact on poverty. The economy slowed down in 2017 with a real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 4.4 per cent, down from 5.5 per cent in the previous year...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:57

Ethiopia: Country Profile

In 2015-2016, Ethiopia faced the impact of the worst El Niño in 50 years. In addition to the 7.9 million beneficiaries of cash and in-kind assistance through the PSNP, more than 10 million Ethiopians required relief food assistance for 6...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:52

Madagascar: Country Profile

Madagascar’s recurrent political crisis in the last decade has greatly affected the country’s development and contributed to a deterioration in living standards. Its impacts are felt in almost all areas: political, socio-economic and...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:43

Haiti: Country Profile

In October 2016 Hurricane Matthew severely worsened the pre-existing humanitarian situation in Haiti, affecting more than 2 million people, with 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Despite the immediate hurricane...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:39

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Country Profile

For more than two decades, the DRC has experienced a multifaceted humanitarian crisis: large-scale displacement due to armed conflicts (3.8 million internally displaced persons, with 621,711 DRC refugees residing in African countries); a...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:33

Turkey: Country Profile

Turkey is an upper middle-income country and home to the largest refugee population in the world; over 3.1 million Syrians live under temporary protection, almost half of whom (nearly 1.4 million) are children. Only around 8% of Syrian...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:24

Jordan: Country Profile

Jordan has the second-largest ratio of refugees to citizens in any country in the world and the fifth-largest refugee population in absolute terms. According to the inter-agency Vulnerability Assessment Framework (VAF) for 2015, 86% of...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 15:19

Yemen Country Profile

Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, descended into a full-fledged military conflict in March 2015 resulting in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. As of September 2017, some 21.1 million people (80% of the population)...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 13:31

Iran: Country Profile

The Islamic Republic of Iran is host to one of the largest and most protracted urban refugee situations in the world, and has provided asylum to refugees for nearly four decades. There are an estimated 3-3.5 million Afghans residing in...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 13:26

Malawi: Country Profile

Although considerable progress has been registered in some key development indicators, poverty, chronic food and nutrition insecurity remains prevalent in Malawi. Apart from producing adverse effects on human development, and on the...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 13:12

Lebanon: Country Profile

Syrian refugees face a protracted displacement situation and rising physical, social and economic vulnerability: the average family faces almost US$900 in debt, and 71% live below the national poverty line (US$3.84/day), with 52.2% in...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 13:02

Sudan: Country Profile

Sudan is one of the largest countries in Africa with a population of 39.5 million, of which 51% are children. Although Sudan is a Lower Middle-Income Country, vast regional disparities exist. Sudan faces a national debt of US$45 billion,...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 12:57

Somalia: Country Profile

The emergency response to the current drought illustrates Somalia’s continued fragility: the country is again at risk of famine with 3.1 million people, or approximately 25% of the population, currently in a state of Crisis or Emergency...

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Wed, 06/06/2018 - 12:52

Ecuador: Country Profile

Ecuador is a middle-income country with stable democratic institutions and a legal system that provides basic services, including free public health and education, to citizens and non-citizens. It hosts the largest refugee population in...

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Fri, 01/06/2018 - 13:40

Lesotho: Country Profile

Lesotho, despite being a middle-income country, has deep poverty and chronic malnutrition problems. Almost 1 out of every 2 persons in Lesotho lives below national poverty line, with more than 1 in 3 persons below the national food poverty...

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Thu, 31/05/2018 - 17:41

Speakers' Biographies - International Conference on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement

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Thu, 31/05/2018 - 17:37

Outcome Document - International Conference on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement

In the past few years the international community has agreed on important global commitments to address poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion through the development of social protection systems including floors as well as effective...

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Thu, 31/05/2018 - 17:34

Conference Report - International Conference on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacements

The objective of the conference was to shed new light on the prospects of using social protection systems in contexts of fragility and forced displacement, with the overall aim to better operationalize international commitments. The 2-day...

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Thu, 31/05/2018 - 17:28

Concept note - International Conference on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement

Humanitarian challenges of protracted fragility and conflict-related crises, and the more recent unprecedented refugee movement around the globe underscore the need to break down the barriers between humanitarian and development work. This...

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