Reports

A year into displacement crisis, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador calls for ‘innovative ways’ to aid more than 720,000 refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh. By Marta Martinez in New York | 28 August 2018 One year after…

One year passed since the beginning of the exodus of an estimated 706,000 Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh following what the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called a “textbook example”…

Schools across Bangladesh are highly vulnerable to floods, cyclones and earthquakes. How can the country mitigate and respond to the risks of these natural hazards? By using the GeoDASH platform - a geospatial data sharing platform…

The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s global efforts to end extreme poverty, deliver the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and tackle a wide range of global development challenges. The UK’s focus and…

By Patrick Fuller ULAANBATAAR, 2 July, 2018 - Over 1,000 cities in Asia Pacific have now signed up to UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient campaign following a historic commitment made by all 329 municipalities of Bangladesh to join…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cash based interventions (CBI) in the Rohingya Crisis Response have the potential to strengthen sector and multi-sector strategies to respond to the emergency needs of the refugee and host population. It is acknowledged that CBI…

While several humanitarian organisations are working to mainstream CwC in their programme designs in Bangladesh, it is undeniable that the advantages of CwC can be realised at a much greater scale if this can be sensitised…

Andrea Dekrout is Senior Environmental Coordinator for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Based in Geneva, Dekrout is responsible for ensuring sustainable environmental management in UNHCR operations and refugee camps. In her work, she helps refugees and…

I. INTRODUCTION A. Background: Country Experience in Cash Transfer Programming The Cash Working Group (CwG) of Cox Bazar (CXB) supports the implementation of cash and market-based programming. As such, its focus is to create an enabling environment for…

NEW YORK—George Soros and the Open Society Foundations today announced an emergency assistance fund of USD 10 million to help Rohingya people displaced from Myanmar and host communities in Bangladesh. From April to October there is…