From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National - Brookings

CHAPTER 1
Assessing National Approaches
to Internal Displacement:
Findings from 15 Countries
As discussed in the introduction to this volume, this chapter contains comparative analysis of each
of the twelve benchmarks of the Framework for National Responsibility across the fifteen countries
surveyed: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Georgia, Iraq, Kenya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen. These countries
represent over 70 percent of the best estimate of the 27.5 million individuals internally displaced due to
conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. 1 Each of the twelve benchmarks is a lens allowing
for government practice, policy or inaction vis-à-vis internally displaced persons to be viewed and assessed.
This chapter includes analysis from the four in-depth case studies on Georgia, Kenya, Afghanistan and Sri
Lanka, which follow in chapter 2.
1 According to correspondence with IDMC. Figure as of December 2010.
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