Bangladesh

The Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh host roughly 850,000 refugees. The crisis is in its fourth year now and prospects of return of refugees to Myanmar continue to be uncertain. Over the past years, successive joint response plans have highlighted the importance of a meaningful and dignified inclusion of individuals across all age groups and persons with disabilities into humanitarian response programming.

Living in a country where a quarter of the land lives barely above sea-level, the people of Bangladesh are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change and the havoc wrought by natural hazards. REACH focuses on improving the preparedness and informing the needs of vulnerable host and refugee populations along the coastlines in Cox’s Bazar.

The relation between refugees and migrants in mixed migration flows along the Central Mediterranean Sea route and the diaspora in Europe remains poorly understood. The present study challenges existing perceptions of the interaction between those who aspire to travel and those who have already made the difficult journey by exploring the reality of the relationship as reported by migrants and refugees themselves.

Launch Statement Promoting a people-centred aid system: IMPACT’s commitment to producing community-driven evidence for humanitarian decision making  In recent years, there has been growing momentum around putting people and communities at the centre of humanitarian action, packaged under a series of Accountability to Affected People (AAP) principles and commitments. This push for stronger accountability mechanisms […]

In collaboration with national cash working groups, UN agencies, implementing partners, and donors, REACH works globally and nationally to address core information gaps in cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and provide evidence to support more effective Cash & Voucher interventions.

IMPACT Initiatives, notably via its REACH, AGORA, and PANDA initiatives, is increasingly committing research efforts to inform the aid community on how to tackle climate risk. The objective? To identify evidence-based solutions that can be applied in fragile contexts to strengthen the resilience of communities. How? By conducting scientifically robust risk assessments, working with local actors to develop a better understanding of risk, and building local analytical and communication capacities.

Following the escalation of conflict and violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) since 7 October 2023, IMPACT has mobilized to support humanitarian partners and coordination platforms in their response. Within this framework, our teams are directly supporting humanitarian planning through secondary and primary data and Information Management (IM) support. For example, we […]

Northern Syria has experienced a surge in violence in recent days, exacerbating an already severe humanitarian situation after twelve years of conflict and a devastating earthquake in February this year. Both the eastern and western parts of the region have been hit by airstrikes and shelling, resulting in deaths and injuries, damage to critical infrastructures […]