East and Horn of Africa

2015 year-end information on the East and Horn of Africa subregion is presented below. A summary of this can also be downloaded in PDF format. This subregion covers the following countries:
 

Subregion: East and Horn of Africa

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Budgets and Expenditure in Subregion East and Horn of Africa

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People of Concern - 2015

[["Refugees",2739375],["Asylum-seekers",106959],["IDPs",6193660],["Returned IDPs",157663],["Returned refugees",74467],["Stateless",20000],["Others of concern",234381]]
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Response in 2015 

The major emergencies in Burundi, South Sudan and Yemen continued to ravage the already fragile East and Horn of Africa. Humanitarian needs in the region increased with the steady rise in the number of displaced persons. Despite growing needs, funding to help host communities and governments sustain their generous hospitality towards displaced populations did not increase proportionally. Host countries dealt not only with protracted refugee situations but also with internally displaced persons (IDPs) and new influxes. 

As a result of severe underfunding, persons of concern to UNHCR in the Burundi, South Sudan and Yemen situations faced a dramatic decrease in food and other types of assistance. For example, in South Sudan, cuts in food baskets of up to 30 per cent led to a rise in global acute malnutrition and stunting rates, which affected the life prospects of displaced persons negatively, most of whom were under the age of 18. Political solutions and humanitarian assistance were urgently needed. 

The gravity of these crises meant that the majority of the resources provided by donors were used for life-saving measures. Subsequently, UNHCR was only able to invest 10 per cent of funding into solutions and self-reliance activities with a view to improving the lives of persons of concern. 

Despite this, renewable energy projects were implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Sudan. Moreover, UNHCR supported the voluntary repatriation of more than 11,000 Somalian refugees. Further investment in the region is needed to ensure that such returns are sustainable and help reverse the trend of conflict and deepening poverty and reliance on assistance, which are often the root causes of onward movement among refugees and migrants in search of protection and solutions.  

Operations 

Operations in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda are presented in separate country pages.
 

Operational Environment and Strategy

The eruption of violence in South Sudan in December 2013 placed an additional burden on an already volatile subregion, which continues to suffer from conflict and displacement. 
 
Nine months into the South Sudan crisis, there were approximately 1.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and more than 450,000 new South Sudanese refugees, who fled to Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. The situation remains volatile, compounding an already critical humanitarian situation; more than 243,000 refugees, mainly from Sudan, also need protection and assistance in South Sudan. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) continues to lead efforts to mediate the conflict. The risk of famine in some parts of South Sudan, and the prospect of more internal and external displacement, remain concerns.
 
Meanwhile, heavy rainfall and flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan exacerbate challenges in refugee-hosting areas. The need for additional land to settle South Sudanese refugees remains a priority; UNHCR relies on the generosity of the host Governments for the timely identification of suitable land.
 
Since the beginning of the year, Ethiopia has seen a steady influx of almost 190,000 refugees, who are fleeing the South Sudan conflict. In August 2014 it became the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa.
 
While there are emerging signs of stability in Somalia, ongoing militia activity may unsettle the fragile security situation, affecting the population and resulting in new IDP numbers.  Nonetheless, with relatively greater stability anticipated, some IDPs and refugees are spontaneously returning to their areas of origin.

Chad, currently the region’s most stable country, continues to be surrounded by conflict and insecurity in neighbouring countries. In 2014, Chad witnessed a refugee influx from the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Sudan. The deteriorating security situation in these countries means the prospect of facilitated voluntary repatriation remains meagre, so there is a need for contingency planning as, in 2015, Chad is expected to host even more refugees from surrounding countries. 

Response and Implementation

In line with its Global Strategic Priorities, UNHCR’s strategy in the East and Horn of Africa will focus on maintaining a favourable protection environment, providing basic needs and services, ensuring emergency preparedness and response capacity, and promoting durable solutions for refugees and other populations of concern.  
 
The organization will continue to work with Governments to ensure that they have well-functioning asylum systems and institutional frameworks, as well as the capacity to manage them. To maintain a strong protection environment, UNHCR is increasingly investing in supporting host communities, particularly to provide basic services and promote livelihood opportunities, to facilitate peaceful co-existence. 
 
The Office will continue to address the basic needs of, and services for, refugees in the subregion to help save lives. It will provide water, sanitation and health services in refugee camps in Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. UNHCR will also promote access to primary education for all refugee children. In urban areas, it will advocate for refugees to have access to existing services.
 
UNHCR is leading a coordinated inter-agency response to the South Sudanese refugee emergency. It will deliver protection and life-saving assistance, as well as basic services, with a special focus on the protection of women, children, and others with specific needs. This will include family tracing for unaccompanied and separated children, and supporting female-headed households. A disproportionately high number of the arriving refugees are women and children, the latter constituting about 70 per cent of South Sudanese refugee arrivals. 
 
Emergency preparedness, including addressing the nutritional needs of refugees remain regional priorities, given the volatile socio-political situation. This will involve maintaining emergency stockpiles and updating contingency and coordination plans. 
 
For protracted refugee situations in the subregion, UNHCR advocates support from governments, donors and other actors for refugees’ self-reliance, pending a durable solution of benefit to hosting communities in terms of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence. The Global Initiative on Somali Refugees, for example, aims to create the right conditions in Somalia to make repatriation sustainable and safe, while maintaining asylum space in countries hosting Somali refugees. It promotes resettlement, and seeks other creative solutions, working in close partnership with a diverse range of stakeholders. 
 
In line with its new policy on alternatives to camps, the Office will promote out-of-camp strategies whenever possible, such as in Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda, while ensuring that refugees are protected and assisted effectively, and able to find solutions. Where camps must be established or already exist, UNHCR will work to phase them out at the earliest possible stage, or transform them into sustainable settlements.

2015 Budget and Expenditure in East and Horn of Africa | USD

Operation Pillar 1
Refugee programme
Pillar 2
Stateless programme
Pillar 3
Reintegration projects
Pillar 4
IDP projects
Total
Chad Budget
Expenditure
168,802,729
73,959,150
1,591,058
608,209
885,000
806,078
0
0
171,278,787
75,373,437
Djibouti Budget
Expenditure
41,396,203
10,508,707
0
0
0
0
0
0
41,396,203
10,508,707
Eritrea Budget
Expenditure
5,913,217
3,548,472
0
0
0
0
0
0
5,913,217
3,548,472
Ethiopia Budget
Expenditure
311,641,954
152,109,568
0
0
0
0
0
0
311,641,954
152,109,568
Ethiopia UNHCR Representation to the AU and ECA Budget
Expenditure
1,439,099
1,420,907
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,439,099
1,420,907
Kenya Budget
Expenditure
250,824,698
100,846,641
371,416
189,740
0
0
0
0
251,196,114
101,036,382
Kenya Regional Support Hub Budget
Expenditure
8,725,134
6,054,227
0
0
0
0
0
0
8,725,134
6,054,227
Somalia Budget
Expenditure
44,514,196
19,028,204
0
0
13,096,330
6,922,988
41,543,354
10,237,076
99,153,880
36,188,268
South Sudan Budget
Expenditure
185,326,305
96,295,886
6,539,991
2,112,569
0
0
222,014,560
42,054,490
413,880,856
140,462,944
Sudan Budget
Expenditure
137,778,614
57,119,403
3,077,345
567,792
0
0
30,466,838
13,246,408
171,322,797
70,933,603
Uganda Budget
Expenditure
218,337,173
62,654,022
20,000
4,177
3,050,000
0
0
0
221,407,173
62,658,198
Regional activities Budget
Expenditure
11,051,350
214,903
0
0
0
0
0
0
11,051,350
214,903
Total Budget
Expenditure
1,385,750,671
583,760,089
11,599,810
3,482,486
17,031,330
7,729,066
294,024,751
65,537,974
1,708,406,563
660,509,615

