BANGLADESH
context
Since October 2016, nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled political persecution in Rakhine State, Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh. With insufficient access to basic support and services, just 47% of children and a mere 3% of adolescents living in these camps have access to education.
The gaps in provision are illustrative of the sheer lack of capacities amongst local level organisations to cope with the scale and severity of the response and underscore an urgent need for surge and capacity-strengthening support to these organisations.
BANGLADESH IN NUMBERS
1M
Rohingya refugees have fled political persecution in Rakhine State, Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Almost 1M
Refugee arrivals in the camps in Cox's bazar, 500,000 of these are children under the age of 17
47%
Of children and a mere 3% of adolescents living in refugee camps have access to education.
what we are doing
Street Child is a critical actor in the crisis response. In recognition of our rigorous approach to capacity strengthening and commitment to localisation, we are working with national organisations to increase local level capacities to respond to educational needs at the request of the United Nations Education Cluster. Our support will increase the number of actors able to respond to educational needs in emergencies; and offer a proven partnership model in humanitarian emergencies that catalyses a shift towards scaling locally-led, self-sufficient and sustainable responses.
Since 2018 Street Child has partnered with nine local organisations in Bangladesh to respond to the refugee crisis, providing immediate surge support and capacity strengthening support to our partners to ensure the quality of the response keeps up with its scale.
Street Child is supporting the Rohingya refugee children by providing access to both face-to-face and remote education in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char Island in Bangladesh. We are one of the very first INGO’s providing access to remote education on Bhasan Char Island. We are using solar-based audio devices to provide educational content that does not require internet or electricity. Community volunteers and social mobilisers are supporting the team to ensure that children are learning without barriers.
Additionally, we are running a gender-responsive learning centre in Camp no 9, Ukhiya, in Cox’s Bazar to ensure the Rohingya refugee children receive face-to-face learning. Two teachers and a team of office staff support the children to create positive learning outcomes.
Street Child is leading the localisation work in Bangladesh by championing local actors through providing access to adequate funding, enhancing leadership to advocate in different sectors and donors, empowering local actors to the global and national authority, and providing capacity-building support using Street Child’s organizational development tool. Currently, Street Child has 15 local partners in Bangladesh, across Dhaka, Chittagong, and Cox’s Bazar, who are providing support with education, child protection, mental health, and life skills to marginalized children and local communities.
Through the proposal support, several of our local partners in Cox’s Bazar have been selected as a partner of the Joint Response Plan, an annual needs-based response plan to secure committed funding from the cluster, responding to child protection and education. Several local organizations have received an unrestricted grant to increase their organizational capacity through Street Child’s advocacy with global community and liaison with in-country representatives.
Bangladesh will be one of the countries most affected by climate change issues in the next few decades, but we may begin to see the impact much earlier. In line with Street Child’s global strategy, we are focusing on climate change We are working with local organisations to respond to affected communities by implementing low resource solutions with high impact which would also ensure sustainability. We are maintaining zero use of plastic in programme areas as well as employing green gardening to protect the environment and make people aware of the importance of climate protection.
YOUR IMPACT IN BANGLADESH
314
Schools setup.
1,279
Children reached with programmes such as mental health support.
1,158
Adults reached with awareness-raising sessions.
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