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Federation – Wide Internal Situation Update No. 44 POPULATION MOVEMENT OPERATION

Reporting Period: 1 to 31 January 2019

PSS support for children through fun activities in camp 13. Source: BDRCS

Key Highlights

• Since 1 January 2019, BDRCS started managing the field hospital. The hospital is renamed as ‘Bangladesh Red Crescent society Hospital’ and run by Bangladeshi qualified nurses and doctors with 10 bed facilities. Until 31 March 2019, it will be running as transitional hospital. Eye, Dental and surgical section, obstetrics and gynae have been planned to start from 1 April 2019. At present, one Hospital Manager, six doctors, 12 Nurses, one Admin & Finance officer, one Pharmacist, one NDRT member, one Electrical Engineer, two Lab Technicians, one X-Ray Technicians, six Porters, eight Cleaners, four Tech team members, six Cooks and one laundry man are working for the hospital.

• German Red Cross is in process of identifying land for 500 midterm shelters in camp 19, 20 and 20 Ext. and defining the design of midterm shelters.

• Since November 2018, BDRCS with support from IFRC provided LPG tanks and refilling to 873 households in camp 11-A.

• The 2019 Joint Response Plan (JRP) has been launched in January on behalf of Strategic Executive Group and partners active in Cox’s Bazar. The plan shows a collective requirement of USD 920.5 million to maintain priority responses to approximately 1.2 million people in the camp and host communities. Food security is the area that requires most support, which is followed by WASH, shelter, site management and health areas. The plan emphasises on key cross cutting issues to focus within and between sectors which are protection and gender mainstreaming, environment and eco-system rehabilitation, social cohesion, and natural disaster preparedness.

Partners who have contributed to the IFRC Emergency Appeal are: American Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, Austrian Red Cross, Bahrain Red Crescent, Belgian Red Cross, British Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, Red Cross Society of China Macau branch, Danish Red Cross, Finnish Red Cross, German Red Cross, Hong Kong branch of the Red Cross Society of China, the Iranian Red Crescent, Italian Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross Society, Luxembourg Red Cross, Maldivian Red Crescent, Netherlands Red Cross, New Zealand Red Cross, Norwegian Red Cross, Red Cross of Monaco, Republic of Korea National Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross, Taiwan Red Cross Organization and Turkish Red Crescent. The German Red Cross, Italian Red Cross, the Iranian Red Crescent, Kuwait Red Crescent, Swiss Red Cross, Qatar Red Crescent and the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent contributed to the BDRCS activities through bilateral channels. Situation Overview

As of January 2019, more than 900,000 people from Rakhine State live in 34 extremely congested camps, located in Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-district of Cox’s Bazar district. Approximately 626,500 people stay only in Kutupalong-Balukhali expansion. Since January 2018, there are more than 16,000 new arrivals.

On Jan 8, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shahriar Alam, stated that the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) will continue to address the crisis whilst also expressing his “hope that the Rohingya repatriation process, based on the agreed list of verified Rohingyas, will begin soon” – no further timeframe was given.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar visited Bangladesh and, in her statement, she commended the efforts of the Government of Bangladesh to develop the island but stressed that “no relocation should even be contemplated until a framework to protect any refugees who do relocate is agreed upon”. She further stated the need to fully involve the displaced in the decision to relocate in the form of ‘go and see’ visits emphasizing that there must be voluntary, informed consent, freedom of movement and called on the GoB to release “feasibility studies it has undertaken and to allow the UN to carry out a full technical and humanitarian assessment, including a security assessment, before making any further plans for the housing of people on the island.” The GoB has stated that relocation of people from Rakhine to Bhasan Char is a priority, with the State Minister for Disaster and Relief Management stating that the relocation of 23,000 families would be completed by April 15, 2019.

There has been a reported increase in attacks against the female population working and living in the camps. It concerns women from the displaced community in general and female volunteers and NGO staff. Men have also been targeted where they have been seen to support women accessing work and educational opportunities. The BDRCS and Red Cross partners have been impacted, in certain camps female volunteers are not going to work and there have been reported incidents of harassment. IFRC and BDRCS are working with the sector to report incidents and take appropriate actions to ensure the safety of our volunteers/staff and the continuation of our operations. The Government of Bangladesh has been engaged as this is an issue of respect for humanitarian workers and principles. The GoB is ultimately responsible for the overall safety and security in the camps.

