HOPE InternationalDevelopment Agency

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March 2020 – The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict, inter-communal tension, protracted displacement and food insecurity. It is estimated that 985,000 crisis-affected people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year, including more than 273,000 displaced people (of which 69% are women and children) who remain in camps or camp-like settings across the country. With GAC’s support, HOPE International Development Agency and its local partner, Metta Development Foundation, are supporting cash programming; water, sanitation and health; and access to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health for internally displaced persons living in Kachin State, Myanmar. Project activities include: (1) distributing multi-purpose cash grants to former internally displaced persons returning to their homes, including in support of supplementary feeding for children; (2) constructing and renovating latrines; (3) providing vocational and technical livelihood training, as well as start-up support, to survivors of gender-based violence; and (4) facilitating comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights training for adolescent women.