In a recent visit here, a top official of U.S. Agency for International's (USAID) emergency assistance program noted improvements in the recent resettlement of IDPs and that the United States would be willing to provide support to newly resettled communities within the context of a safe and dignified return.
Ky Luu, director of the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), spent two days inspecting several camps, exit points, and resettled communities with U.S. Ambassador Robert Blake and USAID Mission Director Rebecca Cohn to consult current OFDA partners and observe the resettlement process and to gauge the level of assistance OFDA could provide.
"OFDA supports a safe, secure, informed resettlement process in the East," Mr. Luu said. "I am encouraged that services for returnees have clearly improved in the past few months. We support the government's efforts to give timely access to NGOS and UN agencies assisting them in providing essential services and sharing necessary information to returnees."
Under such a scenario, OFDA will look for opportunities through its partners to assist in raising the level of assistance in partnership with the government to augment services already being provided, such as cleaning wells and stocking hospitals with essential medicines, he said.
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