Evaluating responses to mass movement of people

What this note covers

1. Scale and nature of the crisis: setting the evaluative baseline
2. UNHCR coordination: mandate strength versus enforcement weakness
3. Host-state asylum and border policy: divergence between generosity and deterrence
4. Regional burden-sharing agreements: uneven and often coercive
5. NGO humanitarian relief and international funding appeals: operational strength, chronic shortfall
6. Durability of solutions: the weakest link across all response types
7. Overall evaluation: a system that manages crisis without resolving it

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes