Project profile — Bangladesh - Humanitarian Response to Rohingya Refugee Crisis - Oxfam Canada 2019



Overview 

CA-3-P007066001
$1,300,000
Oxfam Canada (22501)
2019-03-13 - 2020-05-31
Closed
Global Affairs Canada
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br

Country / region 

• Bangladesh (100.00%)

Sector 

• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (100.00%)

Policy marker 

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

Description 

January 2019 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017, more than 735,000 Rohingya crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. These refugees joined some 200,000 to 300,000 Rohingya already in Bangladesh following earlier waves of displacement. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs With GAC’s support, Oxfam Canada is helping to meet the essential water, sanitation, hygiene and protection needs of Rohingya refugees affected by this crisis, Bangladesh. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating existing water and sanitation facilities; (2) constructing gender sensitive communal latrines based on women and girl-led designs; (3) conducting hygiene promotion in refugee and host community schools; and (4) training of local authorities and traditional leaders on women and girls’ roles and rights, legal entitlements, protection and referral pathways.

Expected results 

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased use of improved hygiene practices and safe and dignified gender-sensitive sanitation facilities conforming to expressed preferences of women and girls in Cox’s Bazar; and (2) improved safe access to humanitarian services especially for women and girls in Cox’s Bazar. The expected ultimate outcome is reduced suffering, increased and maintained human dignity, and lives saved for Rohingya refugees, particularly women and girls, in camps and informal settlements of Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar District of Bangladesh.

Results achieved 

N/A

Budget and spending 


Original budget $0
Planned disbursement $0
Transactions
Country percentages by sector
Type of finance Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Collaboration type Bilateral
Type of aid Project-type interventions