TESEV has been monitoring the “Van Province Action Plan for Service Delivery to Internally Displaced Persons” (Van Action Plan) set up by the Turkish Government with the technical support of the UNDP for the provision of services to urban IDPs in Van. The findings of this research were published in May 2009 in a TESEV report entitled “Permanent Solution to Internal Displacement? An Assessment of the Van Action Plan for IDPs.” 

TESEV, in organizing this conference, aims to use the aforementioned report on Van Action Plan to revitalize and broaden the public debate on internal displacement as well as to bring the issue to the agenda of the government. The proceedings of the conference will be published following the conference with a view to making them available to government representatives as well as to international actors working in the area of internal displacement and local, national and international NGOs. 

TESEV hopes that by organizing this conference it contributes to the efforts of the government and NGOs to develop effective and democratic responses to the problem of internal displacement.