From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National - Brookings

serves only to supplant and absolve governments
of their responsibility.
—A positive relationship between a country’s
rank on the UN Human Development Index
and exercise of national responsibility. Would
countries with higher rankings be more likely
to take measures to address displacement than
those with lower scores?
An internally displaced man, who lost
his leg from a land mine, finds shelter
in the village of Loi Tai Leng under
control of Shan State Army (SSA).
Photo: REUTERS/Stringer / February
2010
Introduction
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Chapter 1 provides consolidated, benchmark-bybenchmark
analysis of the findings from the fifteen
countries surveyed, tests the above hypotheses. The four
in-depth case studies (Georgia, Kenya, Afghanistan and
Sri Lanka) are then presented in chapter 2. Further insights
and conclusions as well as recommendations to
governments for improving their response to internal
displacement are presented in Chapter 3. The chart of
indicators developed for each of the twelve benchmarks,
which served as the basis for analysis, is included as an
annex.