UK seeks long-term solution to Rohingya crisis

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Diplomacy
Daily Sun Report, DhakaWednesday,
18 October, 2023,

UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan speaks at a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) regional conference in Bangkok on the Rohingya crisis on Tuesday

The UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, on Tuesday announced further UK funding of £4.5 million to provide vital humanitarian services to Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh.

She made the announcement at a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) regional conference in Bangkok on the Rohingya crisis.

U.N. Rohingya appeal receives $340 mln in funding

Reuters

May 18, 2021

A Rohingya refugee woman carries her child after a massive fire broke out two days ago in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad

An appeal for nearly $1 billion to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is more than a third funded, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, as officials and refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis.

$597m pledged for Rohingyas

The Daily Star 

Diplomatic Correspondent
October 24, 2020

Donors aim to meet $1b target in funding for the refugees in 2020, urge Myanmar to create conditions for their return

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Star/ Anisur Rahman

The international community yesterday pledged $597 million in humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas in the region and urged Myanmar to create conditions for their repatriation.

The US, EU, and UK, announced $200 million, €96 million and £37 million.

The announcement came at a donors' conference for the Rohingyas co-hosted by the US, UK, EU and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

This year, Bangladesh received less than 50 percent of the $1 billion required for the Rohingya refugees.

Rohingya conference pledges to ‘remain steadfast’ in finding solutions to crisis

UN News

22 October 2020
Migrants and Refugees

UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau
A young Rohingya girl holds her brother outside a youth club in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

A joint UN-hosted donor conference to rally international support behind Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya minority, ended on Thursday with a promise to continue engaging with concerned countries towards finding a long-term solution to their plight.

“We will continue to work together to maintain international attention on the Rohingya crisis and to shift from short-term critical interventions, to a more sustained and stable support”, said the closing statement from co-hosts the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the European Union (EU), United Kingdom and United States. 

Rohingya Donor Conference and Funding

House of Commons Hansard

22 October 2020

Volume 682

 

The Minister for Asia (Nigel Adams)

My hon. Friend the Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) has made the following written statement:

The UK is co-hosting a donor conference today for the Rohingya refugee response, alongside the United States, European Union and UN refugee agency (UNHCR).

Bringing together donor countries and partners from the region, this conference will rally international support for the Rohingya humanitarian response in Bangladesh, Myanmar and other countries hosting Rohingya refugees in the region. Our aim is to ensure sustained support for Rohingya refugees and displaced populations, while working towards long-term durable solutions.

Situation may worsen without more funding for Rohingyas, warns WFP

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan  

September 15th, 2019 

 

 Distressed rohngya women and children at a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu

At a regular briefing in Geneva on Friday, WFP spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel explained that it costs the food-assistance branch of the global body $16 million every month to feed almost 900,000 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

The World Food Programme (WFP), the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has warned that the situation in regards to feeding hundreds of Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar could deteriorate ‘rapidly’ if the adequate funding is not made available.

Rohingya crisis: Funding remains great challenge

DhakaTribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan 

August 26th, 2019

Only 36% met of required $920m for 2019 

Two years after the latest influx of Rohingyas that began on August 25, 2017, due to an unprecedented brutal military crackdown by Myanmar, funding to look after the persecuted people sheltering in Cox’s Bazar, remains a great challenge.

Three quarters of the year has already elapsed with only 35% of the required $920 million having been made available.

Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Joint Response Plan 2019 funding update as of 2019.07.31

reliefweb

04 August 2019

KEY FIGURES

912,000 Rohingya refugees

336,000 Host communities

USD 920M Overall 2019 appeal

34% or 313M Funding received

The 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya refugee response is only 34 per cent funded, as of 31 July 2019, with USD 313 million received against the overall needs of USD 920 million. Currently the most well-funded Sectors are Education (35%), Food Security (33%) and WASH (31%) based on the respective appeals. Food Security Sector has received so far USD 84 million. In 2019, no funding was yet reported towards Emergency Telecommunications Sector, and Health Sector is only 13% funded.