ILO-UNHCR Partnership

                              

        

On 1 July 2016, UNHCR and the ILO signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), designed to engender a new and deeper phase of collaboration between the two organizations in eight common priority areas, including the extension of social protection. 

To give effect to the MoU, an Action Plan was developed and a joint ILO-UNHCR letter was send to all staff.

                                                                   

                             

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The ILO-UNHCR Project on Exploring public options for health insurance and health services provision for refugees (2017-2018) aims to to bring together the social protection expertise of ILO with the refugee protection mandate of UNHCR to further seek opportunities and implement integration schemes for refugees into existing national social protection systems, specifically health insurance schemes with the aim to allow refugees to access health services at the same level as nationals, through shared risk mechanisms.

Project countries are: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Togo, Senegal and Burkina Faso.