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Humanitarian Assistance to Rohingya People in Cox's Bazar

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  • date_range Oct 04, 2017 - Mar 31, 2018
  • autorenew Closed (Status)

To enhance primary healthcare services, the project will establish two primary health satellite clinics with a full time medical team who will conduct sensitive health checks and prescribe medicines where necessary. Major health issues will be referred to the camp hospital for further treatment. The project will also provide psycho-support to women and children by establishing friendly spaces where women and children are able to share their traumas and received psychosocial support, focusing on creative, positive and culturally appropriate activities such as sports and games to stimulate and engage women and children. The spaces will also reach out to others in the community through culture and drama activities. To improve WASH and personal hygiene, gender and culture sensitive WASH facilities will be installed, including bathing facilities with appropriate lighting, deep sanitary latrines, and hand washing basins. Deep tube wells will be installed in line with GoB NGO Affairs Bureau and WASH cluster recommendations. Innovative social behaviour change communications games will be conducted and materials distributed to influence a longer term change in WASH practices. Relevant NFIs will be provided to improve the living conditions, including (i) establishment of communal cooking spaces (for every 2 families) and provision of environment-friendly cooking stoves along with non-timber fuel made from rice husks to reduce the dangers of fires, inhalation of fumes; (ii) assistive devices for people with disabilities; (iii) installation of community solar street lights including solar systems to increase security and protection, and (iv) provision of blankets and warm clothes to help protect beneficiaries from upcoming winter cold wave. Islamic Relief (IR) has a long presence in Cox’s Bazar Districts, where it started its in-country orphan and child welfare operations in 1991, a program that has continued until today. In addition, IR has also implemented WASH intervention, food distributions during Ramadan and Qurbani and responded to different emergencies affecting the people in the district, the most recent of which was the Cyclone Mora response in August 2017. Cox’s Bazar has remained a strategic area of IR and IR has maintained a sub-field office in the district. However, given the current government restrictions on IR in working directly with Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, an unfortunate development that IR is striving to resolve, IR will implement the project with United Purpose which will directly manage the response with two local partners. UP will directly manage the project and provide technical support, capacity building and backstopping to the two local partners, namely Integrated Development Foundation (IDF) and Sheba Manab Kallyan Kendra (SMKK). It will coordinate with local administration, law enforcement agencies and wider humanitarian actors and rapidly implement the activities in the Balukhali 2 camp.

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Sectors:
  • Disaster prevention and preparedness

Participating Organisations

DEC National NGO Funding
Islamic Relief Worldwide International NGO Accountable
United Purpose International NGO Implementing

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Budget

454,588 USD
  • 322,435 GBP (Valued at Mar 28, 2018)
    date_range Oct 04, 2017 - Mar 31, 2018
access_time Updated on May 29, 2020 10:58:28