IOM Bangladesh: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Response

EXTERNAL UPDATE

6-12 July 2018

706,364

New Rohingya arrivals since 25 August 2017 to Cox’s Bazar*

1.3 Million People in Need in Cox’s Bazar

919,000 Total Rohingya Population in Cox’s Bazar*

Key Features

IOM health is rolling out a training package for mobile medical team staffs as well as other interested organizations. The whole training package has been divided into four workshops where 40 staffs from IOM and Medical Team International are participating. The first two workshops have been conducted on 4th and 5th July on operations and coordination of MMTs as well as infection prevention and control.

During the reporting period, Gender-Based Violence caseworkers conducted protection training for First Responders (Safety Volunteer Unit) in Camp 13, Leda and Shamlapur. Key topics included an Introduction to Humanitarian Protection, Fundamentals of Protection, Protection in Practice, Identification & Referral Pathways.

Site Management organized an inauguration ceremony in Leda to hand over visibility vests, torches and whistles to community watch volunteers. The inauguration ceremony was attended by high delegates from the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC), the CIC, Assistant CIC, Army Camp Commander, IOM Area Coordinator and Program Manager from IOM Site Management as well as representatives from different agencies.

* Needs and Population Monitoring Baseline Round 11

Cumulative Category 1 incidents

34,364 affected persons

7,679 affected households

Over 31,000 individuals are

located in the most at risk areas

389 reported incidents (landslide/

erosion, water logging, extreme wind, lightning and flood)

Source: Site Management Sector, Category 1 Incident Reports (Since 11 May 2018)

$182.1 M required in

IOM appeal

78% unfunded

Site Development and Site Management teams are

working to support refugee households at risk of flooding

and landslides. Road and drainage clearance are critical to

continue operations. Without additional support, the

capacity of the Site Development and Site Management

teams to meet the most urgent need is limited.

Health teams are working to ensure continued service in

key sites. Flooding had demobilised several health centres

that are needed to provide critical health care to the

refugee population. IOM is working to ensure continued

access to health centres and mobile teams.

Funding Gaps affect Monsoon Preparedness and Re-

Completed pathway construction in Camp 20 Extension improving access for relocated families. @IOM 2018/Kazi Samrat

©IOM 2018/Fiona MacGregor

WASH facilities in the most high risk areas have been compromised. WASH teams have been

working with Site Development to ensure that roads and drainage are cleared to facilitate

water movement away from the camps and to ensure adequate access to functional latrines.

Protection teams are working across the sectors to ensure that protection response and ser-

vices are adequately mainstreamed.

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The IOM Mental Health and Psychosocial Services (MHPSS) team has formed several group community support groups who will help roll out an awareness campaign on water-borne diseases such as cholera, Diarrhoea, skin problems and allergies.

Two Oral Rehydration Points Plus (ORP+) are operational at Kutupalong Primary Healthcare Centre (PHCC) and Leda PHCC. A total of 83 Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) cases have been treated in the last week between these two ORPs and 14 stool samples were collected.

Communicable disease triage and isolations are operational at Kutupalong Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) and Leda PHCC. Last week, the centers triaged 318 cases. Three suspected cases of tuberculosis, 59 mumps cases and nine chicken pox case were diagnosed and isolated.

Last week, a total of 12,496 consultations took place in IOM health centers and IOM supported Government facilities.

In terms of Mental Health and Psychosocial Services (MHPSS), IOM saw 75 people for individual consultations and follow-up sessions for specialised psychological support.

During the reporting period, 981 Antenatal Care (ANC) sessions were conducted within IOM and IOM supported government facilities, in addition to 44 deliveries and 120 Post-Natal Care (PNC) sessions.

Diphtheria contact tracing was done for a total of 12 cases (119 contacts) last week. Since inception, contact tracing has been done for a total of 1,069 cases and a total of 7,241 contacts have been traced and provided with chemoprophylaxis.

IOM is rolling out a training package for mobile medical team staffs as well as other interested organizations. The whole training package has been divided into four workshops where 40 staffs from IOM and Medical Team International are participating. The first two workshops has been conducted on 4th and 5th July on operations and coordination of MMTs as well as infection prevention and control.

Health

453,491 consultations held

since August 2017

6,371 patients have been triaged for

suspected diphtheria since December 2017

Zoom on Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site in Ukhiya. General view of Ukhiya and Teknaf.

12 IOM facilities operated independently

9 Government primary healthcare facilities being supported by IOM with supplies, human resources and training opportunities.

In Week 24, heavy rains may have affected the

amount of beneficiaries seeking health services.

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Shelter/Non Food Items (NFIs) IOM is coordinating the Shelter/NFI Sector

During the reporting period, heavy rain affected the shelters of 173 households in Teknaf and Ukhiya camps. Since the beginning of the monsoon season, 1,819 shelters have been damaged (716 partially and 1,047 completely) in Camp 8E, 8W, 9, 10, 18, 20, 22, 23. IOM immediately responded to affected households with emergency shelter materials.

Bangladeshi families in the Palongkhali host community have also been affected by the heavy rain on 4 July. Following the request from the community, IOM assessed the emergency needs, and distributed tarps and ropes for 10 families.

To support the relocation of families from the most serious landslide risk areas, IOM continues to construct 50 shelters per day in Camp 20 Extension. During the reporting period, over 6,000 Rohingya refugees were engaged in Cash-for-Work activities, to build 320 robust emergency shelters, transport shelter materials and support extremely vulnerable Rohingya households.

Communal building reinforcements are ongoing for nine mosques in Camps 18 & 19, and works for 13 mosques have been completed in Camp 8W, 9, and 10. Through the end of September, IOM plans to complete upgrade works for 70 communal buildings, creating temporary communal shelter space for approximate 4,200 individuals.

43,186 households have received Upgrade

Shelter Kits (USKs) since February 2018

41,500 households reached through

shelter upgrade and Disaster Risk Reduction

(DRR) orientation since February 2018

4,145 extremely vulnerable households

supported with material transportation and

shelter construction since February 2018,

engaging 24,367 cash-for-work laborers

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37,344 households have received Tie-

Down Kits (TDKs) since May 2018

In the mid of the monsoon rains, IOM is prioritizing the application of

Tie Down Kits for shelters. ©IOM 2018

Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM)

All NPM products are available on NPM’s newly launched online portal.

The NPM portal collects all results, publications, analysis, static and interactive maps, GIS tools, methodological documents and thematic analyses produced by NPM since its launch in Cox’s Bazar in early 2017. All information is gathered in one location for easier navigation by users navigate across NPM’s various products.

NPM released NPM drone imagery and GIS packages per camp based on its regular data collection activities and drone flights in June. The products are available in two sets : an overview of all camps and camp-tailored packages. NPM continues to support the Site Management sector’s Incident Assessment mechanism by coordinating with 30 Site Management partner staffs to collect all incidents on ground related to the monsoon season, analysing the data and reporting it to the Site Management sector. For an overview of incidents reported daily, please click here.

NPM also published the latest Cox’s Bazar Sites Atlas, which consists of drone imagery of each camp and a drone imagery overview covering three main areas, Kutupalong/Balukhali and Expansions in the North and Centre. The Sites Atlas is part of NPM’s regular collection, analysis and dissemination of information. The product is available on Humanitarian Response.

NPM started its Site Assessment Round 11 exercise for Teknaf areas, Hakimpara, Jamtoli, Putibonia, shamlapur, Chakmarkul. The NPM Site Assessment (SA) is a multisectoral needs assessment survey that collects information about the overall Rohingya population's distribution, needs and access to services, including refugees who arrived before 25 August 2017 in Cox’s Bazar district only.

Additionally, based on a request from the Shelter Sector, NPM has begun field level key informant interviews regarding landownership. 10 interviews has been conducted over the past week.

Site Management & Site Development IOM is coordinating the Site Management and Site Development Sector

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170 households have been identified in Camp 8W for tree plantation via IOM’s partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Additionally, radio listening groups and radio distribution has been reactivated.

Step and side protection for IOM Deep Tube Well (DTW) in Camp 20 Extension.

Completed pathway (left) and catch drain improvement (right) in Camp 20 Extension.

Zone MM Health post under construction under Camp 10. Footing casting and casting of two short columns has been completed to date.

Site Management organized an inauguration ceremony in Leda to hand over visibility vests, torches and whistles to community watch volunteers. The inauguration ceremony was attended by high delegates from the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC), the CIC, Assistant CIC, Army Camp Commander, IOM Area Coordinator and Program Manager from IOM Site Management as well as representatives from different agencies.

Drainage culvert installation in Noya Para in (Shamlapur).

As monsoons bring landslides and floods to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, chief of mission Giorgi Gigauri explains how IOM is urgently moving people to safer ground.

Click here to watch the video.

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Orientation Training for Cyclone Shelter Management Committees (CSMC) was conducted from 7 to 11 July. In total, six trainings were held in 6 unions of Teknaf Upazila. 172 participants from 19 committees partook in the training programme. Additionally, another 225 Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteers were further trained on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) orientation. In total, 765 Volunteers have been trained in Teknaf to date.

Workshops on Environmental Protection are ongoing with various stakeholders. Seven workshops have been completed, and another three are scheduled for the coming week the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Office, local journalists, and law and enforcement agencies. Also, the first steering committee meeting on the Environmental Monitoring Project was held on 10 July in Dhaka, with the IOM Chief of Mission present.

600 host community households have been selected for receipt of stove kits and LPG as part of the SAFE PLUS project. Additionally, 3,400 refugee beneficiaries of the project have been incorporated into WFP’s SCOPE registration system to facilitate the roll out the programme. Depot construction for the SAFE PLUS project is ongoing and plantation and slope stabilization has started in Camp 11 in association with FAO as part of the broader aims of the initiative.

As part of the Digital Island project in Moheshkhali, 700 farmers and fishermen have been registered as producers to join in e-commerce and 10 government primary schools have been equipped with distance learning classes. Finally, 24 primary school teachers attended Training of Trainers on Microsoft Work and better utilizing multimedia tools for interacting with students.

