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Cooperation in State Initiatives to Promote Integration in Member States of RCM San José, February 23, 2012 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 1 family forced to flee is too much. Refugees in Costa Rica: 12,571 refugees of more than 40 nationalities - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Cooperation in State Initiatives to Promote Integration in Member States of RCM
San José, February 23, 2012
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1 family forced to fleeis too much.
Refugees in Costa Rica:
• 12,571 refugees of more than 40 nationalities• 10,297 refugees from Colombia• 964 persons applied for refugee status in 2011
1 family forced to fleeis too much.
Objectives for the Integration of Refugees
• To promote self-sufficiency of refugees and ensure their participation in designing support programmes;
• Equal access to services in the receiving country;
• To strengthen spaces for experience-sharing between refugees and the receiving society.
1 family forced to fleeis too much.
• To support existing efforts and institutions, and not to generate parallel systems for refugees;
• To meet the specific needs of individuals according to age, gender, ethnic origin, etc.
1 family forced to fleeis too much.1 family forced to fleeis too much.
Current Challenges relating to Integration: • Economic Integration: Documents, access to labour markets,
acknowledging academic degrees, access to health care, access to housing;
• Social Integration: Discrimination, lack of knowledge of the situations of refugees;
• Cultural Integration: Participation in local organizations, promoting spaces for experience-sharing.
1 family forced to fleeis too much.
Cooperation for Integration:
• “1+1 hacemos Costa Rica” Campaign
• “Rutas de Integración” (Integration Routes) and “Entre Vecinos” (Among Neighbours) Projects
• “Lazos sin Fronteras” (Bonds without Borders) Project
1 family forced to fleeis too much.
Future Challenges:• To ensure that programmes and initiatives have differentiated
approaches;
• To continue working toward refining criteria and approaches on
how to promote and assess the level of integration of refugees in the country;
• To join efforts to reach key institutions with the aim of enabling refugees to gain timely access to the services that they need to be able to integrate.
1 family forced to fleeis too much.