FMR 16 : published January 2003

UNHCR

UNHCR evaluation and research on refugee programmes in Africa

The African continent hosts the second largest refugee population of concern to UNHCR (3.3 million refugees) and is one of UNHCR's main areas of operation. The Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit (EPAU) has, accordingly, undertaken a number of projects that deal with displaced persons in Africa. Below are details of some recent evaluations and other reports on refugees in Africa. In line with UNHCR's policy of full transparency regarding evaluations, all these documents are in the public domain and may be accessed at www.unhcr.ch/EPAU.

Evaluation reports:

Since 2000, EPAU has issued eleven evaluation reports that touch directly on forced displacement in Africa. A number focus on protracted refugee situations; other topics include sexual violence, internally displaced persons and security.

• UNHCR and internally displaced persons in Angola: a programme continuation review (G Bettocchi and A Jamal, May 2002)
• Responding to protracted refugee situations: Liberians in Ghana (S Dick, July 2002)
• Responding to protracted refugee situations: Liberians in Côte d'Ivoire (T Kuhlman, July 2002)
• A beneficiary-based evaluation of UNHCR's programme in Guinea, West Africa (T Kaiser, Jan 2001)
• The Sudan/Eritrea emergency: May - July 2000: An evaluation of UNHCR's response (A Jamal, Feb 2001)
• UNHCR's programme for internally displaced persons in Angola (A Jamal and O Stage, May 2001)
• Lessons learned from the implementation of the Tanzania security package (J Crisp, May 2001)
• The WHALE: Wisdom we have acquired from the Liberia Experience: Report of a regional workshop, Monrovia, Liberia, 26-27 April 2001 (J Crisp, May 2001)
• Evaluation of UNHCR's policy on refugees in urban areas: Case study of Cairo (S Sperl, June 2001)
• Evaluation of the Dadaab firewood project, Kenya (CASA Consulting, June 2001)
• Minimum standards and essential needs in a protracted refugee situation: a review of UNHCR's programme in Kakuma, Kenya (A Jamal, November 2000)

New Issues in Refugee Research Working Paper Series

This EPAU series covers a wide range of topics. A diversity of opinions is presented by UNHCR staff, lawyers, humanitarian practitioners and academics. Among recent papers focusing on Africa are:

• Separating ex-combatants and refugees in Zongo, DRC: peacekeepers and UNHCR's 'ladder of options' (L Yu, August 2002)
• Pastoral society and transnational refugees: population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia, 1988 - 2000 (G Ambroso, August 2002)
• Changing priorities in refugee protection: the Rwandan repatriation from Tanzania (B Whitaker, February 2002)
• Liberians in Ghana: living without humanitarian assistance (S Dick, February 2002)
• Mobility, territoriality and sovereignty in post-colonial Tanzania (S Van Hoyweghen, October 2001)
• Mind the gap! UNHCR, humanitarian assistance and the development process (J Crisp, May 2001)
• Humanitarian issues in the Biafra conflict (N Goetz, April 2001)
• Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya (C Horst, April 2001)
• The humanitarian hangover: transnationalization of governmental practice in Tanzania's refugee-populated areas (L Landau, April 2001)
• Refugee aid and protection in rural Africa: working in parallel or cross-purposes? (O Bakewell, March 2001)