Using the Compact Model to Support Host States and Refugee Self-Reliance

Today’s trends of displacement call for new responses by donors, humanitarian and development actors, host governments and the private sector, and compact agreements are a promising model for achieving reform. Drawing on lessons learned from experiences in countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, the authors recommend several protocols to follow in developing compacts and propose two new global governance tools to aid in creating focused, informed, coordinated and transparent host country policy changes that can enable refugee self-reliance.