IMPROVING REINTEGRATION

Strengthening Favorable Protection Environment and providing reintegration support for vulnerable returnees in the Northern Province and Trincomalee.

District	Jaffna, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya, Trincomalee
Divisional Secretary Division	All DS Divisions based on the Indian Returnees
Grama Niladari Division	Scattered in all DS division based on the Indian Refugee Returnees
Project Period:	01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2020

The project seeks to strengthen the protection environment for refugee returnees and other people of concern to UNHCR operation in the North and the East by improving access to registration, civil registrations, personal identification and property documentation and to basic facilities and assistance for their successful reintegration through building capacities of relevant government departments and authorities (PLC, Land branches, Civil documentation offices & SSO Departments) and providing material assistance to extremely vulnerable returnees.

The goal of the project is to strengthen the protection environment for Voluntary Return with the objectives of

reintegration made more sustainable
Risk of SGBV is reduced and quality of response improved* Children with Special Needs are included in model regular classes, for promoting inclusive education to other schools

Capacity building projects of Govt. Departments and Authorities-.

The following supports were given to the Government departments and NGO council to facilitate them to provide better services to the society

No	District	Government Department / Authorities	Type of assistance
01	Jaffna	Career guidance unit of university of Jaffna	Working space improvement – office furniture and training IT equipment
		Land Reform Commission – Northern at District Secretariat	Office Furniture
		ADR Branch- karaveddy DS office	Office furniture and counter system improvement
		NGOs Council- Jaffna District	Office furniture and Equipment
		ADR Branch –Jaffna DS office	Office equipment and book bindings
		PLC- Northern province	Office IT equipment’s
02	Mannar	Land branch – Mannar Town	Completion works of new Office building
		Renovation of physiotherapy unit – General Hospital Mannar District	Renovation of Physiotherapy unit
		ADR Branch – Mannar Town	One Computer i3 7th Generation
03	Mullaitivu	District SSO Department- Maruthiyanpattu	Supported with 02 filing cabinets
		Land Branch – Oddusuddan DS office	Supported with one Photo copier and printer
		ADR branch – Thunukkai	Files
		Land and ADR branches of Manthai East DS Division	Counter system improvement, filling system improvement, IT equipment and materials
04	Kilinochchi	Land and ADR branches – Kandawalai	Filing system improvement (Filing tracks) work
05	Vavuniya	Land branch- Vavuniya DS office	Filing system improvement, File folders
		Land branch – Chettikulam DS office	Work space improvement, glass board for Divisional map
		District Survey Office	Photocopier
06	Batticaloa	Land Reform Commission	Office IT equipment

Material Support for extremely vulnerable families –

100 extremely vulnerable families of Indian returnees have been selected for assistance in year 2020 and they were supported with materials based on their needs such as fishing nets, poultry rearing, goat rearing, cattle rearing, etc

SGBV Prevention and Response

Assisting extremely vulnerable female headed Indian returnee families through development of sustainable livelihood that must be protective & mitigate risk of SGBV-

39 families have been selected for livelihood assistance based on the potential of SGBV risk and capacity to implement the LH activities.
Training on business plan development for 10 beneficiaries completed
30 of beneficiaries has been supported to initiate or strengthening their livelihood activities; Cattle rearing, Goat rearing, poultry rearing, Tailoring, Catering, Beauty culture.

100 EVI families and 30 SGBV Risk families have been assisted with livelihood Assistance.

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