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Program & Context Overview
About the program
In Cox’s Bazar, IOM and DRC implement Site Management (Camp Coordination and Camp Management) programming across 17 camps hosting more than 500,000 Rohingya refugees within IOM’s Area of Responsibility (AoR) —with IOM directly managing 13 camps and DRC 4. During this quarter, 117 male and female staff and Rohingya volunteers collected and replied to feedback through 46 information hubs and 43 mobile teams. This approach strengthens the accessibility and inclusiveness of the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM), ensuring that vulnerable and atrisk groups can safely share their concerns and receive timely responses.
The context
Over 1 million refugees—over half women and children—live across 35 camps in Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar (the world’s largest, 34 camps) and Bhasan Char. Rohingya from Myanmar remain aid-dependent in the crisis’s ninth year, mostly in overcrowded, temporary shelters, facing protection, humanitarian and environmental risks. Key challenges: sustained funding cuts, new influxes from escalating conflict in Myanmar, temporary LPG disruptions, and recurring disease outbreaks.
July–September: Monsoon rains strained infrastructure; flooding/waterlogging slowed recovery. Health services were pressured by dengue and waterborne illnesses. Funding constraints temporarily disrupted LPG in IOM AoR. New arrivals stretched resources. Organized criminal groups heightened protection risks (murder, abduction). With authorities, a new refugee committee was elected in August, though tensions rose. At the September UNGA, a high-level conference on Rohingya and other minorities renewed attention. Scarce livelihoods and reduced learning-center access increased youth vulnerability (e.g., online gambling).
Movement restrictions and limited options drove more dangerous sea journeys, with several Bay of Bengal incidents, including a late-August capsizing with multiple deaths and missing persons.