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  • 02/04/2018
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The EU announces €180 million in emergency support to support refugees in Greece

Greece bore the weight of responsibility at the height of the Mediterranean refugee and migrant crisis which at its peak saw 10 000 men women and children arriving in the country…

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  • 30/03/2018
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“Life through the eye of the other”, an exhibition jointly produced by refugee and Greek youngsters in Larissa

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency,  and the Film School of Aristotle University Thessaloniki together with the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa – G.I. Katsigras Museum welcomed…

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  • 05/03/2018
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How Greece got to grips with a relentless refugee crisis

A ‘game-changer’ EU project has helped Greek authorities, but many issues remain Elaine Edwards for THE IRISH TIMES When the mayor of the Greek city of Livadia, Giota Poulou, supported the construction of…

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  • 21/02/2018
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Tripoli joins UNHCR accommodation programme for refugees in Greece

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in cooperation with the municipality of Tripoli, Peloponnese, today launched a programme to provide 300 places in apartments and support services for  refugees in the…

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  • 19/02/2018
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Interview with UNHCR Representative in Greece on housing programme for asylum-seekers

In an interview to ANA-MPA, the UNHCR Representative in Greece, Philippe Leclerc, reveals that the European Commission has provided assurances that funding for the accommodation programme of asylum seekers in…

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  • 24/01/2018
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Invitation to the presentation of the Face Forward …into my home catalogue at EMST

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the European Commission’s department for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) invite you to…

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Financial Information

The Emergency Support to Integration & Accommodation – ESTIA programme is co-funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union:

In 2020, € 175 million are available. This will allow UNHCR to maintain up to 25,500 places in urban accommodation by the end of the year.

The ESTIA cash assistance scheme aims to exceed 92,000 people in 2020.Refugees and asylum-seekers receive a pre-defined monthly cash grant through a dedicated cash card. This allows them to meet their basic needs as they choose, with dignity, while supporting the local economy

In 2019 the ESTIA programme was funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union:

In 2019, €190 million were available. This allowed UNHCR to maintain up to 25,000 places in urban accommodation. The ESTIA cash assistance scheme reached more than 90,000 people in 2019.

In 2017 and 2018 the ESTIA programme was funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid:

In 2018, €167.5 million was available. This allowed UNHCR to gradually establish 27,000 places in urban accommodation by the end of the year. The ESTIA cash assistance scheme reached more than 60,000 people in 2018.

In 2017 a budget of €139 million was available in order to provide 22,000 urban accommodation places and pre-defined monthly cash grants through a dedicated card to refugees and asylum-seekers in Greece.

Special thanks

To major donors to the refugee emergency in Europe – the European Union, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom – as well as to all government donors and private donors for their generous contributions. The financial support provided by donors who have contributed with non-earmarked and broadly earmarked funds, as well as for those who have contributed directly to the situation and the Greece operation allows to provide direct assistance and protection, and help find solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers. In this changing operational context, UNHCR is appealing to donors to provide contributions that can be allocated as flexibly as possible.

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