UN to halve Rohingya food aid in Bangladesh amid funding crunch

Aljazeera
6 Mar 2025 

World Food Programme says ‘severe funding shortfalls’ to force cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.

Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, mark the fifth anniversary of their flight from Myanmar during a military crackdown [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

The United Nations has warned that it will be forced to halve rations for about one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a letter on Wednesday that “severe funding shortfalls” are forcing a cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.

Japan to consider increasing aid to Rohingyas

The Daily Star
Staff Correspondent
Mon Sep 4, 2023 

National Diet delegation set to visit Cox’s Bazar camps 

Rohingya camp. File photo

Japan will consider increasing its humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a prominent Japanese lawmaker said yesterday.

"We are planning to visit Cox's Bazar tomorrow. We would like to see the situation and provide some humanitarian assistance based on the actual needs there," said Nakanishi Yusuke, director of the committee on general affairs, House of Councillors at the National Diet.

Concerns mount over UN food aid cut for Rohingya in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
7 Mar 2023

The UN and the Bangladesh government call for more international aid to help the refugees as they face a ‘difficult year’.

Rohingya refugees wait to receive food supplies at a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution centre in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Concerns are mounting over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) decision to slash food support for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh due to a funding crisis.

On March 1, the WFP, citing a $125m donation shortfall, cut the monthly food vouchers for the refugees from $12 to $10 per person, warning further cuts were “imminent” without an immediate cash injection.

US Announces $26M in New Aid for Rohingya

THE GLOBAL POST
Staff Writer
03/08/23

    

Myanmar Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman, AFP

The United States announced on Tuesday $26 million in new humanitarian aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and elsewhere in that region of Asia.

Around one million members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, many after fleeing a 2017 military crackdown in neighboring Myanmar. The onslaught caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Fighting Myanmar's regime with compassion and military skills

NIKKEI ASIA
DENIS D. GRAY, Contributing writer
August 1, 2021 

Free Burma Rangers help thousands fleeing brutal attacks by security forces

David Eubank, founder of the Free Burma Rangers aid organization, rescues a 5-year-old Demoa after her mother was killed by Islamists in the battle for Mosul. (Courtesy of Free Burma Rangers)

     CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- David Eubank, a former U.S. Special Forces officer, believes that some causes are worth dying for. His Free Burma Rangers aid organization, founded to help victims of an earlier Myanmar crisis, has since brought frontline help to many thousands in war-scarred Syria, Iraq and Sudan. Now, it is back in Myanmar helping ethnic minorities to flee escalating attacks by the regime's security forces.

ICC Partners with Free Burma Rangers to Provide Aid and Hope to 1,500 IDPs

PERSECUTION

International Christian Concern
6/28/2021

Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – Since the February 1 military coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected civilian government, infighting between the Burmese military and pro-democracy groups has reached a boiling point. The fighting has forced many Burmese people to flee their villages out of fear for their lives, leading to a significant spike in the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the country.

UK accused of ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40% aid cut

The Guardian

Kaamil Ahmed
Fri 21 May 2021

Children in overcrowded Cox’s Bazar settlement likely to suffer most from reduced humanitarian spending, say campaigners

Campaigners have warned of a ‘lost generation’ of children if funding targets for the response in Myanmar are not met. Photograph: Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more than 40%.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) pledged £27.6m to the humanitarian sector’s joint response plan launched this week, compared with £47.5m last year.

South Korea provides $1m to IOM to support Rohingyas affected in recent fire

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
April 10th, 2021

Massive fire at Balukhali Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Monday, March 22, 2021 Dhaka Tribune

The donation will support activities in response to the recent Rohingya camp fire in Cox’s Bazar

The government of South Korea has decided to provide emergency support of US $1 million to the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in order to support the humanitarian activities in response to the massive fire that broke out recently at the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

EU scales up aid for Rohingya fire victims

FINANCIAL EXPRESS

FE Online Desk

Published: April 08, 2021

The European Union is providing €150,000 (close to BDT 15 million) to step up its support for Rohingya refugees affected by the massive fire that swept through refugee camps in the Bangladeshi southern district of Cox’s Bazar in March this year.

This follows the initial assistance of €500,000 announced last week as an immediate response to the blaze.

“The fire has caused many Rohingya refugees, who have lived in displacement in camps over the past three years, to yet again lose almost everything,” said Daniela D'Urso who oversees the EU’s humanitarian response in Bangladesh.

Turkish NGO to distribute aid worldwide during Ramadan

Daily Sabah
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA
ISTANBUL DIPLOMACY
MAR 28, 2021

Osman Gerem, the head of the Sanliurfa  Humanitarian Platform, during the interview  with Anadolu Agency (AA ), in Sanliurfa , Turkey, March 28,2021, (AA) 

A Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) plans to provide humanitarian aid to the different corners of the globe during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts on April 13.

