UNV Refugee Status Determination Assistant at UNHCR (For Indian Nationals Only) - New Delhi

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on 14 December 1950 by the UN General Assembly and began its work on 01 January 1951. UNHCR’s primary mandate is to safeguard the rights and wellbeing of refugees and the Office continues to strive to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum. In India, since April 1981, UNHCR provides protection and assistance to individual asylum seekers from certain countries while the government recognizes others. The Office assists more than 20,000 recognised refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Myanmar, making it one of the largest urban refugee caseload in the world. While some groups are considered refugees by the Government of India, (Tibetans, Sri Lankans), individual refugee status determination (RSD) is undertaken by UNHCR in India for most of the other nationalities. With increasing rates of arrivals from countries as diverse as Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan, UNHCR’s important refugee status determination function continues to be a much needed protection tool.UNHCR’s collaboration with UNV and active deployment of UN Volunteers began in 1990. This collaboration progressively expanded as humanitarian crisis continued to unfold. UNHCR now administers UNVs in both emergency and non-emergency situations to work closely implementing UNHCR’s mandate towards refugees and IDPs.New Delhi and the surrounding National Capital Region is a large and bustling metropolis of some 14 million people undergoing rapid changes. The capital city is an administrative, cultural and commercial centre with modern amenities and well connected by air. It is a safe place with large expatriate community drawn from embassies, UN agencies, MNCs and foreign businesses. It has short moderate winter and long hot summer.

The volunteer will be provided monthly volunteer living allowance (VLA) intended to cover housing, basic needs and utilities, equivalent to INR 33,696; settling-in-grant (if applicable); life, health, and permanent disability insurance; return fares (if applicable); resettlement allowance for satisfactory service.

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