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
From Contamination to Recovery: The Critical Role of Humanitarian Mine Action in Syria
Lebanon: as Families Return, Hidden Dangers Await Them
Ukraine: Quarterly protection monitoring reports
The humanitarian impact of escalating hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan
DEMAC - Diaspora Emergency Action & Coordination
Recruitment for the Humanitarian Response Roster
Building futures together: How DRC support empowered the community in Mandera to create…
The Humanitarian Response Roster
DRC Humanitarian Response Roster Profiles
Ukraine: “We’re not just clearing away metal, we’re clearing away fear” — how demining is…
Youth Employment and Inclusive Growth in Tunisia
Pathways to Protection
Joint INGO Statement: Killing of Wesam Qaid, SFD
Working with national partners to deliver timely and sustainable support in North Darfur
Diaspora Led Protection Information
Pathways to Protection: Project Brief in ENG and FR
Two years into the Sudan conflict: How DRC’s Protection Program is holding the line amid…
DRC HEAT Kenya
Private foundations
Forced back and left behind: Conditions for urban returnees and the urgent need for local…
Durable Solutions Monitoring Toolkit link - Ethiopia
No place like home? Multisectoral support for forced returnees in Western Afghanistan
Unprepared for re-integration
Global Displacement Forecast
Sudan: Communal kitchens deliver meals to hundreds of households
Access to medical care for earthquake survivors in Kunar
Global Displacement Forecast 2026
Institutional donors
DiPS - Diaspora Project Support
Diaspora Capacity Statements
Enhancing the safety and resilience of communities through humanitarian mine action…
Ukraine: Surviving years under occupation and shelling, Kateryna finds peace in sewing
Ukraine: Keeping the lights on where the frontline is near
Forgotten Survivors: New DRC Report Reveals Systematic Failure to Assist Gaza’s Explosive…
Anticipatory Action
Stories from the Field: Elevating women-led ownership of GBV response and prevention in…
Ukraine: Stigma toward persons with disabilities and survivors of explosive ordnance
Ukraine: Conflict Sensitivity Report — Kharkiv Oblast
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AHEAD Model background info, forecast reports, etc.
PRESS RELEASE: Wars targeting civilians and rising insecurity to force 4.2 million to…
DRC Standby Roster
Nertiti youth are building peace in Sudan
Three years of conflict in Sudan: civilians remain trapped in a deepening protection…
Ukraine: Home renovations for at-risk families — practical aid, lasting Impact
Mine Awareness Day: Explosive ordnance remains one of the deadliest legacies of war
How one risk education session empowered a girl to save lives
A ceasefire that abandons Lebanon is no effective ceasefire
Turning barriers into business: Fatima’s art workshop in Şanlıurfa
From two days to one hour: The hope Aslı rebuilt
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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