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Building on new research from the IRC on positive market conditions in Cox’s Bazar, this brief highlights the untapped potential of livelihoods programming to increase self-reliance and economic empowerment for affected communities.
Rohingya refugees who survived shocking violence in Myanmar are now threatened by heavy monsoon rains and cyclones in Bangladesh. Here’s the storm-preparedness advice aid workers are giving them.
In 2015 the IRC and Mercy Corps joined forces to launch ADAPT (Analysis Driven Agile Programming Techniques) to research, innovate and field test adaptive management techniques for the sector. In Myanmar’s Kayah State, a health project showed how context analysis can be used to manage partner relations and enable opportunistic programming.
The International Rescue Committee carried out an assessment of adolescent girls (ages 10-18 and both in and out of school within the camps) across 5 Rakhine IDP camps and Rohingya camps in Myanmar in late August. We've had increased reports of gender-based violence since the Rohingya were enclosed in camps in 2012.
The IRC began responding to the Rohingya crisis in August 2017 and launched our response in Bangladesh officially in March 2018. Since then, we have served 555,424 people.
In June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine led to the displacement of 145,000 people. As decades-old ethnic conflicts drag on, the IRC has been responding to the ongoing needs of Myanmar’s most vulnerable.
After a year of severe drought, flash floods have killed at least 77 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Afghanistan. The IRC is responding with emergency aid.
This month, the International Rescue Committee's crisis news roundup looks at the looming famine threatening millions in war-torn Yemen, an asylum ban that could harm families in the caravan fleeing Central America, and the r