The host community in Cox’s Bazar has been holding a series of protests and demonstrations over employment practices of NGOs which started peaceful but have turned increasingly hostile. On Jan 14 and 17, peaceful protests were held on the loss of jobs as some local NGO staff were released from their contracts at the end of last year (because projects have ended or are being transferred to national actors). Furthermore, several hundred people have lost their jobs mainly in the health sector due to the rationalization of services.

The current situation remains severe as the displaced population continue to face threats. They live in congested sites that impact all aspects of living and are ill-equipped to handle the monsoon rains and upcoming cyclone season– with alarmingly limited options for evacuation.

Needs and Operational Environment Overarching Considerations Current needs: • Access to quality protection and assistance is vital, particularly for adolescent girls and women including psychosocial support for all people affected. One of the most pressing issues that needs to be addressed is incidents of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse taking place in the camp population. GBV prevention mechanisms need to be strengthened, including GBV case management, counter-trafficking programming and psychosocial support for children and adults. Community-based protection interventions and efforts to ensure safety and security in the camps, including basic requirements such as lighting, presence of law enforcement authorities and access to justice, require continuous strengthening by all actors. • The protection sector working group in Cox’s Bazar, which RCRC is part of, set strategy to address women security is to focus on constructive engagement with authorities, expand community-based engagement with men, boys, religious leaders, and opinion makers alongside ongoing community and women empowerment initiatives and evidence-based protection analysis and timely interventions 2

• For unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), there is an urgent need for robust, family-based alternative care arrangement. • In 2019, disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness will build on both achievements and lessons learned during the cyclone and monsoon seasons of 2018. Across sectors, improved quality of facilities is needed to enhance weather resilience and sustainability. • The number of people from Rakhine State has almost tripled the total population in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas, with sizable consequences for the environment and livelihoods of Bangladeshi residents — as well as significant new development opportunities that have yet to be maximized. The influx of one million people has significant impact on fragile forest and land resources. So, there is a need to continue addressing concerns of the local population under the leadership of the Government and the local authorities. • A recent survey conducted by IOM and the UNHCR collected feedback from 12,373 people regarding WASH in camps 8W, 9, 10, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 24 and summarized the following six major concerns and needs: - Insufficient number of tube wells, toilets, washrooms, drains, and dustbins. - Women, children and older people are particularly struggling with washrooms and toilet access due to distance, privacy, and safety concerns. - Most of the toilets, drains and dustbins need better maintenance and regular cleaning. - Collecting water from shallow tube wells is very difficult during the winter with lower water levels. - Community members are suffering from various water – and air-borne diseases and skin diseases because of a lack of access to WASH facilities. - Women face issues with disposing of menstrual hygiene products and lack of adequate facilities.

Operational Challenges and mitigation

Sector specific challenges: Amongst the many challenges within the operation, the following have been identified in the last month: • Shelter: Local political leaders in host communities in Palongkhali Union (Ward no. 5 and 6) attempted to influence the selection of vulnerable households that need shelter improvement and it led to confusion among the community people regarding the process. Dialogue with public representatives (Ward commissioners) and government executive (UNO-Sub-district Executive Officer) for Ukhia Sub-district resolved the issue accepting the set criteria and weighting of vulnerability to select households. • WASH – IFRC Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) Pilot: There was a "bad batch" at beginning of the month due to insufficient operational guidance/ handover when the consultant left for two weeks but remedial action was taken immediately to fix the system, including dispatching excess scum into drying bed on British RC's site. Draft operational manual is available now and will be updated. • Relief distributions: The current set of NDRTs deployed for relief distribution finished their mission. The interim period has been challenging for the BDRCS relief team with the new NDRTs.

Operational challenges: • For LPG distribution, frequent relocation of some households within blocks/camps makes it difficult to track the actual eligible households in terms of camp area. • For GRC supported public health centres face challenge to upgrade health post to minimal adheres to minimal standards by the government. The project is under ECHO funding that asked for international procurement of medicines which has been difficult to maintain an acceptable standard. • CiC approval of site selection, site management approval (IOM/UNHRC), hand-over of facilities and cancellations at the end have been time consuming. Also, CiC’s last minute demand to change design of latrine with RRRC approval has been challenging. • There was delay in drilling of borehole in camp 18 site due to conflicted site with BRC latrines location. Community consultation is on-going and BRC agreed to relocate the latrines.

Overall mitigation: • Ongoing dialogue with CiC and site management in camp 19 and 20 for making the process to be mutually agreed and in time. • An interaction session with CiC held on 11 February was an attempt from BDRCS and IFRC to clarify the role of BDRCS, IFRC and PNSs in terms of RCRC movement and PMO in Cox’s Bazar.

