Internally Displaced People and the new ‘Cluster Approach’

IDPs recieved great attention at UNHCR's Executive Committee meeting in 2005.

The UN’s Emergency Response Coordinator’s reform plan to allocate UN agencies lead responsibility for different ‘clusters’ of responsibility for IDPs needs, under the coordination of the UN Country Representative, was endorsed by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)[1] and the UN World Summit prior to ExCom.

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