Project profile — Myanmar - Humanitarian Assistance for the Rohingya Crisis - CLWR 2020

• Myanmar (100.00%)

• Material relief assistance and services:
Material relief assistance and services (72010) (63.00%)
Relief co-ordination; protection and support services (72050) (31.00%)
• Humanitarian aid: Basic Health Care in Emergencies (72011) (6.00%)

• 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)

March 2020 – The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict, inter-communal tension, protracted displacement and food insecurity. It is estimated that 985,000 crisis-affected people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year, including more than 273,000 displaced people (of which 69% are women and children) who remain in camps or camp-like settings across the country. With GAC’s support, Canadian Lutheran World Relief and its local partner, Lutheran World Federation Myanmar, are providing clean drinking water, non-food items and shelter to internally displaced people and host communities in Central Rakhine State, Myanmar. The project is also addressing issues of protection and social cohesion. Project activities include: (1) improving rainwater harvesting ponds and installing hand pumps; (2) distributing non-food items to persons with disabilities, elderly people, children without caregivers and single-headed households; (3) re-constructing longhouses in a safer, more dignified and gender-responsive manner; (4) providing training on leadership and rights-based empowerment to women, adolescent girls and girls; and (5) conducting awareness raising sessions on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities; (2) improved access to basic necessities and safe, dignified, gender-responsive housing; (3) enhanced living conditions and peaceful coexistence between internally displaced people and host communities; (4) increased awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights; and (5) increased leadership capacity among women and girls. The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in communities experiencing humanitarian crises or that are food insecure.

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