IOM Zimbabwe has received EUR 1 million from the European
Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO)
to implement a 12-month project to support emergency and early
recovery aid to migration-affected communities and vulnerable third
country migrants in Zimbabwe.

The project aims to empower communities in south eastern
Zimbabwe by boosting the capacity of existing agencies to respond
to new cases of internal displacement and to help migrants and host
communities to access basic social services. The project will also
provide humanitarian aid to an estimated 6,000 vulnerable third
country nationals.

Zimbabwe is both a transit and destination country for mixed
flows of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants fleeing conflict,
human rights abuses and famine. Most come from East Africa, the
Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region.

IOM currently helps third country nationals at the Nyamapanda
Temporary Reception Centre (NTRC) which opened in August 2011.
Between August 2011 and July 2012, the centre helped over 7,400
vulnerable third country nationals.

The centre, which is funded by the UN Central Emergency Response
Fund (CERF), Canada and Japan, provides food, water, temporary
shelter, health services and counselling, as well as transportation
to Tongogara Refugee Camp, which is located some 630 km away.

The ECHO contribution will complement existing IOM programmes
and will strengthen IOM’s capacity to respond to the emerging
and unmet humanitarian needs of migration-affected populations and
vulnerable migrants in Zimbabwe. 

For more information, please contact

Knowledge Mareyanadzo

IOM Zimbabwe

Tel: + 263 4 33 50 44

Email: "mailto:kmareyanadzo@iom.int">kmareyanadzo@iom.int