UNHCR Zambia Fact Sheet
Zambia
Operation: Zambia
Location
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Key Figures
| 2018 planning figures | |
| 100% | of people of concern will have access to primary health care |
| 95% | or more, of deliveries in the two settlements will be attended by trained midwives |
| 90% | of households will not use harmful coping strategies with regard to food security |
| 60% | of people of concern will receive antiretroviral therapy |
| 6,000 | Congolese cases will be processed for local integration, subject to the approval of the Government |
| 2016 year-end results | |
| 100% | of PoCs had access to primary health care |
| 100% | of school-aged children had access to primary education |
| 1,340 | refugees were submitted for resettlement and 714 departed for resettlement |
| 1,133 | former Angolan refugees received residence permits |
| 600 | vulnerable families received shelter support |
People of Concern
10%
Increase in
2016
2016
| 2016 | 57,209 |
| 2015 | 52,179 |
| 2014 | 50,216 |
[["Refugees",29350],["Asylum-seekers",3319],["Others of concern",24540]]
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2017
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The 2017 Year-End Report will be available shortly.
Working environment
Zambia has a long history of providing land, security and access to public primary health and education services to refugees. Nevertheless, the current encampment policy forces large numbers of refugees to relocate irregularly to urban areas in search of economic opportunities, putting them at risk of exploitation and detention.Funding shortages will negatively impact on access to education and secondary health care, as well as the targeted assistance to vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers. The implementation of the mixed migration strategies, as well as the pilot detention strategy will also be affected.
Key priorities
In 2017 the UNHCR operation in Zambia will focus on:• pursuing legal aspects of the local integration of former Angolan and Rwandan refugees;
• advocating to extend local integration to protracted Congolese and Burundian refugees;
• pursuing resettlement to a third country for some 1,300 refugees with special protection needs;
• strengthening child protection activities by enhancing the capacity of partners to conduct best interest determination and to identify solutions for unaccompanied and separated children;
• further exploring and implementing alternatives to detention;
• continuing the prevention of SGBV through community sensitization;
• supporting the Government to fulfil its pledge to accede to the 1961 Statelessness Convention.
