Rohingya Refugee Crisis

This report analyses the socio-normative values, beliefs and practices of the Rohingya around health, wellbeing and nutrition, and around the protection of children, adolescents and women (including gender norms) in the context of mass displacement from Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh. The report provides practical information of Rohingya social and cultural practices so as to best tailor service delivery and emergency programming in the camps.

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Refugee shelters are precariously positioned on soft soil atop hills in Camp 8 in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The shelters are vulnerable to landslides during monsoon season and the toilets overflow. (Photo from July 2019)

Evidence review

Social and Cultural Factors Shaping Health and Nutrition, Wellbeing and Protection of the Rohingya Within a Humanitarian Context

More than half a million Rohingya refugees, 60% of them children (UNICEF 2017), have crossed the border into Bangladesh, joining refugee camps or settling informally, and are in dire need of basic services such as food, health care, and protection.…

SSHAP

2017

Background report

Ethno-Demographic Dynamics of the Rohingya-Buddhist Conflict

Ethno-demographic grievances define the conflict between Buddhist and Rohingya-Muslim populations in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Due to the government’s decision to avoid the enumeration of self-identifying Rohingya, this study has relied on several recent local surveys to reconstruct a…

Georgetown University

2016

A Rohingya community volunteer on a household visit during the Nutrition Action Week (NAW) 2020 door-to-door campaign. In a typical year, NAW is conducted biannually by UNICEF and the Nutrition Sector in order to regularly deliver Vitamin-A supplements and screen children for acute malnutrition. However, due to the current risks associated with large gatherings, this campaign has been adapted to better fit the challenges and context of COVID-19 by going door-to-door with Rohingya community volunteers reaching 154,000 children aged from 6 months to 5 years old.

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Evidence review

Review of the Evidence Landscape on the Risk Communication and Community Engagement Interventions Among the Rohingya Refugees to Enhance Healthcare Seeking Behaviours in Cox’s Bazar

This review paper synthesises and assesses the quality of the evidence landscape available and how the Rohingya seek and access healthcare services in Cox’s Bazar

SSHAP

2021

Background report

Gender-Based Violence Among Documented Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

The Rohingya, a Muslim minority group from the northern part of Rakhine State (formerly Arakan) in Myanmar, is among the most vulnerable of the world’s refugee communities. This study aims to shed light on gender-based violence among documented Rohingya refugees…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

2014