The DRC Resettlement Roster
The UNHCR-DRC Resettlement Deployment Scheme mobilizes qualified and committed resettlement experts according to requests received from UNHCR. Resettlement roster members are deployed in a timely and effective manner, thereby strengthening the capacity of UNHCR to meet the global needs for resettlement.
Update on the DRC-UNCHR Resettlement Roster for 2026
Due to significant funding constraints, UNHCR has paused all deployments under the DRC–UNHCR Resettlement Roster for 2026. While the DRC Standby Roster will continue its overall partnership with UNHCR, deployments will remain on hold throughout the year. We remain committed to supporting global resettlement efforts and hope to continue Resettlement deployments in the future.
About the DRC Resettlement Roster
Resettlement is defined by UNHCR as the selection and transfer of refugees from a state in which they have sought protection to a third state which has agreed to admit them — as refugees — and ultimately grant them permanent residence. Hence, resettlement is one of three solutions considered as durable, the two others being return and local integration. As return in many situations is not a realistic solution, and in order to share the burden with some of the biggest refugee hosting countries, resettlement has in many ways become the only durable solution for many refugees. The DRC Standby Roster is working to support UNHCR in these efforts.
In December 2015, DRC signed the first agreement with UNHCR to become one of three partners involved in the implementation of the Resettlement Deployment Scheme. With a strong protection mandate and almost 30 years of experience in establishing and administrating rosters, this engagement is at the core of DRC’s work.
Our experts are deployed to UNHCR operations globally, at short notice, with the purpose to strengthen UNHCR’s capacity to provide durable solutions to the displacement of some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
Common to all members of the DRC Standby Roster is that they are committed, professional and high-performing humanitarian workers ready to deploy to UN operations worldwide. The DRC Resettlement Roster represents a variety of profiles within the following technical areas:
- Resettlement case processing – interviewing and reviewing
- Best interests assessments and best interests determination of children
- Refugee status determination
- Complementary pathways
- Durable solutions
You can see examples of Terms of Reference here below.
Resettlement Roster ToRs
Recruitment for the Resettlement Roster
Gaza Families Still Struggle Despite Ceasefire Promises
Ukraine: Clearing land for farming — how demining supports agriculture and new career…
Ukraine: Winterisation Needs Assessment 2026-2027
DRC Strategy 2026
From displacement and violence to hope: Gloria’s journey to recovery in Bidibidi
When safety isn't a choice: The hidden impact of conflict on migrant families in Lebanon
Ali’s story: Syrian refugee in Tripoli
"I don't keep quiet anymore”, Restoring hope through psychosocial support
GBV Innovation Programme
PARTOCA — Participatory Research Team on Community-led Action
Pathways to Protection (P2P)
Congo Cash Consortium: un partenariat au service de la localisation de l’aide humanitaire…
Ukraine: A new agricultural market opens in Rakove village to support local producers
Not just for men: Meet the young woman breaking barriers in electrical training
From teacher to business owner: How beekeeping helped Latifa rebuild her livelihood
Anticipatory action in fragile context: Key takeaways from West Africa regional dialogue
Anticipatory action triggered to respond to drought in Somalia
AHEAD Model background info, forecast reports, etc.
Anticipatory action reports, assessments, evaluations, etc.
New reports on anticipatory action pilots
AHEAD forecasts and reports
Anticipatory Humanitarian Action for Displacement (AHEAD) model
Global Displacement Forecast 2026
Global Displacement Forecast
SPIN: Pastoralist insecurity forecast model
Slow-Onset Drought-Related Displacement Model
Foresight with IBM
Foresight: Displacement forecasts
Anticipatory Action
Pathways to Protection - Diaspora
Pathways to Protection: Project Brief in ENG and FR
Diaspora Led Protection Information
Private foundations
One million Afghans returned from Pakistan at risk if unsupported
Success story: How ECHO-supported protection work shaped Sarah's growth
Member States must strengthen the protection of all who flee Ukraine, instead of…
PRESS RELEASE: Rapidly escalating chickenpox outbreak sweeps Gaza’s overcrowded…
DRC Strategy 2026
El Niño through a displacement lens
Recruitment for the Humanitarian Response Roster
𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻-𝗹𝗲𝗱…
Annual Meetings of the council
Coping with displacement, loss, and uncertainty: How psychosocial support helps families…
“Salimos con lo puesto”: despojo, desaparición y huida de dos hermanas en Honduras
Enduring violence, seeking strength: a woman’s voice from Uganda
Factsheet: DRCʼs Humanitarian interventions in Darfur funded by the EU
Ukraine: DRC's achievements in 2025
Ukraine: "We had lost hope" — rebuilding a family home in Kharkiv Oblast
From trauma to strenght: Nadine's path to healing
Stitching a new beginning: Awa’s path to dignity and independence
Requesting a DRC Resettlement Standby Roster Expert
During a humanitarian response, UN country operations need to quickly augment their human resources on the ground. Requesting experts through their standby partners is one mechanism that complements their own internal surge capacities.
Procedures for requesting deployments from the Resettlement Roster are based on the conditions made in the individual grant agreements, hence all needs and requests should be made through the respective focal points in the UNHCR Resettlement Deployment Scheme in Geneva.
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