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UNHCR Central African Republic Factsheet - January 2014

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Operational Highlights

  • UNHCR Response to the L3 Emergency: UNHCR deployed an emergency team of 25 international staff, including senior staff to coordinate the Protection, Shelter/NFI and Camp Coordination/Camp Management Clusters. In terms of logistic capacity, UNHCR has brought 15 vehicles including 5 trucks to transport NFIs and dispatch these throughout the country. UNHCR has in place the means to cover around 44% of the NFI needs estimated in the Strategic Response Plan.

  • Increasing Presence in CAR: UNHCR continues to reinforce its presence throughout CAR, particularly in the northwest in the town of Bossangoa where ten staff have been deployed to underpin UNHCR’s office protection and response capacity. UNHCR is also present in Zémio, and Paoua, and is reopening its offices in Kaga-Bandoro and Bambari. Roving teams are extending protection via presence and covering the northwest and southwest, in particular the towns of Boccaranga, Bouar, Bozoum, Batalimo and M’Baiki.

  • Accompanying and monitoring returns: The Protection and CCCM Clusters continue to monitor return intentions in Bangui and in the northwest.
    A task force including UN agencies and NGOs has been set up to initiate humanitarian activities to reinforce conditions for return. A key intervention is the construction of “Safe Havens” to shelter people in their own neighborhood during incidents of insecurity. A pilot project is currently under construction in the 5th Arrondissement.

  • Joint NFI and Food Distribution: Between 7 - 30 January, UNHCR together with COOPI and WFP, have assisted more than 14,700 households comprised of an estimated 73,000 at the M’Poko Airport Site and another 19,500 households have been assisted in 15 urban IDP sites (12 in Bangui and 3 in Bossangoa) as well as in villages in the Bossongoa-Bouca axis.