Government of Kenya

Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons, Department of Refugee Affairs

Ministry of Special Programmes

Ministry for Internal Security and Provincial Administration

Protection Working Group for Internal Displacement (PWGID)

Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world. It fulfils its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations and host communities in the conflict areas of the world; and by advocating on behalf of conflict-affected populations internationally, and in Denmark, on the basis of humanitarian principles and the Human Rights Declaration.

The Global Fund for Women is a publicly supported, nonprofit grantmaking foundation that advances women's human rights by funding women-led organizations worldwide. We provide general operating support grants to organizations working at the local, regional and national levels to enable women and girls to reach their potential and live free of discrimination and violence.

MIVA/OneMen

OneMen is an initiative of MIVA (Stichting Missie Verkeersmiddelen Aktie), a Dutch charity that has been striving to improve the rights and well being of people in developing countries for more than 65 years. Originally, MIVA mainly supported missionaries and their assistants by providing means of communication and transport. Today the focus lies primarily upon local pioneers who, regardless of their religious convictions, stand up for justice and fight poverty. OneMen believes in the power of the individual. Throughout the world, there are people actively working to make a difference to their own community. These are local pioneers who are working on small-scale projects to improve their immediate surroundings. OneMen wants to show these pioneers that they are not on their own. OneMen does that by publicising their initiatives on the internet and by giving them practical support.

Refugees United

Refugees United is a fully independent, non-political, non-religious NGO that administers an online database that helps empower refugees to directly reconnect with missing family and friends. Both registration and use are safe, secure, free of charge and easy to use. They allow for the full anonymity for all refugees.

Royal Netherlands Embassy

The Kingdom of the Netherlands supports humanitarian work at both the international level and in more direct local support. It is particularly keen on the development of strategies that tie humanitarian refugee aid to broader development aid strategies. The Dutch Embassy in Nairobi, which covers Somalia and Kenya is a keen supporter of refugee resettlement and legal aid issues resulting from the Somalia crisis.

Set up in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing, The Sigrid Rausing Trust was founded to promote international human rights. Its grant programmes are Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights, Social Justice and the Miscellaneous Fund.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly, UNHCR is the agency mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees and to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.

The Dutch Council for Refugees is an independent, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1979.In addition, we are committed to increasing public support for refugees and to sharing knowledge, experience and expertise in refugee affairs with other organisations.

Networks

International Networks:

International Council for Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)  

ICVA is a global network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that advocates for effective humanitarian action.

International Detention Coalition (IDC)

The IDC is an international coalition with a membership base of more than 200 non-governmental organisations, faith-based groups, academics, practitioners and individuals working in 50 countries globally. Coalition members research, advocate and provide direct services to and on behalf of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants.

The IDC advocates for greater respect for the human rights of detainees; this includes preventing and limiting the use of, seeking alternatives to, and using the least restrictive forms of, immigration detention.

Forced Migration Review (FMR)

FMR has become the most widely read and consulted publication on refugee and internal displacement issues. It provides a unique global forum for sharing information, experience and policy recommendations among practitioners, policy makers, researchers and displaced people.

Southern Legal Aid Network (SRLAN)

SRLAN was set up in 2007 at a conference held in Nairobi. It is a configuration of non-governmental organisations working for the implementation of refugee rights enshrined in international human rights and refugee law.

The particular challenges that refugees face with regards access to judicial recourse in the global south have demanded an increase in rights-based advocacy for refugees, through pro bono legal aid, research and policy advocacy. The SRLAN member organisations are bound by a common desire to foster respect for the rights of refugees in the global south, whilst not all necessarily being based there. The SRLAN provides a platform for these organisations to learn from one another's experiences, and coordinate advocacy and legal challenges with the support and expertise of a network of practitioners.

National Networks:

Urban Refugee Protection Network (URPN)

The URPN is a result of the UNHCR Urban Refugee Policy, 2009 which emphasised the need to recognise urban areas as legitimate places for refugees and asylum seekers to reside and exercise the rights to which they are entitled. It seeks to maximise the protection space available to urban refugees and the humanitarian organisations that support them. The URPN brings together relevant organisations to discuss issues of concern to urban refugees and asylum seekers, to coordinate activities (including service provision) among various stakeholders, to share information and to identify issues for advocacy.

Protection Working Group on Internal Displacement (PWGID)

The PWGID was born out of the UN Protection Cluster that responded to the immediate humanitarian concerns resulting from the 2007/8 post-election violence. The Protection Cluster expanded in 2009 to include different themed sub-clusters and to broaden its mandate to counter key policy issues necessary for finding an effective and lasting response to internal displacement. It is now called the Protection Working Group on Internal Displacement and lobbies for the increased protection of IDPs such as through the adoption of a comprehensive legal framework for the protection and assistance of IDPs.