CATHOLIC SECRETARIAT
TANZANIA EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE
Tanzania is currently a host of largest
refugee population in the Great Lakes Region But the Tanzania’s generous asylum seekers policies of integration and
assimilation of refugee population have drastically changed. There is also growing xenophobia and
anti-refugee sentiments among Tanzanians of all walks of lives and is notably
hardened. The assistance provided to
the vulnerable refugees is in many aspects unsatisfactory, these leaves them in
miserable situation and sufferings.
The aims of the proposed project is to
improve the livelihood of refugees/asylum seekers through improved care and
maintenance and protection of their basic human rights; to curb xenophobia and
hostility against them and strengthen
advocacy.
The Caritas Tanzania (CT.) which is an organ
of Tanzania Episcopal Conference whose one of its objective is advocate on
behalf of marginalised and other disadvantaged groups in the society is
responsible for this project. It has
been working with refugees in the camps/settlements and in the urban
centres. Its main focus is to support
dioceses who are implementers of rural refugee programmes. In Dar es Salaam CT. is already working with
urban refugees, mostly vulnerable groups though at a limited scale due to its
financial constraints. It has acquired
enough experience in working with refugees and with local and International
Agencies working with refugees.