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Mosaik Education's Pledge to Support Refugees In Accessing Higher Education

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Mosaik Education's Pledge to Support Refugees In Accessing Higher Education

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Recognising that:

Access to education is a human right;

Access to tertiary education supports refugees to rebuild their lives to become leaders in their own community, and to integrate into new communities;

Refugee communities have a key role to play in shaping and leading programmes that support their access to tertiary education.

Mosaik Education pledged to:

Empower refugees to be leaders in the design and delivery of our programme;

Collaborate with the global humanitarian community of civil society, non-governmental organisations, intergovernmental organisations and states in delivering on the Global Refugee Compact and working towards the target of 15% of the world’s refugees having access to tertiary education by 2030;

Strengthen programming on academic guidance and counselling to support refugees to make informed and meaningful choices on their tertiary education pathways;

Strengthen programming on language learning that supports access to tertiary education, and ensure that it is accessible and contextualised for refugee learners;

Leverage technology responsibly to create connected learning solutions that are accessible and relevant refugee learners;

Open our programme models and resources to encourage cooperation and efficiency across the global humanitarian community working to support access to tertiary education for refugees.

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Expanding Education Pathways and Developing Welcoming Communities in Canada

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Expanding Education Pathways and Developing Welcoming Communities in Canada

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World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and WUSC Local Committees at 70 Canadian post-secondary institutions pledge to expand education pathways and access to higher education, and to create welcoming communities for refugees in the following ways:

• Increase the number of additional refugee students that WUSC Local Committees sponsor annually through the Student Refugee Program (SRP) by 2023: 28 Local Committees, 51 additional sponsorships;

Ensure the sustainability of the SRP on our campus by securing long-term funding commitments, establishing a strong Local Committee structure, and building partnerships with services on campus and in our community: 64 Local Committees;

Engage other post-secondary institutions to implement the Student Refugee Program on their campuses: 32 Local Committees;

Raise awareness with admissions offices about the role they can play in helping diverse refugee populations overcome educational barriers: 43 Local Committees;

Build welcoming communities for newcomers by organizing anti-racist and anti-xenophobia public engagement events on campus and in our community: 51 Local Committees  WUSC pledges to support the Local Committee network to achieve these commitments to grow the Student Refugee Program, and to ensure the program is inclusive, gender-responsive, and integrates refugee voices. WUSC will continue to accept pledges from all its Local Committees in support of this four-year commitment.

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Championing Education Pathways and Improving Global Practices: Solutions-focused Technical Expertise and Capacity Building

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Championing Education Pathways and Improving Global Practices: Solutions-focused Technical Expertise and Capacity Building

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The World University Service of Canada (WUSC) will offer demand-driven, technical and capacity-building support to states, higher education networks and institutions, and other public/ private sector actors to establish and sustain appropriate education pathways in their countries, leveraging WUSC's engaged Canadian network and its technical expertise in the areas of:

Mobilizing, building capacity, and sustaining non-traditional networks and actors (including youth) to take local action on advancing the objectives of the global compact on refugees;

Identifying, preparing, and matching refugee students with education opportunities and pathways;

Creating innovative funding models that allow for sustainable, predictable commitments;

Accelerating the integration of refugees through the creation of welcoming communities and peer-to-peer support models;

Influencing policies and best practices within given operating contexts

Specifically, WUSC pledges to provide this support to at least four (4) states/ sets of stakeholders prior to the next GRF.  It will do so by convening or co-convening meetings of education pathway stakeholders, providing tailored techinical support and advisory services, developing and disseminating policy briefs and learning materials, and -- when possible -- supporting study visits and exchanges to WUSC's Canadian post-secondary institutional partners and/or participation in WUSC's training programs.

