Bangladesh - Joint Multi Sector Needs Assessment: Cox’s Bazar, Rohingya Refugee Response –

An estimated 745,000 Rohingya refugees arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, between August 2017 and the assessment date, increasing the total refugee population to over 860,000. This joint multi-sector needs assessment, conducted by UNHCR in August 2020, provides a household-level evidence base for the 2021 Joint Response Plan, with analysis of needs changes and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use Cases

• Assess multi-sectoral household needs for humanitarian planning based on the described evidence base.
• Analyze changes in needs and the impact of COVID-19 on sectors like health and food security as mentioned in the objectives.
• Inform strategic aims of donors and coordinating bodies based on the joint multi-stakeholder analysis process.
• Evaluate pressures on public services and infrastructure in host communities as described in the background.

Strengths

• Assessment conducted by UNHCR, a major authoritative organization in refugee response.
• Focuses on a specific, critical population of over 860,000 refugees and their host communities.
• Explicitly aims to analyze changes in needs and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single 2020 assessment in Cox's Bazar.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (J-MSNA) conducted in the host community.

Time Range

August 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:43:29.388990; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (host communities)