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Urgent Priorities: Addressing the Most Pressing Needs of the JRP
Urgent Priorities: Addressing the Most Pressing Needs of the Joint Response Plan
In 2025, US$455.6 million is required to fund 1 Priority Activities, as part of an essential minimum package of humanitarian assistance and services that must be supported to save lives and prevent the most acute protection risks.
In parallel to this document, a Flash Appeal has been launched, to meet the lifesaving and critical needs of an estimated 150,000 new arrivals who have fled renewed fighting in Myanmar. The Flash Appeal requests an additional US$84 million to cover the needs of new arrivals, who have not been accounted for in the initial Joint Response Plan (JRP).
Overview
The Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is facing an increasingly precarious funding environment amidst a global decline in humanitarian assistance. The Joint Response Plan 2025 (JRP), launched jointly by the Government of Bangladesh and the humanitarian community on 24 March 2025, appealed for US$934.5 million to meet the needs of 1.09 million refugees and 392,000 members of host communities. However, significant reductions in donor contributions in 2025 have necessitated an urgent and extensive reprioritization of activities, with approximately 49% of the original appeal required for critical, life-saving interventions.
As of March 2025, a funding gap of approximately US$176 million persists for these “first priority” needs, in addition to an unmet requirement of US$84 million to address the immediate humanitarian needs of an estimated 150,000 new refugee arrivals.
The dramatic reduction in humanitarian funding in 2025 comes at a time of growing needs in the world’s largest refugee camp, threatening the well-being of more than one million refugees, and particularly refugee women, and children. Without urgent international support, critical services such as food assistance, education, LPG distribution, hygiene and health services, risk severe disruption, while basic infrastructure, including shelters, will rapidly deteriorate if not maintained, and humanitarian partners will be unable to prevent or respond to the life-threatening impacts of natural disasters. Declining support will negatively impact the refugee camps and surrounding communities, forcing already vulnerable refugees to adopt increasingly desperate and harmful coping strategies, as well as putting at risk the peaceful coexistence between communities.