UN Women: Women's Empowerment in Cox's Bazar 2019-2024
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UN Women has applied for funding of SEK 84 00 000 to carry out the intervention "Means to Lead: Empowering Rohingya refugee and Host Community Women through Leadership, Learning and Livelihoods" in the Rohingya refugee camps and surrounding host communities in Cox´s Bazar during the period September 2019 – August 2023. The project aims to empower women, youn...
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UN Women has applied for funding of SEK 84 00 000 to carry out the intervention "Means to Lead: Empowering Rohingya refugee and Host Community Women through Leadership, Learning and Livelihoods" in the Rohingya refugee camps and surrounding host communities in Cox´s Bazar during the period September 2019 – August 2023. The project aims to empower women, young women and adolescent girls in refugee camps and make them more resilient leaders by ensuring 1) women have increased capacity and skills to participate and lead in community management and decision-making, in an enabling environment, and are linked with host community women, promoting social cohesion; 2) capacities, skills and livelihood opportunities of women and adolescent girls are developed to enhance their self-reliance, and 3) capacity of all Camp-in-Charge (CiCs) are enhanced to enable gender-sensitive response to concerns (including protection needs) of women/girls and they are able to provide better humanitarian services to all. UN Women will implement the intervention through international non-governmental organizations with presence in the Rohingya refugee camps. The intervention´s total budget is estimated to SEK 111 100 000, a total budget of three combined projects, and Sweden finances 76 % of the intervention, alongside Japan, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. The programme contributes to fulfilling the commitments in the Strategy for Sweden's development cooperation with Bangladesh 2021-2025, result area 1 on democracy, human rights, and gender equality. The project will also contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality (SDG 5) and on peace, justice, and strong institutions (SDG 16).
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The project is progressing well in its protection, education, leadership and livelihood components, contributing to the enhanced empowerment of Rohingya and host community women. The actual number of beneficiaries continues to surpass initial projections, underscoring the effectiveness of the gender-responsive approach and community engagement efforts in raising awareness about gender equality and addressing the specific needs of women and girls. Notable achievements include: A total of 119,555 individuals (52,822 Rohingya women 24,380 Rohingya girls 35,588 host community women 6,742 host community girls and 23 gender-diverse individuals in the camp) enhanced their knowledge of gender equality in 2023. They accessed holistic support and multi-sectoral services provided at eight Multi-Purpose Women's Centres (MPWCs), managed by UN Women partners, ActionAid Bangladesh, BRAC and Oxfam. The services included protection (GBV case management and referrals), health (paramedic services, sexual and reproductive health services, psychosocial counselling), education, and livelihood support. Regular outreach by 28 Rohingya volunteers from AAB and BRAC has promoted MPWC services and strengthened referral pathways. The Thematic Evaluation that was finalized at the end of 2023 acknowledged the positive impact of services provided by MPWCs. 11,533 women and adolescent girls (10,012 women and 1,521 girls) from Rohingya (7,723) and host communities (3,810) participated in livelihood activities and accessed learning opportunities, including second chance education and basic literacy, numeracy, and computer skills through the MPWCs. The Thematic Evaluation notes that the second chance education was especially important in giving women and adolescent girls a sense of pride and empowerment. While 4,721 Rohingya and host community women gained skills to enhance their economic security, 1,864 (232 Rohingya and 1,632 host community) women earned an average monthly income of BDT 3,906 (USD 36) through small businesses such as beauty parlors, vegetable, livestock and mushroom production, food production, handicrafts, tailoring and sanitary napkin manufacturing. While 3,571 women (2,777 host community and 794 Rohingya) gained enhanced leadership skills through the leadership training module, 529 of these women have demonstrated their leadership skills by integrating into decision-making processes at local government, community and camp levels during the project lifetime. Among them, 250 are change agents providing support and leadership within their communities and actively contributing to community development initiatives. The Thematic Evaluation found that the project's impact extends beyond the trained women leaders, positively influencing the broader community by challenging patriarchal attitudes and promoting gender equality. In the transition of the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group into the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), UN Women successfully lobbied for the inclusion of the Department of Women's Affairs (DWA) and women-led organizations as its members in Cox's Bazar to ensure alignment with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee policy guidance. As such, the DWA continues to chair GiHA WG at the national level and has agreed to also work with UN Women at the Cox's Bazar district level.
By the end of the intervention, it is expected that: Women and adolescent girls' engagement in and benefit from leadership, local government services, livelihoods, learning and social cohesion opportunities in Rohingya refugee camps and host communities are enhanced. The specific outcomes of this project are the following: 1. Gender equality is integrated in the Rohingya camps' government structures and processes. 2. Women have increased capacity and skills to participate in community management and decision-making, in an enabling environment with links to women's networks, CBOs and women development fora. 3. Opportunities, skills and livelihood opportunities of women and adolescent girls in host and Rohingya communities developed to enhance their leadership role and self-reliance.
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