The brief provides an analysis on Â鶹ÊÓƵ Emergency Operation in Cox¡¯s Bazar (Bangladesh) which have adapted to the newer challenges due to COVID-19 to continue life-saving interventions for the extremely vulnerable population. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has also ramped up its assistance to the host population which is a critical element of its operation.
Almost three years into the crisis, the market situation in and around the camps has changed substantially. This assessment identifies how markets can fulfil the demand for essential needs required on a regular, seasonal, or exceptional basis by households for ensuring survival and minimum living standards.
Over the past three years since 2017, the market environment in Cox¡¯s Bazar has evolved substantially in response to varying forces, with significant economic interaction between the enterprises and individuals inside and outside the Rohingya refugee camps. Building on the rich information provided by previous studies, this assessment attempted to diagnose the market situation and functionality, and provide the most up-to-date information as the humanitarian actors consider moving towards market-based approaches in the future.
While the prevalence of undernourishment has declined in Bangladesh, there still are 26 million food-insecure people in the country. Cox¡¯s Bazar alone has 695,000 people that are severely food-insecure with over 34 percent of the population living under the food consumption poverty line. It has also been performing poorly on indicators such as Net Enrolment Rate (NER) and dropout rates.
More than two years into the Rohingya refugee response, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s assistance serves the most vulnerable 900,000 refugee and host population which is critical to ensuring sustainable peace and development.
This Synthesis of Operations Evaluations for the Asia and the Pacific Region brings together the findings of nine operations evaluations, conducted from mid-2013 to mid-2017.
The decentralized evaluation has been commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Bangladesh Country Office and covers the school feeding programme (SFP) implemented by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Bangladesh with the support of the McGovern-Dole (MGD) Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
This report synthetized the findings, conclusions and recommendations from four strategic evaluations related to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR): the global Logistics Cluster (2012), the global Food Security Cluster (2014), Â鶹ÊÓƵ's use of pooled funds for humanitarian preparedness and response (2015) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Preparedness and Response Enhancement Programme (PREP) (2015).
