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Chapter II – Global Resettlement
2014 global
projected
resettlement
needs
by region of
asylum
Africa: 49%
Asia & Pacific: 39%
MENA: 5%
The Americas: 4%
Europe: 3%
Source: UNHCR, Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2014
UNHCR’s capacity to process resettlement
cases is limited. In 2012, UNHCR
submitted 74,835 refugees for resettlement,
a decrease of 18% from the
91,843 submitted in 2011. 5 Submission
levels declined primarily due to resource
constraints, restrictive processing criteria
and deteriorating security conditions
in countries of asylum, which hampered
access to refugee populations for
resettlement processing. 6
A gap between resettlement submissions
and departures remains. Of the
74,835 submitted for resettlement
by UNHCR in 2012, 69,252 refugees
departed to 26 countries of resettlement
during the same year, 7 a 12% increase
from the 61,649 departures in 2011. This
increase can be explained by a number
5 Annex 3: UNHCR Global Resettlement Statistical
Report 2012 in UNHCR, Global Resettlement
Statistical Report 2014
6 UNHCR, Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2014
7 UNHCR, Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2014
of factors including efforts made by the
United States to expedite security clearances
and the use of videoconferencing
tools for the selection of refugees living
in inaccessible areas.
resettlement needs, capacity,
submissions and departures
by region of asylum
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
Africa
The Americas
Asia & Pacific
Projected resettlement needs for 2014
UNHCR capacity (staff and affiliate
workforce) in 2014
UNHCR Resettlement submissions in 2012
UNHCR resettlement departures in 2012
Source: UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2014
3. RESETTLEMENT
COUNTRIES
Europe
MENA
A total of 28 countries, listed in the table
below, are implementing or plan to
implement a resettlement programme
in cooperation with UNHCR in 2013-14.
In 2012, approximately 90% of global
resettlement places were offered by the
United States (70,000), Canada 8 (7,100)
and Australia (20,000); while the sixteen
European resettlement countries
8 Government-Assisted Refugees (GAR). See section
7.2 of this chapter on Canada for more details