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Recalibrating the Rohingya Response 2025-26 Joint Response Plan in Bangladesh

The 2025/26 Joint Response Plan (JRP) was launched in March 2025, following a consultative planning process, as a two-year framework under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh with a one-year budget cycle to ensure flexibility in addressing the Rohingya refugee crisis. Between January 2026 to December 2026, the JRP requires $710.5 million to reach 1.6 million people, including Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char and Bangladeshi host communities in Ukhiya and Teknaf. In 2026, it brings together 98 partners, including UN Agencies and NGOs, half of which are national organizations from Bangladesh.

16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls

The GBV Sub-Sector led by UNFPA, in collaboration with its partners, the Government of Bangladesh, humanitarian actors, and the Rohingya community, has officially launched the 16 Days of Activism 2025 Against Gender-Based Violence in Cox’s Bazar. Our joint call to action this year is clear: “UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls.”

About the Rohingya Refugee Response

Large-scale forced displacement of the Rohingya — an ethnic, linguistic, and religious minority from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State — into Bangladesh has occurred in 1978, 1992, 2012, and again in 2016. On all occasions, Bangladesh has generously sheltered Rohingya refugees temporarily. For the most part on previous occasions, the Rohingya have returned to their ancestral home in Rakhine State.

The largest forced displacement from Myanmar into Bangladesh began in August 2017. As of 29 February 2024, 976,507 Rohingya refugees – largely women and children — are residing in thirty-three camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas of the Cox’s Bazar District, as well as on the island of Bhasan Char.

Under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh, the humanitarian response has supported thousands of refugees since August 2017. Today, 117+ partners including 10 UN agencies 107 international and national NGOs are working closely with the Government in supporting one million Rohingya Refugees and half a million Bangladeshi host communities pending a durable solution.

The collective needs of the Rohingya refugee response for the UN and I/NGOs is outlined in the Joint Response Plan, that is issued annually with the support of the Government.

Joint Response Plan

Recalibrating the Rohingya Response: 2025-26 Joint Response Plan

The 2025/26 Joint Response Plan (JRP) was launched in March 2025, following a consultative planning process, as a two-year framework under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh with a one-year budget cycle to ensure flexibility in addressing the Rohingya refugee crisis. Anchored in five strategic objectives:

Work towards the early, voluntary, and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees/FDMNs to Myanmar.
Strengthen the protection of Rohingya refugee/FDMN women, men, girls, and boys.
Deliver life-saving assistance to populations in need.
Foster the well-being of host communities, including income generation, employment, and access to basic services, with a focus on localization and capacity-building.
Strengthen disaster risk management and combat the effects of climate change.

JRP 2025/26 calls for sustained humanitarian assistance while promoting targeted efforts to strengthen coping capacities within the camps and in vulnerable hosting communities who continue to be impacted by the presence of such a large Rohingya refugee/FDMN population, in line with the policies and priorities of the Government of Bangladesh. As the refugee crisis enters its ninth year, the UN and its partners call on the international community to extend their support to address the prioritized needs of Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities that are hosting them. Between January 2026 to December 2026, the JRP requires $710.5 million to reach 1.6 million people, including Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char and Bangladeshi host communities in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

In 2026, it brings together 98 partners, including UN Agencies and NGOs, half of which are national organizations from Bangladesh.

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1.6 M

People to Assist

$710.5 M

Funding Needed

98

Partners

Sectors in Cox’s Bazar

Education

Food Security

Protection (including CP and GBV)

Health

Shelter - Camp Coordination and Camp Management

Livelihoods and Skills Development

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Nutrition

Response in Bhasan Char

The Government of Bangladesh has established infrastructural facilities on Bhasan Char and supports the humanitarian community to deliver essential services to Rohingya refugees. On 9 October 2021, the Government of Bangladesh and UNHCR (on behalf of the UN agencies) signed an MOU that established a common policy framework based on protection and humanitarian principles for ongoing and future efforts on Bhasan Char. The MOU affirmed a joint commitment to ensure that Rohingya sheltered on Bhasan Char have access to services including protection, shelter, food and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, health, education in the Myanmar curriculum in the Myanmar language, as well as the ability to engage in livelihoods, capacity building activities, and skills development commensurate with opportunities available in Rakhine State in Myanmar. By the end of December 2022, the Government of Bangladesh had facilitated the voluntary relocation of around 30,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char.

The Rohingya refugee response on Bhasan Char aims to meet the humanitarian and protection needs of the Rohingya. The Rohingya refugee response on Bhasan Char aims to support and complement the work of the Government of Bangladesh, which is leading the overall humanitarian response. The Government in partnership with UN agencies will make best efforts to ensure equity of standards and parity of services for the Rohingya refugees living in Bhasan Char and Cox’s Bazar camps.