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A total of USD 841.4 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2018, including:
         - 2.6 million for Central African Republic
         - 26.4 million for the DRC
         - 173.1 million for Ethiopia
         - 44 million for Kenya
         - 155.3 million for South Sudan
         - 139.3 million for Sudan
         - 295.5 million for Uganda

         - 2.8 million for HQ & Regional Coordination

* This total includes support costs (7%)

In the fastest growing refugee exodus that the world has witnessed in decades, some 671,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine State in less than six months starting in August 2017.

The situation evolving in Venezuela, a country that has traditionally been a generous host to thousands of refugees and third country nationals from the region and other parts of the world, has led to large outflows of its citizens and other residents into the region and beyond. Whilst it is evident not all the Venezuelans leaving their country are prompted to do so for refugee-related reasons, it is becoming increasingly clear that a significant number are indeed in need of international protection.

Refugees and migrants continue to move in large numbers from Sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa and across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

Libya remains the main point of departure for the majority of refugees and migrants from Africa hoping to reach Europe.

While on the move, refugees and migrants face intolerably high risks of grave human rights violations and death.

UNHCR is rolling out a three-pronged cross-regional strategy with broad objectives and selected activities in the countries of origin and transit in Sub-Saharan
Africa, and countries in North Africa and Europe.

A total of USD  368.7 million* is requested for the period January ‐ December 2018, including:
          - USD 27.7 million for Angola
          - USD 22.7 million for Burundi
          - USD 7.3 million for Republic of the Congo
          - USD 78.6 million for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
          - USD 39.2 million for the Rwanda
          - USD 118.3 million for the Uganda
          - USD 34.4 million for the The United Republic of Tanzania
          - USD 32 million for the Zambia
          - USD 3.5 million for the South Africa Regional Office

* This total includes support costs (7 per cent) 

UNHCR is appealing for USD 83.7 million in additional requirements for the period September 2017 – February 2018, including USD 57.3 million for 2017 and USD 26.4 million for 2018.
-       USD 7,7 million for Protection
-       USD 43.5 million for Basic needs and services
-       USD 5 million for Community Empowerment
-       USD 10.5 million for Establishment and management of camps and infrastructure
-       USD 9 million for Logistics and airlifts
-       USD 2.6 million for Emergency staff deployment
 

USD 460.4 million* requested for Syria for the period August ‐ December 2017, including 156.2 million in additional requirements:
-         USD 14.8 million for Favourable protection environment
-         USD 4.1 million for Fair protection processes and documentation
-         USD 8.5 million for Security from violence/exploitation
-         USD 111 million for Basic needs and services
-         USD 1.8 million for Durable solutions
-         USD 16 million for Community empowerment and self-reliance
* These totals include 7% support costs for additional requirements

A total of $179.5 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
         - $73.9 million for Nigeria
         - $38.7 million for the Cameroon
         - $14.6 million for Chad
         - $48.5 million for Niger
         - $0.2 million for regional and global activities

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes support costs (7%)

With an estimated 461,434 people of concern by the end of 2017, UNHCR is appealing for $421.2 million* for January to December 2017.This Appeal complements activities in a range of related processes and other appeals, with all of the planned activities in accordance with the multi-stakeholder, ‘whole-of-society’ approach endorsed in the New York Declaration.

Between January and June 2017, 2,171 refugees and migrants died or went missing in the central Mediterranean, many of them trying to cross from Libya to Italy.
Movements of refugees and migrants from Libya to Europe are increasing. Instability in Libya is hindering protection and creating an environment plagued with human rights abuses.
The scale of movements at the cross‐regional level highlights the specific risks refugees and migrants encounter while en route to Libya, and then onto Europe.
Given the specificities of the migration flows, and the context in Libya, the humanitarian response must be both flexible and comprehensive.

The proposed strategy is three pronged, with broad objectives and selected activities in countries of origin and or transit in sub-Saharan Africa, in North Africa, and in destination countries in Europe. In sub-Saharan Africa, UNHCR will target countries of asylum, origin and transit to mitigate identified protection risks along routes. Interventions will include raising awareness of risks and improving communication with communities likely to travel towards Libya. In North Africa, UNHCR will work to prevent refoulement; improve access to territory and asylum; conduct awareness raising and advocacy on the dangers of irregular migration; and enhance the overall protection space. In Europe, UNHCR will continue supporting, complementing and building existing government capacities to ensure effective and safe access to asylum, protection services and solutions for people of concern, with particular attention to those with specific needs and vulnerabilities.

* All dollar signs denote US dollars. This total includes regional and global activities, and support costs (7 per cent).

A total of USD  102.5 million* is requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
          - USD 34.1 million for Angola
          - USD 65.8 million for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
          - USD 0.2 million for Regional and Global 

* This total includes support costs (7 per cent) 

USD 75.5 million* requested for Libya for the period January ‐ December 2017, including 48 million in additional requirements:

         - USD 3.3 million for Favourable protection environment
         - USD 8.9 million for Fair protection processes and documentation
         - USD 8.4 million for Security from violence/exploitation
         - USD 40.3 million for Basic needs and services
         - USD 1.8 million for Durable solutions
         - USD 0.9 million for Community empowerment and self-reliance
         - USD 1 million for Leadership, coordination and partnerships
         - USD 7.9 million for Logistics and operations support

* These totals include 7% support costs for additional requirements

A total of $883.5 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
         - $9.8 million for CAR
         - $30.3 million for the DRC
         - $157.7 million for Ethiopia
         - $40.5 million for Kenya
         - $171.7 million for South Sudan
         - $99.3 million for Sudan
         - $347.4 million for Uganda

