Central African Republic

A multi sector-based accompaniment towards integration and progressive self-sufficiency for Sudanese refugees on the new spot of Pladama Ouaka

 

The team of Triangle G H, already operating in the neighbouring Vakaga prefecture, carried out a joint assessment together with the UNHCR and IMC* immediately upon the arrival of the refugees in 2007. A camp had then been set up by those same actors in order to provide for the bare necessities of the refugee population. Thanks to the support of the UNHCR, but also of the European Commission and UNICEF, Triangle G H and IMC have been able to ensure over the past three years the basic services for the refugees (access to healthcare, to drinking water and to sanitation facilities) and to develop a multi sector-based humanitarian plan fostering the integration of the refugees within their new environment.

When the decision was made to relocate the camp in a safer area, it sounded obvious to Triangle G H to keep supporting the refugee population. Thus, the preparation of the relocation of the refugees, coordinated by the UNHCR, was set up in Sam Ouandja and on the new spot of Pladam Ouaka.

The main objective of this mission is to accompany the settlement and the progressive evolution towards self-sufficiency of the refugees within this new environment focusing on five points:

• Food self-sufficiency through the implementation of a follow-up survey system on market prices and products availability, the distribution of food-producing and market gardening seeds and the strengthening of the farmers capacities;
  
  
• Supply of sufficient drinking water in order to reduce the number of people affected by diarrheic diseases, through the construction, the maintenance and the improvement of a gravity system of water conveyance, and the creation or strengthening of the management capacities of the WPMC (Water Points Management Committees);        
  
  
• Improvement of hygiene conditions through the building of family and public toilet units, waste control, and the implementation of adequate awareness campaigns via the strengthening of Hygiene Promoters’  capacities;
  
  
• Increase in the percentage of refugee children in full-time education through the construction of facilities for the children attending nursery and primary school, the training and back-up of the teachers who have not been given tenure, the supply of school and teaching equipment and the adaptation of the school programme to Sudanese and Central African educative systems 
  
  
• Economic self-sufficiency through a socio-economic assessment, a training to implement income generating activities and the support to individual initiatives.

This programme targets 1 800 beneficiaries.

* International Medical Corps