UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
$10,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Bangladesh
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- February 25, 2025 – December 31, 2027
- Project status
- Implementation
- Reference
- CA-3-P015355001
Published purpose
This project aims to address the livelihood challenges of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by building their transferable vocational skills. Project activities include: (1) training 3,300 Rohingya refugees (40% women, 2% people with disabilities) to develop market-driven skills in key vocational areas. These areas include caregiving, cement and concrete works, electrical services, machine mechanics, and agriculture; (2) facilitating and increasing access to basic vocational training, focusing on accelerated adult learning, English language training, numeracy, and life skills. This supports labour mobility pathways in the case that beneficiaries move to a third country; and (3) working to increase access to sustainable, resilient and in-demand livelihood opportunities (wage and self-employment) in Cox’s Bazar camps and on Bhasan Char Island camps. This project aims to directly benefits 11,000 Rohingya refugees.
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This project provides vocational training and livelihood support to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, aiming to build market-driven skills and increase access to employment opportunities in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char camps.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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