UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability: Technology, law and results-based management

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Contents
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: quest for an accountability cure
	UNHCR’s mandate: evolving interpretations of accountability
	Mapping the trajectories of UNHCR’s accountability efforts
		Post-Cold War demands for financial and managerial accountability
		Failures to prepare, protect and navigate: rwanda and Kosovo
		Protection from humanitarians and the emerging focus on downward accountability
		A new start? Accountability through organizational change
		Technology and accountability: automatic results?
	Enduring and new points of critique
		Accountability and expansion of responsibilities
		Lack of improvement in downward accountability
		UNHCR and states: more than a matter of ‘upward accountability’
		Voluntary nature of accountability
		Standardization, technology and accountability
	Looking to the future: is perfection in accountability possible – or even necessary?
	Overview of chapters
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: UNHCR and the complexity of accountability in the global space
	Pluralism and accountability in the global space
	‘To whom and for what?’ How UNHCR’S relationships define what it is accountable for
		UNHCR’s institutional relationships
		UNHCR’s participatory relationships
	UNHCR’s relationships with states
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Advancing UNHCR accountability through the Law of International Responsibility
	Introduction
	Generally on the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations
	Applying the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations to UNHCR
		Breach of an international obligation
		Attribution
		Defences for violations of international law: several examples
	Limitations and potentials of UNHCR accountability through the law of international responsibility
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Narratives of accountability in UNHCR’s refugee resettlement strategy
	Introduction
	UNHCR, accountability and refugee resettlement
	Australia’s humanitarian programme and UNHCR’s layered narrative of accountability
	EU’s joint refugee resettlement programme and UNHCR’s layered narrative of accountability
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: UNHCR and accountability for IDP protection in Colombia
	Accountability in UNHCR’s IDP protection work
	Conflict, displacement and UNHCR in Colombia
	Prevention of displacement
	Interaction with armed non-state actors
	Supporting the state
	Law, rights and accountability
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Universalizing the refugee category and struggling for accountability: the everyday work of eligibility officers within UNHCR
	Worldwide institutionalization of a device of classification
		Struggling for legitimacy and accountability
	Every-day work of purification
		Creating purified assessments
		Politics and localizing strategies
	Production of refugee “experts”: RSD and the making of accounts as a site of professional socialization
		Embracing a new moral cause: finding the “real” refugees
		Incorporating suspicion as part of the cause
		Contesting the politicization and shortcomings of the procedure
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Accounting for the past: a history of refugee management in Uganda, 1959–64
	Encampment, self-settlement and the spaces in-between
	Displacement at the end of empire
	Exceptional movement: creating a refugee category
	Crafting a refugee population
		An embarrassment of categories
		Old batch vs. new batch vs. newest batches
		Women and children: the meaning of a tally mark
	Towards a policy of mandatory settlement
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: How accountability technologies shape international protection: results-based management and rights-based approaches revisited
	RBA: accountability through moral improvement
		An RBA typology
		Criticisms of RBA
		Ambiguous role of RBA in resettlement narratives
	RBM: accountability through management
		Criticisms of RBM
		Bottom-up RBM: early days of Focus
	A cross-cutting perspective: RBA, RBM and accountability
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: UNHCR, accountability and refugee biometrics
	Three perspectives on biometrics and UNHCR accountability
		UNHCR on biometrics and improved accountability
		Fraud prevention as improved accountability
		More accountable use of donor resources
		Accountability, biometrics and more reliable population data
		Positive identification: accountability, biometrics and the use of funding
		Critical reflections on biometrics and downward accountability
		External criticism: biometrics, accountability and  well-informed refugees
		Biometrics and protection: refugee privacy as a challenge to downward accountability
	Refugee biometrics in urban settings
		Crossing internal checkpoints
		Cross-border movements
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Index