"Here to Stay"
- film about RHP
achievements to date

The RHP film "Here to Stay" summarises the achievements of the Regional Housing Programme to date. It demonstrates the concrete impact that the Programme has had on the lives of thousands of beneficiaries. It also highlights the key achievements of the RHP, which are not limited to providing a durable home for the most vulnerable refugees...

Country films

RHP Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Regional Housing Programme (RHP) aims to provide durable and sustainable housing solutions...

RHP Croatia 2019
In Croatia, the Regional Housing Programme (RHP) aims to provide durable housing solutions to several categories of refugees...

RHP Montenegro 2019
In Montenegro, the Regional Housing Programme (RHP) aims to provide durable housing solutions to the most vulnerable...

RHP Serbia 2019
There are approximately 28 000 refugees living in Serbia today, with the decrease in number resulting from their integration within...

CHP Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016-2017
By the end of 2016, 117 houses had been completed in BiH under the RHP. The plan for 2017 includes the construction...

CHP Croatia 2016-2017
During the period 2014-2016, altogether 117 RHP housing units had been provided throughout Croatia, and the plan is to deliver...

CHP Montenegro 2016-2017
In 2016, a building with 62 apartments for RHP beneficiaries was completed in Niksic, Montenegro. An additional 188 apartments...

CHP Serbia 2016-2017
During the period 2015-2016, over 700 vulnerable refugee families received a new home in Serbia thanks to the RHP...

CHP Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015-2016
In 2015 and 2016, the Regional Housing Programme has made significant progress with concrete achievements in Bosnia and Herzegovina....

First building completed - Korenica, Croatia
The Regional Housing Programme marked a milestone achievement in September 2015 by inaugurating the first apartment building...

CHP Montenegro 2015-2016
In July 2014, Montenegro received the first disbursement from the RHP Fund to finance four approved RHP sub-projects...

Building material delivery - Serbia
2014 and 2015 represented a great step forward in the progress of the RHP in Serbia. The delivery of building materials under the first project was completed in September...

CHP Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2015
The implementation of the Country Housing Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in 2015 with a number of successful events.

CHP Croatia 2014-2015
In 2014, a number of activities in Croatia marked the start of the implementation phase of the Regional Housing Programme.

CHP Montenegro 2014-2015
In July 2014, Montenegro received the first disbursement from the RHP Fund to finance four approved RHP sub-projects worth 15.7 million euro...

CHP Serbia 2014-2015
RHP implementation in Serbia took a big step forward in the months of September and October 2014 when first housing solutions were delivered to selected...

Regional films

Providing homes and new hope / World Refugee Day,
20 June 2018

RHP Achievements 2018
Close to 3 000 most vulnerable refugee families have received new homes by June 2018 in four RHP countries. At the last Assembly of Donors meeting, held on 6 June in Zagreb, 7 new sub-projects were approved in favour of Partner Countries, bringing the overall number of beneficiary families to be housed by the end of 2020 to 11 000.

Visiting RHP beneficiaries in Ilinci, Serbia / World Refugee Day, 20 June 2017
The Regional Housing Programme (RHP), delivered so far a durable housing solution for 2 900 most vulnerable refugee families, returnees and internally displaced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. By the end of 2020, a new home will be provided to more than 11 300 families in the region.

RHP Multi-apartment Buildings 2017
At end-2017, more than 2.700 families will be provided with a durable housing solution through the RHP. 183 million euro in grants has been approved for 24 projects in four partner countries, targeting 9.500 vulnerable families. One of four housing modalities are multi-apartment buildings. In 2017, 632 apartments in 7 buildings were completed and additional 41 construction sites with 1.218 apartments were inaugurated.

New Homes 2016 - 2017
2017 is a key year for the RHP as up to 3.000 housing units are scheduled to be completed and delivered to eligible beneficiaries. New contributions of EUR 84 million from the European Union, 9 million from the United States and 1 million from Germany, will make it possible for the Donors to approve a number of new sub-projects in 2017 and 2018. These approvals will result in several thousands of additional housing solutions to be delivered by end 2020.

