Agenda for Protection (Third Edition) - PoA-ISS

GOAL 1AGENDAFORPROTECTION• UNHCR to engage in intensified training and in-housecapacity-building, while committing more resources toimprove the quality and consistency globally of its mandaterefugee status determination processes.GOAL 1GOAL 1MGOAL 1M3. Provision of complementary forms ofprotection to those who might not fallwithin the scope of the 1951 Convention,but require international protection• Within the framework of its mandate, ExCom to work on aConclusion containing guidance on general principles uponwhich complementary forms of protection should be based, onthe persons who might benefit from it, and on the compatibilityof these protections with the 1951 Convention and otherrelevant international and regional instruments.• States to consider the merits of establishing a singleprocedure in which there is first an examination of the 1951Convention grounds for refugee status, to be followed, asnecessary and appropriate, by the examination of the possiblegrounds for the grant of complementary forms of protection.GOAL 1GOAL 14. Exclusion of those undeserving ofinternational refugee protection, includingthose guilty of terrorist acts• Given that combating terrorism is primarily a criminal lawenforcement issue, but also that abuse of the asylum channelmust be prevented, States to put in place measures, withappropriate legal safeguards, to give effect to the exclusionclauses of the Convention, which might include the following:incorporation of the exclusion clauses of the Convention into34