The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2014/01000
AMOUNT: EUR 50 000 000
1. CONTEXT
Since more than 10 years the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with more than 70 million inhabitants, is facing an on-goi ng, complex and multifactor humanitarian crisis characterized by violent armed conf licts in several regi ons, vast numbers of displaced and refugees, various epidemic s and epizooties, a general context of poverty and precariousness, local conflicts of ten with ethnical dimensions to control access to natural resources and land, and to gain political or traditional power, political instability at local level in some regions and natural disasters.
From a regional perspective, the last d ecades have seen major population movements as result of the Rwandan genocide, the c onflict in Burundi, the continued instability in DRC, and the recent coup d’état in Central African Republic. Voluntary repatriation is clearly the most desirabl e solution for refugees; it is however not always viable in view of the current situati on in the refugees’ plac es of origin or the danger they would face if they returned.