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The Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) planning process for 2016 is underway. The ‘drafting committee’ made up of regional and countrylevel representatives from UN and NGO partners met in August to develop guidance and templates that could be used in full by countries, adapted, or not used at all depending on the country planning context. Workshops for 3RP inter-sector and sector coordinators from each country took place on 31 August and 1 September. The 2016 3RP plan is expected to be released by early December 2015.
On 19 August, World Humanitarian Day was commemorated by organizing various programmes and activities in the region to honour the work of humanitarians, commemorate those who have lost their lives and those who continue to risk their lives to serve the humanitarian cause. In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly designated the day in honour of the 22 colleagues, including former top UNHCR official Sergio Vieira de Mello, who lost their lives in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad five years earlier. World Humanitarian Day is also an opportunity to celebrate the spirit that inspires humanitarian work around the globe.