Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to natural disasters including floods and cyclones: heavy rains in July 2018 triggered landslides and flooding throughout Cox’s Bazar district. In addition, the country has received over 700,000 new Rohingya refugees since August 2017. UNFPA is presently supporting 19 safe spaces for women and girls in Cox's Bazar for Rohingya and host communities and one in Jamalpur for flood affected people. Two mobile clinics provide services everyday and almost 45,000 dignity kits were distributed as of June 2018. UNFPA is strengthening the health system at all levels – from supporting Government policy to deploying professional midwives – to ensuring quality sexual and reproductive health care is delivered across the country. UNFPA is leading the gender-based violence sub-cluster and the sexual and reproductive health / Minimum Initial Service Package working group (will be formally activated soon).
Results data are reported and updated as they become available.
- Targets and UNFPA's populations of concern, including women of reproductive age and pregnant women, are estimated using the MISP calculator.
- Funding estimates are based on country planning processes, including inter-agency humanitarian response plans and regional refugee and resilience plans.
L1: Humanitarian crises in which the national and international resources available in the affected country are sufficient for the required response.
L2: Humanitarian crises requiring significant support from neighbouring countries, regional organizations and possibly humanitarian agency headquarters.
L3: Major, sudden-onset humanitarian crises requiring mobilization across the humanitarian system.
Crisis levels are determined by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a forum of UN and non-UN humanitarian partners.
