Danish Refugee Council (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

DRC Danish Refugee Council began working in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1992, as one of the first international operations in DRC’s history and one that has distinguished DRC as an international humanitarian responder. With the aim of supporting the BiH authorities in managing increased migration flows and corresponding challenges in the country, DRC re-established its presence in the country in July 2018.

What we do
DRC’s work in BiH today focuses on the following areas of humanitarian response:

• Availability of primary healthcare services in all reception facilities and support for referral to secondary and tertiary health care institutions.
• Significant scale-up of the humanitarian health response - in response to the COVID-19 crisis - through the development of preparedness and response planning, in coordination with the BiH health authorities and other agencies.
• Comprehensive mental health and psychosocial support for asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrants.
• Implementation of standardized protection mechanisms for beneficiaries in reception facilities.
• Provision of emergency life-saving assistance in informal locations, and identification of vulnerable cases for referral to reception facilities, through mobile outreach teams.
• Border Protection Monitoring (BPM), systematically documenting pushbacks and rights violations at the Croatia-BiH border.