Regional efforts 2015 - 2016
2015 was the first year in which the RHP delivered housing solutions to beneficiaries in larger numbers. As at the end of May 2016, over 350 families or 1 000 persons had been provided with houses or apartments, bringing an end to 20 years of displacement and living under dire conditions. Construction works are ongoing in all four Partner Countries and more than 1 800 beneficiary families have been selected to receive housing solutions, out of over 7 000 units thus far approved by the RHP Fund Donors for financing.

RHP First results 2014 - 2015
More than fifteen years after the end of the war in the Balkans and despite the best efforts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, tens of thousands of refugees and displaced persons still live in undignified conditions. In 2014, the Regional Housing Programme reached an important milestone. For the first time, housing solutions were delivered to beneficiaries. Specifically, 25 families were provided with building materials in Serbia and eight families received the keys to their new homes in Croatia.

Beneficiary films

Slavica Šević, Serbia
Slavica Šević – a single mother with an 18-year-old daughter – who recalled the struggles of the previous years...

Dobrinka and Janko Marić, Serbia
In 1992, Dobrinka moved with her husband and three small children to Smederevska Palanka, Serbia, from Olovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Dragan Međedović, Montenegro
Meet Dragan Međedović, RHP beneficiary from Montenegro. “I hope that in the Home for the Elderly, it will be better. That's why I decided to go there”, said Dragan.

Jozo and Janja Raić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
RHP beneficiaries Jozo and Janja Raić returned to their home in the village of Grabovica near Mostar, after 26 years of displacement.

Ruža Puškar, Croatia
Ruža Puškar is a returnee from Montenegro to Croatia. As a single mother, Ruža and her two daughters, Ivana and Dragana, moved between different accommodation several times in Glina and Topusko.

Svetlana Marković, Nikšić, Montenegro
"Ever since we moved in, our quality of life has been truly fantastic. It can’t compare it to the place which we used to rent before", says Svetlana Marković, a refugee from Kosovo, who came with her family to Montenegro in 1999.

Milena Tintor, Belgrade, Serbia
Milena Tintor is one of the beneficiaries of the Regional Housing Programme in Serbia. "We wanted to live our lives normally, so that the children can focus on sports, school and other things...

The Pecirep family, Bosnia and Herzegovina
“I dreamed for so long of getting a new home”: Josepka Pecirep and her 22-year-old son Tomislav are the beneficiaries of a new Regional Housing Programme (RHP)...

Dragana Pešut, Croatia
Meet Dragana Pešut, RHP beneficiary from Croatia. “The house was the only problem that we couldn't solve on our own - the rest, we can manage”, said Dragana.

Gashi Family, Montenegro
The Gashi family is one of the 250 beneficiary families who have already received a home in Montenegro thanks to the RHP.

Mira Mihajlović, Obrenovac, Serbia
Mira Mihajlović fled Croatia in 1995. Thanks to the Regional Housing Programme, she now owns a village house in Obrenovac, Serbia.

Hamzić Family, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Hamzić family is one of the 500 beneficiary families who have already received a home in Bosnia and Herzegovina thanks to the RHP.

Ivanišević Family, Croatia
The Ivanišević family is one of the 262 beneficiary families who have already received a home in Croatia thanks to the RHP.

Draga Vujović, Nikšić, Montenegro
Draga Vujović moved with her son into her new apartment in Nikšić, Montenegro, in June 2016.

Bucan Family, Serbia
The Bucan family is one of the 2 000 beneficiary families who have received a home in Serbia thanks to the RHP.

Fehim Gondžić, Olovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fehim Gondžić moved with his wife and three children into their newly constructed house in Olovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in April 2016.

Ilinka Knežević, Knin, Croatia
Ilinka Knežević from Knin, Croatia, is one of the 101 beneficiaries who received an RHP-financed apartment, in December 2014.

Bora Cvijetić, Nikšić, Montenegro
Bora Cvijetić moved into her new apartment in building for 62 families in Nikšić (MNE1) in June 2016.