IFRC Emergency Appeal

IFRC Emergency Appeal (EA) plan of action is in approval process for its fifth revision which hincludes a timeframe extension from 30 June to 31 December 2019 and reflects adjustments in the Shelter, Livelihoods, Health and Care, WASH, PGI, DRR components including Strategies for implementation such as Communications, Security, logistics, CEA, Humanitarian Diplomacy, PMER and NSD. Approximately 200,000 people from camps and 25,000 from host communities are projected to be reached.

Income analysis of the appeal (table 1) shows current budget, income, expenditures and implementation rate of 31 January 2019. These figures will change once the EA revision is approved.

Table 1: In CHF (as of 31 Jan.2019) Project Name EA budget Income Expenditures Implementation Funding gap1 rate Shelter & Relief 7,786,460 9,119,426 5,632,238 62% 0 Health & WASH 10,055,062 4,678,547 3,577,491 76% 5,376,515 Comm. Resilience 7,672,071 4,718,749 1,718,488 36% 2,953,322 NSD & Coordination 7,371,787 6,961,565 4,055,267 58% 410,22 Total 32,885,380 25,478,287 14,983,484 59% 8,329,837

Implementation rate 76% 80% 62% 58% 60% 36% 40%

20%

0% Shelter & Relief Health & WASH Comm. Resilience NSD & Coordination

Strategies for implementation

Human Resources

Summary of IFRC and BDRCS staff engaged in the operation

Human Resources for PMO Number of staff (current) BDRCS 192 IFRC 63 American Red Cross 4 British Red Cross 6 Canadian Red Cross 1 Danish Red Cross 8

1 The funding gap will change as the EA is being revised and the budget will change. 4

Finnish Red Cross 13 German Red Cross 28 Japanese Red Cross 9 Qatar Red Crescent 2 Swedish Red Cross 3 Swiss Red Cross 19 Turkish Red Crescent 21 Total 369

IFRC Logistics is supporting BDRCS and PNSs with processing procurement, storing relief materials and management of warehouse space. In January, following are the major logistics status:

BDRCS maintains contingency stocks of relief items such as hygiene kits, clothing, kitchen sets, sleeping mats, blankets, jerrycans, tarpaulins and ropes for cyclone season preparedness in its warehouse in Chittagong as well as in the WFP warehouse in Madhu Chara Logistics and Engineering Hub near the camps. BDRCS with the support of IFRC maintains five warehouses for the operation– main distribution warehouse in Ukhiya which is 10km from the camps (size: 700 sq.m), another warehouse located inside the camps (size: 150 m2) for 500 HH with contingency NFIs, CPP items, medical warehouse in Cox’s Bazar (size: 100 sq.m) to support the health programme (clinics), regional warehouse in Chittagong (size: 1,800 sqm) for 40,000 HH containing contingency NFI stocks and newly erected rub hall next to PMO office (size: 240 sq.m).

Currently, six VRP land cruisers and five rented vehicles are being used for the operation. For future operational needs, 12 IFRC VRP vehicles including one ambulance are in pipeline, with an expected time of arrival (ETA) to Dhaka at the end of March 2019. IFRC is providing support to other PNSs in requesting and receiving eight VRP vehicles from Dubai GF.

IFRC Communication team has been collecting information to mark 18 months of the crisis, through media channels such as Facebook, twitter, print media, web stories and press release. See video: 18 months on... life in bamboo and plastic!

Community engagement and accountability (CEA) Major community engagement activities in January 2019 were Radio Listening Program (awareness raising and feedback collection from the community), information and feedback desk, Mahji and Imam Meetings, FGD with host community about perceptions of the current situation and the guest communities and RCY orientation on community sensitization process for Cash Based Initiative (CBI) and LPG distributions. The Radio Group Listener activity is a weekly scheduled program which is conducted at different selected points in camps to inform the people in the camps and obtain feedback. The information desk is operated by BDRCS CEA-community mobilizers and RCY volunteers in order to provide information and collect feedback from the community. The feedback has been shared among relevant actors and presented to the senior management depending on the importance/necessity.

TRC conducted 48 FGDs with different groups at the community centers, 18 football and 18 volleyball matches for creating a friendly environment in the community. Also, TRC CEA team has been assisting in RFL services provided by ICRC implementing by BDRCS.

