Transitional Solutions Initiative for Refugees and their Host Communities in Eastern Sudan (2011-2013)

Transitional Solutions Initiative for Refugees and their Host Communities in Eastern Sudan (2011-2013)
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Eastern Sudan was selected as a pilot area for the Transitional Solutions Initiative (TSI). The goal of the project was to enhance self-reliance, reduce aid dependency and assist the socio-economic integration by restoring and expanding sustainable livelihoods opportunities for refugees and host communities.

The outputs of the project were inter alia to enhance vocational capacities and business skills, diversify and improve rural livelihoods opportunities for refugees and host communities and enhance access to microfinance services.
Vocational training was provided in auto-mechanics, mobile phone repair, car driving, food processing, electricity and auto-electricity maintenance among others. The project distributed tool kits or seed capital to the graduates, linked them to apprenticeships and provided post-training support to join the labour market or pursue self-employment. Farmers were trained and supported in different water harvesting techniques as well as gained market linkage skills. They were also connected to the Central Trading Company to access fertilizers, seed dressing, pesticides and herbicides. Para-vets were trained to provide services that included primary animal health care and reporting of epidemic diseases.

Project beneficiaries also engaged in income generating activities and diversified their livelihood in poultry production, blacksmith for agricultural hand tool production, animal feed preservation and storage and agricultural processing. Microfinance services led to increased self-employment in the communities and led to projects such as donkey carts for water supply, sheep rearing, bakeries, cooking gas distribution, thereby increasing the monthly average income of beneficiaries.

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GFMD 2014-2015 - Roundtable 3.1 "Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants, who are compelled to cross international borders, through international cooperation on labor market access, educational opportunity, family reunification, and other avenues of mobility"

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

World Bank