Nairobi County Govt to support UNHCR with Refugee Marshall plan

Nairobi Governor Sakaja Johnson has nominated Chief Officer Social Services  Sub Sector George Mutiso to sit in the Refugee Marshall Plan Technical Committee.

Mr. Mutiso will represent the Governor in the high-level stakeholders meeting on the Refugee Marshal Plan, which aims to adopt the Declaration on Durable Solutions for Refugees and Reintegration of Returnees.

In March 2017, a special summit of the leaders of the Inter-Governmental Agency on Development (IGAD) member states adopted the Declaration on Durable Solutions for Somali Refugees and Reintegration of Returnees in Somalia and its Action Plan, Nairobi formed the lynchpin of a new framework of cooperation and solidarity towards refugees.

IGAD’s ‘Marshall Plan’ is embedded in five pillars. First is the imperative to create conditions for the safe and dignified return of the displaced to their countries or communities of origin. This includes prioritizing the root causes of forced displacement, as well as the recovery and reconstruction, mainly of Somalia and South Sudan.

Nairobi City County has a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) urban refugees from across Africa.