Bangladesh - Humanitarian Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis - Development and Peace 2019

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 some 200 000 to 300 000 Rohingya already in Bangladesh following earlier waves of displacement. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs. With GAC’s support Development and Peace is helping to provide safe shelters and secure settlements to Rohingya refugees in the camps in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. Project activities include: (1) distributing material for transitional shelters and upgrades to existing shelters according to priorities identified by refugee households; (2) providing house-to-house technical assistance following the distribution of shelter materials; (3) providing gender sensitive semi-permanent shelters for particularly vulnerable households such as women or child-headed households; and (4) providing solar lighting and other site improvements.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to gender-sensitive transitional and semi-permanent shelters; and (2) improved access to safer and more dignified gender-sensitive settlements. The expected ultimate outcome is reduced suffering increased and maintained human dignity and lived saved of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh.