SAFE+ Cooking Fuel Need, Environmental Degradation and Food Security Cox's Bazar
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IOM through its role as the Convening Agency (CA) for the joint UN program SAFE Plus "Address Cooking Fuel Needs, Environmental Degradation and Food Security Cox's Bazar" has applied for funding for implementation of the program during the period 2019-2021. The program has been designed under the direction of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRR...
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IOM through its role as the Convening Agency (CA) for the joint UN program SAFE Plus "Address Cooking Fuel Needs, Environmental Degradation and Food Security Cox's Bazar" has applied for funding for implementation of the program during the period 2019-2021. The program has been designed under the direction of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC) of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) and contributes to local government planning and the Joint Response Plan of the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG). The contribution will only support activities in Cox's Bazar district. The goal of the program is to contribute to the overall food and nutrition security, empowerment and resilience of 125,000 refugee and host community households in Cox’s Bazar. The program has four objectives, the first of which is to address the urgent cooking fuel needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar, by introducing alternative clean cooking fuel and technology. The second and third primary objective focuses on improving economic livelihoods for host community members (and in turn overall food security) through training and inputs provision as well as the resilience of refugees through empowerment skills development. The fourth objective aims at mitigating negative environmental impacts through land/forest rehabilitation. The joint program is implemented by three UN agencies; IOM, WFP and FAO, and their partners. It targets 125,000 households (100,000 Rohingya refugees and 25,000 host community households). The period of implementation is September 2018 to December 2021 with an total estimated budget of 117.5 million USD. Sweden's contribution is 100 million SEK out of which 25 million SEK is financed by the Swedish Government's climate initiative on reduced emissions in 2019. Other development partners who have committed contributions are Canada, DFID, Australia, Norway, ECHO, Netherlands, Japan, Korea and the United States. Around 29 % of the total funding needs for the program has been covered. In addition to the SAFE Plus program, UNHCR is targeting an additional 125,000 households (100,000 Rohingya refugees and 25,000 host community households) for LPG distribution which means that all households in camps will be covered. Sweden is through its humanitarian funding contributing 50 million SEK to UNHCR in 2019 for LPG distribution and for piloting energy saving initiatives which could at a later stage be scaled up to all households using LPG. These are complementary funds to the support to the SAFE Plus program so all refugee households will have access to clean cooking fuel.
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The SAFE Plus programme was conceived to mitigate the environmental, protection, health, and socio-economic impacts of the Rohingya crisis. It is based on the operational need for a practical, safe and sustainable cooking fuel alternative to firewood through the provision of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG). The programme objectives also include the mitigation of deforestation in and around the Cox's Bazar refugee camps and ensuring the rehabilitation of impacted ecosystems. It aims to reduce the risk and exposure of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and to foster greater social cohesion between refugee and host communities through livelihoods and skills development. Building on the first phase of the SAFE Plus programme, implemented from January 2019 to June 2022, the second phase made progress in all three of the programme's strategic priority areas in its first year. Four UN agencies - UNHCR, IOM, FAO and WFP - are implementing the programme leveraging their comparative advantages in an integrated programming appraoch. The following results were reported in the 2022 report (covering the first 6 months of the programme from July to December 2022): 1) Access to Cleaner Energy Continued distribution of LPG (by IOM and UNHCR) to over 190,000 Rohingya households comprising some 920,000 refugees located in 33 refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. 2) Environment and Ecosystems Revegetation of 32 hectares of land inside the camps and the planting of 20 hectares of coastal belt plantations in host communities (facilitated by FAO and supported by cash for work activities). This was in addition to the restoration of 2,334 hectares of degraded forest land that was completed in refugee and host community areas during the first phase of the SAFE Plus programme. 3) Resilience through green skills development Due to limited funding, no activities benefitting the host community were undertaken in 2022. The focus was placed on green skills development and capacity building of Rohingya refugees. WFP conducted vocational green skills development trainings for 4,921 participants (1,812 males, 3,109 females) of which 2,522 were persons with a disability or elderly. IOM conducted a skills development service mapping exercise to obtain insight in the varying skills development services offered by different agencies in the host community and refugee camps. FAO implemented homestead gardening activities for a total of 600 households (80 male-headed, 520 female-headed) in the refugee camps. Formation of a Steering Committee The Steering Committee was established and on 18 January 2023, the first Annual Review meeting was held. There was high participation from the Government's side (led by the Secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief) during the meeting. The aim of the meeting was to review the SAFE Plus 2 programme up until now, and to reflect on the programme's priorities for 2023.
Goal: Contribute to the overall food and nutrition security, empowerment and resilience of 125,000 refugee and host community households in Cox's Bazar Objective 1: Targeted households, especially women headed and vulnerable households have monthly decreased expenditures related to firewood purchase Objective 2: Vulnerable households in host communities, especially women and girls, are more resilient through increased income Objective 3: Rohingya households have basic knowing in homestead gardening, tailoring, baking and basket weaving Objective 4: Negative environmental impacts are mitigated through land/forest rehabilitation
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