Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is the leading organization for newly arrived refugees in Lebanon. DRC assists 25 percent of the newly arrived refugees but despite the massive effort, more assistance is still needed. Only 40 percent of the refugees are reached – across the efforts from the different NGOs in the country.

Constructing market-based livelihood opportunities for refugees and host community families

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A menu of options for supporting livelihoods of refugee and host community families

I. INTRODUCTION

Executive Summary

30 percent of the refugees in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan have not received shelter. The protection team of the Danish Refugee Council is working against the clock to assess and provide solutions to the most urgent needs by the most vulnerable refugees.

"I have been sleeping outside under a tree," Samari Ibrahim says pointing to the spot she normally chooses. She is living alone in the Doro camp. "My children are all dead," she says, not knowing her own age, just aware that "I am old now."

Fuel efficient stoves produced by and distributed to refugee women in South Sudan save lifes, reduce conflicts and exhaustion of natural resources.

Fatna Baekir knows exactly how much straw, cow dung, dirt and water is needed to mix the perfect clay. She is the first refugee woman in the Yusuf Batil camp to take on a production of fuel-efficient stoves in corporation with the protection and camp management team from the Danish Refugee Council. She is also a trainer of other refugee women, who have started their own production.

The city of Myitkyina is with its different ethnicities and mixed religious beliefs the proverbial melting pot in Kachin, the northernmost state of Myanmar. Scattered around the township there are several small camps housing internally displaced people from all over the state – a state scarred by armed conflict between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and government forces.

Displaced in South Sudan suffer from aftermath of LRA violence

A new report conducted by DRC/DDG in South Sudan shows that the population is still suffering from widespread and enduring social trauma as a result of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence, even though the militant group has disappeared from the country.

Danish Refugee Council has been elected as a member of the Humanitarian Country Team in Yemen.

This membership allows for more direct influence on strategic decision-making along with other NGOs - and at a time when more than half of the population in Yemen are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.