Rohingya Refugee Crisis - Long-Term and Gender-Responsive Humanitarian Response 2018-2019

This project aims to analyse long-term humanitarian responses to the Rohingya refugee crisis and advance women’s rights through more effective and gender-responsive humanitarian action including conducting research on adolescent girls in refugee settings. Project activities include: (1) conducting research and consultation with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh; (2) supporting a regional roundtable to analyze regional responses to the Rohingya crisis; (3) developing an integrated research program focused on gender and diversity in humanitarian action; and (4) enhancing current research platforms and local partnerships to generate more in depth evidence on adolescent girls in refugee and IDP settings in Bangladesh. This project is being implemented by the Overseas Development Institute-Humanitarian Policy Group (ODI-HPG) an organization grounded in field research spanning a range of countries and emergencies.

The expected outcomes for this project are: (1) improved policy on gender-responsive humanitarian action; (2) strengthened evidence around gender transformative humanitarian assistance; (3) provision of new evidence on what works to empower adolescent girls in the Global South; and (4) establishment of a support programme on gender-responsive humanitarian action for key high-level international meetings. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.