UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Niger
(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to UNHCR for its work in Niger.
This question was answered on 31st January 2019
In 2018, the UK provided £600,000 to UNHCR to support and protect thousands of refugees in southeast Niger.
From 2019, the UK is providing £6 million to the World Food Programme, who will work with UNHCR, to provide six months of food and cash assistance to 75,000 refugees, internally displaced people and host communities in Niger and ensure that assistance is targeted to meet the specific needs of the most vulnerable men, women, boys and girls.