Agenda for Protection (Third Edition) - PoA-ISS

GOAL 1GOAL 1MGOAL 1MGOAL 1GOAL 1AGENDAFORPROTECTIONinformation on developments, including difficultiesencountered by asylum-seekers, as well as anyrecommendations, in its reporting on protection situations invarious regions to ExCom.• States more concertedly to explore appropriate alternatives tothe detention of asylum-seekers and refugees, and to abstain,in principle, from detaining children.• States, UNHCR, NGOs and other partners to work withrefugee communities to address the needs of unaccompaniedand separated child asylum-seekers and refugees, including, asnecessary, their temporary placement in foster families orappointment of State or non-State guardians, and themonitoring of such arrangements.10. More effective and predictable responsesto mass influx situations• UNHCR to prepare a comparative study on protectionresponses to mass influxes, which will look at best practicesfrom UNHCR’s experience, as well as take into account theviews of States, and, at the same time, explore the need foranother authoritative text, in addition to the 1951 Conventionand the 1969 OAU Convention.• UNHCR to develop and disseminate guidelines to clarify theprocedural aspects of exclusion in the context of groupdetermination on a prima facie basis.• States and UNHCR to ensure that emergency responses tomass influxes include community-based activities addressingthe specific protection needs of refugee women and refugeechildren, as well as of vulnerable groups. 10• States to promote with the United Nations system, especiallyGOAL 110This would include: separated children, the handicapped, the chronically ill, singlefemales, single heads of household, the elderly and victims of torture.38