Assessments

KEY FINDINGS • While government-enforced market restrictions may have led to reduced market functionality in traditional markets, some vendors reported new informal behaviours, such as an increase in informal vendors and the repurposing of public areas as…

Overview IOM Bangladesh Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM) is part of IOM’s global Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programming. DTM is IOM’s information management system to track and monitor displacement and population mobility. It is designed to regularly…

Executive Summary The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating impact and is expected to have lasting consequences globally. As of 4 May 2020, 10,143 cases have been confirmed in Bangladesh. To date, only 21…

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 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…

As COVID-19 races across countries and continents, affecting over 1.2 million people globally, states across the world are scrambling to deal with what has become the most wide-spread pandemic outbreak since the 1918 Spanish flu. The…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Malnutrition among children under five is of great concern in Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [BDHS] 2017-18 report, 30.8% of children under the age of 5 are stunted, 8.4% are wasted (WHZ…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Malnutrition among children under five is of great concern in Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [BDHS] 2017-18 report, 30.8% of children under the age of 5 are stunted, 8.4% are wasted…

OVERVIEW The 855,000 Rohingya refugees who are currently residing in 34 overcrowded, makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh are highly vulnerable to COVID-19. The overcrowded and unhygienic conditions increase the potential for the rapid spread of disease.…

2,635 families lost their houses including all belongings and household materials (e.g. Cooking Utensils, furniture, clothes, household accessories and electronics, education materials, hygiene products and latrines, dry food and baby food, medicine, documents, cash, stored income…