40,510 beneficiaries have received

micro-gardening kits and food storage since

March 2018 (25,000 Rohingya refugees and

15,510 host community members)

Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBV IMS) training is ongoing as part of the pilot and roll out of the GBV IMS platform system that enables humanitarian actors responding to incidents of GBV to effectively and safely collect, store, analyze and share data reported by GBV survivors.

The Protection team has been providing direct protection accompaniment and support to the most vulnerable individuals during relocations to Camp 20 Extension (109 households during the reporting period) from Camps 8E, 9 and 18, including on-site support, monitoring and follow-up in close collaboration with the IOM Site Management team. During the relocations, 35 Extremely Vulnerable Individuals (EVIs) households were identified.

During the reporting period, GBV Caseworkers conducted protection training for First Responders (Safety Volunteer Unit) in Camp 13, Leda and Shamlapur. Key topics included an Introduction to Humanitarian Protection, Fundamentals of Protection, Protection in Practice, Identification & Referral Pathways.

In line with IOM Protection’s disaster response plan during the monsoon, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) community mobilisers successfully completed their training on early warning messaging and risk mapping/planning which they will be conducting with the community, including with women and girls in the safe spaces, teachers and parents groups as well as with identified EVI households across several IOM camps. They will also be working with community groups formed to ensure messaging and community planning reaches EVIs including women and girls at household level.

Protection

10 Women and Girls Safe Spaces

1 Safe Shelter

Plants to be relocated to Camp 20 Extension during household relocations.

©IOM 2018

IOM/FAO partnership on land stabilization and erosion

control through tree planting. @IOM 2018

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IOM has been assessing, repairing and monitoring specific WASH issues such as damaged water points, latrines, and bathing units during the monsoon. Also, emergency activity planning is ongoing and IOM WASH team is over-looking the relocation of the new expansion areas of the camp.

In Leda extension, IOM is responding to water scarcity with the installation of pipe water systems to provide approximately 4,000 liters per day through pumping, treating and supply from drilled borehole.

In Camp 20 Extension, IOM is providing 5,000 liters of water to beneficiaries every day with a water emergency system along with the repaired functional tube wells. Additionally, one more water supply system is under construction and will provide the same amount of water from next week. In Camp 12, in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Bangladesh Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), IOM’s water supply project is offering a safer and more reliable water access to 30,000 people.

IOM has established a WASH common pipeline that includes 360,000 top up hygiene kits and 73,000,000 Aquatabs. IOM continues to reach out to additional partners to join the WASH common pipeline while encouraging existing partners to request, collect and distribute top up hygiene kits and aquatabs to beneficiaries. So far, 12 agencies have signed the pipeline agreement and a total of 93,707 kits (32,820 hygiene kits and 60,887 hygiene top up kits) have been distributed by eight agencies, reaching 402,940 beneficiaries.

The construction and installation of 67 DTWs is ongoing in Camps 10, 11, 18, 20, 20 Extension, and Shamlapur.

A total of 682 wash rooms have been constructed to date in KBE and the Hindupara host community. The construction of an additional 42 wash rooms is ongoing KBE.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

320 Deep Tube Wells (DTWs) completed

since August 2017

2,751 emergency latrines & mobile toilets

constructed since August 2017

682 wash rooms constructed

since August 2017

93,707 hygiene kits distributed

since August 2017

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Lowering of Deep Tube Wells (DTWs) ongoing on for new DTWs in Camp 20 Extension. @IOM 2018

Ongoing Dislodging Tank construction in Camp 20

Extension. @IOM 2018/Rigan Ali Khan

IOM in the news

Contact: Programme Support Unit, Cox’s Bazar | CXBpsu@iom.int

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Website: www.iom.org.bd

UN Secretary General’s Visit Highlights

Funding Needs of Rohingya Refugee Camps

in Bangladesh

IOM (3 July 2018)

Cox’s Bazar - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim yesterday (02/07) called on the world to support Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, where IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and UN partner agencies urgently need new funding to sustain aid deliveries to almost a million refugees from Myanmar.

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Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) IOM is hosting the sector based coordination structure for the Rohingya

The overall humanitarian response for the Rohingya refugee crisis is facilitated by a sector-based coordination mechanism, the Inter-Sectoral Coordination Group (ISCG), established for refugee response in Cox’s Bazar. The ISCG is guided by Strategic Executive Group (SEG) that is designed to be an inclusive decision-making forum consisting of heads of international humanitarian organizations to ensure effective humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis.

ISCG facilitates timely, coordinated, needs-based, and evidence-driven humanitarian assistance for efficient use of resources and to avoid duplication, while producing regular Situation Reports and 4W maps and data.

Donors to IOMs Response Plan

Q&A: IOM Bangladesh mission chief on post-

monsoon priorities for Rohingya

Devex (5 July 2018)

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — Aid workers in Bangladesh’s seaside district of Cox’s Bazar are currently focused on one thing: Ensuring vulnerable Rohingya refugees survive a lengthy monsoon season. Groups have already relocated more than 30,000 of the most at-risk population away from barren, landslide-prone hillsides, while others are training refugees in cyclone preparedness and search and rescue.

Click here to read the full story.