30.12.1997

OHR Reconstruction and Return

RRTF: Report December 1997

Outlook for 1998

“Resources, repatriation and minority return”

December 1997

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. RRTF Strategy, 1998
    1. Strategic Objectives
    2. Tactical Approach
    3. The RRTF Role
    4. Peace Implementation Council Implications
    5. New RRTF Structure
  3. Review of Cluster Areas for 1998
    1. Return in 1997 to Cluster Areas
  4. Economic Context
    1. Economic Absorptive Capacity
      1. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
      2. The Republika Srpska
    2. Review of Resources Allocated in Cluster Areas in 1997
    3. 1998 Cluster Areas
      1. Objectives for Return in 1998 Cluster Areas
      2. Financing of the 1998 Cluster Areas Objective
    4. Credit schemes
  5. Political and Legal Context
    1. General Context
    2. Relations with Local Authorities and Civil Society Groups
    3. Property Legislation, Allocation Mechanisms, Privatisation Laws
    4. The Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees
    5. Administrative and other Legal Obstacles to Return
    6. Relocation
    7. Integrated Approach to Minority Return
  6. Summary of Policy Recommendations

Annexes

  1. Organisational framework for the RRTF support to the return process in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  2. Cluster Areas; maps and charts
  3. A secure environment for return
  4. Draft mechanism for allocation of socially-owned apartments to pre-war occupants
  5. Sarajevo Housing Committee, draft mandate, structure, procedures and mechanics
  6. The issue of relocation and property exchange

(*) new RRTF members as of end of 1997

Report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), European Commission (EC) including European Community Humanitarian Office, Federal Commissioner for Refugee Return and Related Reconstruction – Germany*, Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees, World Bank, International Management Group, United States Government*, Office of the High Representative

Office of the High Representative
Reconstruction and Return Task Force