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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Update on programme budgets and funding for 2006 and projections for 2007
19 Jun 2006 ... ... 212 - - - 70,000 - 310,913 Syrian Arab Rep. 26,089 1,898 19 - - 300,000 - 328,006 Uzbekistan 43,950 ... (channelled through Espana con ACNUR): $1,023,083 Mexico 1,748 Latvia Benin 5,000 Singapore ...... -
Asylum levels and trends in industrialized countries, second quarter 2007
21 Sep 2007 ... ... 62,091 52,671 44,846 49,769 58,994 56,414 51,089 -19% 10% -11% -1% Non-Europe (5) 19,199 16,941 ... -52% 11% Bangladesh 887 1,125 1,270 1,235 1,023 976 1,072 3,361 2,434 1,254 -1% 84% 83% -17% Dem. ...... -
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (covering the period 1 January 1985 to 31 March 1986)
1 Aug 1986 ... ... Monaco 1 569 1 569 7 387 870 2 357 219 9 145 089 Netherlands 4 423 142 4 191 142 226 000 81 232- ... Sweden 10 038 123 6 928 105 3 110 018 4 378 996 5 789 023 la 168 019 ~witzerland 4 141 402 3 112 043 ...... -
UNHCR Global Trends 2011
18 Jun 2012 ... ... - 886,914 Iraq 35,189 - 35,189 35,189 4,196 67,089 1,332,382 193,610 120,000 - 1,752,466 Ireland ... 74,598 - 74,598 - 10,420 - - - 2,005 - 87,023 New Zealand 1,934 - 1,934 - 240 - - - - - 2,174 ...... Attachments: 2011 Global Trends Annex Tables (.zip) -
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, 2014
26 Mar 2015 ... ... 18,952 30% 1.7 1.5 1.6 15 16 georgia 8,979 8,089 17,068 -10% 1.9 1.1 1.4 13 17 Bosnia and ... 0.9 2.0 1.5 27 14 Bangladesh 7,748 10,275 18,023 33% 2.0 1.8 1.9 14 15 Islamic Rep. of Iran ...... Attachments: Asylum trends 2014 - annex tables (.zip) -
The State of the World's Refugees 2006 - Human displacement in the new millennium - Annexes
19 Apr 2006 ... ... TfYR Macedonia 12,883 13,041 12,747 1,939 2,089 2,176 12,197 8,107 5,982 5,106 Thailand 211 284 272 ... Central African Rep. Total 31,069 Chad Cameroon 39,290 Chad Sudan 5,023 Chad Nigeria 3,195 Chad ...... -
UNHCR Global Trends 2015
20 Jun 2016 ... ... - - - - - 20,447 Myanmar 25 - - - - 1 2 451,089 25,265 938,000 - 1,414,357 Namibia 1,737 - 1,737 ... - 35,332 7,383 116 328 220,002 545 2,700 - 259,023 Sierra Leone 760 - 760 604 17 - - - - - 777 ...... Attachments: 2015 Global Trends Annex Tables (.zip) -
UNHCR Global Report 2001 - Sudan
1 Jun 2002 ... ... The communities themselves constructed and used 11,023 mud- stoves and 2,194 charcoal stoves, which ... Disbursements 8,350,157 2,373,788 10,723,945 (3) 1,198,093 (5) Cancellations 0 0 0 1,011,089 (5) ...... -
Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015 (Report of the Board of Auditors)
23 Aug 2016 ... ... 137 461 496 699 260 079 103 275 997 514 1 089 015 Stateless 536 1 735 4 428 1 689 8 388 8 116 ... 717 74 587 Favourable protection environment 33 023 1 593 2 956 15 952 53 524 43 253 Headquarters ......