Rohingya Crisis – Cash WASH SRHR and GBV in Myanmar - HOPE 2020

March 2020 – The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict inter-communal tension protracted displacement and food insecurity. It is estimated that 985 000 crisis-affected people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year including more than 273 000 displaced people (of which 69% are women and children) who remain in camps or camp-like settings across the country. With GAC’s support HOPE International Development Agency and its local partner Metta Development Foundation are supporting cash programming; water sanitation and health; and access to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health for internally displaced persons living in Kachin State Myanmar. Project activities include: (1) distributing multi-purpose cash grants to former internally displaced persons returning to their homes including in support of supplementary feeding for children; (2) constructing and renovating latrines; (3) providing vocational and technical livelihood training as well as start-up support to survivors of gender-based violence; and (4) facilitating comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights training for adolescent women.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to health education shelter and protection services through use of cash grants for internally displaced persons; and (2) enhanced use support tools for sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence prevention particularly by women and girls. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in communities experiencing humanitarian crises or that are food insecure.