Bangladesh

Senior government officials, development partners, and education stakeholders convened in Dhaka today to launch coordination under the Climate Smart Education Systems Initiative (CSESI), a national effort to strengthen Bangladesh’s education system against the growing impacts of climate change. Bangladesh faced extended closures last year, keeping children out of school for longer periods and resulting in learning loss. Supported by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), CSESI aims to integrate climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability into education sector plans, budgets, and strategies to mitigate these challenges.

Reduced funding, which has led to cuts in essential services like education and healthcare, and international aid cuts have meant that this has been a particularly difficult year for children living in the world’s largest refugee camp.

Shahidul Haque is Save the Children’s Advocacy, Communications and Media Director in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Having worked on the response for six years and living close to the refugee camps himself, he has seen firsthand how worsening conditions—exacerbated this year by recent aid cuts—are affecting a generation of children growing up in the world’s largest refugee camps.

Bangladesh experiences 19 landslides annually, with a 4% increase in these disaster events each year. They are particularly prevalent in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and surrounding districts including Chittagong because of intense monsoon rainfall, rapid urbanization, deforestation, and unregulated hill cutting. These events have caused over 700 deaths since 2000, destruction of infrastructure, and long-term displacement.

More than 1.8 million children will miss out on learning due to aid cuts impacting Save the Children’s education programmes in over 20 countries

With just a few weeks to go until the food ration cuts take effect, desperation inside the camps is growing, several families told Save the Children.

Children made up just under half - 44% - of predominantly Rohingya refugees leaving Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat in 2024 as the number of people taking to sea continues to rise.

Cyclone-proof food, climate resilient schools and aid delivering drones are just some of the ways Save the Children has been tackling the impacts of the climate crisis on children in 2024.

Sharing the Lessons Learned from the IMCI Application integration into National Management Information System (MIS)

Explore the impact of technology-assisted learning on marginalized populations through the AGREE project in Bangladesh. This blog evaluates how blended learning, combined with life skills and vocational training, enhances girls' foundational skills and agency, revealing small yet significant gains in decision-making and freedom of movement.

Japanese Ambassador Commends Child Protection Initiatives and Pledges Continued Support Following His Visit

Commemorating the International Day of the Girl Child 2024

Save the Children in Bangladesh Formally Launches SWOCCHAR Project to Strengthen Women-Led Organizations

Youth Climate Activists Held Global Climate Strike Across Bangladesh

Save the Children in Bangladesh announces “Youth Led Innovation Lab” champions

Boost Back Better - How Our Literacy Approach is Teaching through Edu-tainment

Save the Children is with 2 million flood-affected children and adolescents

The violence—and the fear of violence and abductions—has led many Rohingya families to stay in their shelters and prevent their children from going outside.

Children need to return to classes after weeks of unrest and uncertainty – Save the Children

Moments Between Biscuits: Ruma and Rana’s Support During Cyclone Remal

Over 30 youth organisation members unite for greater climate action in Bangladesh

Save the Children International launches its inaugural Global Media Awards to celebrate excellence in journalism for child rights.

About 35 million children are living in areas exposed to Atlantic hurricanes during what could be the most active hurricane season in recorded history

In recent days 10 people were killed in the world’s largest refugee settlement amid heavy monsoon rains

Cyclone Remal tore through south west Bangladesh on 26 May affecting around 3.75 million people

BANGLADESH: MORE THAN 270,000 CHILDREN HOMELESS AFTER CYCLONE REMAL BATTERS COASTAL AREA

Save the Children has sent four emergency response teams to support in the recovery

Torrential rains turn villages into islands after Cyclone Remal batters coastal areas

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures brought about by a heatwave.

HEAT-STRICKEN BANGLADESH EXTENDS SCHOOL CLOSURES

BANGLADESH: EXTREME HEAT CLOSES ALL SCHOOLS AND FORCES 33 MILLION CHILDREN OUT OF CLASSROOMS

Extreme heat has forced the closure of all schools in Bangladesh this week, impacting 33 million children

Every Breath Counts - Airway Pressure Devices are Making Respiratory Treatment Accessible

Prepped for positive learning: Abrar Covets Play-Based Learning!

