In October 2017, RSRI technical advisor and co-founder Amy Slaughter published this article (page 6), The Case for Measuring Refugee Self-Reliance, in Evaluation Connections from the European Evaluation Society.
Without this critical evaluation piece, it is impossible to set targets for achieving self-reliance. UNHCR’s targets around repatriation and resettlement are clear and binary. The refugees have either left the host country or they have not. But for the vast majority of refugees remaining in their host countries, it is difficult to gauge when thresholds on the continuum towards local integration have been reached.
