In Uganda, limited resources means not having enough staff to ensure quality of child protection services and adequate follow up on children in care arrangements. There is one caseworker for every 150 children, and children make up some 63 per cent of the refugee population.

7% of South Sudanese refugees currently live in semi-permanent shelters in the region.

The high percentage of children among the South Sudanese refugee population makes this a children’s refugee and education crisis. Over 50% of South Sudanese refugees in the region do not have access to basic primary or secondary education and less than 1% have access to tertiary education.

Education is very basic, with insufficient learning materials and overcrowded classrooms in all countries of asylum. In Tanzania, over 17,600 Burundi refugee students are attending classes under trees.

In Sudan, about 80,000 refugees are still without access to latrines across all 10 camps. In some cases over 70 people have to use a single communal latrine.

Shelter:By end of September a total of 4,886 Shelters were upgraded and repaired in Azraq and Zaatari camps.

WASH: In September, WASH services were provided to more than 80,383 Syrian refugees, living in Azraq, Zaatari, and King Abdulla camps and host communities.

54 per cent of the Burundian Refugee population are children. In response to this crisis, and in light of the serious impact on children, UNHCR and child protection partners have come together to jointly agree on a Regional Plan of Action for the Protection of Refugee Children for the period January to December 2018. Download the document here https://bit.ly/2QVzk2i

CPSWG : has developed new Referral Pathways divided in core case management and related services (including Education, services for children with disabilities, legal assistance, health and MHPSS as well as livelihoods).

MHPSS:• Jordan will host the annual meeting for MHPSS RG between 30th and the 1st of November.