Nenad Tumara, Pećinci, Serbia
Nenad Tumara from Pećinci, Serbia, is one of the 64 beneficiaries who received a new pre-fabricated house in 2016.

Šerif Guta, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Guta family is one of 150 families who received turn-key reconstruction assistance (BiH1) and finished their house in June 2016.

Petar Eror, Korenica, Croatia
Petar Eror found his roof over his head in one of the apartments in a building for 29 families in Korenica (HR1) in September 2015.

Short clips

Beneficiary story of Nenad Draganić, Montenergo

Celebrating 30 years of the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration

The role of the OSCE in the RHP

Beneficiary story of Mirela Božurić, Croatia

The role of Council of Europe Development Bank in the RHP

The role of UNHCR in the RHP

A place called home - Meet Mirveta, Rusmira, Zora, Mihajlo and Adila

A place called home - Meet Mirjana, Janko, Pero, Veselka and Živko

A place called home - Meet Rada, Petar, Laura, Darinka and Hava

A place called home - Meet Ljuban, Tafa, Tanja, Snježana, Miroslav and Mira

Mr Cucić, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia on RHP in Serbia

Support of the Catholic Relief Services to the RHP

Complementary measures to the RHP

Technical and economic sustainability of the RHP

World Refugee Day: Delivery of keys to 270 beneficiary families in Belgrade (Kamendin)

Faces of the Regional Housing Programme: RHP celebrates World Refugee Day

New homes delivered to 30 beneficiary families in Kladovo and Negotin

Get-together with RHP Beneficiaries on a World Refugee Day in Sarajevo

RHP in the Media

Regional Housing Programme on Radio Television Serbia (RTS1)
The provision of apartments to 13 RHP refugee families in Sombor, Serbia, was an opportunity for Radio Television Serbia (RTS1, a morning programme) to report, on 26 February 2021, about the results of the RHP in this city, where numerous beneficiary families have already received housing support, either in the form of new flats, village houses or building material.

Regional Coordination Forum of the RHP on Prizma Programme (HRT)
What does the extension of the Regional Housing Programme mean for Croatia, and how has the RHP influenced cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia? These were some of the key questions explored by the “Prizma” programme of the Croatian public television channel HRT during its televised coverage of the RHP Regional Coordination Forum in Zagreb on 30 January. Prizma is a popular weekly programme which focuses on ethnic minority populations in Croatia.

Regional Housing Programme on Prizma Programme (HRT)
On 18 January, UNHCR and the Croatian Central State Office for Reconstruction and Housing Care (CSORHC) participated in the Prizma programme on HRT, which featured a short film on RHP implementation in Croatia. In addition, the State Secretary at CSORHC Nikola Mazar and UNHCR Associate External Relations and Public Information Officer Neven Crvenkovic discussed various aspects of RHP implementation in Croatia and the region.

RHP at Bosnian television channel TV N1
On 23 January, the Bosnian television channel TV N1 interviewed Nina Miskovic, National Coordinator from the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Neven Crvenkovic from the UNHCR, for the programme “Novi Dan” where they spoke about the latest achievements of the RHP in Bosnia and Herzegovina and across the Western Balkans.

RHP on BHT1
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day (20 June), the special edition of the programme “In Medias Res” of the national tv-channel “BHT1” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, brought together representatives of beneficiaries, donors and implementers of the Regional Housing Programme in BiH.

RHP on Prizma Programme (HRT)
On 24 June 2017, the PRIZMA programme for ethnic minorities on the Croatian public broadcaster HRT was dedicated to latest RHP achievements and projected goals until 2018. Guests in the studio were UNHCR PI Officer Mr Neven Crvenkovic and Mr Ivica Preskar of the RHP Croatia Lead Institution - Central State Office for Reconstruction and Housing Care

RHP on Regional TV N1
RHP Partner Countries' representatives talk to N1 about the regional aspect of the Programme. Speakers: Ivana Ćurko, Commissariat for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia, Nermina Džepar-Ganibegović, Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees BiH and Nikola Mažar, State Office for Reconstruction and Housing Care Republic of Croatia

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