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Urgent Reforms Needed to Restore Macro Stability, Sustain Growth, and Create Jobs in Bangladesh DHAKA, April 8, 2026— Bangladesh’s economy faces significant challenges with slowing growth and rising poverty for three consecutive years, persistent inflation, stressed banking…
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Bangladesh has no framework for national asylum or direct laws regulating refugee affairs. This creates ambiguity regarding refugees' access to certain rights and services, notably the right to work and rights at work. Given that support must be…
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Key achievements Specialized case management services: UNHCR strengthened Best Interest Procedures (BIP), aligned case management for vulnerable children at risk. In 2025, 5,155 children (2,501 girls, 2,654 boys), including 481 children with disabilities and 841 unaccompanied and separated…
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Community-based protection (CBP) puts the capacities, rights and dignity of forcibly displaced and stateless persons at the center of programming. It generates more effective and sustainable protection outcomes by strengthening local resources and capacity and identifying…
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It was raining heavily that morning they fled; it wasn’t just the sky that was crying — but Jamila Begum’s heart was too. “It was raining so hard,” she remembers, “as if the clouds were feeling our…
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Executive summary Bangladesh is facing overlapping and intensifying crises that threaten agriculture-dependent livelihoods and na2onal food security. Recurrent floods, cyclones, salinity intrusion and environmental degrada2on, combined with rising zoono2c disease risks, are eroding produc2ve assets, disrup2ng markets…
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KEY UPDATES ● 2025 JOINT RESPONSE PLAN (JRP): As of 6 October, the 2025 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis was 38.1 per cent funded, according to the online financial tracker, with USD 355.6…
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CRAFTS CARNIVAL 2025: CELEBRATING RESILIENCE AND ENTERPRISE From 9–11 October 2025, IOM, through its implementing partner Prottyashi and with support from the Government of Japan, hosted the Crafts Carnival 2025 at the Laboni Hotel area in Cox’s…
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One year after the devastating south-eastern floods of 2024, more than 302,000 people in Feni, Noakhali, and Lakshmipur – the hardest-hit districts, are rebuilding their lives with new livelihoods, shelter, healthcare, disaster risk reduction initiatives and…
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS 2025-2026 JOINT RESPONSE PLAN (JRP): As of 10 June, the 2025 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis was 36.3 per cent funded, with USD 339 million received against an appeal of $934.5…
