An estimated 4,195 households have been affected by the recent heavy rainfall in Cox’s Bazar. Relocation work is ongoing from Kutupalong Registered Camp and Camps 1 East and 1 West to Camp 4 Extension (also known as Camp 123). 500 families will be relocated to Camp 4 Extension by the end of this week. In total, BRAC targets to relocate 1,000 families to Camp 4 Extension. BRAC’s Site Management team has been sensitising families about potential movement to safer locations, answering questions and direct people to services.

BRAC has been providing life-saving services to forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals through a multi-sector programme since the influx began in August 2017. We are working closely with the Government, local and international NGOs and other stakeholders through the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG).

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME

COX’S BAZAR ACTIVITY REPORT 11-26 June 2018

EMERGENCY SITUATION UPDATE

KEY BRAC ACTIVITIES TO DATE

27,288

patients screened and provided with treatment to prevent Acute Watery

Diarrhoea

4,299 shelter upgrading and

maintenance jobs completed

5,551

latrines desludged, against a target of 4250

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KEY BRAC INTERVENTIONS

WASH

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Shelter & non-food

Health

Protection

Disaster risk reduction

Education

Agriculture & environment

Site management

Communication for Development

11-25 JUNE TILL DATE / ONGOING

9,675 Non Food Item (NFI) kits

distributed

203,305 sand bags placed to facilitate

mobility and strengthen shelters

1,507 participants at tailoring

training sessions

15,27,400 vetiver grass slips

planted

350 Learning Centres operational in host communities, camps and

settlements

610 birth deliveries attended to in Primary Health Care Centres

3,393 days of work completed under ‘Cash for Work’

800 number of volunteers for community mobilisation

80,757 households covered by

hygiene sessions

1,581 tube wells built

3,57,748 consultations provided to

outpatients

13,044 trees planted within camps

and settlements

28,0667 children and adolescents

registered in Learning Centres

37,657 people provided with psychosocial support

3,047 gaps and needs resolved

40,000 household visits conducted

every week

28,779 shelters built

1,874 vulnerable shelters

relocated

664 shelters repaired

27,288 cases of Acute Watery

Diarrhoea treated

550 households received seeds and training

69 households relocated

1,645 households referred to services by volunteers

272 latrines upgraded

380 latrines built

65 Learning Centres repaired

out of 66 identified as damaged

3,571 complaints responded to

through Information Points

SNAPSHOT: RECENT INITIATIVES ON THE GROUND

Controlling disease outbreaks 11 Primary Health Care Centres have been strengthened and covered with tarpaulin following rain damage. Centres will now be able to withstand adverse weather conditions and remain operational during emergencies. Oral Rehydration Therapy points have been set up at 12 Primary Health Care Centres and are providing medication to control outbreaks of Acute Watery Diarrhoea. 114 water filters are being distributed to mothers visiting health centres to provide safe drinking water and encourage use of centres.

Shelter relocation and maintenance BRAC’s Shelter team, with the support of volunteers, have been relentlessly constructing 218 pre-fabricated Flat Pak shelters in Camp 4 Extension to relocate approximately 500 families by the end of this week. Each twin shelter provides two families with shelter from the strong winds accompanying monsoon season. Pre-fabrication means that shelters can be moved quickly. The overall goal is to construct 500 shelters, to allow 1,000 families to be relocated to Camp 4 Extension.

Education One of the challenges faced by learners at the 248 Learning Centres operated by BRAC is following the education materials. To overcome this challenge, the Education team has developed supplementary charts and workbooks on days, animals, birds, fruits, colours and numbers. The programme has also designed a 365-page Teacher’s Guide. BRAC has submitted the developed materials to the ISCG education sector.

World Refugee Day World Refugee Day was observed on 20 June. Children’s art, photography and handicraft exhibitions were organised in Kutupalong Registered Camp in collaboration with UNHCR. A number of pieces of art done by women and adolescent girls and boys attending BRAC’s Women Friendly Spaces and Community Centres were displayed in the exhibition. The award for the best piece went to a female artist who regularly attends a BRAC Women Friendly Space.

Photo Credit: ISCG/ Nayana Bose

$ 45.4 million

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME HEAD Mohammed Abdus Salam salam.ad@brac.net +880 1709647506

OPERATIONS Khaled Morshed khaled.m@brac.net +88 01730321717

MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS Sarah-Jane Saltmarsh sarah.jane@brac.net +88 017290 70895

1,899 BRAC staff (including 250 teachers from host communities) and 1,526 volunteers are providing critical services on the ground across camps, settlements and host

communities.

With the monsoon season upon us, we need your support more than ever.

PEOPLE

URGENTLY NEED YOUR

HELP.

ESTIMATED TOTAL REQUIREMENT

(March - December 2018) committed

USD$44.5 million $11.9 million

assistance still required

Md Muktadir Rashid, Correspondent of New Age and Bangladesh Representative of The Irrawaddy during his visit to the camps in June 2018: “The shelter work done by BRAC in Camp 4 is impressive. I have visited the camps many times and can see large scale improvement in operation and transparency from all NGOs. The focus around livelihoods now needs to be increased.”