Response plan
RRP
Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Joint Response Plan 2023
Regional Strategic Objectives
SO1
Work towards the sustainable and voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs to Myanmar.
SO2
Strengthen the protection of Rohingya refugee/FDMN women, men, girls, and boys.
SO3
Deliver life-saving assistance to populations in need.
SO4
Foster the well-being of host communities in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas.
SO5
Strengthen disaster risk management and combat the effects of climate change.
Sectors
CL13
Bhasan Char Response
CLCCM
Site Management and Site Development
CLCSS
Coordination
CLEDU
Education
CLERY
Livelihoods and Skills Development
CLFSC
Food Security
CLHEA
Health
CLNUT
Nutrition
CLPRO
Protection
CLSHL
Shelter/Non-Food Items
CLTEL
Emergency Telecommunications
CLWSH
Water Sanitation and Hygiene
Sector Objectives
CL13/CO1
Food Security: 1. Ensure and sustain the timely provision of food assistance for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CL13/CO2
Protection: 1. Provide effective and targeted protection assistance including continuous joint registration and documentation by the Government of Bangladesh and UNHCR, and addressing negative coping mechanisms, and human trafficking.
CL13/CO3
Protection: 2. Promote a community-based approach to the response, support community protection mechanisms, and facilitate meaningful access to specialized services for persons, such as older persons, persons with disabilities, vulnerable women and children. This is with the aim of mitigating exposure to risks, and strengthening the resilience of communities in order to build capacity for return and reintegration in Myanmar.
CL13/CO4
Protection: 3. Ensure that boys and girls, including adolescents, facing life-threatening risks of abuse, neglect, violence, exploitation, and severe distress have access to well-coordinated and gender- and disability-responsive, and child and youth protection services.
CL13/CO5
Protection: 4. Enhance access to survivor-centred services by responding to individual needs, preventing, and mitigating GBV risks, and supporting survivors of GBV.
CL13/CO6
Education: 1. Provide learning opportunities for Rohingya refugee/FDMN children, in particular through the rollout of the Myanmar Curriculum in the Myanmar Language.
CL13/CO7
Education: 2. Support access to learning opportunities with particular focus on girls’ education, in an enabling environment for Rohingya refugee/FDMN children.
CL13/CO8
Education: 3. Support the capacity development of teachers and Education Sector partners to provide education services and strengthen monitoring system and consultations.
CL13/CO9
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: 1. Ensure effective coordination and management for timely and appropriate delivery of multi-sectoral services through inclusive participation.
CL13/CO10
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: 2. Enable existing safe and decent living conditions, and distribution of essential NFIs, and contribute to environmental sustainability.
CL13/CO11
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: 3. Reduce safety risks and exposure to natural hazards by coordinating with the relevant Government authorities’ disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness measures.
CL13/CO12
Health and Nutrition: 1. Improve equitable access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services on Bhasan Char including prevention, preparedness, and response to outbreaks of communicable diseases and other hazards.
CL13/CO13
Health and Nutrition: 2. Ensure that all boys and girls under five, adolescent girls, and pregnant and lactating women can access life-saving, gender-responsive, and inclusive curative and preventive essential nutrition services, and can use the recommended maternal and child feeding practices on Bhasan Char.
CL13/CO14
Health and Nutrition: 3. Promote health, nutrition and well-being at individual and community levels living on Bhasan Char.
CL13/CO15
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 1. Ensure regular, sufficient, and equitable access to safe water for drinking and domestic needs.
CL13/CO16
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 2. Provide adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities allowing safe management and disposal of solid waste.
CL13/CO17
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 3. Ensure the behaviour change to prevent contagious diseases through participatory hygiene promotion and distribution of hygiene items.
CL13/CO18
Livelihoods and Skills Development: 1. Develop skills and capacities and create livelihood opportunities commensurate with those in Rakhine State and following the Skills Development Framework to prepare Rohingya refugees/FDMNs for their voluntary repatriation and reintegration in Myanmar.