The Şanlıurfa Humanitarian Aid Platform, which has been actively engaged in providing aid to the victims of the Syrian civil war for the past 10 years, is preparing to cheer up those struggling around the world.

UN releases US$14 million for Rohingya refugees left homeless by camp fire

CERF

Central Emergency Response Fund

News and Press Release
Source :OCHA

25 Mar 2021

(New York, 24 March 2021): UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock today released US$14 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide urgent shelter and other assistance to tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees after a devastating fire tore through the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — the world’s largest refugee camp — on 22 March.

Estimates indicate that the fire displaced more than 45,000 mostly Rohingya refugees, originally from neighbouring Myanmar, with many more affected. A hospital and other critical health, nutrition and education structures were destroyed.

UK Pledges to Support 860,000 Rohingya Refugees Amid Controversial Policies at Home

Global Citizen 

By James Hitchings-Hales 

Nov. 3, 2020 

While UK aid is doing tremendous good abroad, refugee policies at home need work.

In recent months, there have been UK government proposals to build a floating wall in the English Channel to keep out migrant dinghies, install water cannons that create waves to push away refugee boats, and create offshore detention camps on islands thousands of miles away.

The UK has hardly thrown its arms open to refugees in 2020. Indeed, asylum seekers are perhaps more likely to be met with war ships than welcome banners. It’s led to Global Citizen launching a campaign urging people to write to their MP, asking them to offer safe passage.

Japan to provide $5m for Rohingyas, local farmers in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune  

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan z
October 21st, 2020

Photo: REUTERS

The contribution will support 2,400 Bangladeshi local farmers in Cox’s Bazar district who will provide fresh, locally sourced vegetables at the market servicing 20,000 Rohingyas

The government of Japan will provide $5 million to support the Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar and the local farmers.

UAE announces aid for a million Rohingya refugees in flood-hit Bangladesh

  MENAFN

Date -8/27/2020 

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The United Arab Emirates has announced assistance to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, to support it in delivering an aid shipment to Cox''s Bazar in Bangladesh, following recent floods that struck a camp housing more than a million Rohingya refugees.

Japan to provide $329mn to combat corona: Abe tells Hasina

UNB
UNB NEWS
August 05, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina & Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. File photo

Japan on Wednesday pledged to provide some USD 329 million (equivalent to 35 billion yen) to Bangladesh as grant for combating coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangladesh.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the announcement when he talked to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina over phone in the afternoon, said PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.

German aid for Rohingyas reaches US$30 million

THE Financial Express
FE Online Report
July 22, 2020

The country provides another US$4.5 million aid

Rohingya refugees look out from a shelter in Cox's Bazar — Reuters/Files

The German government has made a fresh contribution of US$4.5 million for the welfare of Rohingya families and their host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

With the latest, the German contribution to the Rohingyas now reached US$30 million since the onset of the refugee crisis in 2017, says a WFP statement on Wednesday.

“This contribution will support the Government of Bangladesh to meet its commitment to the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals as well as their host communities in Cox’s Bazar. Lifesaving assistance is particularly important now with the ongoing pandemic and heavy monsoon rains, both of which are posing great risks to vulnerable families,” said Md. Mohsin, Secretary, Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief.

WB provides $35m as help for Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk 
June 4th, 2020

Rohingyas living in camps are trapped there for long, people are born into camps, grow up in camps and become adults in camps Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

 

The $35 million grant will go towards providing work opportunities and community services to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

The World Bank (WB) has provided $35 million to Bangladesh to help ensure basic services and utilities for the Rohingyas currently residing in Teknaf and Ukhiya upazilas of Cox's Bazar.

The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has partnered with the UN World Food Program (WFP) to support community resilience in the Rohingya camps here.

WFP to implement $35m project for Rohingya refugees

The Daily Star

Diplomatic Correspondent
June 05, 2020

The UN World Food Programme will implement a $35 million project to provide work opportunities and community services among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar.

This funding is part of the World Bank's $165 million grant meant to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief. The WFP is partnering with the disaster management ministry to implement the project.

UN appeals for $877m for Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com
News Desk,
 bdnews24.com
 03 Mar 2020

Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Dec 10, 2017. REUTERS/FILE  

United Nations agencies and NGO partners have appealed for $877m for about 855,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and 444,000 vulnerable Bangladeshis.

The 2020 Joint Response Plan, or JRP, for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis was launched on Tuesday, the UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday.

Japan to extend another $17M for Rohingya in Bangladesh

AA
SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
26.02.2020

Additional funding will be used in management of Rohingya refugee camps and community empowerment for host communities

Japan has decided to extend approximately $17 million as additional support to Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority taking refuge in southeast Bangladesh.

The additional funds will also be used for the betterment of host communities in the town of Cox’s Bazar, the Japanese embassy in Dhaka said Tuesday.

The support includes site management of refugee camps; community empowerment; shelter upgrade; child protection; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities; medical services and training; environmental rehabilitation; life skills and livelihood improvement and nutritional improvement, the statement said.