Lavington Green, Elmolo Drive, Off James Gichuru Road P.O. Box 21211 - 00100 Tel: +254 020 434 8246 Mobile: 0716 430 333, 0735 501 450 Fax: +254 020 434 8250 Facebook: NRC Horn of Africa & Yemen 2015 Website: www.nrc.no ANNUAL REPORT HORN OF AFRICA. SOUTH SUDAN,UGANDA AND YEMEN I The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian non-governmental organisation which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally-displaced persons worldwide. Our Vision: Rights Respected, People Protected Our Core Values: Accountability, Dedication, Inclusiveness, Innovation Overall Strategic Objective for Horn of Africa Region: A greater number of vulnerable people in hard-to-reach areas get access to humanitarian assistance, become resilient to future disasters and find durable solutions NRC Core Competencies Editor-in-Chief: Gabriella Waaijman NRC operates through 6 specialised Editors: Wairimu Munyinyi and Nashon Tado programme areas, referred to as Design and Layout: Colourprint Ltd core competencies which inform our programmes. Programme delivery Published: May 2016 is supported by the Monitoring and Evaluation, Advocacy, Front cover photo: Karl Schembri Communication, Finance, Logistics Photos: ©Norwegian Refugee Council and Human Resources functions. Protection is mainstreamed across all the programmes. II2 ANNUANNUAALL RREPORTEPORT 20152015 Foreword ......................................................................................................................4 C ONTENTS NRC Operations in the Horn of Africa .................................................6 Mixed migration a growing concern ........................................................8 Living our Mission-The Delivery of Core Competencies .....10 Somalia: Building resilient communities .......................................... 11 4 Kenya: Durable solutions for refugees and IDPs ....................15 Yemen: Reaching out to the most vulnerable .............................18 8 Djibouti: Assistance to vulnerable communities ......................22 Eritrea: Scaling up educational programmes ..............................24 South Sudan: Protracted violence despite peace deals ...26 11 Uganda: Assistance to refugees in West Nile region ...........29 Ethiopia: Large-scale response to refugee crisis ....................31 A bold advocate in the region ..................................................................35 15 Partnerships and initiatives..........................................................................37 Financial Overview ............................................................40 Operational Outputs 2015 ...........................................................................41 18 22 25 29 31 37 HORN OF AFRICA. SOUTH SUDAN,UGANDA AND YEMEN 3 FOREWORD BY THE REGIONAL Director lives is not enough. People want to live in dignity and be the custodians of Dear friends, their own destiny. It is gratifying to see a greater emphasis being placed on NRC continued to deliver life-saving equipping refugees with the skills and assistance to displaced persons confidence to face the future. As you in humanitarian situations across read on, you will meet Monica Lul, one the region, often contending with of our youth education graduates from security and access challenges Kakuma, an only female student in her from Somalia to Yemen and South electrical class, who attended classes Sudan, but driven by a commitment diligently, with her child strapped on towards easing the suffering of her back, until completion. Hers is a crisis affected people and the story of resilience and determination, desire to be part of the change played out over and over again across towards durable solutions. the region. Another year has gone by and I We responded to two large-scale am honoured to present to you our emergencies in the region. While annual report for 2015 highlighting populations in South Sudan were our achievements, lessons learnt and still trying to come to terms with offering glimpses of our collective the day-to-day realities of civil ambition in the Horn of Africa, war in their country; the lives of South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen. civilians in Yemen abruptly changed With approximately 95 Million US in April 2015 when a simmering Dollars and more than 2,000 staff conflict erupted into an all-out war in 8 countries in 29 field locations engulfing the country. And whereas NRC/Patrick Akena we touched the lives of close to 2 expectations for peace and stability million people, half a million more broken when some of them moved on in Somalia remain high, the road than we did in 2014. We diversified with smugglers in the night. towards it is a difficult and sometimes our programming to place greater very dangerous one. These emphasis on restoring dignity in