With nearly 1.4 million people internally displaced and 6,000 killed, hospital shutdowns and 21 million in need of dire humanitarian assistance, international media presence is crucial.
Syria Trust works in seven governorates and runs five community centres … it provides legal assistance to internally displaced persons".
Notably, Kenya is a signatory to the Great Lakes Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (UNDP 2011).
UN Women is working with girls and women who have survived Boko Haram's violence through the "Emergency Assistance to Internally Displaced Women/Girls and Survivors of Boko Haram Terrorism Attacks in Nigeria" programme funded by the Government of Japan.
UNICEF is also working with host communities and providing assistance to internally displaced persons.
In each emergency, a lead organization should be assigned overall responsibility for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons.
Assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) is limited in several zones, especially those with difficult access due to lack of roads, military blockades or other security conditions.
Japan's generous JPY 1 billion (US$8.2 million) contribution to WFP will support life-saving food assistance to internally displaced people in Rakhine, Kachin and northern Shan states, whose livelihoods have been disrupted by conflict and violence.
In collaboration with that lead organization, UNICEF should provide leadership for the protection and assistance of internally displaced and unaccompanied children, with particular reference to preventing family separation and promoting family tracing.
Japan's generous JPY 1 billion contribution to WFP will support life-saving food assistance to internally displaced people in Rakhine, Kachin and northern Shan states, whose livelihoods have been disrupted through conflict and violence.
In Guinea, two sub-offices were quickly set up to provide assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities.
