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There are more than 5.5 million people around the world struggling in situations of protracted and unresolved exile. These people are allowed to remain in the country where they have sought asylum, but lack basic rights. They often receive meagre - and dwindling - levels of international aid, and must therefore find alternative and additional ways to provide for themselves and their households.

Remittances from family members in other countries appear to be one way that some people cope with protracted displacement:

While only a small percentage of refugees from around the world get resettled to a third country each year, much can be learned from them about the services that were available to them during displacement and how those services assisted or failed to assist with integration and adjustment to their new country. Many of the lessons learned and services provided as part of the resettlement and integration process may also be applicable in situations of displacement, as well as in cases of return/reintegration to the country of origin or local integration in the country of asylum.

This latest HPG study examines the patterns of return and determinants for successful reintegration in two contrasting areas of Sudan (Southern Kordofan and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states). It is the first output of a broader research project looking at one of the world's largest return and reintegration processes.

The study, which was commissioned and funded by the UK Department for International Development, examines a range of themes associated with reintegration, such as livelihoods opportunities, land governance, customary and local government institutions, leadership

This report covers the period of 01/01/2007 to 31/05/2007 of the 2006-2007 appeal.

In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease, the International Federation with its global network, works to accomplish its Global Agenda, partnering with local community and civil society to prevent and alleviate human suffering from disasters, diseases and public health emergencies.

In brief

Programme Summary:

Most of the project activities mentioned in the revised appeal (Programme Update 2) are on track and proceeding

Veteran IOCC Bosnia staffer, Dragan Isaretovic, remembers August 20, 1998 well, the day that Djuro and Danka Latinovic with their son Dusan courageously became the first to return to their village of Vrtoce in the Bosanski Petrovac region in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their other son, Ranko, had been killed in the Bosnian War, and they were driven from their farm in September 1995 when fighting intensified. They fled to Derventa (155 miles away) with thousands of others and lived a bleak existence in a garage finding work wherever they could. "Returning

Appeal #6823

Appeal Goal: $292,360

SITUATION: The escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq has created a crisis marked by lawlessness and extreme humanitarian distress. Large parts of the population have fled their homes to other regions in Iraq or have sought refuge outside the country. Two million Iraqis are internally displaced and more than two million have fled to neighboring countries, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). There are an estimated 1.4 million Iraqi refugees in Syria and about 750,000 in Jordan.

Within Iraq, the lack of security and

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