---
title: "NRC in Eritrea"
description: "NRC has been active in Eritrea, providing skills training and hope to youth."
url: "https://www.nrc.no/countries/africa/nrc-in-eritrea"
language: "en"
published: "2017-05-04T09:34:24Z"
modified: "2025-05-07T07:55:52Z"
---

Photo: Melchizedek Malile/NRC

# NRC in Eritrea

[Eritrea](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=52)

NRC has been active in Eritrea, providing skills training and hope to youth.

## Humanitarian overview

The Covid-19 pandemic put an effective stop to the basic skills training part of the programme in 2020 and 2021, and it continued to have an impact on the programme in 2022. Some Covid-19 related prevention restrictions were kept in place well into 2022.

Although the reopening of primary and secondary schools in Eritrea happened already mid-2021, after one year of closure, the technical and vocational training institutions previously supported by NRC struggled to resume their activities.

Programme activities with a new partner, the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers (NCEW), resumed gradually in August/September of 2022 with a limited project that was completed in mid-2023.

## NRC's operation

Currently there are no activities or projects ongoing in Eritrea. The latest project reached more than 18,000 people through education (basic skills training), food security and livelihoods and WASH activities, implemented by NRC’s partner organisation NCEW.

Basic vocational skills training focused on five different locations – both rural and urban: Tokombiya, Barentu, Keren, Massawa and Asmara, and the livelihoods and food security component of the programme was concentrated to Tokombiya and Keren.

With new funding, NRC plans to continue to support the basic skills training efforts and livelihoods support to women through NCEW to increase opportunities for jobs, improved self-reliance and sustainable livelihoods.

### About NRC in Eritrea

Established

2013

International staff

0

Country office

Asmara

National staff

0

### Latest news

## [Thousands of families reunited one month after Ethiopia–Eritrea border reopens](https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/october/ethiopia---eritrea)

10. Oct 2018

## [My dream](https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2018/eden)

06. Sep 2018

## [Escaping a life in poverty](https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/july/escaping-a-life-in-poverty)

12. Jul 2018

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### Reports

## [NRC Eastern Africa and Yemen Annual report 2016](https://www.nrc.no/resources/annual-reports/nrc-eastern-africa-and-yemen-annual-report-2016)

04. Jul 2017

## [NRC Horn of Africa Annual report 2015](https://www.nrc.no/resources/annual-reports/nrc-horn-of-africa-annual-report-2015)

20. Jun 2016

## [NRC Horn of Africa Annual report 2014](https://www.nrc.no/resources/annual-reports/nrc-horn-of-africa-annual-report-2014)

15. Jun 2015

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