UN agencies face funding challenges in feeding Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

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Tuesday, 30 May, 2023

Olivier De Schutter, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights addresses a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Bangladesh should not bear the burden of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees alone while U.N. agencies are facing challenges to feed them, a United Nations official said Monday, AP reports.

Rohingya crisis: 2021 JRP appealing for $943 million to be launched Tuesday

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
May 16th, 2021

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

This must not become a forgotten crisis, UNHCR says, calling for renewed and strong international support

The international joint response plan (JRP) to look after the persecuted Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar for 2021 will be launched in Geneva on Tuesday.

In the JRP, to be launched virtually due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations agencies and NGO partners will appeal for $943 million to meet the basic needs of the Rohingyas and the host communities.

UK announces 21m pounds in virus funds for Bangladesh

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News Desk bdnews24.com
Published: 06 Apr 2020

The UK has announced around £21 million to support Bangladesh’s efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak and help preparedness in the Rohingya refugee camps

 
The funds include £7 million to multiple partners, such as UNICEF, WHO and World Bank, to help prepare the national health system, including logistics and supplies of personal protective equipment for health workers, laboratory supplies for testing and oxygen support in hospitals, the British High Commission said in a statement.

EU provides fresh €2 million fund for Rohingya

AA  

SM Najmus Sakib

13.09.2019

WFP will utilize fund in humanitarian activities for displaced people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

DHAKA, Bangladesh

The European Union agreed to fund the UN World Food Programme (WFP) with €2 million ($2.2 million) to run humanitarian activities for displaced Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, the agency said Thursday.

‘Gangsters’ squeezed RM80,000 from Rohingya in Malaysia to fund arms for insurgent group, says report

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FMT Reporters
July 22, 2019 

Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: A Myanmar-based insurgent group has sourced some RM80,000 in funds from Rohingya refugees in Malaysia to buy firearms and ammunition, Bukit Aman told the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

The paper quoted Bukit Aman Special Branch Anti-Terrorist Division principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay as saying that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) has raised funds through a “gangster-like” extortion racket in seven states in the peninsular.

EU announces €18m fund to strengthen resilience for Rohingyas, host communities

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk 
20 June 2019,

File photo: Rohingya refugees walk towards a refugee camp after crossing the border in Anjuman Para near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 19, 2017 Reuters

To date, the EU has contributed €24.8 million
The European Union (EU) has announced a fund of €18 million (nearly Tk171.5 crore) to help improve resilience among both the Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi host communities in Cox's Bazar.

UAE raises $17.7million for Rohingyas

UNB 

June 02, 2019

Funds to help provide displaced lot with food, medical aid, water, education and housing

Dhaka, June 2 (UNB) - The weeklong fund-raising campaign in the United Arab Emirates in support of Rohingyas that began in the last week of May has raised Dh65 million ($17.7million), the Emirates Red Crescent Authority (ERC) announced on Saturday.

ERC amasses $18m fund for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

June 02, 2019

Star Online Report

Emirates Red Crescent Authority has accumulated nearly US$ 18 million fund in a weeklong campaign to support livelihood of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh.

The nationwide campaign carried out last week in May amassed the fund from various platforms including social media and thousands of individuals and charities, the voluntary human rights organisation said today.

UN To Fund Rohingya Relocation To Island

INDEPENDENT

By Agency Report
- March 27, 2019 

 

The United Nations is prepared to financially help Bangladesh in relocating Rohingya refugees, the UN resident coordinator’s office in Bangladesh said on Monday after Bangladesh said it could no longer bear the refugee burden on its own.

Rohingya crisis: 14% of $920mn fund received so far

DhakaTribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
Published at March 25th, 2019

Speakers at a press conference organized on the completion of the project 'Mission to Bangladesh in Support of 2019 Joint Response Plan for Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis' in Dhaka on Sunday, March 24, 2019 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune

UNHCR asks Myanmar again to create conditions for safe Rohingya return

Only 14% of the the $920 million - needed to combat the Rohingya refugee crisis in the south of the country – has been funded through the third joint response plan (JRP) so far, a senior UNHCR official said on Sunday, placing great emphasis on more responses from donors.

NGOs not using funds properly, says govt

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Foreign aid for Rohingyas

Deepak Acharjee, Dhaka

14 March, 2019  

Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Law and Order, AKM Mozammel Haque, has said that they have asked the authorities concerned to monitor the activities of non-government organisations (NGOs) working among the Rohingyas at Cox’s Bazar.

$45m more US aid for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

Monday, "March 4, 2019"

Rohingya refugees.Reuters file photo

 

The US is giving $45.5 million more aid for the Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh after facing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine in August 2017.

“Today the United States is contributing $45.5 million to the UN World Food Programme in support of the Rohingya refugee crisis,” Earl Robert Miller, US ambassador to Bangladesh, announced yesterday as he called on all nations with the means to contribute to this global humanitarian crisis.

US contributes $105m to Rohingya fund

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Prothom Alo English Desk | Update: 18:38, Mar 03, 2019

The United States has contributed $45.5 million to the UN World Food Program in support of the Rohingya crisis, reports UNB.

This is in addition to the $60 million announced at the 2019 UN Joint Response Plan (JRP) launch in Geneva on 15 February.

This brings the total US contribution to the 2019 JRP to $105 million, said the US embassy in Dhaka on Sunday.

Response plan for Rohingya needs urgent funding: UN envoy

New China
Source: Xinhua | 2019-03-02 04:49:22 | Editor: huaxia

File Photo: A Rohingya refugee boy who crossed the border from Myanmar a day before, gets an oral cholera vaccine, distributed by UNICEF workers as he waits to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue his way to the refugee camps, in Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Oct. 17, 2017. (Xinhua/REUTERS)

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A newly-launched response plan for the Rohingya crisis needs urgent funding, the UN envoy for Myanmar said here Thursday.

Burma and Bangladesh - Regional Crisis Response Fact Sheet #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019

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US Agency for International Development

Published on 19 Feb 2019

HIGHLIGHTS

• Humanitarian access restrictions prevent at least 50,000 people from receiving assistance in Rakhine
• The 2019 JRP for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis requests $920.5 million to meet the needs of 1.2 million people in Bangladesh
• USG announces $60 million in humanitarian assistances towards the 2019 JRP
  
  

Burma and Bangladesh - Regional Crisis Response Fact Sheet #2, Fiscal Year (FY) 2019

UN seeks nearly $1 billion for Rohingya refugees

ASIA TIMES

February 16, 2019, ByMichael Hayes, Cox's Bazar

A Rohingya girl grieves outside of a UNHCR tent in Bangladesh in a file photo. Photo: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun Photo

UN plan is a funding wish list but some local groups feel that foreign aid workers are already living high on the hog
On February 15, the United Nations (UN) released its Joint Response Plan 2019 (JRP) in Geneva, asking donors for an additional US$920.5 million to support around 900,000 Rohingya refugees stuck in squalid camps in Bangladesh.

Aid for Rohingyas: US, EU pledge $87m fund

The Daily Star

February 18, 2019

 

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Staff Correspondent
The United States and European Union have announced additional funding of $60 million and €24 million ($27 million) respectively as humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya refugees.

The announcement came at the launch of the 2019 UN Joint Response Plan for Bangladesh in Geneva on February 15.