Vacancy Notice No.: ETH/AA/UNOPS/VN/19/17
Grade: L-ICA 8 (Under UNOPS salary Scale)
Type of Appointment: Individual Contractor Agreement (ICA) – Seconded to ARRA (Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs)
Date of Issue: 19/9/2017
Closing Date: 26/9/2017
Duration of the Contract: Up to 31 December 2017
No. of vacant post: One
Ethiopia hosts the second largest refugee population in Africa. At the end of 2016, it hosted over 793,000 refugees displaced by droughts, conflicts, political events, and civil wars in neighboring countries. Since the outbreak of the South Sudanese civil war in December 2013, more than 300,000 South Sudanese refugees have sought asylum in Ethiopia. Most Eritrean and Somali refugees in Ethiopia are living in protracted displacement. The majority of refugees in Ethiopia are hosted in Tigray Regional State and the four Emerging Regions of Ethiopia, which are: (i) the Afar Regional State; (ii) the Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State; (iii) the Gambela Regional State; and (iv) the Ethiopian Somali Regional State. The Emerging Regions are the least developed regions in the country, characterized by harsh weather conditions, poor infrastructure, extremely low capacity, high level of poverty and very poor development indicators. The arid environment in Afar and Somali regions and the small and scattered nomadic populations make it more challenging to provide services. Many parts of the four regions are inaccessible with poor or no roads. Due to their proximity to fragile and conflict-affected states of Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, the above-mentioned regions are hosting the majority of refugees in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia maintains an open door policy for refugee inflows into the country and allows humanitarian access and protection to those seeking asylum on its territory. Ethiopia is a State party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, as well as to the 1969 Organization of African Union (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. Based on the aforementioned international and regional refugee conventions, the Government has also enacted the 2004 Refugee Proclamation (Proclamation No. 409/2004). Generally in Ethiopia, refugee protection is provided within the framework of these international and national refugee laws as well as the core international human rights treaties that have been thus far ratified by the country.
The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) is taking concrete steps to increase the well-being and self-reliance of refugees. At Leaders' Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, hosted by President Obama on 20 September, 2016, the Government of Ethiopia, in a spirit of global solidarity and in line with the fundamental principles of International Refugee Law, has made highly significant pledges relating to further improved rights and service delivery to refugees. The pledges can be summarized as follows:-
The Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) the body mandated to manage refugee issues in Ethiopia, is working in collaboration with UNHCR, donors, line ministries, other partners and NGOs to implement these pledges. Some of the ongoing and planned activities include: (i) the translation of these pledges into a legally binding document through a Refugee Proclamation that will supersede the Refugee Proclamation of 2004; (ii) experience learning and sharing visits for Government Officials to selected countries; (iii) the finalisation of a Roadmap: and (iv) the establishment of a Steering Committee to support the implementation of the Pledges are taking place. In addition, Ethiopia is one of the countries selected for early implementation of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), which provides for a more comprehensive, predictable and sustainable response. The CRRF is designed to ensure: rapid and well-supported reception and admission measures; support for immediate and ongoing needs (e.g. protection, health, and education); assistance to national/local institutions and communities receiving refugees; and expanded opportunities for durable solutions. Rather than responding to refugee displacement through a purely, and often underfunded, humanitarian lens, the principles in the New York Declaration, and their application through the CRRF, commit to a more systematic and sustainable response that benefits both refugees and their hosts. Several planned and ongoing activities by various humanitarian and development actors provide the building blocks for the CRRF.
Against this background, ARRA is working to strengthen its capacity to collect, manage, and analyse data to provide information for evidence-based decision making and programming; UNHCR will second the incumbent to work in the Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) to support data analysis and information management. The incumbent will report to the Deputy Director of ARRA.
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