Reports

Background World Vision has served in Cox’s Bazar district—one of Bangladesh’s poorest areas—for more than 30 years. Seventeen percent of the people here live below the extreme poverty line, compared to the national average of almost 13…

Para Counselors Learning Sharing Meetings: A total of five para-counselor learning sharing meetings were held in Khulna, Dhaka, Sirajganj, Tangail and Munshiganj in November where 540 para counselors, BRAC and IOM staff participated. The objectives of…

Executive Summary Bangladesh is currently providing an enormous global public good by hosting more than one million Rohingya refugees, over 740,000 of whom crossed the border from Myanmar between August 2017 and mid-2018. Fleeing violence and ethnic…

Para Counselors Learning Sharing Meetings: Two learning sharing meetings were conducted with para counselors in Shariatpur and Noakhali RSC on 27th and 29th October respectively. The objective of the para counselor learning sharing meetings was to…

Mahreen Khan and Helen Dempster Bangladesh provides a significant global public good by hosting over one million Rohingya refugees. Most are living in camps in Cox’s Bazar district, where local resources and livelihoods are strained. The refugee…

Cindy Huang , John Speakman and Irene Yuan Sun Bangladesh is hosting more than a million Rohingya refugees, and businesses have a critical role to play in improving the situation for them and their Bangladeshi host communities.…

IN BRIEF IOM's Health. Protection and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) teams con-ducted trainings for 166 health service providers on systems of support offered to survivors of Gender Based Violence. This training is expected to strengthen…

More than two years into the multi-faceted humanitarian response, WFP continues to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to the most vulnerable population and support with common services to more than 1 million host and refugee…

In Numbers 911,556 Rohingya refugees in camps 1,245,000 people in need 837,910 people assisted in October through a combination of: in-kind (394,955 individuals) e-voucher(442,955 individuals) Highlights To observe 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, WFP in Cox’s Bazar launched a series of…

A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Summary of current operation update: This operation update is issued mainly to inform progress of operation covering the period of 1 September until 31 October 2019. The planned response actions reflect the current situation and…