HOPE InternationalDevelopment Agency

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March 2021 – A complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict, inter-communal tension, protracted displacement, and food insecurity characterizes the humanitarian situation in Myanmar. An estimated one million crisis-affected people require humanitarian assistance this year, including more than 336,000 displaced people across the country. Humanitarian organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment, including as a result of the recent military coup. With GAC’s support, HOPE International Development Agency and its local partner, Metta Development Foundation, support cash programming, health and nutrition, and access to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health for internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Kachin State, Myanmar. Project activities include: (1) distributing multi-purpose cash grants to former IDPs returning to their homes, including in support of supplementary feeding for children; (2) providing vocational and technical livelihood training to survivors of gender-based violence; and (3) facilitating comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) training for IDPs.