Projects funded under the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

AFRICA

Stabilizing refugee host communities  - Northwestern Tanzania

Implementing Agencies
UNDP, UNICEF, WFP, UNIDO, FAO and UNHCR.

Collaborating Partners
Community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, local government authorities.

Objective
This project seeks to empower and support communities hosting refugees in Northwestern Tanzania, the six interconnected components of the project are:

(i) Strengthening community security, preparedness and response mechanisms of local government.
(ii) Reduction of threats to security caused by illicit circulation of small arms and light weapons.
(iii) Improving food security of peasant farmers through reduction of post-harvest losses.
(iv) Providing complementary basic education and HIV/AIDS awareness to vulnerable groups.
(v) Reducing threats to the security of health of women and children through protection of environmental assets, as well as improved water supply and sanitation.
(vi) Consolidate UN efforts throughout the region to support refugee repatriation and coordinate assistance for both refugees and host communities.

Beneficiaries
The principal stakeholders and beneficiaries are the people and communities in the Kagera and Kigoma districts of Northwestern Tanzania. Institutions that form the basis of social capital for enhancing human capabilities for recovery are also targeted.

Activities
The project benefits women, men and children from vulnerable poor households by:

  • Strengthening community security by reducing illicit small arms circulation and supporting local authorities and community security initiatives.
  • Improving food security and securing livelihoods through agricultural input and training.
  • Combining complementary basic education and AIDS awareness initiatives aimed at children between 8 and 18 years old.
  • Providing support for microcredit schemes.
  • Rehabilitating water and sanitation infrastructures.
  • Supporting environmental health efforts to control malaria mosquito breeding sites.

Outputs (including distinctive aspects of the project)

  • An estimated 15,000 families are benefiting from support towards food security, through agricultural inputs and training.
  • The project's component on illicit small arms reduction has benefited communities in the various districts: 1,863 rifles, pistols and submachine guns have been collected in the first three months of the project in Kigoma alone.
  • Assistance has been given to local government to undertake systematic vulnerability risk assessments to increase preparedness to sudden disruptions to the human security situation.

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