Europe
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Since mid-2018, the route via Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has become one of the most travelled mixed migration routes in the Western Balkans, with more than 112,500 registered arrivals to the country detected by authorities in BiH between January 2018 and December 2022.
Displacement trends
Source: | UNHCR
Displacement Trends
Definitions
EDPs: Refugees under UNHCR’s mandate
IDPs: Internally displaced persons
Asylum seekers: People whose claims for refugee status have not yet been determined
Stateless: People not considered as nationals by any State
HST: People living in Host Communities
OIP: Others in need of International Protection
OOC: Others of Concern
Forecast
DRC forecasts are based on a machine learning tool that has been developed to predict forced displacement (IDPs, refugees and asylum seekers) at the national level 1-3 years into the future.
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Why we are there
DRC Danish Refugee Council began working in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1992, as one of the first international operations in DRC’s history and one that has distinguished DRC as an international humanitarian responder. With the aim of supporting the BiH authorities in managing increased migration flows and corresponding challenges in the country, DRC re-established its presence in the country in July 2018.
What we do
DRC’s work in BiH today focuses on the following areas of humanitarian response:
- Availability of primary healthcare services in all reception facilities and support for referral to secondary and tertiary health care institutions.
- Significant scale-up of the humanitarian health response - in response to the COVID-19 crisis - through the development of preparedness and response planning, in coordination with the BiH health authorities and other agencies.
- Comprehensive mental health and psychosocial support for asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrants.
- Implementation of standardized protection mechanisms for beneficiaries in reception facilities.
- Provision of emergency life-saving assistance in informal locations, and identification of vulnerable cases for referral to reception facilities, through mobile outreach teams.
- Border Protection Monitoring (BPM), systematically documenting pushbacks and rights violations at the Croatia-BiH border.
Working in collaboration with
European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Contact
Sibylle Christina
Aebi
Country Director
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