2015 Voluntary Contributions to East and Horn of Africa | USD

Earmarking / Donor Pillar 1
Refugee programme
Pillar 2
Stateless programme
Pillar 3
Reintegration projects
Pillar 4
IDP projects
All
pillars
Total
East and Horn of Africa overall
Denmark 00001,500,000 1,500,000
Finland 00002,166,847 2,166,847
Germany 00008,801,614 8,801,614
Ireland 1,122,3340000 1,122,334
Luxembourg 00001,251,564 1,251,564
Norway 1,563,2520000 1,563,252
Private donors in Canada 00004,979 4,979
Private donors in France 000072 72
Private donors in Germany 00001,106,195 1,106,195
Private donors in Italy 00001,310 1,310
Private donors in Japan 00007,123 7,123
Private donors in Spain 00001,837 1,837
Private donors in the Republic of Korea 000019,713 19,713
Sweden 00001,819,187 1,819,187
East and Horn of Africa overall subtotal 2,685,58600016,680,442 19,366,028
Chad
Canada 0000786,782 786,782
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 2,008,6980000 2,008,698
Denmark 200,0000000 200,000
Economic Community of West African States 70,0000000 70,000
European Union 3,302,667212,559676,10500 4,191,332
Finland 00001,648,352 1,648,352
France 1,364,8080000 1,364,808
Germany 4,890,5790000 4,890,579
Ireland 548,2460000 548,246
Norway 0000261,203 261,203
Private donors in Australia 199,5180000 199,518
Private donors in Germany 263,272000634,921 898,193
Private donors in Italy 000045 45
Private donors in Qatar 342,9330000 342,933
Private donors in Spain 138,2740000 138,274
Private donors in the United States of America 188,0530000 188,053
Spain 396,2930000 396,293
Sweden 00003,479,012 3,479,012
Switzerland 520,2910000 520,291
UNAIDS 70,0000000 70,000
United States of America 1,754,36500036,000,000 37,754,365
Chad subtotal 16,257,998212,559676,105042,810,314 59,956,977
Djibouti
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 350,1430000 350,143
European Union 559,2840000 559,284
Italy 553,0970000 553,097
Japan 1,950,0000000 1,950,000
Private donors in Qatar 481,6070000 481,607
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 84,0300000 84,030
United States of America 2,600,0000002,000,000 4,600,000
Djibouti subtotal 6,578,1610002,000,000 8,578,161
Eritrea
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 500,0000000 500,000
Switzerland 49,9600000 49,960
Eritrea subtotal 549,9600000 549,960
Ethiopia
Canada 00002,360,346 2,360,346
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 1,499,9410000 1,499,941
Delivering as One 130,1000000 130,100
Denmark 951,9930000 951,993
European Union 782,9980000 782,998
Finland 00001,083,424 1,083,424
France 2,192,982000233,800 2,426,782
Germany 1,083,4240000 1,083,424
International Organization for Migration 595,6920000 595,692
Japan 5,800,0000000 5,800,000
Norway 2,644,8030000 2,644,803
Private donors in Germany 393,7010000 393,701
Private donors in Qatar 342,9330000 342,933
Private donors in the Netherlands 15,148,6860000 15,148,686
Private donors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 10,0310000 10,031
Private donors in the United States of America 200,1030000 200,103
Sweden 00001,073,345 1,073,345
Switzerland 1,028,8070000 1,028,807
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 9,001,0250000 9,001,025
United States of America 29,601,62400039,500,000 69,101,624
Ethiopia subtotal 71,408,84200044,250,915 115,659,757
Kenya
Canada 00004,720,692 4,720,692
Denmark 751,9930000 751,993
European Union 4,097,9830000 4,097,983
Finland 00001,083,424 1,083,424
France 1,096,4910000 1,096,491
Germany 3,367,0030000 3,367,003
Japan 7,000,0000000 7,000,000
Norway 0000517,182 517,182
Private donors in Canada 49,878000165,954 215,832
Private donors in Japan 30,9120000 30,912
Private donors in Kenya 2,5390000 2,539
Private donors in Qatar 444,9150000 444,915
Private donors in Spain 16,9490000 16,949
Private donors in the Republic of Korea 332,0680000 332,068
Private donors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 68,2500000 68,250
Private donors in the United States of America 8,7110000 8,711
Sweden 00001,073,345 1,073,345
Switzerland 1,086,9570002,057,613 3,144,570
