BRAC

Published purpose

This project supports BRAC in establishing a unique, first-of-its-kind pooled fund supported by the Government of Canada for a localized development-humanitarian response in a protracted crisis. This fund is used for the benefit of the Rohingya refugees through the delivery of interventions by Bangladeshi non-governmental organizations. Now entering its fifth year, the Rohingya refugee crisis highlights the need for more effective integration of humanitarian and development efforts, while building local capacity to deliver ongoing services. Project activities include: (1) funding and capacity development support to a minimum of 23 national and local organizations in organizational governance, gender equality and environmental integration, results-based management, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, inclusion, humanitarian principles, transparency, as well as financial and fiduciary management among other areas; and (2) delivering selected national and local organizations of focused and context-specific interventions in both basic needs such as nutrition, health, water and sanitation and longer-term resilience-building projects such as education, skills, livelihoods, promotion of gender equality by pooled fund-supported national and local responders.