Assistance and Protection for Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia 2009



Contract partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Äthiopien Funding amount: € 400.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2009 End: 31.12.2009

Short Description:

Overall goal


Since the Ethiopian-Eritrean war, hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides were either internally displaced or sought refuge in neighboring countries. Currently, there are two refugee camps and two sites in Tigray and Afar Regional States in Northern Ethiopia. Throughout the last several months, nearly 800 Eritrean refugees have been crossing the border per month, while only few refugees depart from Shimelba camp for resettlement, which means the camp population continues to grow.


The UNHCR program in Ethiopia - and subseqeuntly this project which contributes to the overall UNHCR Ethiopia program - aims to provide international protection and multi-sectoral care and assistance to around 23.300 Eritrean refugees accomodated in the refugee camps in Shimelba and Mai'Ayni and those residing in the proximity of Berhale and Asayita in Northern Ethopia.


The contribution of the Austrian Development Cooperation goes towards the sectors of Health/Nutrition, and Water and Sanitation. Activities supported by this contribution inlude:


¢ Redcution of mortality rates

¢ Prevention of epidemics

¢ Reduction of incidence rates of malaria and diarrhea

¢ Improvement of access and utilization of health services by the refugees

¢ Increase of sanitation facilities

¢ Ensuring adequate water quality.


This project represents a continuation of the ADC support to Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia provided in 2008.

project number 2376-00/2009
source of funding OEZA
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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