The additional $6.5 million will go to the UN World Food Programme for general food distributions, supplementary feeding for pregnant and lactating women and children under 2 years-old, and the treatment of malnourished children under five years-old.
Currently in Rwanda, roughly 75,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and 90,000 refugees from Burundi are living in six camps and urban areas. The political and security situations in both the DRC and Burundi continue to result in refugee flows.
Both Congolese and Burundian refugees remain highly dependent on humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs as access to land and income-generating opportunities remains limited. Absent ongoing emergency food assistance, refugees’ food security would decline precipitously.
The Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs and UN agencies are currently scaling up implementation of a Joint Strategy on Economic Inclusion of Refugees to enable more of them to become self-reliant and contribute to the economic development of their host communities.
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