Ethiopia\u2019s complex challenges require more coherent, ambitious, and system-wide collaboration to bridge humanitarian funding gaps, priority strategic engagements and coordination; says appointed UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Ozonnia Ojielo.<\/p>\n
Ojielo\u2019s statement comes following a meeting with UNHCR Ethiopia\u2019s leadership and staff focused on operational priorities, national alignment, and the evolving displacement landscape in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
UNHCR currently operates in 10 field locations across major refugee-hosting regions\u2014including Gambella, Somali Region, Benishangul-Gumuz, and the northern border areas\u2014supporting 30 refugee sites and camps as well as a significant urban refugee population in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia continues to host around 1.1 million refugees, primarily from South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea. The team highlighted the continued shift toward community-based and refugee-led approaches, strengthened partnerships with local organizations, and deeper alignment with national priorities and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework.<\/p>\n
UNHCR leadership also underscored the importance of Ethiopia\u2019s evolving legal environment, which is expanding refugees\u2019 access to services, documentation, and economic opportunities\u2014an essential enabler of longer-term inclusion.<\/p>\n
UNHCR also presented the severity of current funding challenges and stressed the need for diversified and less-restricted financing, including enhanced engagement with private-sector partners. Efforts to increase efficiency\u2014such as inter-agency collaboration through shared offices, joint procurement, and common services\u2014were also outlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethiopia\u2019s complex challenges require more coherent, ambitious, and system-wide collaboration to bridge humanitarian funding gaps, priority strategic engagements and coordination; says appointed UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Ozonnia Ojielo. Ojielo\u2019s statement comes following a meeting with UNHCR Ethiopia\u2019s leadership and staff focused on operational priorities, national alignment, and the evolving displacement landscape in Ethiopia. UNHCR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":50132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,2077,1945],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news-in-ethiopia","8":"category-frontline","9":"category-news-in-brief-latest-ethiopian-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}