The Japan government has decided to extend approximately 32.5 million US dollars as additional support to the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.
According to a press release of Japanese Embassy on Tuesday, the humanitarian assistance will be extended through site management of refugee camps, providing food, shelter, medical services and trainings, and WASH facilities and forest regeneration under United Nations and international organisations.
These are UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the Un International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWomen), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, also known in English as Doctors Without Borders).
Since the massive influx of refugees into Bangladesh in August 2017, the government of Japan had granted approximately $50.2 million to international organisations. With the latest support, the total assistance reached approximately $ 82.7 million, the press release added.
