Bangladesh

To eradicate extreme poverty and mitigate multidimensional vulnerabilities of the host community and the displaced refugee population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh through promotion of livelihood standard of the host community and self- reliance proficiency of the refugee community that ensures dignity, security, socioeconomic empowerment, increased confidence level, positive behavioural change, and higher social inclusion.   

1. Ultra-poor households graduate from ultra-poverty based on specific graduation indicators, which will enable the participants in the host community of Cox’s Bazar to uplift their social and economic condition and contribute positively to the peaceful coexistence of both the host community and refugee community. 
2. Enhanced self-reliance of the refugee community that ensures dignity, security, socio-economic empowerment, increased confidence level, positive behavioural change, and higher social inclusion.  

Bangladesh is not a party to the 1951 Convention and it does not have domestic refugee legislation that regulates the reception and protection of refugees. In Bangladesh, PoCs do not have the right to work, nor do they have access to markets. Refugees are however able to do some agricultural activities and set up businesses with in the refugee camps. The influx of refugees however, as well as the surge of humanitarian services, have had significant consequences for the host communities and local markets in Cox’s Bazar. With a population of 2,290,000, Cox’s Bazar is one of Bangladesh’s poorest and most vulnerable districts, with 33% living below the poverty line, and 17% below the extreme poverty line.