Tanzania: Funding Crisis Engulfs Refugee Services in Tz

Under-funding for social-economic projects in refugee camps, through the Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan (BRRRP), remains a challenge that UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies have to grapple with as they seek to raise living standards for refugees.

At least $217.3 million (Sh450 billion) was set to be disbursed by UN state members for regional protection and humanitarian needs of an anticipated 534,000 Burundian refugees by 31 December 2017 across four major countries of asylum: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, says Ms Chansa Kapaya, the UNHCR representative in Tanzania.

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