WB – Climate Change and Migration: On 13/09, the WB released the second part of its Groundswell report. A key finding is that climate change could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their own countries by 2050. Hotspots of internal migration could emerge by 2030 and intensify by 2050. The report deploys a scenario-based approach that allows for identifying internal climate in- and out-migration hotspots, namely the areas from which people are expected to move and areas with better conditions to build new livelihoods. It also sets the reduction of global emissions and promotion of inclusive and resilient development could reduce the scale of climate migration by 80%. Find the full report here [https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36248] and an infographic here [https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2021/09/13/groundswell-acting-on-internal-climate-migration].

387 new asylum-seekers arrived in August, bringing the total number of new arrivals between 1 January and 31 August 2021 to 4,225, 75% are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

From 1 January to 31 July 2021, 100 cases comprising 385 individuals were submitted to resettlement countries. A total of 259 individuals have departed on resettlement to Sweden, Canada, Finland, Netherlands and the USA.

In August, 3,410 PoCs were supported with general Cash Based Interventions. Cumulatively, since 1 January 2021, 10,493 refugees have received CBI assistance.

1,522 emergency shelters to host 7,600 displaced persons have been completed in North Kivu province.

UNHCR and partners facilitated the voluntary repatriation of 829 Burundian and Rwandan refugees to their country of origin.

UNHCR distributed mobile phones to over 1,000 refugee families in Haut Katanga, Lualaba and Tanganyika provinces, which will allow them to receive electronic payments.

A new healthcare centre was built and equipped in Nganza, Kasai Central province.

Operational UPDATE July 2021 Highlights A total of 38 beneficiaries (8 Zambians, 23 refugees and 7 former refugees) in Meheba refugee settlement received training in Systems of Rice Intensification. A total of 13,332 refugees received non-medical face masks in the three refugee settlements during the month of July. 107 urban residency permits (white cards) were issued on the following grounds: family unity 66, medical 16, investor’s permit 4, employment permit 13 and security permit 8. KEY INDICATORS 767 448 newly arrived asylum-seekers, 136 in-situ and 183 births were registered in July 2021. 16,011 Total of refugees and asylum-seekers reached with COVID-19 related messaging since March 2020? 49,852 Refugees and others of concern country-wide have so far received non-medical face masks since the COVID-19 pandemic was first recorded in March 2020.

In July 2021, A total of 38 beneficiaries (8 Zambians, 23 refugees and 7 former refugees) in Meheba refugee settlement received training in Systems of Rice Intensification.