In this report the International Rescue Committee (IRC) demonstrates how informal education programming in Cox’s Bazar is constrained by a number of major challenges: limited and short-term funding; low quality of teaching; programme restrictions and approval delays; infrastructural limitations; and low levels of enrolment and student retention – all challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak and response

Menstrual Disposal, Waste Management, & Laundering in Emergencies

Roughly 1 billion children worldwide are out of school due to school closures related to COVID-19. Children in humanitarian settings face a double crisis as the health emergency disrupts their opportunities to learn, develop and thrive. Ensuring children can continue to learn during the pandemic, no matter their access to technology, must be central to the COVID-19 response in fragile contexts.

Low-income families struggle with financial volatility in their daily lives.  During COVID-19, these struggles have been amplified. 

: PACKAGE OF ESSENTIAL NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES INTERVENTIONS FOR HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS

Modernizing The U.S. Refugee Response Overseas

Modernizing Humanitarian Assistance

The International Rescue Committee's 2019 Annual Report showcases the life-changing work of our 30,000 staff and volunteers in more than 40 countries around the world and in 20 cities across the United States.

Recommendations to rebuild and strengthen the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

A new IRC report brings forward the voices of 852 refugee and displaced women living in some of the most underfunded and forgotten humanitarian crises in 15 African countries to learn how the pandemic and the humanitarian response to it has affected their safety.