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FOREWORD

It is the objective of this report to support the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and its partners, primarily in the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS) take stock of potential opportunities for promoting durable solutions for displaced people in the Somalia New Deal Compact by firstly identifying displacement in Somalia’s development discourse and secondly, assessing stakeholder engagement in the Compact. This presents a unique opportunity to emphasise the importance of displacement in development and stability frameworks.

This report will feed policy discussions by presenting a stocktaking exercise of the New Deal Process as it stands today, with concerns to opportunities for promotion of durable solutions, and potential challenges and recommendations for an effective mainstreaming of migration and displacement issues in the Somali Compact. The study will clarify what the Compact says about displaced communities in Somalia, how it will be implemented in this regard, and how INGOs can engage constructively with the New Deal Process in order to ensure that durable solutions for the 3 million displaced in and out of Somalia is turned into a policy and operational priority.

The study was conducted through a thorough desk review of New Deal related documents and literature on displacement, development and New Deal frameworks in Somalia and in other pilot countries of the New Deal. Interviews with key government and donor representatives were conducted both in Mogadishu and Nairobi.

A follow-up to this study has been commissioned by UNHCR Somalia to build a clear roadmap for setting the agenda of displacement within the New Deal’s development discourse and move forward after the Copenhagen HLPF conference to be held on the 19th-20th of November 2014.