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The Global IDP Project reflects on itstraining programme

Training National Authorities and Local NGOs in the Use of the UN Guiding Principles

The favourable reception of the UN Guiding Principles by the United Nation (UN) agencies and the international community at large in 1998 clearly marked a milestone in the ongoing efforts to enhance internally displaced person (IDP) protection and assistance. However, the important provisions in this instrument sharply contrasted with the deplorable situation for displaced people around the world, a reality urgently calling for concrete measures to not only develop and disseminate the Principles, but also to implement them. This could only be achieved through a targeted effort to raise the awareness, ...

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