30.6 million people displaced inside their country

Conflict and disasters displaced 30.6 million people within their own countries in 2017.

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NRC assisted nearly nine million people in 2017

27.04.2018 |

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A beneficiary carries what she bought in NRC market organized for displaced & host families in Mahagi territory.

In the picture, the woman carries a new mattress on her head and visibly a sac containing others essentials household items; she has bought in the site of assistance.

In late April and early May 2018, NRC has provided nonfood assistance to over 14,000 displaced and host families in Bunia, Mahagi and Djugu territories, Ituri province in the east of DRC.

NRC has delivered this aid through markets fair where beneficiaries have freely purchased essential household items like pots, pans, mattress, blankets, clothes, etc. Results made possible with UNICEF support via the RRMP8.

RRMP, a humanitarian approach based on a cooperation between humanitarian organisations, managed by UNICEF, was created in 2004 to ensure rapid responses to the humanitarian needs of displaced populations in DR Congo. The programme targets people who have been displaced for three months or less without any assistance.

Photo: NRC/Ephrem Chiruza. April 2018

DR Congo | 18. May 2018

Help that eases

"I can finally sleep on a mattress again. I am really relieved that I don’t have to sleep on the ground anymore," said Kawambe, one of the estimated 70,000 displaced people in DR Congo’s Ituri province who have received assistance from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is deeply concerned by the recent outbreak of violence in the regions of Mopti, in central Mali, and Ménaka, in northern Mali, which has forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

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NORCAP is the Norwegian Refugee Council’s expert deployment capacity. We aim to improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. We do this by bringing actors together and by sending experts to the UN and to national, regional and international organisations and institutions.

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