UNAIDS 55,0000000 55,000
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 19,346,5810000 19,346,581
United States of America 2,000,00000045,600,000 47,600,000
Kenya subtotal 39,756,23000055,218,210 94,974,441
Kenya Regional Support Hub
UNAIDS 211,1170000 211,117
Kenya Regional Support Hub subtotal 211,1170000 211,117
Regional activities
European Union 224,4670000 224,467
Regional activities subtotal 224,4670000 224,467
Somalia
Canada 0000196,696 196,696
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 1,341,046001,621,5650 2,962,611
Common Humanitarian Fund Somalia 000919,5510 919,551
European Union 957,49401,217,2153,506,6410 5,681,350
Italy 89,06601,035,7931,096,4910 2,221,351
Japan 2,300,00001,000,0004,000,000250,167 7,550,167
Private donors in Canada 000048 48
Private donors in Italy 2860010,8934,980 16,160
Private donors in the United States of America 00003,495 3,495
Sweden 00001,192,606 1,192,606
Switzerland 0001,086,9570 1,086,957
United States of America 3,500,00000014,300,000 17,800,000
Somalia subtotal 8,187,89303,253,00812,242,09815,947,992 39,630,991
South Sudan
Canada 00001,573,564 1,573,564
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 1,451,6780000 1,451,678
Common Humanitarian Fund South Sudan 0001,488,9630 1,488,963
European Union 3,769,6820000 3,769,682
France 0000250,000 250,000
Holy See 9,976003,3620 13,338
Italy 2,116,4020000 2,116,402
Japan 9,600,000000416,945 10,016,945
Luxembourg 000625,7820 625,782
Private donors in Italy 0000440 440
Private donors in Kenya 000097,723 97,723
Private donors in Qatar 342,9330000 342,933
Private donors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0000266 266
Private donors in the United States of America 336,548000509,936 846,484
Republic of Korea 0000800,000 800,000
Slovenia 000032,680 32,680
Switzerland 520,2910000 520,291
UNAIDS 490,0000000 490,000
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,538,4620000 1,538,462
United States of America 00011,500,00078,800,000 90,300,000
South Sudan subtotal 20,175,9710013,618,10782,481,553 116,275,632
Sudan
Brazil 102,0400000 102,040
Canada 0000393,391 393,391
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 2,037,506001,390,0500 3,427,556
Common Humanitarian Fund Sudan 1,092,255002,397,8380 3,490,093
Denmark 200,0000000 200,000
European Union 2,429,920153,8720636,7670 3,220,558
Germany 447,4270001,089,325 1,536,752
Italy 1,091,1620000 1,091,162
Japan 5,373,608002,130,0000 7,503,608
Luxembourg 0000625,782 625,782
Monaco 62,5780000 62,578
Norway 2,644,8030000 2,644,803
Private donors in Canada 2430000 243
Private donors in Italy 110000 11
Private donors in Qatar 223,5990000 223,599
Private donors in Switzerland 5,235000728 5,964
Private donors in the Netherlands 831,5370000 831,537
Private donors in the United States of America 100,0560008,536 108,592
Republic of Korea 200,0000000 200,000
Sweden 00001,204,964 1,204,964
Switzerland 2,967,1450000 2,967,145
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 5,579,1400000 5,579,140
United States of America 10,400,00000025,800,000 36,200,000
Sudan subtotal 35,788,266153,87206,554,65529,122,726 71,619,518
Uganda
Canada 0000786,782 786,782
Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 1,492,6650000 1,492,665
European Union 5,338,7580000 5,338,758
Japan 4,000,0000000 4,000,000
Private donors in Italy 69000148 217
Private donors in Japan 1,388,3530000 1,388,353
Private donors in Qatar 279,4970000 279,497
Private donors in the United States of America 203,0330000 203,033
Switzerland 520,2910000 520,291
UNAIDS 80,0000000 80,000
UNDP 71,3400000 71,340
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,833,3330000 4,833,333
United States of America 19,718,65900028,024,274 47,742,933
Uganda subtotal 37,925,99800028,811,204 66,737,202
Total 239,750,489366,4313,929,11332,414,860317,323,357 593,784,250
Note: Includes indirect support costs that are recovered from contributions to Pillars 3 and 4, supplementary budgets and the “New or additional activities – mandate-related” (NAM) Reserve.