Research Reports

The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, sought to respond to protracted refugee situations by providing additional support to refugee-hosting countries to promote refugee integration. It aimed to further integrate development and humanitarian actors, and to promote a ‘whole of society’ approach, addressing displacement…

ADSP is pleased to announce the launch of its Action plan for integration: Herat. The Action Plan aims to guide the programming and policy interventions of a range of humanitarian and development partners, to support the early recovery of communities affected by displacement in Herat. Based on a series of indicators relevant to physical, material,…

While durable solutions still remain out of reach for Afghanistan’s internally displaced persons (IDPs), with estimates of 2.2 million IDPs last recorded in 2017, evidence related to durable solutions – and specifically to the return of IDPs – is widely lacking. Research on internal displacement has focused on setting local integration on the policy agenda,…

This study informs programming and policies in relation to refugee returns and, specifically, with regards to their (re)integration within urban areas, with a focus on Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria. While millions of refugees return to poverty, conflict and insecurity in all three settings, a tunnel focus on returns rather than on (re)integration has limited value…

This research examines the challenges that Afghans living in Pakistan face in their access to different services including access to registration documents, legal aid, education, HLP, health services, financial and communication services, livelihoods, and assisted repatriation. The study was conducted by considering different legal statuses, namely Proof of Registration (PoR) cardholders, Afghan Citizen Card (ACC)…