PRM NGO Projects in Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia

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Limited funding is available to support NGOs working in coordination with UNHCR in Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia to provide assistance benefiting Burmese refugees. Priorities in Thailand are focused on Umpiem Mai, Nu Po and Ban Don Yang Refugee Camps: a). Improve access to quality health care services, including reproductive healthcare, with a particular emphasis on the health and nutritional needs of children under five and pregnant and lactating women; b). Improve camp water and sanitation and other infrastructure; c). Improve the quality of life of refugee populations by addressing their psychosocial needs and developing income-generating activities, with an emphasis on the development of skills and vocational training to achieve a measure of self-sufficiency and a reasonable livelihood; and d). Strengthen the community’s capacity to prevent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and better respond to the health, psychosocial, safety and justice needs of GBV survivors. Priorities in Bangladesh are focused on promoting a holistic, district-wide approach to both registered Rohingya refugees living inside the two official refugee camps, Kutupalong and Nayapara, and unregistered Rohingya and local Bangladeshi host population living outside of the camps. Proposed activities in the two official refugee camps, Kutupalong and Nayapara, should support the following priority sectors: a). Expand skills training to include income generating activities, with an emphasis on the development of skills and vocational training to achieve a measure of self-sufficiency and a reasonable livelihood; b). Strengthen ongoing healthcare (including reproductive health), education services, and psychosocial programming, particularly through integrating and expanding support to the disabled; c). Expand community mobilization programs, especially in support of the existing community-based counseling system for conflict resolution; d). Improve physical infrastructure in the camps, including shelter and interior roads; and e). Improve knowledge of and enhance the capacity to identify and respond to GBV, and build the capacity of service providers to incorporate GBV prevention and response into their activities. Proposals that incorporate unregistered Rohingya living outside of the two official camps, Kutupalong and Nayapara, should link the above priority sectors with the following activities: a). Expand access to justice by strengthening law and order in the sub-districts where the camps are located, specifically to combat GBV and support survivors; and b). Expand access to education for refugee children that would serve both Rohingya and Bangladeshi students, where Rohingya make up 50% of the targeted beneficiaries. Priorities in Malaysia are: a). Improve knowledge of GBV within refugee and host communities; b). Improve the capacity of target communities to identify and effectively respond to GBV through healthcare (including reproductive health), psychosocial, safety, justice and other services that involve refugee and host community members in their design and implementation; and c). Improve the capacity of service providers to incorporate GBV prevention and response activities, including multi-sectoral referral services.

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