Global Initiative Sites Updates 2025

                                                                                                           July 09th to July 24, 2025 Kenya Kenya’s flagship refugee integration plan runs into local opposition In March this year, the Kenyan government unveiled a comprehensive plan to transform the country’s refugee camps into self-reliant, integrated settlements, allowing refugees and host communities to live and work side by side – a significant shift from the restrictive and aid-dependent encampment policies of the past.  The Shirika Plan aims to fold the refugee camps of Dadaab and Kakuma into municipalities administered by the respective counties of Garissa and Turkana, who will eventually take over service deliv...

                                                                                                         June 25th to July 07, 2025 Malawi Dzaleka camp : Malawi inventories precarious housing, refugees skeptical A census of houses in poor condition began on Tuesday at the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. The initiative, jointly led by the UNHCR and the Malawian government, aims to rehabilitate dilapidated housing and provide solutions for the homeless living in the camp. A project welcomed but received with reservations by many refugees. The refugees of Dzaleka, who have been demanding the rehabilitation of their precarious homes for years, say they are relieved that their grievances are finally beginning to be addressed. Howe...

                                                                                                        June 01 to June 17th, 2025 Lebanon Lebanon launches process to disarm Palestinian factions in refugee camps A joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee tasked with the removal of weapons held by Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps has met for the first time to begin hashing out a timetable for disarming the groups. The Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, a government body serving as interlocutor between Palestinian refugees and officials, met on Friday with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in attendance. Kenya   New refugee management curriculum to boost local capacity in Turkana, Garissa counties A new refug...