Developing and Implementing a Refugee Program in the Rights Way. Save the Children Sweden’s Experience with Sudanese Refugees in Western Ethiopia (1992 – 2006)

Save the Children Sweden has been implementing intervention activities targeting vulnerable groups of children in the Sudanese refugee camps of Western Ethiopia.This report addresses the documentation and assessment of these programs. The documentation and assessment cover the design and implementation of the Refugee Program in the refugee camps at Bonga, Dimma, Pugnido and Sherkole from 1992 to 2005 with focus on more recent years. The scope of the documentation and evaluation process covers landmarks in the initiation and development of the program, the design and implementation of the major activities, and results as well as impact of the two major Refugee Program components:  the Community Based Education Program and the Psychosocial Support Program.