Rohingya Refugee Crisis - Creating a Gender Hub - UN Women

January 2019 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017 more than 735 000 Rohingya crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. These refugees joined an estimated 200 000 to 300 000 Rohingya refugees already in Bangladesh following earlier waves of displacement. The majority of the refugees are women and children. With GAC’s support UN Women works to establish a Gender Hub in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. The Gender Hub helps address knowledge and capacity gaps among humanitarian actors in order to strengthen gender-responsive humanitarian action and improve service delivery and outcomes for women and girls affected by this crisis. Project activities include: (1) developing and delivering training courses for international and local humanitarian actors involved in the refugee response on gender awareness and gender sensitivity gender and diversity and gender and gender-based violence mainstreaming; and (2) acting as a knowledge management center and gathering assessments and research data to help humanitarian actors strengthen knowledge and evidence-base to design humanitarian interventions with greater impact.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) integrated gender related technical guidance and support to translate policies and commitments into tangible action are available to humanitarian actors; (2) increased capacity of sectors humanitarian agencies and local partners to better identify address and monitor the needs of women girls boys and men in all their diversity for greater accountability on gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment results; and (3) gender analysis assessments and good practice documents to inform gender-responsive planning programming and implementation are readily available to humanitarian actors and national and local stakeholders. The expected ultimate outcome is the humanitarian response planning programming and implementation are gender and diversity inclusive and responsive and sustainable.