UNHCR supporting Cox’s Bazar locals with network projects
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Organization, and its partners have completed 130 projects up to now to aid the Cox’s Bazar locals through “Community Solidarity Assignments” and income generation initiatives.
They have been implementing the projects with the locals of Ukhiya, Teknaf and Cox’s Bazar Sadar since 2018.
These assignments include support for 95 educational institutions, assistance in the construction of the 19-kilometre HBB Road, and provision of casing for the poorest families.
UNHCR and its partners - Brac and NGO Forum - on Sunday showed a number of these recently completed assignments to Cox’s Bazar-based journalists.
Also, UNHCR has also been providing livelihood support to around 6,000 vulnerable families in Ukhiya and Teknaf since 2018.
These families are receiving support to activate in income-generating activities including homestead veggie production.
“Vegetable production enables persons to be self-satisfactory and feed their own families, while also enabling them to earn a living. This has by no means been as essential as during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020,” UNHCR Livelihoods Officer Subrata Kumar Chakrabarty stated.
To support usage of markets, UNHCR and Centre for Natural Learning resource Studies (CNRS) have set up two veggie collection centres in Teknaf, where producers can bring their produce accessible in the neighborhood markets, and a good price is ensured.
This initiative will establish a solid market chain which will promote sustainable business creation services for local poor farmers, especially women, CNRS Project Supervisor MA Hasan Munna said.
