Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Highlights
- 14,960
identified unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children - 86
households provided with cash grants since 1st January 2015 - 1,288,598
NFIs distributed since January 2015 - 2,931
shelters distributed since January 2015
Population of Concern
Total of people of concern 562,357
Funding
USD 226,880,884 requested
Highlights
- UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi visited Nairobi Office and Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps for the first time as the High Commissioner for refugees. He met with refugees, host community representatives, government officials, UNHCR staff and partners.
- The Tripartite Technical Committee met in Nairobi on June 25 and came up with the joint communiqué for voluntary return and sustainable repatriation of Somali refugees: http://bit.ly/28VOfDF
- In June, UNHCR inactivated refugees and asylum seekers who have not collected food rations or accessed other protection assistance in Kakuma for a long period of time, as it may be assumed that they are no longer present in the camps. As a result, the statistics for the Kakuma Refugee Camp population has decreased from 192,218 as at the end of May 2016, to the current figure of 156,923 at the end of June 2016. UNHCR will carry out a verification exercise in the near future to confirm the population of the camp and will report the updated figures as soon as possible.
- On 14th June, UNHCR and partners organized a Market day in Dadaab as part of World Refugee Day commemoration themed “self-reliance/livelihoods, including the integration and enhancement of the economies of refugees and host communities”.
- World Refugee Day, 20th June was marked in Dadaab, Kakuma and Nairobi jointly with refugees, Government representatives, host community, donors, partner agencies and UNHCR Staff.
- On 16th June, the Day of the African Child was celebrated in the Dadaab, Kakuma and Nairobi.
- ECHO mission visited Kakuma to check on the ECHO funded projects. The mission visited the Kalobeyei Settlement site and observed the relocation exercise at the reception centre, Bamba Chakula traders and met with partners.
- A support mission from UNHCR Headquarters supported the roll-out of the Global Distribution Tool (GDT) process that is to be piloted in Kakuma in July Food distribution at Food Distribution Centre 4.
- UNHCR continued to conduct border monitoring visits to Nadapal along the Kenya-South Sudan border.
- Kenya National Commission of Human Rights, alongside Kituo cha Sheria and Amnesty International, have challenged the Government’s directive which disbanded the Department of Refugee Affairs and the government’s intention to close Dadaab Refugee camp. The case has also challenged the revocation of prima facie status for Somali refugees vide Gazette Notice 3017 of 2016.
- Protection Delivery Unit facilitated travel to Geneva for four refugee youth to participate in the NGO annual Global Refugee Youth Consultations.