The path to reintegration

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The path to reintegration

• Facilitating real change

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Our Vision

• A community that respects and protects all its
  inhabitants
• A significantly shared sense of a common identity
  acknowledging its diversity as a source of
  richness
• Identifiable and strong leadership and community
  structures that include everyone
• Safety secured
• A workable reintegration plan aimed at healing
  rifts and ensuring sustainable coexistence

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Todays Situation

• Around 4,670 displaced foreign nationals
• Housed in a variety of establishments private,
  municipal and provincial
• Many actors provincial local govt, FBOs, NGOs,
  CBOs, Chapter 9 Institutions
• ¾ of the displaced people have already
  reintegrated
• Some strong disincentives to remaining IDPs to
  reintegrate

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Some Challenges

• Some local communities resisting return (or the
  acceptance of other IDPs)
• Identity issues challenge to integration
• Security situation in some communities
  including levels of criminality impunity
• Fear among IDPs, secondary trauma suffered
• Opportunism local and foreign
• Vulnerable groups
• Need for proper co-operation co-ordination on
  the ground
• Fatigue relative calm (negative peace)

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How Did We Get Here?

• 23 May 20,000 foreign nationals displaced
• Backdrop of Gauteng and KZN
• Largely economic (targeted at business
  competitors, poverty)
• Targeted at foreigners (and some other Others)
• Self-displacement due to fear other factors

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Facilitators

• 15 deployed on 23 May
• Up to 70 people in the field
• Capacity came from practitioners from the former
  NPA (Nat Peace Accord), CCR, UMAC, IMSSA, IJR etc

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Role of the facilitation teams

• Provide a bridge between Relief efforts
  Stabilisation efforts
• Provide a bridge between IDPs and local
  communities other actors

Process
Development
Rights
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The Path
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Shifting Sands

• Crisis ? Peace-making ? Peace-building
• Relief ? Reconstruction ? Development
• Stabilisation ? Security ? Protection

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Reintegration Plan
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Consolidation

• 90 sites ? 47 (now)
• From self-displacement ? self-relocation
• Assistance with repatriation
• Fatigue
• Rationalisation of private sites
• Consolidation of municipal provincial sites
• Provision of services resource allocation

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Encouraging Local Integration

• International Best Practice
• No history of refugee camps in South Africa
• Challenging i.r.o of our own socio-economic
  problems
• Foreign nationals are a significant part of the
  informal economy
• Managing diversity is always a challenge

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Some guiding principles

• Relocate IDPs as close as is possible to the
  local community from which they came.
• Reintegration is a voluntary process
• Provide adequate and appropriate psychosocial
  other support to minimize trauma of relocation
• Facilitate assistance with rebuilding lives
• Continuous engagement and open communication with
  all affected communities.
• Exercise special care in respect of vulnerable
  groups women, minor children, infirm and
  disabled
• Adherence to agreed-upon minimum standards
• Promote and protect the right to privacy,
  protection, dignity, safety and equality.

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Relocation Centres

• Provide, or facilitate provision of, assistance
  to rebuild lives
• Adherence to agreed-upon minimum standards
• Promote and protect the right to privacy,
  protection, dignity, safety and equality.
• Deal with displaced persons as individuals, each
  with their own set of circumstances and needs.
• Facilitate the process in such a way as to
  enhance the dignity of all those directly
  affected by the process

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Building Community

• Develop implement of comprehensive economic
  strategy for affected communities
• Develop implement of comprehensive social
  upliftment programme for affected communities
• Develop implement a comprehensive security
  strategy for affected local communities