OHR RRTF Report July 1997

RRTF: Report July 1997

Update

“Reconstruction and Return Task Force”

July 1997

Contents

1. Foreword
2. Current Status
   1. Return statistics in the first semester 1997
   2. Extension of “temporary protection”, particularly concerning refugees from what is now the territory of the Republika Srpska
3. Political and Legal Context
   1. General context
   2. Laws on abandoned property, privatisation laws
   3. The Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees
   4. Code of Practice
   5. Administrative obstacles to return
   6. Positive conditionality
   7. Repatriation Information Centre
   8. Programmes, performance and capacities of local governments
   9. Coalition for Return
4. Economic Context
   1. Economic absorptive capacity
   2. Resource allocation in the first semester 1997
   3. Incentive schemes
   4. Loan financing
   5. Incentives for minority return (“Open Cities” initiative and return procedures)
5. Regional Reconstruction and Return Task Forces (RegRRTFs)

Annexes

1. Return statistics (UNHCR)
   3. Trends in return destinations, social pressure in and outside of cluster areas; details
2. Temporary protection – additional information on the main host countries (unhcr)
3. Code of practice (CRPC, HRCC)
4. Programmes, performance and capacities of local governments
5. Resource allocation (IMG)
6. Incentive schemes – additional information (UNHCR)
7. “Open Cities” initiative (UNHCR)
   1. Current Status
8. The Doboj hub cluster area, developments (UNHCR)

Report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), European Commission (EC) including European Community Humanitarian Office, World Bank, International Management Group, Economic Task Force, Commission for Real Property Claims of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Office of the High Representative

Office of the High Representative
Reconstruction and Return Task Force