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the field office, resettlement country
and - for rapid coordination of travel
- the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM).
2.5. Transparency and fraud
prevention
All UNHCR staff, irrespective of grade
or function, have the responsibility
of ensuring that protection activities
- including resettlement - are carried
out to the highest standards possible.
All UNHCR staff are also responsible
for preventing fraud and malfeasance
in all protection activities,
again including resettlement. Overall
accountability for resettlement
activities within specific countries
or regions rests with the UNHCR
Representative/Head of Office and
the senior protection staff, and the
UNHCR Resettlement Officer or designated
staff member is accountable
for the resettlement activities in
each field/regional office. Other staff
members with resettlement responsibilities
- including those from other
organisations deployed to support
UNHCR resettlement activities - are
provided with terms of reference
describing their resettlement responsibilities
and local reporting and
supervision structures.
SOPs that fit their local operational
context using guidance developed
by the Resettlement Service 20 , and
review and update their resettlement
SOPs annually using the Baseline
Standards Checklist. 21
SOPs include safeguards against
fraud in the resettlement process,
including:
• guidance on document recognition;
• document authentication processes;
• maintenance and efficient use of
progres as an identification and
verification tool;
• clear authorisation and accountability
in the resettlement process; and
• oversight and quality assurance,
including periodic random checks
by staff external to the resettlement
process.
Other anti-fraud measures instituted
by UNHCR and its partner agencies
include counselling refugees on the
implications of individual fraud in the
resettlement process, and running
local public information campaigns
on payment, preferential treatment
and sexual exploitation as fraudulent
and abusive practices in the context
of resettlement.
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UNHCR resettlement operations
follow Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs). UNHCR field offices develop
20 UNHCR, Baseline Standard Operating Procedures on
Resettlement, 2011
21 UNHCR, Baseline Standards Checklist (annex
to Baseline Standard Operating Procedures on
Resettlement), 2011
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