Un Joint Programme For Kigoma 2017-2021

This is an area-based cross-sectoral UN joint programme to improve human security in the region of Kigoma. It is addressing the root causes of migration through targeting its root causes of poverty and human insecurity in all its dimensions.Area-based programming focuses on the challenges of specific geographical areas where the degree of vulnerability and disadvantage distinguishes those areas from the rest of the country. The reasons for selecting Kigoma is that it is one of the poorest and most isolated regions in Tanzania combined with being in a regional high risk area leading to high numbers of refugees and migrants as well. It is the only region in Tanzania receiving refugees and the current refugee population at the 3 camps now stand over 300 000. The 3 host districts have a population of about 1 million people so the refugees therefore are now forming about one quarter of the population and the tensions between the two populations are mounting for a number of reasons.A holistic durable approach is applied in this programme to include both refugees and migrants in the region as well as the surrounding host communities. The humanitarian-development nexus is supported by linking together our existing response to refugees and migrants with an expanded development support to the host communities. As such it links up to, supports and forms part of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, where Tanzania is a pilot.Expanding and increasing the support to host communities will help to decrease tensions and misunderstandings between the refugee/migrant population and the host population. The support to the host communities also links up to and provide services and benefits to the refugee community in several of the outputs. Through supporting stability and prosperity in the Kigoma region it will also assist to support stability in the Great Lakes regional context.Local consultations with Regional and District Government levels have taken place on needs and priorities, combined with analysis of available statistics as well as analysis on how the UN best can respond to these given comparative advantages and experience.The JP consists of 16 UN agencies cooperating in 6 themes of sustainable energy and environment, youth and women’s economic empowerment, violence against women and children, education with a focus on girls and adolescent girls, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and agriculture with a focus on developing local markets.In terms of geography, the JP will focus mainly on the 3 districts of Kasulu, Kibondo and Kakonko surrounding the three existing refugee camps, but will not exclude support to other districts.