Preparedness for and Response to Disasters: To raise awareness on cyclone preparedness in the camps and host communities, BDRCS supported by American RC and IFRC have carried out essential activities in January 2019 as part of the e preparedness programme. The main activities were disaster preparedness training for 190 Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) camp volunteers from 9 camps, CPP host community volunteers meeting and a disaster preparedness lesson learnt exercise. In January, a total of 307 CPP camp volunteers were trained and out of them 79 females and 228 males were volunteers.

Key figures (Cumulative figures from 25 Aug.2017 to 31 January 2019)2 Federation wide- 4 W Response Map

Livelihoods- Non-food items 3BDRCS, supported by IFRC, German RC and Turkish RC distributed supplementary food parcels and non-food items for people in the camps during January 2019.

BDRCS distributed (with IFRC support) LPG refilling for 873 households who already received the LPG in November 2018. 150 Umbrellas were distributed in camp 14, Hakimpara. 17,497 households received solar 7,840 196,738 households received lamps, distributed in Camp 13 & Camp 14. TRC supported distribution food parcels unconditional cash included in month were 1000 food parcels, 6678 blankets,400 umbrellas, distributed support 2000 slippers, 1000 raincoat and 4000 hygiene kits. GRC on the other hand, supported a distribution of 9,971 blankets.

Shelter: BDRCS, with the support of IFRC, Turkish RC and German RC, continues shelter and NFIs interventions for the camp and host communities. IFRC supported activities include PASSA training for 720 household leaders of host communities at Ward6 and 7 in Palongkhali Union of Ukhia 8,347 Sub-district, 2,750 TDK and tarpaulin distribution at camp 9,029 3,881 Shelter toolkits 12 in Balukhali -2, and Turkish RC supported 333 households households distributed trained in received tie households provided with transitional shelter items such PASSA down knots

2 These figures are Federation-wide, including American RC, British RC, Canadian RC, Danish RC, German RC, Japanese RC, Qatar RC, Swiss RC and Turkish RC. 3 Sector infographics are Federation-wide. 6

as concrete pillars, walls and durable tin roofs to strengthen shelters

German RC started a shelter support project with BDRCS as the implementing partner. The project started with identification of land for 500 midterm shelters and defining design of midterm shelters. IOM has reserved plots for 300 midterm shelters for BDRCS/GRC in camps 19, 20 and 20 extension, but the final confirmation from IOM-side has been pending. Design of Midterm Shelter (including BOQ) has been completed, following the agreed sector standard with some minor adjustments.

WASH BDRCS is supported by the IFRC and partners including, Swedish RC, British RC, German RC, Danish RC and Turkish RC, Qatar RC in promoting hygiene, managing pure drinking water supply, setting up sanitation facilities including lab and WASH NFI (hygiene kits) distribution. Following are specific WASH activities of PMO in January:

An FSM (faecal sludge management) lab was set up by IFRC’s expertise support. The IFRC WASH team provides BDRCS with FS Aerobic pilot plant, drilling 3 Production Boreholes in camp 11 and 1 in camp 18 and Community engagement for the water network in camp 11. The lab is being set up to analyse samples taken from RCRC sites and share findings in WASH sector to prevent any risks. On-going pilot project has been led by a IFRC consultant. 129,095 113 completed households There was a "bad batch" at beginning of the month due to received boreholes hygiene kits insufficient operational guidance/ handover when the consultant left for 2 weeks but remedial action was taken immediately to fix the system, including dispatching excess 478 93,676 scum into drying bed on BRC's site. Draft operational manual latrines people reached is available now and to be update. Three drilling in camp 11 constructed through hygiene

was completed including the test. The location in camp 18 promotion issue was raised with British RC and resolved through community consultation. Community engagement for water network in camp 11 has been ongoing to have continuous feedback.

German RC WASH interventions are: - Installation of 35 bathing cubicles, building 12 single stance latrines - 27 latrine blocks constructed and 25 (12 in Camp 18 and 13 in Camp 13) sub-blocks to be covered with hygiene promotion activities - 3 deep tube wells with handpumps installed in host community, 5 small piped water networks operationalized / extended and desludging/decommissioning of toilet in camp 18 and 13, and rehabilitation of hand pumps, toilets or bathing facilities in the camps. - 7 locations in the camp 18 and 13 have been identified and approved for toilets and bathing facilities - For 20 relocated one’s site-selection is ongoing. Approval process and sub-sequent construction delayed over coordination issues. Coordination with CiC and Camp Focal have led to overlapping with a national NGO named GUK. An agreement was reached, that the works on the site up to now would be continued by GUK and that they would compensate (in kind) the GRC works at a new site that is yet to be identified (replacing latrines affected by road construction).

In January 2019, BDRCS supported by Danish RC conducted WASH activities such as FSM site identification and obtaining approval, 32 out of 60 deep tube well, deep tube wells repairs (60) in camp 19, 34 (x3), block latrines out 62 (x3) were completed. These activities are ongoing in camp 19.

BDRCS supported by British RC WASH team have reached 2,635 households with hygiene promotion, desludged 230 latrines, treated 33 cubic metres of sludge maintains 57 latrines and 23 bathrooms in camp 18.

WASH KAP Survey: In October 2019, a WASH KAP survey was undertaken in five camps: Camp 12, Camp 13, Camp 17, Camp 18 and Camp 19 to gather evidence and data on household habits, practices, knowledge and attitudes of WASH related behaviours which provides the benchmark values for WASH indicators in RCRC WASH working areas. Major findings from the survey are stated below:

• Water supply: The analysis indicated that the main source of drinking water across all of the five camps is the use of handpumps/boreholes and public taps/standpipes, this was also the main source of non-drinking water across all of the camps. • Hygiene practices among the community were relatively positive with almost all the respondents indicating that they use water and soap when washing their hands. • Sanitation: In all the camps, 94% of respondents indicated that they use a communal latrine to defecate and 2% of the population use a household latrine • Menstrual hygiene: Women and girls of menstrual reproductive age in the camps were surveyed on the access they have to suitable materials and the practices they use throughout their menstruation period. 31% of women indicated that they use reusable cloth, a further 25% use a disposable pad and a concerning 23% wear layers of underwear. In Camp 17, 18 and 19, respondents stated that they do not use anything and bleed into their clothes. • Diarrhoea prevalence seemed to be less common with 75% of respondents stating that no children under five years old have had watery stools in the last week. Camp 17 had particularly increased reports of watery stools with 2% reporting children under five having 3 or more stools in the past week. • Community observation: A concerning 77% of the handwashing stations observed at the latrines were not functional and filled with water, particularly in Camp 12, Camp 13 and Camp 18. In contrast to this, 86% of drop holes observed were covered with a lid and flap in the squat plate. Furthermore, the observations demonstrated that 67% of households and their surroundings appeared to be clean, particularly in Camp 12 and Camp 18. Additionally, 33% of households observed had evidence of stagnant water in the surrounding area with Camp 17 having 40% of households with stagnant water

Health and PSS A total of 11,371 consultations had been done in the 5 health posts and 1 BDRCS field hospital in January 2019. Major cases treated in the month are related to sexual and reproductive health, severely or moderately malnourished children, 232,800 163,168 respiratory tract infection, skin infection and diarrhea. patients treated in people reached 9 Red Cross Red with psychosocial Vulnerable groups included in these health conditions were Crescent health support services mostly children under five, pregnant women and people with facilities disabilities. 9 operational Red Cross Red Varicella (chickenpox) infection has been affecting people in the Crescent health facilities camps for the last couple of months. In January 2019, 423 suspected varicella cases were provided with treatment from 6 Red Cross healthcare facilities. There were 134 under 5 years old cases, where 14.2% cases were under 1 year old. To address this issue, response mechanism has been set up in four tiers treatment of the cases and referral for risk and complicated cases, listing of the cases by the doctors on daily basis, sharing and reporting of the cases internally and externally to Health Sector and Ministry of Health; and continuously raising community awareness through the community health volunteers’ household visit.

One hour weekly Medical Academic Session for the medical staffs has been conducted since January 2019. It is being held at PMO office and facilitated by health team internally and/or, externally. Similarly, monthly health post meeting held in January 2019 targeted to standardize the core medicines needs and its preparation using WHO/DHS rationalization process to reach the Minimum Standard of Essential Service Package.

Based on the 2018 beneficiary satisfaction survey findings conducted among health service recipients and peer monitoring done by PNSs using the quality checklist, four areas of improvement have been identified which need to be acted upon: 8

- Waiting area and privacy assurance - Toilet and Washing facilities maintenance - Medical staff attentiveness to the diagnosis, medication and side effects explanation; and

In January 2019, the Japanese RC supported clinic, treated a total of 2,829 patients with an average of 106 patients daily. Commonly treated cases were generalized weakness, gastro intestinal tract infection, skin diseases, and muscular skeletal problem. Number of Varicella cases has been increasing since 15 January (when counting started), 3 to 5 per day up to third week, however fourth week around 10 per day. At mother and child healthcare, on an average 8 ANC/PNC patients, 2 newborn babies for daily. The number of Family Planning patients have been decreasing; 86 patients a month.

