The project’s overall objective is to strengthen NCD prevention and control for vulnerable refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and other persons of concern to UNHCR, including returnees and affected host populations across Tanzania, Burundi, and Sudan. This will be done through capacity building of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its country-level implementing partners concerning NCDs, focusing on training, awareness raising, screening and provision of care.WDF 21-1834 objectives: To improve the health of vulnerable refugees, internally displaced people, and others of concern, UNHCR will provide NCD care and prevention in refugee camps and host communities in Tanzania, Burundi, and Sudan.To further institutionalise NCD care and prevention in UNHCR’s global approach.
WDF 21-1834 aims to scale up UNHCR's response to NCDs by implementing a range of activities in three country operations - Tanzania, Burundi, and Sudan - as well as at UNHCR HQ level. Each country operation has its unique context in terms of refugee and host community scenarios, projected needs, refugee movements (refugee influx, presence, repatriation, returnees), and intervention modalities.UNHCR HQ will support global initiatives that impact its operations. This includes refining NCD guidelines and training materials, and strengthening the health information systems for NCD data collection and analysis. This will be implemented worldwide with partners.WDF 21-1834 takes a dual approach, with a focus on country level respectively global level, with continuous linkage between these two levels throughout trajectory of implementation.• Track 1: o Direct support to strengthening the provision of NCD services in a number of refugee camps and settings with refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR in the wider Eastern African region, including returnees and host communities. The focus is on Tanzania, Burundi, and Sudan, where the project will raise awareness, assess risk factors, diagnose and provide continued NCD care.NCD care service delivery will be strengthened by building healthcare capacity, training providers, providing equipment and supplies, and promoting health. The project activities will be compatible with existing WDF country partnerships, seeking synergy and reinforcement while avoiding duplication. • Track 2:o Support to UNHCR's global efforts to integrate NCDs into health programming. It expands the 'global capacity building project for NCDs' and improves UNHCR's NCD response capability through a comprehensive training package with a focus on primary health care services. This capacity-building component will expand, refine and consolidate UNHCR’s NCD response capability through a comprehensive training package development and implementation, with focus on primary health care level services.o Support to UNHCRs health information system and monitoring tools whereby monitoring of NCD care will be improved through further enhancement of the ‘Integrated Refugee Health Information System’. o Support to UNHCR’s efforts as convener of the ‘inter-agency working group on NCDs’ as part of the global call on all UN agencies to advance the NCD agenda and the integration with the humanitarian response. o Support to advocacy activities for UNHCR's global role in refugee health and its influence in humanitarian response frameworks.
• Up to one million refugees will be provided improved NCD care and prevention services, • At least 500,000 people in host communities will be reached; through the capacity building of health care facilities (incl. hospitals, health care centres, and transit centres inside and outside camps, in total more than 50 facilities across the three countries), • 900 HCPs trained,• More than 2,000 community health workers trained.