Rohingya refugee children who have been forced to flee Bangladesh and Myanmar are now asking authorities in Indonesia for more freedom to leave.

Suchana: Largest Food Security and Nutrition Program in Bangladesh Ends

Press release Save the Children on fire in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Suchana: Ending the cycle of undernutrition in Bangladesh

Saving Little Lives: Observing World Pneumonia & Prematurity Day 2023

Save the Children press release on more than 400 Rohingya children in Indonesia

Save the Children in Bangladesh's Proyash II Project Bridges Communities in Savar Municipality

At least 113 children die from dengue in Bangladesh as deaths surge to a record high

Youth Participant from Save the Children in Bangladesh Joins UN General Assembly 2023 in New York

Mamotar Tori- Navigating Hope in Char

Mili Rani’s Climate-Smart Village Model Farm in Moulvibazar

Nourishing and Empowering Adolescent Girls like Rahima

Stakeholders Applaud Success of Suchana Programme

Six years after 750,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, the health and wellbeing of more than half a mill

In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled violence in Rakhine state in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Save the Children in Bangladesh hosted a day-long capacity training workshop titled “Empowering Young Voices for Climate Change”

Save the Children in Bangladesh Commemorates National Mourning Day

A Rohingya child and her mother have been killed by a mudslide in Cox's Bazar

From Paper Toys to Clay Creations: Lego Foundation and Save the Children's 'Championing Play' project organized a Child Fair for Fun Learning.

A class of her own

Save the Children and KOICA Collaborate to Strengthen Maternal and Neonatal Health in Rangpur, Bangladesh

Save the Children in Bangladesh Wraps Up USAID MaMoni Project, Enhancing Maternal and Newborn Care

From braiding to carving and to kicking a ball – refugee children use hobbies to ease into new homes

Empowering communities through sustainable agriculture!

Join us in commemorating World Hunger Day and making a difference in the lives of families like Arefa's!

Violence is never the way: End Corporal Punishment

Save the Children in Bangladesh's PHCC Provides Critical Maternity Services During Cyclone MOCHA

BANGLADESH: DANGEROUS CYCLONE MOCHA EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL ON SUNDAY PUTTING 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN AT RISK

More than 1.5 million children are at risk, as Cyclone Mocha is expected to make landfall near the Bangladesh border.

Meet Kashim and Jamila, Who Refused to Let a Fire Destroy Their Spirit

Witnessing the life-changing impact of education: ECW and Porticus team visit Rohingya camps

SCI's Child Protection Team Goes Above and Beyond to Reunite Lost Children with Their Families

More than Four Hundred Girls Participated in the 'Digital Equity Carnival'

Save the Children's Shishuder Jonno Program Saves Lives of Lactating Mothers and Unborn Children

STATEMENT: FIRE BLAZES THROUGH ROHINGYA REFUGEE CAMPS DAYS BEFORE INTERNATIONAL FUNDING EVENT IN GENEVA

Statement in response to fire in Cox's Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh.

International donors must not turn their backs on Rohingya children

MOU Signing Ceremony between Save the Children and Dotlines

Youth Led Innovation Lab: A platform to showcase the talent and new ideas of the marginalized youth around Bangladesh.

New name for education alliance, a new fight for quality and inclusion

Save the Children Launches Climate Campaign ‘Generation Hope’

“The question is, how do leaders want their children and grandchildren to remember them?” – pressure ramps up on leaders to provide a secure future for children at COP27

Climate Change in the eyes of children

‘My Right to Fly’- A Photo Exhibition on the International Day of the Girl Child

The theme for this year’s IDG is “Our time is now—our rights, our future”.