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World Vision International, Faith & Development and Child Protection - Protection Capacity Contributions

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World Vision International, Faith & Development and Child Protection - Protection Capacity Contributions

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World Vision committed to working to:

1. 1. Enhance capacity of local faith actors to apply child protection and safeguarding by:

1. Systemized Training for Local Faith Actors (LFAs)on child rights;

2. Supporting faith actors to respond to children on the move (or in situations of displacement/high vulnerability) and support their needs;

3. Sharing of context-appropriate methodologies with faith leaders to increase the protective environment for children.

2. Enhance training for faith actors working with children on the move by:

1. Training faith actors on Do No Harm (DNH) concept, acceptance of difference, building resilience and humanitarian, diversity and gender, and child protection approaches;

2. Working with 1 or 2 country programs to pilot effective approaches in delivering faith-sensitive psychosocial support to children on the move.

3. Contribute to the continuum of protection by providing support for resettlement & complementary pathways with a specific focus on at-risk groups including unaccompanied minors by:

1. Leading advocacy initiatives and providing resources related to refugees’ movement & rights;

2. Working with governments, local authorities and faith leaders to protect and support to refugees;

3. In Burundi – working with national and local government, international agencies and local faith communities to prepare for resettlement of refugees from Tanzania.

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Welcoming the stranger, shaping a more hopeful future

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Welcoming the stranger, shaping a more hopeful future

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Building on the established Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies, Islamic Relief Worldwide and Lutheran World Federation will invite a diverse range of grassroots faith actors from refugee hosting and third country resettlement contexts to an international conference before the 2nd Global Refugee Forum.

The conference will capture concretely the work of faith communities implementing aspects of the Global Compact on Refugees and the UNHCR’s 3year Resettlement & Complementary Pathways Strategy. The conference will support and show solidarity with the work done by faith actors, harnessing their collective voice to advocate strongly for an end to hatred, xenophobia and intolerance, providing an inspirational rallying call to communities welcoming the stranger all over the world. Practitioners from a range of faiths will be invited to share their experiences. LWF & IRW will ensure the conference is also sensitive to age, gender & diversity approaches in all aspects.

The main aims of the international conference are:

Sharing Achievements/Challenges to Learn and Improve;

Check Progress Against the Global Refugee Forum Pledges/Commitments;

Facilitate Strategic Collaboration between Everyday Champions of Welcoming Strangers and Intensify Public Advocacy towards a Hopeful Vision of Inclusive Societies;

Linking similar existing initiatives more concretely with GCR implementation across the world.

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To contribute to evidence-based discussions through research and analysis

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To contribute to evidence-based discussions through research and analysis

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The overarching goal of this pledge is to identify complementary pathways through employment of refugees as a third country solution.

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) developed sound evidence based research frameworks during 2018-2019, which served as the basis for the implementation phase proposed. Based on this research, actions have been developed, piloted and policy recommendations defined together with stakeholders in selected major host countries and potential European receiving countries, aimed at promotion and implementation of employment complementary pathways for admission of refugees in third countries.

The first priority seeks to identify employment opportunities in receiving countries of the EU from major refugee host countries based on the skills and qualifications of people in need of international protection matched with the labour market needs of the destination countries.
The second priority seeks to examine how mobility and transnational networks can add to the limited solutions for refugees.

Both priorities involve stakeholders from the public and private sector to develop feasible and concrete policy recommendations. 2020 was used to bring the research into practice thereby involving a broad range of international, national, governmental and non-governmental actors.

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Sweden pledged to continue to promote a global increase of resettlement, with enhanced quality and with a broadened base of countries supporting resettlement. For this, Sweden also pledged to support for the joint statement of the Priority Situations Core Group, for capacity building of new or emerging resettlement states, and to remain proponents of resettlement as a contribution to burden and responsibility sharing. Sweden pledged to do this inter alia through our contribution as Co-Chairs and through active engagement in the Priority Situations Core Group and through continued resettlement of persons in need of international protection, in line with the 3-years strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways.

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Support third countries higher education institutions for welcoming refugees beneficiaries of resettlement or complementary pathways

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Support third countries higher education institutions for welcoming refugees beneficiaries of resettlement or complementary pathways

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Among the numerous young refugees (+18) hosted in neighboring countries, often in huge refugee camps, some will be transferred to a third francophone country through resettlement or complementary pathways.

