In India since April 1981, UNHCR provides international protection and assistance to individual asylum seekers in New Delhi. It assists approximately 16,000 recognized refugees and many asylum seekers, making it one of the largest urban refugee caseload in the world. UNHCR works with several different implementing partners to provide a variety of support services to refugees and asylum seekers.
With increasing rates of arrivals from countries as diverse as Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan, protection and community services functions continue to be a critical component of the operation in India. UNHCR runs the Women’s Protection Centre in West Delhi to provide counseling support to refugees and asylum seekers. Similar protection outreach activities take place in South Delhi and also at the UNHCR office. The role of the NUNV would primarily be to assist in UNHCR’s protection and community services functions, in order to provide direct counseling support and advice to persons of concern and ensuring that a person has information to access basic services.
The post is both challenging and rewarding and requires someone who is patient, has excellent people and counseling skills, is helpful by nature and has the genuine interest of refugees at heart.
Living Conditions:
New Delhi and the surrounding National Capital Region is a large and bustling metropolis of some 14 million people undergoing rapid changes. The capital city is an administrative, cultural and commercial centre with modern amenities and well connected by air. It is a safe place with large expatriate community drawn from embassies, UN agencies, MNCs and foreign businesses. It has short moderate winter and long hot summer.
Conditions of Service
A twelve-month contract, monthly volunteer living allowance (VLA) intended to cover housing, basic needs and utilities, equivalent to INR 33,696; settling-in-grant (if applicable); life, health, and permanent disability insurance; return airfares (if applicable); resettlement allowance for satisfactory service.
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