The GCR is a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation. 

It provides a blueprint for governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure that host communities get the support they need and that refugees can lead productive lives. 

It constitutes a unique opportunity to transform the way the world responds to refugee situations, benefiting both refugees and the communities that host them.

This multi-stakeholder Strategy was the result of wide-ranging consultations with a large number of relevant stakeholders across different regions, including,
States, national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, private sector actors, academia, faith-based actors, refugees and other UN agencies.

Given the multi-faceted nature of third country solutions, the Strategy recognizes the need for comprehensive, solutions-oriented approaches and collaboration that transcends the current community of partners engaged in resettlement and complementary pathways. The expansion of resettlement and complementary pathways requires strong commitment to harness the power of partnerships to generate concrete collective actions and measurable results.

The Strategy was both a roadmap for expansion over the intended three years (2019-2021), and an ambitious blueprint for the further development of third country solutions over the next 10 years (2019-2028) through a vision that will continue to be relevant to achieving the goals of the GCR in the longer term.

Parallel to this pursuit of talent, universities, student groups, and other stakeholders in Europe and elsewhere are increasingly spearheading initiatives to support the enrolment of refugee students, including through targeted scholarships and community sponsorship programmes. Bringing international students with a refugee background to campus is viewed as a complementary pathway that can help to offset low levels of refugee resettlement and thus expand opportunities for refugees. The framing of such efforts is often humanitarian and person-centred – in contrast to talent policy, which emphasises current and future economic needs in a location and the creation of a competitive environment.

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This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive tool. Instead, it provides an overview of the key elements relevant in establishing such a program, including the funding of scholarships; the identification of potential students; the coordination of applications and admissions; the coordination of their pre-arrival preparation and resettlement; and the mobilization of students to provide peer-to-peer integration support.

This guide also outlines partnership suggestions at the campus, national, and international levels that are useful in implementing such an initiative. These partnerships ensure adequate post-arrival support to refugee students admitted through the program.

The strategy arises from lessons learned about parallel education provision for refugees reflected in the 2011 Review of refugee education, and from the
experience of shifting to national education service provision across a wide range of distinct contexts as a result of the guidance provided in the 2012-2016 UNHCR Refugee Education Strategy. It is also
informed by partner and UNHCR collaboration and innovations, new or amplified partnerships with ministries of education and planning, refugee youth,
civil society, development and humanitarian donors and the private sector, greater UNHCR internal capacity and significant international commitments related to the Global Compact on Refugees.

As the lead for refugee protection, UNHCR maintains its commitment to and support for refugees and host governments until solutions for all refugees are identified. UNHCR has nearly 70 years of experience
developing legal frameworks, policy, guidance and programming informed by monitoring and evaluation results, annual participatory assessments and research about and with refugee communities. It
works daily and directly with refugees, governments and partners at field, country, regional and global levels. It therefore assumes a global leadership role to ensure that decisions and actions related to
education for refugees in emergency and protracted situations are considered through the lenses of legal frameworks, historical experience and emerging
displacement trends. UNHCR aims to draw attention to education needs in hosting communities, create conditions for partnership and action that result in strengthened education systems that benefit all learners, leverage the comparable strengths of various partners in mixed situations for improved coherence across population groups and make meaningful and collaborative contributions to the goals of the 2030 Global Agenda for Education (2030 Agenda).

During the meeting, Minister Mendicino presented 3 new actions stemming from Canada’s pledge at the Global Refugee Forum in 2019. Moving forward, Canada will:

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Despite COVID-19 travel restrictions that prevent most people from coming to Canada, the two nurses were exempted, resettled under a pilot project to bring skilled refugees to the country.

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“We already feel like home in Morden,” the mechanical engineer said Sunday. Still in quarantine, the family could only glimpse their adopted community through the living-room window.

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6. This background paper and draft ILO guiding principles have been prepared to provide a basis and framework for the Technical Meeting’s deliberations. The paper is in four parts. Part I provides the setting and context exploring the challenges posed by the contemporary phenomena of refugees and forcibly displaced persons. Part II briefly sets out the normative context for the ILO’s role in addressing labour market impacts of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. Part III then examines access to labour markets – diagnosing the
challenges, identifying the normative guidance and exemplifying good practices. Based upon the preceding analysis, Part IV presents possible draft guiding principles for consideration by the Tripartite Technical Meeting.

For the full report, visit: https://www.refworld.org/docid/58bd53f14.html