Towards a brighter future for our girls

Five years after Rohingya exodus, two thirds of children in refugee camps do not feel safer than when they arrived in Bangladesh

INDIA-BANGLADESH FLOODS CHANGE COURSE OF CHILDREN'S LIVES AS ENTIRE DISTRICTS SUBMERGED

Children’s ‘homes, schools and livelihoods washed away’ in India and Bangladesh floods: Save the Children

ONE CHILD KILLED AND 1,000 CHILDREN LEFT HOMELESS AS FIRE RIPS THROUGH ROHINGYA REFUGEE CAMP

Second fire of 2022 leaves 750 children homeless in Rohingya refugee camp, says Save the Children

ROHINGYA REFUGEE CHILDREN BACK IN THE CLASSROOM AFTER ONE OF WORLD’S LONGEST SCHOOL CLOSURES

“Worst year yet”: Four years since Rohingya exodus, fires, floods and COVID-19 take toll on children

Save the Children 'deeply distressed' that five Rohingya refugees killed in heavy rain and landslides in Cox's Bazar

Rohingya children: Five stories from five countries

In 2017, the world watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape violence.

Rohingya refugees fear ‘another disaster waiting to happen’ after 84 fires in four months

ROHINGYA CAMP FIRE: Last week’s blaze pushed more than 13,000 children out of school

Race to find at least 23 children still missing after Rohingya camp blaze

Fire blazes through Rohingya Camp putting lives of thousands of refugees at risk

Mary, nurse in Cox’s Bazar, tells us why she works for Save the Children

“Our future is not negotiable”: Climate Activist Sohanur speaks

'Children and their families robbed of what little they had'

“When there is a problem, we should not stay aside.”

“I was scared when my mother and sister were sick,” Nazib’s story

Asia's governments must put politics aside to protect the lives of Rohingya people.

Keeping literacy alive during COVID-19

KAMAL’S STORY: WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE

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THREE YEARS ON: No Progress, No Peace

COVID-19: FIGHTING AN INVISIBLE ENEMY IN THE WORLD’S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP

BANGLADESH: Two million children affected by unprecedented monsoon rains amid the longest-lasting floods in over twenty years

The power of breastfeeding

COVID-19 complicates response to unprecedented South Asia monsoons, warns Save the Children

COVID-19: Forty percent of Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh are scared of dying or losing a loved one to the virus

Shocking testimonies of rescued Rohingya children tell of “nightmare” on boats left adrift in the Bay of Bengal for months

Save the Children assesses the damage in India and Bangladesh in the wake of Cyclone Amphan

CYCLONE AMPHAN: Fears for children and families in low-lying areas as strong winds, storm surge and flooding expected in India and Bangladesh

Reports of the first confirmed coronavirus case in the Rohingya refugee camps is a major cause for concern

It's Time to Stand Together to Fight COVID-19

Rohingya families risk death or injury, all for a better life

COVID-19: Access to full mobile data and telecommunications in Myanmar and Bangladesh is essential to save lives, say 26 major aid groups

COVID-19: Bangladesh has less than 2,000 ventilators serving a population of 165m, warns Save the Children

The first confirmed Coronavirus case in Cox’s Bazar exposes how our systems fail the most vulnerable

Tragic drowning of Rohingya caused by desperation

Children have a right to learn and a right to an education that will support their development, growth and ability to build their future.

61 NGOs warn of worsening crisis in Myanmar

Two Years On: Rohingya Deserve Justice

Two years on and still waiting for justice - Why we cannot forget Rohingya children

SOUTH ASIA FLOODS: More than three million children affected by severe flooding across India, Bangladesh and Nepal

BANGLADESH: 51 per cent increase in “unnecessary” C-sections in two years

3 in 4 Rohingya refugee babies are born in unsanitary bamboo shelters

Flooding and devastation - fears for safety of hundreds of thousands of children as Cyclone Fani wreaks havoc

Priyanka – defender of children’s rights

Rohingya crisis: On anniversary of deadliest cyclone on record, thousands of lives at risk during Bangladesh storm season

42 NGOs warn that return of refugees to Myanmar now would be dangerous and premature

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Women and children burnt alive, widespread rape and a dam full of bodies: new report details the harrowing testimonies of Rohingya children

As a father of girls, I often pause to reflect on how my daughters’ opportunities contrast with those of earlier generations.

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Empowering daughters of sex workers to build a better future