OHR RRTF Report April 1997

RRTF: Report April 1997

Report

“Reconstruction and Return Task Force”

April 1997

Contents

1. Foreword
2. Current Status
   1. Lessons learned
   2. Origin and distribution of refugees and displaced persons
3. Political and Legal context
   1. General context
   2. Laws affecting property rights
   3. The Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees
   4. Code of practice
   5. Security and human rights
   6. Positive conditionality
4. Economic Context
   1. Economic absorptive capacity
   2. Housing reconstruction
   3. Incentive schemes
   4. Loan financing
   5. Prioritised cluster areas
   6. Incentives for minority return
   7. Employment
   8. Social and other infrastructure
5. Recommendations

Annexes

1. Statistics on refugees and displaced persons
2. Code of practice
3. Implementation capacity
4. Flow chart of the process of reconstruction and return
5. Incentive schemes
6. List and map of prioritised cluster areas
7. Summary report on the working group on non-cluster areas
8. Employment generation programmes
9. Preliminary data on investment in prioritised cluster areas

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