Project Tittle: 2025 Multi-year Bangladesh Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Flooding Response  

Activity Tittle: Delivery of integrated health care services for Rohingya families and the host communities in Ukhiya (Camp 4)

Program Area: The program focuses on improving community health and well-being through inclusive and complementary health, protection and advocacy initiatives targeting refugees and disadvantaged host communities in Cox’s Bazar. It emphasizes awareness building, disease prevention, mental health support and increased access to maternal and reproductive health services.

Duration: 1st February 2025 to 31 December 2026  

Funded by:  MFAT (NZDRP)

Supported by: Save The Children International

Intervention area:  Camp-4 (038), Rohingya Refugee Camp and Adjacent Host Community.

Number of target Beneficiaries: Overall, 14,574 beneficiaries, including 13,494 Rohingya refugees and 1,080 from the host community,

Target Participants: Adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, Lactating Mothers, women of reproductive age, women at risk and survivors of gender-based violence.

Project brief Concept: The Project aims to address the urgent health-related needs of the Rohingya crisis, including strengthening the resilience and recovery of Rohingya and Adjacent host communities through the provision of comprehensive healthcare services. The project is currently ongoing and delivers the Minimum Package of Essential Health Services (MPEHS) through a health post in Camp 4, ensuring equitable access to quality primary healthcare. The intervention focuses on maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, nutrition, and sexual and reproductive health, with particular attention to vulnerable groups, including children, older persons, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Integrated community and facility-based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services as well as rehab   are being provided alongside regular health services, supported by disease surveillance and online health reporting systems. Community outreach and skills-building activities promote healthcare-seeking behavior, wellbeing, safeguarding awareness, and personal rights among camp and adjacent host communities.

The project is being implemented under two outcome indicators:

Outcome 1: Decreased human suffering associated with natural or human-induced disasters, measured by the number of vulnerable people estimated to receive essential and life-saving assistance following a natural or human-induced disaster, and the percentage of participants satisfied with the essential healthcare, therapeutic, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services received.

Outcome 2: Enhanced equitable access to quality primary healthcare services and health and hygiene messages, including integrated Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), for vulnerable Rohingya and host communities. This outcome is measured by the percentage of program participants who receive timely and safe access to essential healthcare, therapeutic, and MHPSS services, and the percentage of participants who perceive health and hygiene messages as useful.

Under the two outcomes, the project is implementing 11 output indicators through both facility-based services and community outreach activities.

  1. Outpatient (OPD) consultations/ services provided.
  2. Individual Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services.
  3. IYCF-E counselling service received by pregnant and lactating mother.
  4. Infants and mothers at risk (in pairs) enrolled, after screening, in the MAMI programme.
  5. MHPSS consultation services received by programme participants.
  6. Sessions conducted for adolescent peer support groups to provide information on ASRH and MHPSS services.
  7. Events conducted with Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) peer groups (discussion focusing on ANC, PNC and FP).
  8. Individual therapeutic sessions received by programme participants.
  9. Persons with disabilities referred to nearest OPDs for assistive devices after screening.
  10. Awareness raising events on gender, GBV and disability rights with key community members (including persons with disabilities) at facility level and
  11. Participants referred by CHWs for OPD, SRH, IYCF-E, MHPSS consultations and EPI to the health facilities.

Besides, the project implementing  key intervention through outreach by conducting session for adolescent peer support groups to provide information on ASRH and MHPSS services, create awareness and advocacy on Disability and Inclusion and GBV, Bi-monthly meeting with support groups for ensuring engagement of communities and improving participation in inclusive health activities and Meeting with key stakeholders/child safeguarding activities/Monthly Staff meeting and including Day observation.