Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies on Internal Displacement in Africa - Workshop Report

The Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies on Internal Displacement in Africa that took place from 18-20 September in Somone, Senegal, just outside Dakar. The Forum was co-organized by UNHCR (a joint DIP effort by IDP Unit and PPLA with excellent support from RBWCA), the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs, and the IDP Protection Expert Group (IPEG)*, with support from IIHL Sanremo. The organizers brought together officials from thirteen governments across Africa – from Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the DRC, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia and South Sudan – for a facilitated peer-to-peer dialogue on overcoming challenges to implementing laws and policies on internal displacement, including through domestication of the Kampala Convention.