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
Ukraine: Quarterly protection monitoring reports
Blockchain-based Payment Solutions in Restrictive Environments
One shock away: EU-funded programme targets over 234,000 vulnerable people as Yemen faces…
Ukraine: Two brothers from Kherson learn to manage on their own again
A small business and big plans for tomorrow
Finding steadiness while life remains uncertain
Displacement forecasting for anticipatory action: Guidance launch
Books before belongings
ProLAC facilitates discussion on protection challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Diaspora in Anticipatory Action: the Missing Link
AHEAD Learning Series
A lifeline for mothers: How cash transfers helped a mother of eight
THRIVE: Access to Appropriate Finance for Displacement-Affected Communities
SAMI: AI-Powered Chatbot for Migrants' Information and Humanitarian Data Collection
Fair recycling 2.0: from waste to opportunity
How Black Soldier Fly farming is supporting livelihoods in Dadaab, Kenya
Sudan: In‑Depth Gender‑Sensitive Joint Labour Market Assessment (LMA)
From creativity to entrepreneurship: Fatma’s Handicrafts Business
A future worth investing in: Hawa’s Perfume Business
Stitching together a future: Asha’s sewing business
Ukraine: A hospital appointment in Mykolaiv, and no way to reach it
Overall information on anticipatory action in DRC
Diaspora's role in the AHEAD project
DRC Community Resource Centres: Connecting displaced people with information and support
Raising awareness and building safer communities in Syria
Confined by design: the human cost of protracted displacement in Gaza
Webinar - Confined by design: the human cost of protracted displacement in Gaza
LOCAL - Lowering compliance burdens for local and national associations
Before I am a humanitarian, I am human
Sahel: Protection Analysis from Project 21
Press Release: Amid escalating conflict and growing displacement, the Yemen Displacement…
Diaspora in anticipatory action
A roof that keeps the rain outside
New forms of cyber-bordering: When social media becomes the border
AI for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian Contexts
Taiz, Yemen: As fighting intensifies, civilian lifelines are at risk in Yemen
Experiences of Return and Reintegration. Voices of returnees from Denmark to Iraq
The Danish Refugee Appeals Board reopens cases concerning Dublin-transfers to Croatia
New EU agreement on return: A punitive approach to return will not be safe and…
Protecting Rights At Borders
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Farming Under Pressure. Challenges Facing Farmers in Syria
From Presence to Decision. Making Syrian-led Humanitarian Coordination Real
DRC scaling up its HMA response in Syria
Labour Market Assessment Report, Syria
Clearing the way for safer communities: Restoring access to water and livelihoods in…
AHEAD model background info, forecast reports, etc.
Ukraine: Rapid Protection Assessment — Access to Compensation Mechanisms for Damaged and…
Stories from the Field: Coordinating humanitarian action amid Haiti's escalating crisis
Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say more than 100 organisations
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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