Since the upsurge of violence in December 2013 in CAR, as of 15 May 2014, over 560,050 Central Africans have been displaced internally, and 120,000 people have fled into Cameroon, Chad, Congo and the DRC. At the peak of the crisis, in January 2014, the total number of IDPs reached 922,000, close to a quarter of the total population in the country.
In response to this emergency, UNHCR initially published a three-month emergency appeal (covering requirements from January to March 2014) to appeal for the funds necessary to support IDPs in the CAR, and refugees in the neighbouring countries.
An inter-agency Regional Response Plan for the Central African Republic was released on 16 April 2014, to cater for the needs of the population affected by the crisis inside the CAR, covering the period from January to December 2014.
This revised UNHCR supplementary appeal describes UNHCR’s planned response to the current emergency for the period from January to December 2014, as presented in the inter-agency appeal (RRP). In addition, it includes the budgetary requirements for activities targeting IDPs within CAR.