CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR

2004 (Executive Committee—55 th Session)
and social costs of hosting large numbers of refugees can be factored into the justification for
their activities, including in the conditions of financial lending schemes and grant-based
assistance;
(viii) the exploration by States, inter- and non-governmental organizations, as well as other actors of
ways to improve primary education for refugees, achieve gender parity in education, and secure
funding, including through the private sector, to expand secondary, vocational and tertiary
education opportunities for refugees, especially adolescents;
(m) Recommends further that action to address and facilitate durable solutions, with a view to burden and
responsibility sharing, be directed, as appropriate, in the form of voluntary repatriation, local integration or
resettlement in third countries or, where applicable, in a strategic combination, and assistance to host countries,
including through:
(i) the provision of financial assistance and other forms of support in situations where voluntary
repatriation is foreseeable or taking place, in particular bearing in mind that voluntary repatriation
is the preferred solution;
(ii) where local integration is appropriate and feasible, the provision of financial assistance and other
forms of support, including development assistance, for the benefit of refugees and the
communities hosting them so as to assist countries of asylum in integrating refugees locally;
(iii) the more effective and strategic use of resettlement as a tool of burden and responsibility sharing,
including through the application of a group resettlement referral methodology;
(iv) the mobilization of support for rehabilitating refugee-impacted areas in the host country from
which refugees have returned;
(n) Recommends that, where a plan of action or arrangement is adopted, an effective review mechanism be
included whereby all actors are brought together to evaluate its implementation and the need for any
amendments to it in light of developments;
(o) Requests UNHCR to report regularly to the Executive Committee, within existing reporting
mechanisms, on developments in international burden and responsibility sharing regarding mass influx
situations.
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