CL13/CO19
Common Services and Logistics: 1. Strengthen capacity and the sharing of logistics and common services among humanitarian actors for efficient utilization of resources, cost effectiveness, and reduction of environmental impacts.
CL13/CO20
Common Services and Logistics: 2. Facilitate data connectivity services for humanitarian actors.
CLCCM/CO1
Support coordination mechanisms among camp stakeholders for timely and equitable delivery of services.
CLCCM/CO2
Support safe living conditions through rationalized and participatory site planning, and improve accountability to affected populations through feedback mechanisms.
CLCCM/CO3
Ensure emergency preparedness and response to natural and manmade hazards while protecting and rehabilitating ecosystems.
CLCSS/CO1
Support leadership and coordination to ensure effective humanitarian crisis management, with protection and solutions as the foundation.
CLCSS/CO2
Foster a common understanding of context, needs, priorities, response progress and gaps, and an integrated and multi-sector approach to cross-cutting issues.
CLCSS/CO3
Promote an efficient and well-resourced response through leading advocacy and resource mobilization efforts.
CLCSS/CO4
Strengthen coordination among all humanitarian action to avoid duplication of project activities and promote synergies of interventions.
CLCSS/CO5
Follow the Skills Development Framework and Volunteer Guidance as agreed between Government of Bangladesh and UN system.
CLEDU/CO1
Provide safe and equitable availability and access to Myanmar curriculum for Rohingya refugee/FDMN children and support education services for host community children, as required.
CLEDU/CO2
In order to ensure 100% roll-out of the Myanmar curriculum, support access to quality learning services for Rohingya refugee/FDMN children.
CLEDU/CO3
Enhance and support the community engagement and capacity strengthening of Education partners to ensure quality and accountable implementation of Education services.
CLERY/CO1
Support skills and capacity building of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs commensurate with livelihood opportunities available in Rakhine State in Myanmar as agreed between the Government of Bangladesh and the UN agencies in the Skills Development Framework.
CLERY/CO2
Support Rohingya refugees/FDMNs in utilization of gained transferable skills in the camps.
CLERY/CO3
Support vulnerable host communities in diversified vocational skills development and sustainable livelihood options.
CLFSC/CO1
Ensure and sustain the timely provision of life-saving nutrition-sensitive food assistance including school feeding for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CLFSC/CO2
Support food security resiliency of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs through climate-sensitive food production in a stressed environment with early warning and early actions.
CLFSC/CO3
Strengthen household food security and nutrition of the host and local communities through climate-smart agricultural production, agro-processing, market linkages, resilient income opportunities, school feeding and disaster response preparedness with early actions.
CLFSC/CO4
Improve the socio-economic status of the host and local communities by enhancing the capacity to manage natural resources and disaster risks sustainably, while addressing climate change impacts.
CLHEA/CO1
Support equitable access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and the host community.
CLHEA/CO2
Prepare for, prevent, and respond to outbreaks of communicable disease and other hazards that have potential negative public health consequences.
CLHEA/CO3
Promote health and well-being at the individual and community level.
CLNUT/CO1
To ensure equitable access and utilization of quality preventative nutrition specific services for boys and girls of 0 – 59 months, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women (PLW) in camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
CLNUT/CO2
To enhance equitable access and utilization of quality life-saving nutrition services for early detection and treatment of acute malnutrition for boys and girls of 0 – 59 months and PLW in camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
CLNUT/CO3
To improve capacity of nutrition actors in nutrition information systems and knowledge-generation to facilitate scale-up of nutrition interventions.
CLPRO/CO1
Ensure safe, voluntary, dignified, and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs to Myanmar and respect for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs basic needs, while continuing protection, through inter alia, joint registration (as part of the Government-UNHCR registration exercise) and documentation for all Rohingya refugees/FDMNs, addressing negative coping mechanisms, and human trafficking.
