Introduction
The first Global Refugee Forum (GRF) will take place on 17-18 December 2019 in Geneva. As per the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), affirmed by members of the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018, the GRF aims to provide an opportunity for UN member states and other stakeholders to collaborate to achieve a more equitable distribution of responsibility for international refugee protection. It seeks to do this by encouraging stakeholders to make pledges and contributions towards achieving the objectives of the GCR, and to exchange good practices and experiences in relation to refugee protection. Hosted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Swiss government, the event will be co-convened by the governments of Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Germany and Turkey.
Ahead of the GRF, a National Preparatory Workshop was convened by the Research Center on Asylum and Migration (IGAM), Oxfam and Support to Life. The workshop brought together 54 representatives from national civil society, municipalities, government ministries, universities and think tanks to jointly reflect on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the response in Turkey, and to develop a series of joint pledges to improve the refugee response to be made during the GRF in December 2019.
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