Puntland Policy Guidelines on Displacement

Puntland Policy Guidelines on Displacement

Human Mobility
Other
2014
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Year of publication
2014
Specific thematic area
Displacement
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Displacement
Characteristics of human mobility
Internal
Type of environmental driver
Disaster-related events
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Type of provision related to human mobility in disaster and climate change contexts
DIRECT SPECIFIC - Provisions on protection against arbitrary displacement, search of durable solutions to the causes of displacement, facilitating the voluntary return, resettlement, integration and re-integration of IDPs. Recognizes disaster as a cause of displacement in the concept of internally displaced person. Forced evacuation in cases of disaster as an arbitrary displacement.
Sub-region
Eastern Africa
Region
Eastern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Author/issuing body
Puntland Government of Somalia, Ministry of Interior, Local Governments and Rural Development
Relevant GCM objective
    2 - Minimize adverse drivers21 - Dignified return and reintegration
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

Arbitrary displacement means: (...) f)Forced evacuations in cases of natural or human made disasters or other causes if the evacuations are not required to ensure the safety and health of those affected.

P. 5

Internally Displaced Person (IDP) means:‘’... personsor groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid, the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human–made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state border.

P. 5

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).