Project profile — Nepal - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2011

• Nepal (100.00%)

• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

April 2011- In the late 1980s and early 1990s, tens of thousands of ethnic Nepalese were expelled from Bhutan. Most of these refugees settled in camps in eastern Nepal. On 22 March 2011, fires in two Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal left over 5,000 refugees homeless and in need of urgent assistance. CIDA’s contribution is helping the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to meet the urgent needs of the affected Bhutanese refugees by rebuilding shelter, water and sanitation facilities in the refugee camps, and by providing a small cash grant to each affected refugee household to enable them to replace possessions lost in the fires. Since one of the camps was already scheduled to close before the fire, CIDA’s support is also helping UNHCR cover the costs associated with moving the refugees to new locations, and decommissioning the camp in an environmentally responsible manner.

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