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East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Regional Summaries | East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES “We have an unprecedented opportunity for potential solutions for forcibly displaced people in this region with the signing of the peace agreement for South Sudan and the political changes in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. In addition, progressive refugee policies being adopted in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, in line with the Global Compact on Refugees, are allowing new types of partnerships and the inclusion of refugees in national services. Recognizing the protection and assistance given by countries in the region that have been tirelessly hosting their African brothers and sisters for decades, we must give them the support needed for the development of the host communities.” Clementine Nkweta-Salami Director, Regional Bureau for East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes KEY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES Strengthening protection and access (SGBV) receive tailored support. Particular to quality services for persons with attention will be given to South Sudan, specific needs where 65% of refugees are minors and more than 1.4 million refugee children In a region that hosts the largest number are affected by conflict and forced of refugees on the African continent, displacement. UNHCR will continue to ensure that the right to seek asylum is upheld and Providing lifesaving humanitarian East and Horn that refugee protection is adequately assistance provided. The Office will advocate access to territory and strengthen refugee policy In the region, more than 80% of refugees by engaging with, among others, the reside in camps or settlements where they of Africa and receive basic assistance, including shelter, African Union, the East African Community, the Intergovernmental Authority on water and sanitation, health and education. Development (IGAD), and the International However, more investment is needed the Great Lakes Conference on the Great Lakes Region. to ensure assistance and services meet international standards, including better Individual biometric registration will be access to shelter, core relief items, sanitary prioritized, specifically in Sudan where kits and improved access to energy. In all registration activities were interrupted operations, refugee families who arrived prior in the first half of 2019 due to general to 2015 need relief items replenished, while insecurity. In total, some 654,000 people new arrivals require immediate support. A Burundian refugee carries firewood home to burn in the new are planned for registration across all fuel efficient stove she has received at Nyarugusu camp, in the United Republic of Tanzania. 11 operations in the region. Concurrently, With the adoption of the Global Compact © UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin the Office will support refugee status on Refugees, countries in the region determination procedures while ensuring have taken important steps in applying that refugee children and survivors comprehensive responses, particularly of sexual and gender-based violence in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and 52 UNHCR GLOBAL APPEAL 2020-2021 UNHCR GLOBAL APPEAL 2020-2021 53 REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES Uganda. UNHCR will continue to work communities and refugees alike. In Djibouti, will advocate local integration and support updated IDP Policy in action, Ethiopia The new Policy on “UNHCR’s closely with host governments and line Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, significant resettlement activities for those who meet and South Sudan will participate in the Engagement ministries to integrate refugees into efforts have been made to include refugees specific criteria. Some 511,100 people are High Commissioner’s special Initiative on in Situations of Internal services and include them in national in national planning, provide services and to in need of resettlement across the region. Internal Displacement. This will support, Displacement” planning. The Office will also continue to promote integration, efforts which UNHCR will Complementary pathways will also be monitor and ultimately showcase UNHCR’s advocate more development investment in build on. Promoting connectivity for refugees pursued. commitment to robust protection host communities. will also open up further opportunities for leadership, coordination responsibilities education and entrepreneurship. Coordinating and delivering and operational delivery for protection protection, assistance and solutions and solutions in contexts of internal POLICY ON UNHCR’S Promoting self-reliance and ENGAGEMENT IN SITUATIONS UNHCR/Anna Hellge UNHCR/Anna OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT economic inclusion of refugees and Pursuing durable solutions for IDPs displacement. UNHCR/HCP/2019/1 © asylum-seekers UNHCR will work with governments, UNHCR will continue to assist voluntary Preventing and addressing UN agencies, and NGOs in coordinating In line with Grand Bargain commitments, repatriation to Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda statelessness UNHCR will continue to invest in cash- and Somalia, with planning underway for and delivering protection, camp based interventions, with some $30 million some 50,000 Burundian refugees and management and shelter for IDPs in UNHCR will provide technical and policy worth of assistance planned for distribution 17,000 Somali refugees to return home Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and support to ensure laws and practices across the region in 2020. UNHCR will in 2020. In addition to monitoring the South Sudan. Key areas of focus will are consistent with international and pursue new partnerships and strengthen voluntary nature of return, UNHCR will include demonstrating strategic leadership regional standards on the prevention of existing ones, including with the World Bank, monitor the protection situation for those to ensure the centrality of protection across statelessness so that stateless persons can the African Development Bank, the who have opted to return. Depending on the humanitarian response, informed by finally get citizenship and refugee children International Finance Corporation and positive political developments, and if stronger information management and can obtain birth registration while in exile. IGAD to encourage increased investment conditions allow, return to other countries analysis systems. It will also include UNHCR, in partnership with key regional in refugee areas, benefitting host will be supported. In parallel, the Office ensuring robust operational delivery of organizations, intends to conduct a study protection and assistance in affected areas on the risks of statelessness in protracted and contributing to conditions conducive refugee situations. The study will inform to achieving solutions, in partnership durable and legal solutions for refugees with humanitarian, development and in the region and help identify risks of © UNHCR/Eduardo Soteras Jalil Jalil UNHCR/Eduardo© Soteras As drought compounds government stakeholders. To demonstrate statelessness. security woes, Somalis flee to Ethiopia the operationalization of UNHCR’s Crop failures, livestock die-offs, and extortion from Al-Shabab are driving thousands of farmers and pastoralists to abandon their lands and seek refuge. When drought killed most of Barwako Noor Abdi’s cows © UNHCR/Hannah© Maule-ffinch and goats eight years ago, she had no choice but The Instant Network Schools, to abandon her home in Somalia’s parched Gedo borne out of a partnership region and seek help elsewhere in a country between the Vodafone suffering from decades of insecurity. When the Foundation and UNHCR, help next major drought hit in 2016-2017, she found bring connected education to she could not even sell her surviving animals as refugees in remote locations, providing a digital there was no longer demand for them. Then this year, as the rains failed once again, she had no option but to sell learning experience that has transformed up the little piece of land that remained to her, and flee across the border to Ethiopia. education for refugees in Kenya, Tanzania, “There was a time when we could cultivate the farms. The river would rise, and it would flow and we survived. South Sudan and DRC. Now, the river is dry and there is no rain. What is worse is that Al-Shabab force us to produce what we did not have.” —Shalle Hassan Abdirahman, Somali farmer who arrived at UNHCR’s Dollo Ado reception centre in eastern Ethiopia. 54 UNHCR GLOBAL APPEAL 2020-2021 UNHCR GLOBAL APPEAL 2020-2021 55 REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES REGIONAL SUMMARIES | EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES MAJOR SITUATIONS IN THE EAST AND HORN Despite progress in ending conflict in South Sudan, and recent political changes in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, it is unlikely that the numbers of those forcibly displaced will fall significantly in 2020. Drought in some OF AFRICA AND THE GREAT LAKES IN 2020 areas and flooding in others may impact service delivery as the region grapples with climate change. SOUTH SUDAN Following the signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, the path towards peace remains slow and basic services are still not widely available. In some regions, conflict and insecurity continues. It is expected that South Sudan will remain the continent’s largest refugee crisis, with more than 2.2 million refugees projected in 2020. Internal displacement figures, presently
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