Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants
A/RES/70/302
V.
Follow-up to and review of our commitments
88. We recognize that arrangements are needed to ensure systematic follow -up to
and review of all of the commitments we are making today. Accordingly, we request
the Secretary-General to ensure that the progress made by Member States and the
United Nations in implementing the commitments made at today’s high -level
meeting will be the subject of periodic assessments provided to the General
Assembly with reference, as appropriate, to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
89. In addition, a role in reviewing relevant aspects of the present declaration
should be envisaged for the periodic High-level Dialogues on International
Migration and Development and for the annual report of the Unite d Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees to the General Assembly.
90. In recognition of the need for significant financial and programme support to
host countries and communities affected by large movements of refugees and
migrants, we request the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
seventy-first session on ways of achieving greater efficiency, operational
effectiveness and system-wide coherence, as well as ways of strengthening the
engagement of the United Nations with international financial institutions and the
private sector, with a view to fully implementing the commitments outlined in the
present declaration.
Appendix I
Comprehensive refugee response framework
1.
The scale and nature of refugee displacement today requires us to act in a
comprehensive and predictable manner in large-scale refugee movements. Through
a comprehensive refugee response based on the principles of international
cooperation and on burden- and responsibility-sharing, we are better able to protect
and assist refugees and to support the host States and communities involved.
2.
The comprehensive refugee response framework will be developed and
initiated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in
close coordination with relevant States, including host countries, and involving
other relevant United Nations entities, for each situation involving large movements
of refugees. A comprehensive refugee response should involve a multi -stakeholder
approach, including national and local authorities, international organizations,
international financial institutions, regional organizations, regional coordination and
partnership mechanisms, civil society partners, including faith -based organizations
and academia, the private sector, media and the refugees themselves.
3.
While each large movement of refugees will differ in nature, the elements
noted below provide a framework for a comprehensive and people -centred refugee
response, which is in accordance with international law and best international
practice and adapted to the specific context.
4.
We envisage a comprehensive refugee response framework for each situation
involving large movements of refugees, including in protracted situations, as an
integral and distinct part of an overall humanitarian response, where it exists, and
which would normally contain the elements set out below.
Reception and admission
5.
At the outset of a large movement of refugees, receiving States, bearing in
mind their national capacities and international legal obligat ions, in cooperation, as
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