Humanitarian Assistance for Sahrawi Refugees in Tindouf, South-Algeria



Contract partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Nördlich der Sahara, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 200.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2010 End: 31.12.2010

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Overall goal


UNHCR's role in southern Algeria is to provide international protection and multi-sectoral care and maintenance assistance for some 125,000 Sahrawis living in refugee camps in Tindouf. In this context, it is the overall objective of this project to improve the living conditions of Sahrawi refugees through activities in the Health and nurtition sectors.


The Austrian contribution contributes to the UNHCR's annual program in the Tindouf camps. With the donation of the Austrian Development Cooperation, UNHCR intends to support health and nutrition activities in all four camps (Awserd, Dakhla L'aayoune and Smara). In the health sector there is mainly support of the Supplementary Feeding Programme. The programme targets moderately malnourished children under five, as well as pregnant and lactating women. The equipments will be procured by Triangle Génération Humanitaire who, with UNCHR, has a medical programme.


In the health sector UNHCR provides through its partner "Enfants Refugies du Monde-Pays de la Loire" support to the Nursing School through a series of capacity development activities, including training courses for nurses, chief nurses and midwives, as well as the dissemination of teaching materials and the provision of hygienic products. Since 1992, 165 people graduated as nurses after completing 1,791 hours of teaching and 3,880 hours of internship and 25 midwives graduated after 1,200 hours of teaching and 300 hours of internship. In 2010, with ADA support, 68 people will pursue their nursing programme and 12 their midwives studies.

project number 2583-01/2010
source of funding OEZA
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
marker
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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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  • 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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