Reports

Authors: C. Austin Davis, Nicola Jones, Mushfiq Mobarak, Jennifer Muz Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh has received multiple waves of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar since the 1970s, but late 2017 saw the largest and fastest refugee influx…

Executive Summary Along with the rest of the world, Bangladesh is preparing to undertake a range of measures to protect its population from the COVID-19 and its long-term socio-economic and humanitarian impacts. COVID-19 which was declared a…

Executive Summary Introduction Cash and voucher programming (CVP) is a humanitarian intervention method used to help vulnerable populations meet their basic needs with flexibility and dignity. Increasingly, humanitarian actors are using this intervention method to contribute to improving…

Project Overview Duration: 4 years (April 2017—April 2021) Funded by: The European Union Lead Ministries: The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE) and The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Implementing Partner: BRAC Service Coverage: 64 Districts of Bangladesh…

Highlights • WFP programme interventions in response to Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar: As advised by the Government of Bangladesh (Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox’s Bazar) WFP will continue its life-saving food assistance considered extremely critical…

Monthly Update February 2020 District Workshop in Cumilla: A district workshop was organized on 27th February 2020 in Cumilla. The objective of the workshop was to bring together all the relevant stakeholders including government officials, non-government officials, CSOs,…

SITUATION • Attacks by armed actors on Burmese security posts in August 2017 and subsequent military operations in Burma’s Rakhine state, home to the majority of Rohingya, have caused a major humanitarian crisis in neighboring Bangladesh. The…

Context: Where are we? Over hundreds and thousands of Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh, following violent incidents in 1978, 1991 – 1992, and again in 2016. The largest and most rapid Rohingya refugee influx was triggered in…

It is nightfall in the village of Char Baghutia in Manikganj district in central Bangladesh. Twenty-seven-year-old Miriam is hunched over a rickety old sewing machine, under a single incandescent lamp, with one hand over the cloth…

It is a bright summer morning in the southern part of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Momtaz Begum, a single mother of six children, is out in the field tending her farm along with her eldest son.…