For those able to undertake or return to higher education, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) will help them either a university member of AUF, with initial training in French. In particular, AUF will help universities in France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco, to open their door to refugee students arriving from refugee camps in Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan) or subsaharian Africa.

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Support for quantity and quality of EU resettlement

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Support for quantity and quality of EU resettlement

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In line with the timeline foreseen by the 3-year strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways which forms part of the implementation of the Global Compact, the International Rescue Committee will support efforts to expand the quantity and quality of EU resettlement, including through the adoption of a Union Resettlement Framework, by providing policy advice and carrying out advocacy based on their programmatic expertise.

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Belgium started with a structural resettlement programme in 2013 with an initial target of 100 resettlement places. With the assistance of the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF 2014-2020), this quota was increased considerably in the following years.

Between 2013 and 2019, Belgium resettled almost 3,300 vulnerable refugees, mostly Syrians, but also refugees from the DRC.

Belgium plans to continue its resettlement commitment in the future and pledged to resettled around 1,000 people in 2020, thereby focusing on groups prioritized by UNHCR, including refugees evacuated from Libya through the Emergency Transit Mechanism.

Belgium was willing to provide technical support to the establishment or expansion of resettlement programmes in other States, including through existing or future capacity-building arrangements coordinated by UNHCR or the EU and to participate actively in resettlement core groups to facilitate a coordinated response to specific refugee situations.

In line with the uNHCR 3-year strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways, Belgium was considering the development of a community sponsorship programme in the framework of resettlement as a way to expand safe and legal avenues for persons in need of international protection and support the integration of resettled refugees, including through the active engagement of citizens, civil society, and the private sector.

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The Government of Canada has assumed the Co-Chair of the 2019-2020 Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement, and assisted in advancing and supporting the international community in the implementation of the GCR's 3-years Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways in its first year.

Since its launch in December 2016, Canada has been a leader in the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative, helping other countries build community refugee sponsorship programs, resulting in many new resettlement spaces. Together with the UK, Canada co-chaired the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative States Network, an international collaborative alliance that promotes the creation and expansion of community-based sponsorship programs for refugees;

Canada has pledged a contribution of $3 million to the UNHCR to support its resettlement activities;

Canada has seconded a senior government official, David Manicom, as Special Advisor to the Division of International Protection of the UNHCR, in support of its resettlement programming;

In 2019, the UNHCR, in partnership with Canada, hosted the Global Virtual Summit in Ottawa to identify how to best approach the digitization of identification processes and data management to establish and preserve the identity of refugees during displacement and facilitate processing for long-term solutions such as resettlement.

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Provide Legal Advice and Representation to Refugees

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Provide Legal Advice and Representation to Refugees

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DLA Piper pledged to provide:

20,000 hours of pro bono advice and representation;

Secondments and lawyers working in-country and refugee camps;

A global partnership with the IRC;

A major partnership with Amnesty on refugee rights in Europe which, among other things, will include expansion of community resettlement programs across a number of countries;

Negotiating with governments for the creation of complementary pathways;

Appointment of dedicated resources (e.g. statelessness experts within the pro-bono team, and another pro-bono lawyer with experience in refugee law);

Expansion of Know Your Rights and other integration initiatives:

Employment opportunities for refugees who are legally trained;

Involvement of refuges (the right-holders) in design/development/implementation of all initiatives;

Supply of technology to NGO partners working on the frontline and better data reporting.

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The UK has a long and proud history of supporting refugees in need of international protection. The UK has provided safe and legal routes for tens of thousands of people to start new lives through our resettlement schemes including the Gateway Protection Programme and more recently the Vulnerable Persons and Vulnerable Children's Scheme.

From 2020, the UK pledged to:

Consolidate 3 of their existing resettlement routes into a single, global scheme;

Resettle in the region of 5,000 refugees in year one;

Enable greater flexibility to respond to where the need is greatest;

Expand our Community Sponsorship and Mandate routes;

Develop an emergency resettlement mechanism.

