Promoting Livelihood and Durable Solution in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia
ILO partnered with UNHCR to implement a two year project entitled “Promoting Livelihood and Durable Solution in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia”. The project aims to contribute to the promotion of sustainable livelihoods of refugees and hosting communities in the Dollo Ado area of South Eastern Ethiopia, a target population of around 100,000 persons.
Project details
Duration
2 January 2012 - 31 December 2014
Reference
ETH/12/03/HCR
Location
Dolo Ado, Ethiopia
The main national stakeholder involved in this project is the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA), which oversees all matters related to refugee assistance, including host-community support. Other stakeholders include the Regional and Woreda level authorities responsible for the Dolo Ado Area.
This project fits within a wider UNHCR programme of assistance for refugees and hosting communities in the area, which covers the basic needs of refugees, but also ensures protection and seeks to promote livelihoods and environmental sustainability early on. Through this project, ILO will act as UNHCR’s lead partner in the livelihoods sector. The project will promote wage and self-employment within the camps and in the surrounding areas, thus also promoting sustainable and decent livelihoods for the host communities. By facilitating economic exchanges and collaboration between hosts and refugees, the project will also contribute to improve social cohesion in the area. The overall objective of the wider programme is therefore to provide humanitarian assistance to cover basic needs but also to “graduate” refugees from assistance dependency.
The project targeted some 50,000 Somali refugees; located in the camps of Hilaweyn and Kobe and promotes wage and self-employment within the camps and in the surrounding areas besides supporting sustainable and decent livelihoods for the host communities. By facilitating economic exchanges and collaboration between hosts and refugees, the project will also contribute to improve social cohesion in the area.
This project fits within a wider UNHCR programme of assistance for refugees and hosting communities in the area, which covers the basic needs of refugees, but also ensures protection and seeks to promote livelihoods and environmental sustainability early on. Through this project, ILO will act as UNHCR’s lead partner in the livelihoods sector. The project will promote wage and self-employment within the camps and in the surrounding areas, thus also promoting sustainable and decent livelihoods for the host communities. By facilitating economic exchanges and collaboration between hosts and refugees, the project will also contribute to improve social cohesion in the area. The overall objective of the wider programme is therefore to provide humanitarian assistance to cover basic needs but also to “graduate” refugees from assistance dependency.
The project targeted some 50,000 Somali refugees; located in the camps of Hilaweyn and Kobe and promotes wage and self-employment within the camps and in the surrounding areas besides supporting sustainable and decent livelihoods for the host communities. By facilitating economic exchanges and collaboration between hosts and refugees, the project will also contribute to improve social cohesion in the area.