CLPRO/CO2
Promote a community-based approach to the response, support community protection mechanisms, and facilitate meaningful access to specialized services for persons, such as older persons, persons with disabilities, vulnerable women and children. This is with the aim of mitigating exposure to risks, strengthening the resilience of communities in order to build capacity for return and reintegration in Myanmar, as well as by supporting active and effective communication between humanitarian actors and Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CLPRO/CO3
Support system strengthening together with the Government and local partners, mitigating potential tensions between Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and host communities, and promoting an inclusive, integrated multi-sectoral approach to addressing protection risks and needs.
CLPRO/CO4
Ensure that boys and girls, including adolescents, facing life-threatening risks of abuse, neglect, violence, exploitation, and severe distress have access to well-coordinated and gender- and disability-responsive, child and youth protection services.
CLPRO/CO5
Enhance access to survivor-centered services by responding to individual needs, preventing, and mitigating GBV risks, and supporting survivors of GBV in the Rohingya refugee/FDMN camps and targeted areas in host communities.
CLSHL/CO1
Provide life-saving emergency Shelter/NFI support to households affected by disasters and other sudden onset events.
CLSHL/CO2
Provide safe living conditions to Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and host community (living around the camps) to reduce exposure to physical and protection-related risks.
CLTEL/CO1
Maintain and coordinate the emergency telecommunication services, to support operations and avoid duplication of efforts.
CLTEL/CO2
Maintain data connectivity services across the humanitarian response in all operational areas.
CLTEL/CO3
Conduct capacity building exercises to strengthen the telecommunications and ICT expertise and skills of humanitarian staff across the response and ensure sustainability of services.
CLWSH/CO1
Ensure regular, sufficient, and equitable access to safe water for drinking and domestic needs.
CLWSH/CO2
Ensure adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities allowing safe management and disposal of solid waste.
CLWSH/CO3
Ensure the change of potentially health-compromising behavior through community engagement and distribution of hygiene items with particular focus on contagious diseases.
Sector Activities
CL13/CA01
Food Security: Obj. 1: Ensure and sustain the timely provision of life-saving food assistance for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CL13/CA02
Protection: Obj. 1: Provide effective and targeted protection assistance including continuous joint registration and documentation by the Government of Bangladesh and UNHCR.
CL13/CA03
Protection: Obj. 2: Promote a community-based approach to the response, support community protection mechanisms, and facilitate meaningful access to specialized services for persons, such as older persons, persons with disabilities, vulnerable women, and children. This is with the aim of mitigating exposure to risks, and strengthening the resilience of communities in order to build capacity for return and reintegration in Myanmar.
CL13/CA04
Protection: Obj. 3: Ensure that boys and girls, including adolescents, facing life-threatening risks of abuse, neglect, violence, exploitation, and severe distress have access to well-coordinated and gender- and disability responsive, and child and youth protection services.
CL13/CA05
Protection: Obj. 4: Enhance access to survivor-centred services by responding to individual needs, preventing, and mitigating GBV risks, and supporting survivors of GBV.
CL13/CA06
Education: Obj. 1: Provide access to safe, inclusive, and quality early years, primary and secondary education opportunities for children and adolescents aged 3-18.
CL13/CA07
Education: Obj. 2: Provide quality of inclusive and equitable education through the rollout of the Myanmar Curriculum and continuous teacher professional development.
CL13/CA08
Education: Obj. 3: Support community engagement and capacity strengthening of education partners for equitable and accountable implementation of education services.
CL13/CA09
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: Obj. 1: Ensure effective coordination and management for timely and appropriate delivery of multi-sectoral services through inclusive participation.
CL13/CA10
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: Obj. 2: Enable existing safe and decent living conditions, and distribution of essential NFIs, and contribute to environmental sustainability.
CL13/CA11
Site Management, Shelter, and Non-Food Items: Obj. 3: Reduce safety risks and exposure to natural hazards by coordinating with the relevant Government authorities’ disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness measures.