The RC health facilities conducted activities other than direct health care services which included: • Community health outreach activities are ongoing. 3,008 household visits carried out to raise awareness on various health and prevention topics for adult household members. 407 health sessions were conducted, with the participation of 2,291. People have received messages in the following topics: First Aid: 2,649, Epidemic Control 1,358, PSS: 1,464, Nutrition: 2,281 and Family Planning: 2,419. 784 people have visited the Oral Rehydration Points (ORPs) which are maintained by community volunteers. Refresher health session for community volunteers at the BDRCS/Canadian RC 549 ORSs have been distributed. community center in camp 5.

• Flipchart development has been handed over to IFRC. • A half-day seminar was organized for health managers and doctors to gain better understanding of “Data collection and sharing” from health facility settings. Feedback for homogenization of database was done and an improved version of the questionnaire will be completed shortly. • A training on Varicella outbreak awareness was conducted with the participation of 191 community health volunteers and 20 community mobilizers in Ukhia and Teknaf. • 15 BDRCS doctors were trained on reporting and coordinating of suspected varicella cases. • 2,000 leaflets with health education pictorials were printed and disseminated in the service areas. • Guideline on management of uncomplicated cases of varicella has been shared with the medical doctors and medical assistants. • In January 2019, Community Health Volunteers reached 13,370 households and disseminated key messages to approximately 66,850 community members. • A 4W mapping for IFRC MHPSS has been completed with the MHPSS working group. • A half day training on nutrition was done for newly recruited German RC community volunteers on nutrition promotion messages during household visits. • A session on understanding of Infant and Young Children Feeding (IYCF) was carried out for medical officers, midwives, nurses and community mobilizers.

Psychosocial Support (PSS) services: In January 2019, 18,702 children and adults participated in psychosocial activities in camps 4, 5, 7, 8W, 12, 13, 14, 19 and 26. Psychological first aid (PFA) was conducted at household level. 1,322 households were visited and PFA provided to 7,403 individuals. Community volunteers including RCY gathered for two days to discuss PSS and other issues to obtain feedback from the displaced people in the camps. Three focus group discussions (FGD) sessions (one for adolescent girls and boys, another for adult women) were carried out in Burmapara (Camp 13) community centre to identify gaps in PSS support and set improvement strategies.

Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) In January 2019, 17,497 households received solar lamps in camps 13 and 14 with the in-kind support from DFID. People with disabilities have been selected to receive assistive devices to be distributed in the 221 following months. People from camps 14 and 19 925 staff and staff and participated in Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to volunteers volunteers oriented in PGI obtain feedback concerning their interest on the trained/and or 21,755 informed in PGI dignity kits1 activities related to protection and gender orientation, distributed and skills development for self-empowerment.

Dignity, Access, Participation and Safety (DAPS) Centres: With the support from Swedish RC, two DAPS centres have been constructed in camp 19 (Tanjimarkhola) and camp 14 (Hakimpara). Volunteers and support staff were recruited in January to start the activities in the centres. These two DAPS centres will focus on skill development support for women amongst other activities. A capacity building training covering foundation topics on PGI was conducted for Community volunteers in Burmapara (Camp 13).

Camp in Charge, BDRCS, SRC, IFRC staff meeting with people from the camps on January 8, 2019 at PHC in Camp 15 where 8 assistive devices were provided to 6 people with disabilities. Source: BDRCS

For more information, please contact: In the IFRC:

Azmat Ulla, Head of Country Office, Dhaka In Bangladesh Red Crescent Society: Mobile : +880-171-152-1615 Email : [email protected]

Md Feroz Salah Uddin, SG, BDRCS, Dhaka Sanjeev Kafley, Head of Sub office, Cox’s Bazar Mobile : +880 181 145 8500 Mobile : +880-179-458-1877

Email: [email protected] Email : [email protected]

Syed Ali Nasim Khaliluzzaman, Frank Kennedy, Operations Manager, Cox’s Bazar Head of Operations, Cox’s Bazar Mobile: +880 182-538-7364 Mobile: +880 181 966 7768 Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected] Maria A. Larios, Accountability Coordinator, Cox’s Bazar

Joynal Abedin, Deputy Director, Coxs Bazar Mobile: +880 185 103 2766 Mobile : +880 181 145 8511 Email: marí[email protected]

Email : [email protected]