The UK recognised that responding to refugee displacement is a shared challenge and responsibility for the international community. The UK remains committed to working with that community to address the needs of the most vulnerable refugees. The UK's new scheme aligns with the Global Compact on Refugees and the UNHCR's 3-year strategy (2019-2021) on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways, by ensuring our resettlement places are sustainable and have maximum protection impact.

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Leveraging Innovative Finance to Improve Refugee Outcomes

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Leveraging Innovative Finance to Improve Refugee Outcomes

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is committed to leveraging innovative finance to create new instruments and products to improve client impact and humanitarian efficiency. In line with UNHCR's 3-years strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways, they explored the use of social finance for enhancing outcomes for resettled refugees.

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International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) Pledge in Support of UNHCR's Three-Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways

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International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) Pledge in Support of UNHCR's Three-Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways

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Throughout its Deployment Scheme roster for more than 500 experts in resettlement, complementary pathways, child protection, RSD, capacity building, and SGBV, ICMC stands to increase its response capacity to support UNHCR in reaching its resettlement and complementary pathways tar.

During 2020, ICMC pledged to enhance UNHCR's field capacity by providing the following services:

Deploying Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Experts to field operations to identify and refer refugees for resettlement (i.e. women and girls at risk; survivors of violence or torture; children and adolescents at risk). Resettlement/Complementary Pathways deployees will further develop and enhance comprehensive solutions opportunities for refugees, including through family reunification, labor mobility schemes, educational visas, and humanitarian admission programmes;

Deploying Child Protection Experts to field operations to undertake protection activities, including identifying children and risk; conducting Best Interest Assessment and Best Interest Determinations; providing training and capacity building; and facilitating family reunification;

Deploying Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Protection Experts to field operations to identify refugees at increased risk of SGBV; provide training to all stakeholders; and develop systems and strategies to enhance the protection of this vulnerable caseload.

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Family Reunification, Legal Aid and Complementary Pathways

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Family Reunification, Legal Aid and Complementary Pathways

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The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) pledges to provide legal aid, in partnership with UNHCR, Refugepoint and other inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, including private law firms, to refugees and other displaced persons who qualify for family reunification or other complementary pathways (including humanitarian visas) to the United States, Canada, Germany, France and other countries as applicable.

They committed to engaging in capacity building with civil society organizations as well as lawyers and legal staff from private law firms to ensure that at least 100 individuals had legal representation in complementary pathways processes in 2021, and to build on that number in future years depending on what pathways become and remain available.

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The Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition committed to working together as inter-faith and non-faith actors in an effort to meet the needs and rights of CoM contributing to protection capacity.

1. Enhance capacity of local faith actors in at least 10 contexts to apply standards of child protection and safeguards; including the creation of safe spaces & specific supports for at-risk groups including young and adolescent girls and children with disabilities;

2. Develop modules on spiritual (inter-faith) support for caregivers and faith actors:

1. Train faith actors on providing faith-sensitive psychosocial support in line with the inter-faith MHPSS guidelines developed in conjunction with UNHCR & a fully age, gender and diversity approach;

2. Train aid actors on spiritual support and services available for CoM.

3. Contribute to the continuum of protection by providing support for resettlement & complementary pathways with a specific focus on at-risk groups including unaccompanied minors.

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Equipping NGOs to Engage with the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR)

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Equipping NGOs to Engage with the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR)

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NGOs are key stakeholders in the next phase of the GCR, particularly to catalyse and leverage multi-stakeholder partnerships. Through their field interventions and expertise, their advocacy activities and independent oversight capacity, NGOs will contribute to the GCR implementation and to ensuring refugee responses remain principled. In this perspective, it is fundamental for NGOs worldwide to be further capacitated and equipped to navigate the extensive GCR arrangements.

