According to UN Security Council Resolution 1590, the UN Mission in Sudan is to facilitate and coordinate, within its capabilities and in its areas of deployment, the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and humanitarian assistance, inter alia, by helping to establish the necessary security conditions’. In order to effectively perform this function, UNMIS has created the Return, Reintegration and Recovery Section (RRR).

The RRR Section’s responsibilities fall within four broad categories: Coordination, planning and monitoring, information and advocacy, and capacity building. The section has national responsibilities for returns. i.e. for those related to the North-South CPA and Darfur. The section supports the government’s overall responsibility to lead return and reintegration coordination and planning.

To maximize field capacity for this role UNMIS RRR established 8 field offices in the South: Aweil, Bentiu, Bor, Juba, Malakal, Rumbek, Warrab,Wau; and  three fields offices in the  transitional areas: Abyei, Ed Damazin, and Kadugli, one field office in South Darfur( Nyala). All the field offices in Southern Sudan report to Juba. Khartoum coordinates activities in the North and the three areas, whilst maintaining its role as National headquarters.