Assessments

795,000 Revised estimate of Total Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar - 15 Oct 582,000 Estimated number of New Arrivals since 25 August 2017 62,000 Estimated number of New Arrivals between R5 20 Sep – R6 15 Oct Following an…

1. KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS By 11 October, an estimated 536,000 Rohingya refugees had fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh following targeted violence and human rights violations at the end of August. Between 9 and 11 September 2017,…

Bangladesh: Responding to the plight of the Rohingya Dhaka, 11 October – The JRS Deputy International Director, Fr Joseph Xavier SJ, is currently evaluating opportunities for JRS to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, where over 500,000 people…

Executive summary The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Relief International (RI) carried out a multi-sector assessment between September 29 and October 3, 2017 with the aim of better understanding the priority needs of the influx of Undocumented…

Executive summary August 25, 2017 was not the first time that Bangladesh saw a massive wave of arrivals from its neighbour, Myanmar. Even though more than a million Rohingya have been living in Myanmar for generations, they…

The National Strategy on Myanmar Refugees and Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMN) formulated by the Government of Bangladesh highlights the fact that more than 300,000 Rohingyas1 have crossed the border and are living in Bangladesh. Following an…

Background of the analysis The Heavy rainfall and out rushed water from Upstream India caused unusual flood. Since the beginning of August, monsoon rains covering almost the whole country and upstream areas in India and Nepal gradually…

Background In the early hours of 25 August, violence broke out in Rakhine State, Myanmar. As a result, it is estimated that more than 400,0001 people have crossed the border into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh2. The extent and…

Introduction In August 2017, Action Against Hunger Bangladesh conducted an integrated SMART Nutrition survey (including IYCF, Food Security, Livelihood and WaSH) in the project areas of DeSHARI Consortium working on the project “Enhance resilience of the most…

Executive Summary In July 2017, 10 children died of an unknown disease in Tripura Para, a village in Sitakunda Upazila. In response GoB Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) was sent to area. It was…