HIGHLIGHTS
GoP repatriation program assists more than 224,100 families to return to FATA
More than 370,100 registered Afghan refugees depart Pakistan in 2016
USAID/FFP provides an additional $10 million for emergency food assistance to conflict-affected households
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
From March 2015 to late December 2016, more than 224,100 families voluntarily returned to areas of origin in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as part of a Government of Pakistan (GoP) repatriation program, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
More than 370,100 Afghan refugees returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan between January and December 2016, according to the UN. Refugee return centers in Afghanistan closed for the winter in December and are scheduled to reopen in early March 2017, the UN reports.
USAID/FFP recently contributed an additional $10 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to meet the urgent food needs of conflict-affected households in FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPk). USAID/FFP assistance includes $6 million in funding to support the distribution of GoP-donated wheat, as well as $4 million for local and regional procurement of food commodities.
