Humanitarian Assistance and Protection for Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia



Contract partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Äthiopien Funding amount: € 350.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2010 End: 31.12.2010

Short Description:

Overall goal


By the beginning of 2010, Ethiopia has hosted over 125,000 refugees mainly from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. This project benefits Eritrean refugees and aims to provide humanitarian assistance in the sectors of Child Protection and Health Care for the approx. 18.000 adults and 9.000 children who comprise the Eritrean refugee population accommodated in two refugee camps of in northern Ethiopia.


With regard to health care, the main activities undertaken include (but are not limited to):

" Provision of Primary Health Care including pediatrics, immunizations and treatment of survivors of sexual gender based violence.

" Provision of healthcare training to both healthcare staff and refugees in both camps.

" Provision of quality medical and psycho-social care facilities and services to people living with HIV, as well as HIV and STI-preventive services to the refugee population at large,


In the area of child protection, targeting particularly the large number of unaccompanied minors, some of the major activities include:


" Establishing a children's centre, Oasis for Kids.

" Identify, verify and follow up on cases of children at risk in the community (outreach

programme).

" Setting up child care arrangements (foster and group-care) in collaboration with partners and the refugee community

" Establishing a Childcare Emergency Shelter for children at immediate risk of harm in the camp.

project number 2376-00/2010
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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