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“Countries in the region have done an excellent job welcoming refugees and migrants. They must continue implementing and improving access to asylum procedures, migratory regularization, and documentation initiatives, but their capacities are stretched thin. A significant, predictable and long-term financial effort is needed to ensure Venezuelans’ effective access to essential services, formal employment, health, and education, for them to fully integrate and contribute to countries hosting them.” Eduardo Stein, Joint Special Representative of UNHCR and IOM for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants.
This update to the Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP) accompanies and supersedes the originally planned response for 2024 presented in the multi-year RMRP 2023-2024. It is the result of consultations led by the Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for the Response for Venezuelans (R4V) with partner organizations, governments, donors, refugees and migrants and host communities throughout the region, to adjust the response for the more than 4 million refugees and migrants identified as having unmet humanitarian, protection and integration needs through the most recent Refugee and Migrant Needs Analysis (RMNA) conducted in 2023. By end-2024, it is projected that there will be some 6.82 million refugees and migrants from Venezuela in-destination in the LAC region, including some 4.71 million people in-need (PiN) of assistance according to the updated RMRP 2024. To support 2.93 million people targeted to receive assistance, the 2024 RMRP update brings together 248 appealing partners, requesting 1.59 billion USD to carry out over 14,000 activities with refugees and migrants and host communities in 17 countries (including some 2.2 million refugees and migrants in-destination targeted to receive assistance; 277,800 refugees and migrants engaging in pendular movements; 66,100 Colombian returnees; 387,200 members of affected host communities; and 624,400 refugees and migrants in-transit1). More than 1 in 4 appealing partners in the updated RMRP 2024 are refugee- and migrant-led organizations: the growth in their participation in the response plan (an increase of 41 per cent, up to in 2024, from 46 in 2023) is the result of proactive outreach from the R4V Platform and is a concrete manifestation of R4V’s commitment to localization.
1 Given that refugees and migrants in-transit pass through multiple countries, it is likely for them to be assisted in more than one country. To avoid double-counting of individuals, the regional target for in-transit assistance is considered as the number of times people are assisted by R4V partners.