South Sudan is the world’s youngest emergencies feed into the paradoxes addition to saving lives; and we State, formed with a lot of goodwill that the world is faced with today. We expanded our partner and donor base and promise. Sadly, South Sudan witnessed population movements in in order to be able to reach more has remained embroiled in conflict, all directions; we assisted refugees people in need, with greater quality with millions displaced as a result. fleeing from Yemen into Djibouti programmes. NRC lost two colleagues in 2015 and Somalia while others crossed as a result of the conflict and into Yemen en-route to the Middle I returned from a youth vocational insecurities. It is with a heavy heart East; we supported refugees from skills graduation ceremony in Kakuma, that we remember Gatkuoth Gawar Kenya moving back to Somalia; while Kenya in late December 2015 and Chuol, who joined NRC in 2015 and responding to new displacement in seeing how very proud our students tragically passed away in May 2015 Somalia; we provided shelter and are with their certificates remains when violence broke out in Leer; and protection for young Eritrean children deeply humbling. It shows that saving Charles Korsuk Koboji, who has been in Sire, and found ourselves heart 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 During a visit to Nyumanzi settlement in northern Uganda, the Regional Director joined refugees from South Sudan in learning hair and beauty techniques. with NRC since 2007 and sadly lost through direct implementation or that NRC strives to present to her his life in December 2015 when shot through partnership. We ended 2015 beneficiaries. by an unknown gunman in Juba. on a high note, with a high-level event co-hosted with Safaricom Ltd The work of NRC would not be As the year came to a close, the (the lead mobile network operator possible without the dedicated drought situation in Ethiopia and in Kenya) that explored partnership support of our staff, programme Somalia got worse, adding to the with the private sector. It is exciting partners and donors. Therefore, I humanitarian needs in the region. to see what more we can do in thank you all and look forward to an While agencies like NRC are doing 2016 to enrich lives together. Out of even better 2016, as we continue with all they can to meet these needs, this partnership, the beautiful story our work in the Horn of Africa region. the need for a long-lasting solution of Monica Lul continues; she now cannot be reinstated enough. stands to benefit from a placement with a Safaricom partner. Often we Gabriella Waaijman In 2016, we will continue our aim to can do more for our beneficiaries by Regional Director reach people in some of the most simply connecting the dots. These are NRC Horn of Africa, South Sudan, difficult places in the region, either the small, yet promising opportunities Uganda and Yemen HORN OF AFRICA. SOUTH SUDAN,UGANDA AND YEMEN 5 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 HORN OF AFRICA. SOUTH SUDAN,UGANDA AND YEMEN 7 MIXED MIGRATION A ROWING ONCERN G C nternational attention to the ongoing mixed migration situation in Ithe Mediterranean Sea has recently increased in the wake of several disasters linked to people crossing the sea. The combined death toll of close to 3,000 migrants in a series of disasters occurring in 2015 is part of an escalating trend of preventable deaths. Among these incidents was the worst single ship-wreck tragedy ever on record involving the death of an estimated 800 migrants. Displacement and migration have such as risk of capsizing in the Red become a reality for an increasing Sea, smuggling cartels, blockade number of people in the greater along the Saudi border and Horn of Africa and Yemen. As airstrikes in Yemen. Between March of September 2015 more than and September 2015 an upwards 100,000 people had fled Yemen of 10,000 people, mainly Ethiopians to neighbouring countries across had still attempted the perilous the Horn of Africa and the Middle journey. Photo: Contrasto/Marco Gualazzini East. Historically, the Horn of Africa and Yemen has seen four The main drivers of mixed migration migration routes, an eastern, across the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Enhancing its durable western, southern and northern Mediterranean Sea and other programming in 2015, route. Migrants traversing Djibouti bordering areas on land and sea NRC reached 647,192 include search for asylum in the people with Food hope for a better life, escape from Security interventions, threatening social and political 616,304 with WASH, 1,924,435: Number of conditions, climate change and 317,697 with Shelter, people that received environmental degradation and 198,898 with Education direct humanitarian attempts to re-unite with relatives. and 107,860 with ICLA.