In the past two years, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) has developed activities to help generate collective learning, understanding and analysis among NGOs to support their mobilization on the GCR implementation. This particularly entailed improved information dissemination on the GCR and related opportunities; the organization of several workshops in Geneva and worldwide; and the publication of explainer papers.

Those activities particularly focused on:

1. The 3 traditional Durable Solutions as well as other local solutions and complementary pathways;

2. Protection Capacity, including NGOs engagement with the Asylum Capacity Support Group;

3. Responsibility-sharing arrangements, particularly NGOs engagement with Support Platforms;

4. Follow-up and review, including NGO perspectives on this process and on planning for future GRFs.

ICVA has developed and will continue to develop those activities thanks to support from Open Society Foundations.

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Complementary Pathways through Higher Education in Asia Pacific

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Complementary Pathways through Higher Education in Asia Pacific

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The Japan ICU Foundation, whose area of focus is education, with a particular emphasis on the sub-theme of higher education, made the following pledges as their contribution towards the objectives set forth in the Global Compact on Refugees:

1. Pledge 1: They pledged to continue to support scholarship opportunities at the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) for refugee students, under the rubric of complementary pathways for admission to a third country. They pledged to provide scholarships for eight students for their undergraduate education;

2. Pledge 2: They pledged to hold regular symposia in Japan and Asia Pacific to share experiences and best practices around complementary pathways programs within the higher education sector.

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Community Sponsorship - Resettlement Places to be Additional

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Community Sponsorship - Resettlement Places to be Additional

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The UK Government's Community Sponsorship Scheme enables community groups to directly support refugees in the UK. They recognise the positive difference community sponsorship brings to the lives of refugees resettled in the UK, and to the inspiring communities that support them.

Refugees resettled under the UK Community Sponsorship scheme would be in addition to the UK Government's main resettlement offer, which started in 2020. This meant that every refugee resettled by community sponsor groups in the UK would be creating an additional resettlement place.

This scheme additionally demonstrates the UK's continued commitment to the 3-year Strategy (2019-2021) on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways, through expanding our resettlement offer and building welcoming and inclusive societies.

The UK remains dedicated to encouraging and supporting states to develop community sponsorship schemes of their own, and in support of that aim is co-chairing a global States Network, in partnership with the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative.

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Advocacy: Push for Rights-Based European Asylum Policy

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Advocacy: Push for Rights-Based European Asylum Policy

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ECRE's advocacy seeks to influence government policy and practice affecting refugee rights in Europe and in Europe's external policies. ECRE focuses on both developing alternatives to the status quo and on countering proposals which do not respect the rights of refugees in all of the areas covered by the area of focus on Solutions (Voluntary Repatriation; Resettlement and Complementary Pathways; and Local Solutions).

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Additional Casework Capacity for Resettlement and Complementary Pathways

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Additional Casework Capacity for Resettlement and Complementary Pathways

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In support of the Three-Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways, RefugePoint and private sector donors, in particular Focusing Philanthropy, will provide resettlement and complementary pathways casework capacity in priority situations in Africa and the Middle East, leading to approximately 500 additional refugees being referred for third country solutions each year.

To help ensure that resettlement and complementary pathways are available to those refugees who need them most, this additional capacity will target specific populations of refugees, such as unaccompanied and separated children, and other children at-risk.

In addition, these deployments will be utilized as opportunities to assess gaps in local case processing systems and to provide training and other capacity building activities for approximately 125 UNHCR, government, and partner staff each year, in order to ensure long-term improvement and impact.

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Acceptance of Syrian students for educational opportunity in Japan

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Acceptance of Syrian students for educational opportunity in Japan

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In 2016, Japan announced assistance of extending educational opportunities to Syrian youths expected to contribute to the recovery of Syria n the future and accept Syrian students for coming five years. Up until 2019, in total 79 students and 16 family members had been accepted. By 2021, Japan will have accepted up to 150 Syrian students to provide opportunities of higher education in Japan. This opportunity for Syrian students may contribute or complementary pathways for admission to third countries.