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Overview
The Regional Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen (MRP) is a comprehensive, route-based, humanitarian and development inter-agency framework. Coordinated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the MRP responds to the persistent humanitarian and protection needs of migrants and host communities affected by different drivers of migration that include natural hazards, protracted conflict, and socioeconomic drivers such as a lack of livelihoods and increased food prices. The MRP also considers longer-term development interventions to build individual, community, and institutional resilience to shocks such as the impacts of climate change and poor economic development. The Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, and Yemen is a region of origin, transit, and destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Routes
Eastern Route
The Eastern Route runs from the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia) to the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf States) and has long been the busiest migratory corridor in the East and Horn of Africa region. Ethiopian and Somali migrants transit through Djibouti and Somalia and cross the Gulf of Aden to reach the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States via Yemen. Migration along the Eastern Route is bi-directional with not only heavy outward migration but also return movements, including non-voluntary returns from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as spontaneous returns from Yemen to the Horn of Africa among other return movements.
Southern Route
Migrants traveling along the Southern Route originate from the Horn of Africa, primarily Ethiopia and to a lesser extent Somalia, towards South Africa. Migrants along the Southern Route transit through Kenya, Tanzania, and other Southern African countries. In previous years, the MRP held a placeholder for the Southern Route in its annual documents and monitored migration patterns, root causes, routes, and migrant stocks as well as protection, risks, needs, and vulnerabilities of migrants and host communities along the Southern Route. However, the heightened needs of Southern Route migrants demonstrated in recent research as well as the number of migrants stranded along the route warrants an escalation of response. In 2024, in reflection of increased needs, as evidenced below, the MRP will include the Southern Route in order to better advocate for donor support for a coordinated response providing comprehensive support for vulnerable migrants traveling along the Southern Route. Into 2024, the MRP will begin with the inclusion of two Southern Route countries, Kenya and Tanzania, as a first step.
MRP 2024 Planning Process
The MRP is multi-year framework spanning a four-year period from 2021-2024 with annual planning cycles. Each year, the MRP produces an annual plan for the subsequent year, including key projections on the migration context along the Eastern and Southern Route, migrant needs and vulnerabilities, planned response, and funding requirements. As part of the MRP 2024 planning process, the MRP coordination unit worked with MRP partners and other stakeholders to identify, collate, and analyze recent research publications, assessment reports, datasets and other forms of publications and reports related to the Eastern and Southern route, which contribute to the secondary data review process. The Secondary Data Review builds an evidence base to inform the calculation of the MRP People in Need (PiN) for 2024 and to build a foundation for the drafting and finalization of the MRP 2024. Below you will find contextual updates, key migrant vulnerabilities and needs, as well as the identified needs of migrants for each of the Eastern and Southern Route countries for 2024.
Source link : https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/regional-migrant-response-plan-horn-africa-and-yemen-migrants-needs-overview-2024-eastern-southern-route-mrp-programme-cycle-2024
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Publish date : 2023-12-18 08:00:00
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