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Strategic Collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency

Someone holding a folder with UNHCR and IDA LogoOn December 4, 2020, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate and frame their collaboration. Building on the unique status of UNHCR as the main coordinator of global refugee response, and IDA unique representation of persons with disabilities and their organizations, this MOU has initiated a key collaboration toward enhancing equal protection, inclusion, and participation of forcibly displaced and Stateless persons with disabilities.

According to this MOU, UNHCR and IDA commit to joining efforts and exchange expertise to actively promote the rights of persons of concern with disabilities and affected communities through a partnership to strengthen the capacity and cooperation between organisations of persons with disabilities and UNHCR HQ, Bureaus and country offices. The expected outcome of this collaboration will be enhanced visibility and respect for the rights of persons of concern with disabilities across the capacity-building, coordination, advocacy, human rights monitoring and strategic efforts undertaken by both Parties.

The document below provides a  general overview of the areas of collaboration, as well as roles Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, can play and the achievements they can expect.

IDA - UNCHR Strategic Collaboration: towards a more disability inclusive Global Refugee Forum

As part of the strategic partnership between the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR and IDA are working to ensure a more disability-inclusive Global Refugee Forum in 2023. 

This report provides a summary of the activities jointly organized in 2022 by the International Disability Alliance (IDA), and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to progress in the objectives outlined in their 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

As part of the strategic partnership between the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR and IDA launched a webinar series.

In the frame of their strategic collaboration reflected in December 2020 Memorandum of Understanding, the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started exploring the intersection of international refugee law and the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This report provides a summary of the activities jointly organized in 2021 by the International Disability Alliance (IDA), and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in order to fulfill goals stipulated in their 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

The International Disability Alliance and the International Disability and Development Consortium, mark the 2020 World Refugee Day recognizing the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees around the world....

The International Disability Alliance attended the first-ever Global Refugees Forum (GRF) held in Geneva from 17 to 18 December 2019. The IDA delegation was comprised of the board member Mr....