Skip to main content

Vulnerability Screening Tool – Identifying and addressing vulnerability: a tool for asylum and migration systems

Vulnerability Screening Tool – Identifying and addressing vulnerability: a tool for asylum and migration systems
Type
Guideline
Country
Global
Organization
International Detention Coalition, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Year
2016

This screening tool on identifying and addressing situations of vulnerability is a UNHCR and IDC collaboration intended to help guide and inform frontline workers and decision-makers on the relevance of vulnerability factors to detention decisions, referrals to alternatives to detention, open reception facilities, community-based placement and support options, in the context of asylum and migration procedures and systems.