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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UNHCR Global Report 2002 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 Jun 2003 ... ... Shelter/other infrastructure: At year’s end, 46 col- lective centres with 3,023 residents remained ... Protection, Monitoring and Co-ordination 5,536,254 66,876 Community Services 3,051,501 1,089,491 ...... -
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1 Jun 2004 ... ... Central America 4,980,892 0 4,586,025 0 (394,867) 0 South America 14,326,020 0 13,891,931 0 (434,089... Japan Association for UNHCR 645,238 645,238 Australia for UNHCR (AUL) 405,023 405,023 Breesaap B.V., ...... -
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5 Jul 2005 ... ... Total 4,935,486 3,243,323 23,936 49,536 73,568 22,423 2,934 2,422 160,283 4,772,246 3,023,114 1 ... SOM TAN 2,867 2,867 - 30 - - - - 1 2,896 2,896 SOM UGA 1,089 1,089 - 56 - - 28 - 360 757 757 SOM YEM ...... -
Biennial programme budget 2016-2017 (revised) of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
30 Aug 2016 ... ... - 3,296.8 55,273.8 Nigeria 1,821.6 - 644.5 27,023.2 29,489.3 4,997.4 - 15,120.7 26,474.1 46,592.1 ... 5,522.9 South Africa Regional Office 24,740.9 1,089.5 - - 25,830.4 24,503.5 913.7 - - 25,417.2 ...... -
UNHCR Global Report 2011 - Asia and the Pacific regional summary
1 Jun 2012 ... ... Expenditure 22,802,926 867,767 0 9,467,396 33,138,089 SOUTH-EAST ASIA Bangladesh Budget 10,321,295 ... Sweden 1,678,342 2,362,205 4,040,547 Switzerland 268,817 1,214,099 430,108 1,913,023 UN Delivering ...... -
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26 Sep 2014 ... ... 1,475 1,279 18% 3% 22% -8% China 1,145 1,180 1,089 1,136 1,085 1,201 1,273 1,175 1,237 1,186 -2% 6% .../1244 (1999)) 1,000 686 1,313 1,713 1,043 764 1,023 1,021 552 479 7% -43% -39% -50% Iraq 502 585 692 ...... -
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25 Aug 2015 ... ... Office 26,298.8 971.9 - - 27,270.7 24,740.9 1,089.5 - - 25,830.4 Zambia 19,500.0 - - - 19,500.0 ... - - 4,739.9 Brazil 6,913.1 185.7 - - 7,098.9 6,023.1 215.4 - - 6,238.5 Canada 1,630.7 53.2 - - ...... -
Biennial programme budget 2016-2017 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Advance copy)
25 Aug 2015 ... ... Office 26,298.8 971.9 - - 27,270.7 24,740.9 1,089.5 - - 25,830.4 Zambia 19,500.0 - - - 19,500.0 ... - - 4,739.9 Brazil 6,913.1 185.7 - - 7,098.9 6,023.1 215.4 - - 6,238.5 Canada 1,630.7 53.2 - - ...... -
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19 Jun 2017 ... ... 769,791 385,100 2,748,671 973,787 - 195,763 9,023,141 Middle East and North Africa 6,097,683 ... UN major regions Africa 6,079,728 85,361 6,165,089 5,126,829 704,349 166,488 11,333,466 2,565,806 - ...... Attachments: 2016 Global Trends Annex Tables (.zip)