CL13/CA12
Health & Nutrition: Obj. 1: Improve equitable access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services on Bhasan Char including prevention, preparedness, and response to outbreaks of communicable diseases and other hazards.
CL13/CA13
Health & Nutrition: Obj. 2: Ensure that all boys and girls under five, adolescent girls, and pregnant and lactating women can access lifesaving, gender-responsive, and inclusive curative and preventive essential nutrition services, and can use the recommended maternal and child feeding practices on Bhasan Char.
CL13/CA14
Health & Nutrition: Obj. 3: Promote health, nutrition and wellbeing at individual and community levels.
CL13/CA15
WASH: Obj. 1: Ensure regular, sufficient, and equitable access to safe water for drinking and domestic needs.
CL13/CA16
WASH: Obj. 2: Provide adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities allowing safe management and disposal of solid waste.
CL13/CA17
WASH: Obj. 3: Ensure the behaviour change to prevent contagious diseases through participatory hygiene promotion and distribution of hygiene items.
CL13/CA18
Livelihoods and Skills Development: Obj. 1: Develop skills and capacities and create livelihood opportunities commensurate with those in Rakhine State to prepare Rohingya refugees/FDMNs for their voluntary repatriation and reintegration in Myanmar.
CL13/CA19
Common Services and Logistics: Obj. 1: Strengthen capacity and the sharing of logistics and common services among humanitarian actors for efficient utilization of resources, cost effectiveness, and reduction of environmental impacts.
CL13/CA20
Common Services and Logistics: Obj. 2: Facilitate data connectivity services for humanitarian actors.
CLCCM/CA1
Obj. 1: Support coordination mechanisms among camp stakeholders for timely and equitable delivery of services.
CLCCM/CA2
Obj. 2: Support safe living conditions through rationalized and participatory site planning, promote inclusive representation, and improve accountability to affected populations through effective feedback mechanisms.
CLCCM/CA3
Obj. 3: Ensure emergency preparedness and response to natural and manmade hazards while protecting and rehabilitating ecosystems.
CLCSS/CA1
Obj. 1: Support leadership and coordination to ensure an effective response, with protection and solutions as the foundation.
CLCSS/CA2
Obj. 2: Foster a common understanding of context, needs, priorities, response progress and gaps, and an integrated and multi-Sector approach to protection and gender mainstreaming.
CLCSS/CA3
Obj. 3: Promote an efficient and well-resourced response through leading advocacy and resource mobilization efforts.
CLEDU/CA1
Obj. 1: Ensure safe and equitable availability and access to formal, non-formal and informal Education for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs (including the Myanmar Curriculum) and host community children, adolescents, and youth.
CLEDU/CA2
Obj. 2: Enhanced quality of both formal, non-formal and informal Education for Rohingya refugee/FDMN (including Myanmar Curriculum) and host community children, adolescents, and youth.
CLEDU/CA3
Obj. 3: Enhance and support the community engagement and capacity strengthening of Education partners to ensure quality and accountable implementation of Education services for Rohingya refugee/FDMN and host community children, adolescents, and youth.
CLERY/CA1
Obj. 1: Support skills and capacity building of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs that can support their sustainable reintegration in Myanmar.
CLERY/CA2
Obj. 2: Support Rohingya Refugees in utilization of gained transferable vocational skills within existing camps and humanitarian sector response needs/areas.
CLERY/CA3
Obj. 3: Support vulnerable host communities in diversified vocational skills development and sustainable livelihood options.
CLFSC/CA1
Obj. 1: Ensure and sustain the timely provision of life-saving nutrition-sensitive food assistance including school feeding for Rohingya refugees/communities /FDMNs.
CLFSC/CA2
Obj. 2: Support food security resiliency of Rohingya refugees/communities/FDMNs through climate-sensitive food production in a stressed environment with early warning and early actions.
