Greater support in countries of first asylum needed to stem refugee outflows
UNHCR notes that, despite urgent need for funds to handle Syria crisis, action plan remains hugely underfunded.
GENEVA, Aug 26 (UNHCR) - To help prevent more people from Syria fleeing into Europe, the UN refugee agency has repeated calls to increase and improve essential support in the countries of first asylum, such as Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey which are now home to more than four million refugees.
However, UNHCR noted that despite the urgent need for funds the Syria situation Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) remained under-funded, with just 33 per cent of the target figure currently met.
Beyond the European Union's immediate borders, and in the region surrounding Syria the number of refugees has continued to rise following new registrations in Turkey and now stands at 4,089,023 people. Many of these people, their savings long gone, are now living in abject poverty.
The net increase in numbers has come about even with recent inactivation of around 58,000 people from Lebanon's refugee database.
Across the Syria region, UNHCR conducts regular verification exercises to update information about registered Syrian refugees, review their needs, and inactivate the files of those deemed to be no longer present in the country of asylum, after several attempts have been made to contact them.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon, like elsewhere in the region, are facing increasing hardship. After more than four years of crisis, their savings and resources have long been depleted.
The preliminary findings of a recent UN inter-agency vulnerability study found 70 per cent of Syrian refugee households in Lebanon live below the national poverty line of US$3.84 per person per day - up from 50 per cent in 2014.
The same study found an increase in the number of refugees who do not have enough food and are therefore adopting harmful behaviours to cope, including buying food on credit, withdrawing children from school and begging, which has increased 30 per cent since last year.
"A similar picture is emerging in Jordan, where a recent vulnerability assessment found more than 85 per cent of Syrians were living below the national poverty line of US$ 3.2 per day," a UNHCR spokesperson said.
According to recent figures, the 4,089,023 Syrian refugees in host countries neighbouring Syria includes 1,113,941 in Lebanon, 629,245 in Jordan, 250,408 in Iraq, 132,375 in Egypt, and 1,938,999 in Turkey where registration is carried out by Turkish authorities. In addition, some 24,000 Syrian refugees are registered in other countries in North Africa.
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The State of The World's Refugees 1995: In Search of Solutions - Annexes
1 Jan 1995 ... ... 1995 Location Number in camps Number not in camps Total Jordan 240,742 832,089 1,072,561 West Bank 125,752 3533,271 479,023 Gaza 332,397 272,983 603,380 Lebanon 170,850 603,380 328,176 Syria 89,636 ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2015, 15th edition
Sep 2017 ... ... Myanmar 25 - - - - 1 2 451,089 25,265 938,000 - 1,414,357 Namibia 1,737 - 1,737 1,547 1,112 21 - - - ... - 35,332 7,383 116 328 220,002 545 2,700 - 259,023 Sierra Leone 760 - 760 604 17 - - - - - 777 ...... -
UNHCR Emergency response appeal to the situation in the Eastern DRC -- September 2012
17 Sep 2012 ... ... support 9,967,828 604,500 10,572,328 Subtotal 26,098,774 1,023,000 27,121,774 7 per cent support costs 478,485 478,485 Total 150,720,089 7,313,985 158,034,074 * Does not include additional ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2012: Statistical Annexes
10 Dec 2013 ... ... 690 34 724 724 345 98 - - 2,886 19,970 24,023 Cuba 371 - 371 276 3 - - - - - 374 Curaçao 14 - ... - 1,238,475 Namibia 1,806 - 1,806 1,806 1,089 - - - - - 2,895 Nauru - - - - 379 - - - - - 379 ...... -
Update on budgets and funding for 2013 and 2014
28 Feb 2014 ... ... 14 4,744,096 - 210,023 6,076 5,844,548 Various/unknow n - - - - - - - - - - - Total 10,478,950 628,792 11,107,742 7,962,549 987,455 189,270 20,837,373 688,196 3,492,089 1,386,061 38,688,186 UN ...... -
UNHCR Global Report 2000 - Nepal
1 Jun 2001 ... ... Protection, Monitoring and Co-ordination 642,592 2,671 Community Services 82,522 15,089 Crop ... Agencies) 239,511 61,276 Sanitation 55,337 48,023 Shelter / Other Infrastructure 192,270 50,295 ...... -
Voluntary Funds Administered by the UNHCR: Accounts for the year 2002
21 Aug 2003 ... ... 940 12 774 606 2 023 026 14 797 632 467 308 UGANDA 16 469 530 580 261 17 049 791 14 264 052 823 647 15 087 699 1 962 092 East and Horn of Africa Total 111 186 372 201 717 111 388 089 92 072 099 9 840 ...... -
Selected country indicators 2000 (total, per 1,000 inhabitants and per 1 mln. GDP)
21 Jan 2001 ... Cambodia 20 43,370 27 11,167.7 3,089 0.00 3.88 0.00 0.01 14.04 0.01 Cameroon 49,200 49,950 1,588 ... USD) end-1999 end-1999 in 1999 end-1999 end-1999 in 1999 Costa Rica 22,900 22,930 270 4,023.4 10,252 ...... -
Asylum levels and trends in industrialized countries, 2004
1 Mar 2005 ... ... 3,271 3,089 6,360 -6% 0.7 0.8 40 33 Belarus 3,641 2,616 6,257 -28% 0.8 0.7 36 38 Indonesia 4,307 1,828 6,135 -58% 0.9 0.5 30 40 Other 88,501 73,072 161,573 -17% 18.9 19.9 Total 467,850 368,023 835,873 ......