Pooled Fund for Localizing the Rohingya Response

This project supports BRAC in establishing a unique first-of-its-kind pooled fund supported by the Government of Canada for a localized development-humanitarian response in a protracted crisis. This fund is used for the benefit of the Rohingya refugees through the delivery of interventions by Bangladeshi non-governmental organizations. Now entering its fifth year the Rohingya refugee crisis highlights the need for more effective integration of humanitarian and development efforts while building local capacity to deliver ongoing services. Project activities include: (1) funding and capacity development support to a minimum of 23 national and local organizations in organizational governance gender equality and environmental integration results-based management prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse inclusion humanitarian principles transparency as well as financial and fiduciary management among other areas; and (2) delivering selected national and local organizations of focused and context-specific interventions in both basic needs such as nutrition health water and sanitation and longer-term resilience-building projects such as education skills livelihoods promotion of gender equality by pooled fund-supported national and local responders.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased capacity of National and Local Responders (NLRs) to deliver gender-responsive climate-responsive environmentally sustainable programs for refugees in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char; and (2) increased uptake of NLR-delivered programs and services by Rohingya refugees particularly women and girls in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.