Name of the project: “BGD AHP Rohingya response phase 4”

 

Programme Area: Reproductive Health and Provide Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)

 

Duration: January 2021 to June 2023 (Phase III)

August 2023 to July 2025 (Phase IV)

 

Funded by: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia (DFAT)

 

Managed by: Save the Children in Bangladesh

 

Implementation area of PHD: Refugee camps: 17, 18 (2 Health Posts initially)

Goal: The project goal is “Contribute to international efforts to meet humanitarian and protection needs and increase self-reliance and resilience building of Rohingya and host populations in Bangladesh”.

Objective: “Essential primary healthcare and COVID-19 specific home-based care are continued to reduce the morbidity and mortality of Rohingya refugees and adjacent host communities”.

Intermediate Outcome: Improved and equitable WASH, Primary Healthcare, SRH and Psychosocial Services

Outcome Statement: Essential primary healthcare and COVID-19 specific home-based care are continued to reduce the morbidity and mortality of Rohingya refugees and adjacent host communities.

Output 1.3.a: Inclusive essential healthcare delivered

Output 1.3.b: Coordinated COVID-19 response

The project will contribute to the delivery of the AHP Rohingya Refugee response with a focus on Outcome 1 (Basic Needs) through health, education and protection activities for refugee communities living in the Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh. Given the COVID-19 context, the program has a strong health focus which will strengthen the delivery of primary health services, including COVID-19 identification and management, through health posts previously established and funded via the AHP.  These health posts will also deliver medical services to identify acute or chronic medical conditions, support reproductive health and provide mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Where relevant, referrals will be made to relevant services to address protection issues, including child safeguarding (CSG) and gender-based violence (GBV).

Protection activities will focus on children and adolescents with diverse needs and vulnerabilities, including activities to mitigate exposure to protection risks caused and/or exacerbated by COVID-19. Overall, the project aims to facilitate access to specialized services such as, case management, psychosocial support, awareness raising and emergency referrals.

Name of the project: “Community Health Volunteer Network in Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya Upazila, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in the context of the COVID-19 crisis”

 

Duration: July 2020 to December 2020  

 

Funded by: Médecins du Monde Japan (MdMJ)

 

Implementation area of PHD: Camps 13, 15 and 16 of Cox;s Bazar

Target audience: Approximately 7000 people in the camps 13, 15 and 16

Goal: The project goal is to “Meaningfully improve health outcomes for 7000 people in the camps 13, 15 and 16 in the face of COVID-19 crisis”.

Project brief:

Partners in Health and Development (PHD) and Médecins du Monde Japan (MdMJ) are currently providing training Rohingya volunteers and implementing CHV programming in Cox’s Bazar. The mutual goal is to meaningfully improve health outcomes for 7000 people in the camps 13, 15 and 16 in the face of COVID-19 crisis. In line with the role and guidance for Community Health Workers (CHW) as agreed upon in the CH Working Group (CH WG), PHD and MdMJ will work together to improve COVID 19 prevention and resilience while ensuring reduction of diarrheal disease, maternal and newborn mortality, and uptake of family planning methods among the target population. The project will link 38 Community Health Volunteers from the 3 camps with health and other essential services and support available, and enable them to share information, identify common needs, and standardize the response for the target population, where possible, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The project will conduct trainings and supportive supervision that will build knowledge and skills among the volunteers. We will sensitize communities on COVID-19 risks and infection prevention and control measures. The project will improve standardized interventions, including a protocol for post-natal care for mothers and newborns, and meet the highest standards for reporting, utilizing approved tools that are in alignment with standards outlined by various ISCG working groups for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and Community Health Working Group (CHWG). By creating a single, shared Community Health Volunteer (CHV) program, CPI aims to harness the capacity of Rohingya refugees as community volunteers in Cox’s Bazar to develop a network for community health programming that will provide primary care education, health services, and referrals at the household level.

Project objectives: Improve health outcomes for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

  1. Train, equip and provide ongoing support to Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) tenable them to provide access to health services, maternal and neonatal care, family planning, health education and hygiene promotion, and accompanied referrals in their respective communities in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.
  2. Support protection efforts that prevent and respond to gender-based violence
  3. Support facility-based deliveries among Rohingya refugees
  4. Link CHVs to ambulance services for emergency medical response

 

Name of the project: “Innovative approaches to reaching isolated adolescent girls in Cox’s Bazar with critical GBV and SRH information and services”

 

Programme Area: Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV)

 

Duration: March 2020 to December 2020

 

Funded by: WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISION (WRC)

 

Implementation area of PHD: Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camps 

Project aims to collect: 550 stories from adolescent girls, 300 stories from their caregivers, 100 stories from adolescent boys and young men, and 50 stories from other adults important to adolescent girls’ lives.

Project objectives: Main objectives of the project are;

  1. Understanding barriers to access programs and services for adolescent Rohingya girls
  2. Identifying interventions with the help of community stakeholders and implement in according to their needs and priorities, and enable the environment for adolescent girls to access SRH and GBV information and services.

Synopsis of the project:

The Women’s Refuge Commission (WRC) will be working to expand access to sexual and reproductive Health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) information and services for adolescent Rohingya girls living in and around Cox’s Bazar. WRC will maintain an innovative technique to understand barriers to accessing information and services for adolescent Rohingya girls and identify innovative ways of reaching isolated adolescent girls with critical SRH and GBV information and services.

Partners in Health and Development (PHD) will work on finding the community barriers for adolescent girls and their needs and priorities and organize workshop with community stakeholders to present the existing situation and involve them in designing the program which will be befitting for the community girls. After designing the program, this team will go for interventions with explored and prepared program design. This organization will be responsible for review and adaptation of techniques and project protocols, recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers as well.