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UNHCR / WORLD REFUGEE DAY KENYA SHIRIKA PLAN

Refugees in Kenya are poised to benefit from an inclusion plan that will see transitioning of refugee camps in the country into integrated settlements under the multi-year “Shirika Plan,” previously referred to as the Marshal Plan. UNHCR
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STORY: UNHCR / WORLD REFUGEE DAY KENYA SHIRIKA PLAN
TRT: 05:04
SOURCE: UNHCR
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 JUNE 2023, NAIROBI, KENYA

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1. Various shots, Burundian dancers drumming and entertaining guests
2. Wide shot, panel addressing guests
3. Close up, booklet reading: ‘High Level Dialouge Shirika Plan’
4. Close up, guest listening to speaker
5. Close up, guests at event
6. Wide shot, panelist addressing guests
7. Close up, speaker
8. Close up, delegates
9. Med shot, Filippo Grand, UN High Commissioner for Refugees at podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grand, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The 2021 Refugee Act and the now aptly renamed Shirika plan, will provide not only an enhanced protection environment for refugees, but will also improve the lives of the communities that have hosted them for years, if not decades. And the refugees. economic inclusion will in turn further benefit the local and Kenyan economies. Kenya's new and progressive policies will require a different kind of support, more substantial and more sustainable. This is why it is crucial that the Shirika Plan is fully rolled out soon. Also, in respect of refugee rights, documentation, freedom of movement and so forth.”
11. Various shots, guests
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Wycliff Musalia Mudavadi, Deputy Prime Minister, Kenya:
“I wish to reiterate the commitment of the government to transform refugee camps into integrated settlements by promoting the socio-economic inclusion of refugees. We are collectively preparing them for the eventual voluntary repatriation to their home countries.”
13. Med shot, guest taking notes
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Wycliff Musalia Mudavadi, Deputy Prime Minister, Kenya:
“The plan will ensure that host communities in Turkana and Garissa benefit from additional development support. It will also promote peaceful coexistence between refugees and host communities”
15. Close up, image of Grandi on camera viewfinder
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grand, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“Kenya made a bold choice, a courageous choice and a visionary choice because, as the President put it, this is the only way to solve this issue, to look ahead, make sure that there is harmony, inclusion of refugees, good cooperation with host communities, and that the host communities themselves benefit more from the support that is given to refugees. This is really the gist of this plan that will give more protection, more sustainable support to refugees and to the communities that host them.”
17. Wide shot, Grandi and other panelists addressing news conference
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grand, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“Today. We passed the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan following the beginning of the conflict on the 15th of April, half a million again, new refugees in Africa, which is already the continent with so many refugees and displaced people. This is painful. I appreciate Kenya's efforts, which the prime cabinet secretary explained, to bring peace also to that part of the world. We need that effort also to continue, and I want to make an appeal through the media for those efforts to continue. If wedon't silence those guns. This is what I just tweeted. This exodus of Sudanese people will continue. We already have almost 2 million new people, new displaced inside the country and more people going out. So good news in Kenya. And I hope that this good news in Kenya will serve as inspiration to other countries to follow suit in this continent and elsewhere, to bring the solutions that help refugees be no more refugees and help end forced displacement globally.”
19. Wide shot, news conference

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Refugees in Kenya are poised to benefit from an inclusion plan that will see transitioning of refugee camps in the country into integrated settlements under the multi-year “Shirika Plan,” previously referred to as the Marshal Plan.

The Government of Kenya and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, co-hosted a special high-level dialogue today (20 Jun) on the transitioning of refugee camps in the country into integrated settlements, aimed at promoting the socioeconomic inclusion of refugees and bringing additional support to host communities nearby.

The government is shifting its approach to refugee management by transforming refugee camps into integrated settlements under the multi-year “Shirika Plan,” previously referred to as the Marshal Plan.

The plan aims to lay out the transition by which both refugees and members of host communities would benefit from inclusion in national services and from programmes aimed at facilitating self-reliance, community-led economic development, and peaceful co-existence.

The event, which was organized to mark World Refugee Day, provided a platform for various stakeholders to join Kenya in articulating a shared vision toward making this important change to the way in which refugee camps, which were established more than 30 years ago, are managed in Kenya.

Kenya’s government in line with the Global Compact on Refugees and in collaboration with UNHCR and other stakeholders, has taken concrete steps through a number of initiatives to improve conditions for refugees and communities hosting them.

The Refugees Act of 2021, which came into effect in February 2022, provides new and additional opportunities, rights, protection, and solutions for refugees in Kenya. In addition to recognizing the
contributions made by refugees to Kenya’s development, the Act provides refugees with documentation to facilitate access to services and employment opportunities.

During the dialogue, development actors, public and private donors expressed their intention to support the inclusive and transformative agenda for refugees.

Kenya has generously hosted refugees and asylum-seekers for more than three decades. The country remains the fifth largest refugee-hosting country in Africa and the thirteenth largest asylum country in the world, with over 612,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers as of May 2023. The vast majority reside in the camps.

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