15 April 2003
Fact Sheet: U.S. Has Given $185.8 Million to Help Displaced Afghans
(Population, Refugees, Migration Bureau issues fact sheet on Afghan
crisis) (510)
The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
(PRM) released a fact sheet April 14 detailing its efforts to help
Afghan refugees, returnees, internally displaced persons, and other
conflict victims since September 2001.
According to the fact sheet, PRM has committed or obligated a total of
$185.8 million to various international organizations (IOs) and
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red
Cross in order to "fill critical protection and assistance gaps in
Afghanistan and for Afghan refugees in neighboring countries."
The fact sheet contained charts detailing PRM's contributions to IOs
and NGOs during fiscal years 2002 and 2003. The charts give a
description of each project PRM helped to fund, the name of the
organization responsible for it, and the amount of money PRM
contributed. To view the charts, please visit
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/fs/2003/19622.htm.
Following is the text of a fact sheet released by the State
Department's PRM bureau on its response to the humanitarian crisis in
Afghanistan:
(begin fact sheet)
Fact Sheet
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Washington, DC
April 14, 2003
Response to the Afghan Crisis
Afghan refugees and conflict victims have been receiving assistance
from the United States since millions fled Afghanistan in 1978.
Afghanistan has been experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis with 3
years of drought overlaid on 20 years of conflict. With the fall of
the Taliban, and the creation of an interim administration to guide
the country toward a permanent broad-based government, Afghanistan's
future is looking brighter. However, much remains to be accomplished.
In the short term, extraordinary efforts still are necessary to
respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of the Afghan people.
In response to the crisis, the Bureau of Population, Refugees and
Migration (PRM) has provided resources to support Afghan refugees,
returnees, internally displaced persons, and other vulnerable persons.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has committed or
obligated a total of $185.8 million# since the beginning of the
current Afghan emergency in September 2001.
Primary implementing partners for PRM are the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
societies (IFRC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM),
and other UN agencies. The Bureau of Population, Refugees and
Migration also provides funding to Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) to fill critical protection and assistance gaps in Afghanistan
and for Afghan refugees in neighboring countries.
PRM's funding in Afghanistan supports the voluntary return and
reintegration of refugees and IDPs to their homes in Afghanistan. To
this end, PRM supports critical activities in the sectors of shelter,
water and sanitation, primary, reproductive, maternal and child
healthcare, food and nutrition, primary education, mine education and
awareness, economic assistance, and capacity building.
[To view the charts of how PRM's contributions have been distributed
during fiscal years 2002 and 2003, please visit
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/fs/2003/19622.htm]
(end fact sheet)
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.
Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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