Emergency Assistance - Regional-Level Funding for Africa Americas and Asia - UNHCR 2020

March 2020 - The Africa region continues to accommodate the largest population of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) worldwide with over 27 million people of concern. The Asia and Pacific region is home to nearly 9 million people of concern to the UNHCR and the Americas includes close to 18 million people of concern. The UNHCR provides international protection and assistance to the world’s refugees stateless persons asylum seekers and in some instances internally displaced persons. With the support of GAC and other donors the UNHCR is helping provide assistance and protection to refugees internally displaced persons and other persons of concern in Africa the Americas and Asia in ODA-eligible countries. Project activities include: (1) providing shelter clothing and other essential non-food items; (2) providing adequate water sanitation and health services including in reproductive health; (3) providing opportunities for education and livelihoods support; (4) providing protection including against sexual and gender-based violence and for children; (5) working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees and helping issue identity documents; (6) working with governments to support refugee self-reliance and forge peaceful relations between refugees and host communities; and (7) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for persons of concern.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased access to territorial protection and asylum procedures and protection for refugees asylum seekers and stateless persons; (2) increased issuance of birth certificates to newborns and increased levels of individual registration in refugee situations; (3) increased access to support for survivors of violence particularly sexual and gender-based violence; (4) lower mortality morbidity and malnutrition rates; and (5) increased access to safe water hygiene and livelihood necessities for vulnerable persons. The expected ultimate outcome is the reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.