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Company Description:

DRC is an international non-governmental organisation, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world.

DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa (HoA) since 1998. Using a protection and human rights framework, DRC’s vision for the 2012-14 regional programme in the HoA & Yemen reflects the global vision to work towards the protection and promotion of durable solutions to refugees and displacement problems, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. The HoA & Yemen regional programme target Somalis in the main but also internally displaced in Ethiopia, Kenya and Yemen.

The 2012-14 strategic objectives of DRC programme in the HoA & Yemen are:

• Saving of lives and the alleviation of immediate suffering among people affected by humanitarian conflict.

• Safeguarding, restoration and development of livelihoods.

• Institutional and organisational change that ensures the promotion of values, policies and capacities which contribute to the protection of people rights and the peaceful handling of conflicts.