CLFSC/CA3
Obj. 3: Strengthen household food security and nutrition of the host and local communities through climate-smart agricultural production, agro-processing, market linkages, resilient income opportunities, school feeding and disaster response preparedness with early actions.
CLFSC/CA4
Improve the socio-economic status of the host and local communities by enhancing the capacity to manage natural resources and disaster risks sustainably, while addressing climate change impacts.
CLHEA/CA1
Obj. 1: Support equitable access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and the host community.
CLHEA/CA2
Obj. 2: Prepare for, prevent, and respond to outbreaks of communicable disease and other hazards health potential negative public health consequences’’ please add one activity group ‘ Integrated Infectious Disease Treatment Center (IDTC)
CLHEA/CA3
Obj. 3: Promote health and wellbeing at individual and community level.
CLNUT/CA1
Obj. 1: To ensure equitable access and utilization of quality preventative nutrition specific services for boys and girls of 0 – 59 months, adolescent girls and PLW in camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
CLNUT/CA2
Obj. 2: To enhance equitable access and utilization of quality lifesaving nutrition services for early detection and treatment of acute malnutrition for boys and girls of 0 – 59 months and PLW in camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
CLNUT/CA3
Obj. 3: To improve capacity of nutrition actors in governance, nutrition information systems and knowledge-generation to facilitate scale-up of nutrition interventions.
CLPRO/CA1
Obj. 1: Ensure safe, voluntary, dignified, and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs to Myanmar and respect for Rohingya refugees/FDMNs basic needs, while continuing protection, through inter alia, joint registration (as part of the Government-UNHCR registration exercise) and documentation for all Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CLPRO/CA2
Obj. 2: Promote a community-based approach to the response and protection mechanisms and facilitate meaningful access to tailored services for persons with specific needs (older persons, persons with disabilities, women and children) with the aim of mitigating exposure to protection risks, strengthening the resilience of communities in order to build capacity for repatriation and reintegration, in Myanmar, as well as by supporting active and effective communication between humanitarian actors and Rohingya refugees/FDMNs.
CLPRO/CA3
Obj. 3: Support system strengthening for protection of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and host communities, together with the Government and local partners, mitigating potential tensions between Rohingya refugees/FDMNs and host communities, and promoting an inclusive, integrated multi-sectoral approach to address protection risks and needs.
CLPRO/CA4
Obj. 4: Ensure that boys and girls, including adolescents, facing life-threatening risks of abuse, neglect, violence, exploitation, and severe distress have access to well-coordinated and gender- and disability- responsive, child and adolescent protection services.
CLPRO/CA5
Obj. 5: Enhance access to survivor-centered services by responding to individual needs, preventing, and mitigating GBV risks, and supporting survivors of GBV in the Rohingya refugee/FDMN camps and targeted areas in host communities.
CLSHL/CA1
Obj. 1: Provide life-saving emergency Shelter/NFI support to households affected by disasters and other sudden onset events.
CLSHL/CA2
Obj. 2: Provide safe and decent living conditions to Rohingya refugees and host community (living around the camps) to reduce exposure to physical and protection-related risks.
CLTEL/CA1
Obj. 1: Maintain the provision of security telecommunications services to UN agencies in the response.
CLTEL/CA2
Obj. 2: Maintain data connectivity services across the humanitarian response in all operational areas.
CLTEL/CA3
Obj. 3: Conduct capacity building exercises to strengthen the telecommunications and ICT expertise and skills of humanitarian staff across the response and ensure sustainability of services.
CLWSH/CA1
Obj. 1: Ensure regular, sufficient, and equitable access to safe water for drinking and domestic needs.
CLWSH/CA2
Obj. 2: Ensure adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities allowing safe management and disposal of solid waste.
CLWSH/CA3
Obj. 3: Ensure the change of potentially health-compromising behavior through community engagement and distribution of hygiene items with particular focus on contagious diseases.