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Bangladesh: flooding

04 September 2024

Bangladesh: flooding

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On 20 August 2024, heavy monsoon rains, alongside a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, caused widespread flooding in eastern Bangladesh, increasing the water levels in Dhalai, Feni, Gomti, Halda, Khoai, Manu, Muhuri, and Surma-Kushiara Rivers.

Natural hazards
Bangladesh: impact of tropical cyclone remal

12 June 2024

Bangladesh: impact of tropical cyclone remal

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On 26 May 2024, Cyclone Remal, the first of the March-July cyclone season, made landfall near the Mongla and Khepupara coasts, in the Khulna and Barishal divisions of Bangladesh. By 2 June, the cyclone and subsequent flooding had resulted in widespread destruction across 19 districts, affecting an estimated 4.6 million people.

Natural hazards
Global increase of cholera: aggravated by vaccine shortage and El Niño

28 May 2024

Global increase of cholera: aggravated by vaccine shortage and El Niño

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This report highlights the key contributing factors and aggravating conditions that can increase the global prevalence of cholera, focusing particularly on the impact of the global OCV shortage that is heightening humanitarian needs among affected populations and those vulnerable to spread. 

HealthNatural hazards

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Bangladesh: 2023 dengue outbreak

26 September 2023

Bangladesh: 2023 dengue outbreak

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Bangladesh is experiencing its largest and most severe dengue outbreak since the country began compiling data on cases in 2000. As at 16 September 2023, nearly 167,700 confirmed dengue cases were reported, exceeding by over 66,300 the previous highest record of around 101,300 for the entire 2019.

Health
Impact of Cyclone Mocha

23 May 2023

Impact of Cyclone Mocha

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On 14 May 2023, the extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha made landfall between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Kyaukpyu township in Myanmar. The cyclone caused significant damage to critical infrastructure, houses, and shelters in western and northern Myanmar, and in Bangladesh’s southeastern Chattogram division. 

Natural hazards

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Rising violence, insecurity, and protection concerns in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

12 May 2023

Rising violence, insecurity, and protection concerns in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

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There are about 931,000 registered Rohingya refugees living in the camps of Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in Cox’s Bazar. Nearly 30,000 registered Rohingya refugees have been relocated and are living in houses in Bhasan Char, an island off the Bangladeshi coast. 

Protection

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Bangladesh: Challenges in analysing needs over time using MSNAs

23 November 2022

Bangladesh: Challenges in analysing needs over time using MSNAs

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This technical note outlines the key challenges the ACAPS team faced while analysing and comparing data across multiple MSNAs. It also aims to encourage assessment designers and coordinators to consider the future use of their data with the immediate requirements, even as they seek to improve data collection or overcome changes based on the context of the people in need. 

Needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar since 2017

30 August 2022

Needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar since 2017

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This report provides an overview of how the reported needs and priorities of both Rohingya and host communities have evolved since 2018, when the first major assessments were carried out. The comparisons here were mainly based on two annual representative assessments, the Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment and the Refugee Influx Emergency Vulnerability Assessment.

Bangladesh: Industrial accident, depot fire in Sitakunda

07 June 2022

Bangladesh: Industrial accident, depot fire in Sitakunda

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Fire broke out at a container facility on the night of 4 June 2022 at Sonaichari union, Sitakunda upazila, 40km from the port city of Chattogram (formerly Chittagong). The fire triggered multiple explosions, killing at least 41 people, including 12 firefighters, and injuring at least 300 others.

Protection implications of polygamous marriages in the Rohingya camps

22 April 2022

Protection implications of polygamous marriages in the Rohingya camps

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This report explores the reasons behind the increasing practice of polygamy and the protection implications of polygamous marriages in the Rohingya camps. It also analyses reports of increasing intercommunity polygamy between the Rohingya and the adjacent host community, potentially raising additional protection concerns different from existing intracommunity protection concerns.

Protection
Gaps in gender research in the Rohingya refugee response

07 March 2022

Gaps in gender research in the Rohingya refugee response

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This report provides a specific understanding of gendered needs and explore how these needs intersect with other dimensions, such as age, disability, social status, education, income, legal status, and religion. But despite the developments, several gaps in understanding shifts in gender norms and practices in the Rohingya community and their impact on specific populations still exist.

Gender
Information and analysis ecosystem in the Rohingya refugee response

25 November 2021

Information and analysis ecosystem in the Rohingya refugee response

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This report attempts a comprehensive analysis and understanding of the current information and analysis ecosystem in the Rohingya response. It outlines ways forward, recommendations in building upon lessons learnt, and good practices during the pandemic. It also highlights critical information needs and gaps in the response and explores the impacts of the pandemic on data collection.

Bangladesh: Impact of the suspension of birth registrations

03 August 2021

Bangladesh: Impact of the suspension of birth registrations

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This report provides an overview of the potential implications of the suspension of birth registration in Cox’s Bazar district from 2017–2020. It outlines the birth registration process, the procedural changes made since 2020, and what these changes mean for host community children and adults in Cox’s Bazar. 

Rohingya crisis: Secondary Impacts of COVID-19

31 May 2021

Rohingya crisis: Secondary Impacts of COVID-19

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This report analyses the potential secondary impacts of COVID-19 containment and risk mitigation measures, both generally and in the face of the upcoming monsoon and cyclone seasons.

COVID-19
Our thoughts: Rohingya share their experiences and recommendations

22 April 2021

Our thoughts: Rohingya share their experiences and recommendations

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This report by ACAPS and IOM's Communicating with Communities unit is a large qualitative study exploring how Rohingya refugees have experienced the humanitarian response in Cox's Bazar, with a focus on accountability within the response. It explores recurrent themes within the response and concludes with recommendations from the participants for different sectors within the response.

Coping mechanisms
Bangladesh: Fire in Rohingya refugee camps 8E, 8W and 9

26 March 2021

Bangladesh: Fire in Rohingya refugee camps 8E, 8W and 9

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This briefing note reports on a devastating fire that broke out in the Kutupalong Balukhali Extension (KBE) on 22 March 2021 at 3pm. The damage caused by the fire significantly sets back the humanitarian response and exacerbates the existing needs of the Rohingya, who already live in precarious conditions.

Rohingya crisis: Fire incident

01 March 2021

Rohingya crisis: Fire incident

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Initial rapid joint needs assessment report

According to SMSD, approximately 10,000 shelters were partially or fully damaged. Nearly all of camp 9’s population lost their shelters, belongings, and food, approximately half of the population of camp 8W lost their shelters, and some of the population of camp 8E.

Considering age and disability in the Rohingya response

08 February 2021

Considering age and disability in the Rohingya response

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This report highlights the challenging life in congested refugee camps for over 866,000 stateless Rohingya refugees struggling to meet their basic needs. For people with disabilities and older people living in the camps, such challenges are amplified. 

Coping mechanismsProtection
COVID-19 and Migrant Vulnerability in Bangladesh, India and Nepal

13 October 2020

COVID-19 and Migrant Vulnerability in Bangladesh, India and Nepal

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This report aims to describe key factors affecting vulnerability for both internal and international labour migrants and the communities they are returning to in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, in order to support humanitarian and development actors to proactively identify and respond to emerging critical needs. 

COVID-19
Bangladesh: Characteristics of vulnerable households in the Rohingya refugee response

06 October 2020

Bangladesh: Characteristics of vulnerable households in the Rohingya refugee response

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The report and audio discussion - the first in a series of pilot audio discussions on work done by the ACAPS-NPM Analysis Hub in Cox's Bazar - highlights the common household characteristics of vulnerability, with the aim of identifying the specific needs and support requirements of the most vulnerable.