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Appointment of Jared Bloch as Coordinator of ICMC's Resettlement Deployment Scheme

We are pleased to welcome to ICMC Mr. Jared Bloch, ICMC's new Resettlement Deployment Scheme Coordinator. Mr. Bloch brings to this position considerable experience at both ends of the refugee "pipeline:" working in recent years with ICMC as a deployee himself in Georgia, Guinea and Hong Kong and during the prior 8 years with refugees resettling in the US. Jared served most recently as Director of Refugee Resettlement for Catholic Charities of Central New Mexico, managing a host of programs under contract with the US Catholic Conference of Bishops and various federal and state agencies.

Funded by UNHCR, the deployment scheme currently has 30 ICMC staff working in collaboration with UNHCR in 18 countries. ICMC has another 130 qualified professionals from 29 countries on its standby roster for deployment of staff. In 2004, the deployment scheme selected 14,456 persons for resettlement in 11 countries, and assisted in the group verification of 19,561 persons.

Jared picks up responsibility for the deployment program from Ms. Gloria Montanari, who had directed the program on an interim basis, and will work with Gloria and Ms. Yuka Mizuno in the Geneva office. He may be contacted directly in Geneva at +41 22 919 10 35, and at blochj@icmc.net.