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
DRC recommendations on the proposed Return Regulation
DRC policy brief on the proposed Return Regulation
Hope away from home: Rahwa's pursuit of a better life
DRC policy brief on return counselling in the EU
Joint statement: EU 'safe country' and return proposals would seriously undermine…
DRC recommendations on the reform of the EU return rules
DRC position: New proposal on return will make it difficult for rejected asylum seekers…
New EU agreement on return: A punitive approach to return will not be safe and…
Experiences of Return and Reintegration. Voices of returnees from Denmark to Iraq
DRC return policy
Putting his skills back to work
A stitch towards a better future: Fakhria's story
EU hubs: costly, ineffective, and potential human rights blind spots
EU's udrejsecentre: Dyre, ineffektive og med risiko for brud på menneskerettigheder
A Second chance to rebuild: How EU-funded cash assistance helped a displaced shopkeeper…
Ukraine: Thematic Snapshots
Ukraine: Thematic Legal Briefs
Institutional Architecture of Humanitarian Mine Action in Ukraine
Weaving a future
PARTOCA — Participatory Research Team on Community-led Action
Protection reports: Colombia
Climate and Environment Report 2024 and 2025
Before the water rises
Climate and environmental performance report
Press release: Cash Consortium of Yemen reaches over 570,000 people under EU-funded…
From silence to independence: Afaf's journey to reclaim her dignity
From survival to self-reliance: A displaced Yemeni mother becomes her family’s breadwinner
The climb to independence: How EU-funded unconditional cash transfer put a displaced…
El Niño 2026–27 in the East and Horn of Africa: A predictable displacement crisis, and…
Report Nordic-African Diaspora Roundtable 2025
Global Displacement Forecast
DRC scaling up its HMA response in Syria
DRC Standby Roster
Mixed Migration Centre
The DRC Resettlement Roster
DRC Global Strategy
The Humanitarian Response Roster
Press release: El Niño to supercharge East Africa flooding - 3 million displaced by end…
Bangladesh: The tenth year cannot be another year of waiting
Before I am a humanitarian, I am human
100 days of Ebola in the DR Congo
DRC statement on the recent events in Ceuta and the death of 140 migrants
"With European Union support, we can finally enjoy the rain"
Strengthening displacement data to drive informed action
Ukraine: Generators help healthcare facilities stay operational during electricity…
How EU-supported partnerships are improving the lives of displaced people in Al-Khukhah
Ukraine: Quarterly protection monitoring reports
Strategic framework
DRC Global Strategy
Core sectors
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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