UNHCR TURKEY – Syria Refugee Emergency

Weekly Situation Update No. 8

8 March to 14 March 2014

Highlights:  Women’s committees are now active in 16 refugee camps and youth committees have been established in 10 refugee camps.

 Of the 23 mobile registration centers procured by UNHCR and transferred to AFAD, 12 have

been deployed to the field and 7 are in the process of registering Syrian refugees

Transfer of vulnerable non-camp refugees to the camps

UNHCR procured 23 mobile registration centres (trucks especially equipped for registration), which were transferred to AFAD over the past months. The process of registering, staffing, equipping and deploying the trucks is now taking place. So far, 12 mobile registration centers have been deployed to the field: Sanliurfa (1 in Sanliurfa center and 1 in Akcakale border gate), Hatay (1 in Reyhanli, 1 in Kirikhan), Gaziantep (1 in Islahiye, 1 to be deployed to Nizip), Osmaniye (1), Batman (1), Karhamanmaras (1), Adana (1) and Kilis (2). At present, seven mobile registration centres are already in the process of registering Syrian refugees outside of the camps. They are in: Hatay (1 in Reyhanli and 1 in Kirikhan), Kilis (2 in city centre), Osmaniye (city centre), Gaziantep (Islahiye) and Sanliurfa Syrian refugees waiting for registration in a mobile registration center in Reyhanli, Hatay province. Photo: F. Ozdogru/ UNHCR/March 2014 (Akcakale border) provinces. The registration of non-camp Syrians is on-going across southeast Turkey. As of 15 March 2014, 421038 refugees have been registered outside of the camps. Local officials in Gaziantep informed UNHCR that within

Gaziantep province, 132,676 Syrians were registered in Gaziantep province and Nizip town. In Nizip the officials informed UNHCR that despite increasing their registration staff and workstations, and registering about 80 persons per day, they still have about 2,500 people who were given appointments, in addition to more than 19,000 they have registered in Nizip town.

Sector progress

Refugee Representation: Education: Women’s committees are now active in 16 During the reporting period, UNHCR attended the refugee camps and youth committees have Education Working Group, chaired my MoNE, been established in 10 camps. There are few and also attended by AFAD and UNICEF. A other committees such as children’s and number of policy related issues were discussed, elderly’s committees in two Sanliurfa camps. including the need to ensure the implementation UNHCR attended the first women committee of a harmonized national strategy for the payment meeting in Viransehir camp and shared the of teacher incentives across all relevant guidelines and the code of conduct which was institutions. Additionally discussed was the signed by all the members. During the first certification of learning programmes offered in meeting of the Islahiye youth committee led by a informal schools both camp and out of camp Unicef youth worker, the members agreed on schools. At the moment, MoNE is considering preparing posters to inform camp residents offering Grade 12 certification through written about the committee’s establishment, examinations. Other options under consideration conducting cleaning of the camp setting on a include the writing of a Libyan Baccalaureate or regular basis and preparing a theatre play with some other form of external examination the aim of increasing awareness on hygiene and recognized by the Syrian National Coalition. cleaning.

For more information, please contact: Ms. Selin Unal, External Relations Officer: [email protected] Ms. Jing Song, Reporting Officer, [email protected]