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Japan pledges US $1m for refugee and IDP resettlement

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    The government of Japan on Tuesday pledged US $1m in emergency assistance to the Burundi UN Trust Fund to assist the resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), Adama Toe, Deputy Resident Representative of the UNDP in Burundi, told IRIN on Wednesday. Japan said the grant was intended to contribute to the realisation of political stability in Burundi through improving social and economic rehabilitation. The Japanese assistance brings to US $7m, of US $12m targeted, the money pledged for the UNDP's Rural Community Assistance Umbrella Programme, Toe said. UNDP has begun recruiting staff and devising operational guidelines for that programme which it intends to start next month. The 'Umbrella' programme is designed to assist the resettlement and social integration of returning refugees and IDPs, and the rehabilitation of communities which accept them.

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