         - $0.7 million for HQ & Regional Coordination

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes support costs (7%)

A total of USD  250 million* is requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
          - USD 12.2 million for Burundi
          - USD 22 million for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
          - USD 58 million for Rwanda
          - USD 56 million for Uganda
          - USD 98.3 million for the United Republic of Tanzania
 

* This total includes Zambia operation, regional activities and support costs (7 per cent) 

A total of USD 487.75 million* is needed in financial requirements for the Somalia situation for January to December 2017:

         - USD 20 million for Djibouti
         - USD 101 million for Ethiopia
         - USD 189 million for Kenya
         - USD 109 million for Somalia
         - USD 63 million for Yemen
 

* This total includes regional and global activities, and support costs (7 per cent).

A total of $170 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
         - $65 million for Nigeria
         - $38.7 million for the Cameroon
         - $14.6 million for Chad
         - $48.5 million for Niger
 

         - $216,000 for HQ & Regional Coordination

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes support costs (7%)

A total of $781.8 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2017, including:
         - $9.8 million for CAR
         - $30.3 million for the DRC
         - $157.7 million for Ethiopia
         - $40.5 million for Kenya
         - $171.7 million for South Sudan
         - $68 million for Sudan
         - $283.8 million for Uganda

         - $476,251 for HQ & Regional Coordination

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes support costs (7%)

UNHCR is urgently appealing for $140.7 million* in financial requirements until the end of the year to support the repatriation of Afghans from Pakistan. Taking into account $40.5 million re-prioritized from within the existing budgets, this brings total requrements for this revised supplementary appeal to $181.2 million 

         - $130 million for Afghanistan
         - $10.7 million for Pakistan

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes 7% support costs.

USD 40 million* in financial requirements for Nigeria for the period August ‐ December 2016, including 12.3 million in additional requirements for August - December 2016 in Nigeria**:

         - USD 3.6 million for Coordination/partnership
         - USD 0.8 million for Self-reliance
         - USD 8 million for Security from violence/exploitation
         - USD 6.9 million for Protection
         - USD 16.3 million for Basic needs/services
         - USD 3.5 million for Logistics/operational support
         - USD 0.06 million for HQ/regional coordination

* These totals include 7% support costs for additional requirements
** All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars

$USD 104.7 million* in financial requirements is needed until the end of the year to support the repatriation of Afghans from Pakistan, including $64.2 million in supplementary requirements ($53.5 for Afghanistan and $10.7 for Pakistan, including support costs):

         - USD 94 million for Afghanistan
         - USD 10.7 million for Pakistan

* All dollar signs in this document denote United States dollars. This total includes 7% support costs.

Since December 2013, some 855,800 South Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries, including the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. In addition to this outflow, a further 120,000 South Sudanese who never returned after the end of the 20-year civil war remain refugees in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, as do an estimated 350,000 South Sudanese who remained in Sudan after South  Sudan’s independence in 2011.
 
Population outflows have continued despite the signing in August 2015 of the agreement brokered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, and the subsequent formation at the end of May 2016 of the Transitional Government of National Unity in South Sudan. These outflows resulted in a revision of the South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) and the creation of a UNHCR Supplementary Appeal for the South Sudan Situation in July 2016.
 
Shortly after the finalisation of this Supplementary Appeal, however, renewed fighting in Juba, South Sudan triggered another mass outflow of South Sudanese people. Since 7 July, over 120,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries, mostly to Uganda. This influx has exceeded Uganda’s end of year planning figure of potential refugees from South Sudan. The significant population upsurge in Uganda of over 70,000 South Sudanese refugees since the beginning of July and increase in their associated humanitarian needs has prompted a second revision of the Uganda country chapter of the 2016 South Sudan Regional RRP and the UNHCR Supplementary Appeal in August 2016. With this second revision, the overall end of year population planning figure for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda has risen from 271,000 to 350,000 people, with the country currently hosting over 300,000 South Sudanese.

Throughout 2015, increasing numbers of people risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety and protection in Europe. By early January 2016, more than 1 million refugees and migrants had crossed the Mediterranean, including more than 850,000 who arrived in Greece from Turkey. From January to July 2016 some 260,000 people had arrived in Southern Europe. The majority originate from countries affected by conflict, with 48 per cent of those who arrived in Greece originating from the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria), 25 per cent from Afghanistan, and 15 per cent from Iraq.

A total of USD 484.8 million* in financial requirements is requested for the period January ‐ December 2016, including 115.4 million* in additional requirements for July - December 2016 in Kenya and Somalia:

         - USD 20 million for Djibouti**
         - USD 71.3 million for Ethiopia**
         - USD 236.9 million for Kenya
         - USD 148.8 million for Somalia

* These totals include regional activities and support costs (7%) for additional requirements.
** No additional requirements are requested in response to the Somalia Situation in Djibouti and Ethiopia.

A total of USD  180.6 million* requested for the period January ‐ December 2016, including:
          - USD 15.5 million for Burundi
          - USD 8.1 million for the DRC
          - USD 60 million for Rwanda
          - USD 70 million for Tanzania
          - USD 14.3 million for Uganda
          - USD 0.25 million for Zambia 

* This total includes regional activities and support costs (7%) 

In order to scale up resettlement and solutions initiatives, UNHCR has established a supplementary budget totalling USD 39.2 million in additional requirements in 2016, including support costs.

Read the entire Supplementary Appeal here.