We are currently faced with several challenges in hosting refugees until durable solutions are found to their problems.

ARRA in collaboration with UNHCR, WFP and other concerned humanitarian agencies will continue to implement the following activities during the plan year 2010:-

• protecting and assisting all refugees in Ethiopia in the existing camps and in Addis Ababa
• establishing additional camps in northern for new arrivals from Eritrea and south eastern parts of the country to house the new arrivals from Somalia
• the sites in Berahle and Assaita will be further strengthened to accommodate ethnic Afar Eritreans in Afar region
• upgrading various refugee services at Assaita
• reducing the global acute malnutrition rate from 12.2% to less than 8%
• increasing measles vaccination rate from 87% to 90% or higher among refugee population
• decreasing infant mortality rate
• increasing the water supply in camps from 11-18 liters to 20 liters per person per day
• raising the school attendance rate for girls from 30% to 50% of all pupils
• ensuring that refugees with specific needs and the general refugee population receive their non-food requirements
• issuing refugee women of reproductive age a standard sanitary package
• facilitating resettlement programs
• reviewing the situation concerning the decrease in the number of Sudanese refugees registering to return home to South Sudan
• continue to find durable solutions to refugee problems including in their voluntary return to their respective areas of origin when situations permit
• addressing post repatriation, rehabilitation and livelihood requirements associated with the impact of long presence of Sudanese refugees who are gradually vacating the camps in western Ethiopia