Highlights
- On May 26, 2024, tropical Cyclone Remal severely hit Bangladesh and impacted 4.6 million people across 19 districts, resulting in 16 deaths and 1.3 million people needing humanitarian assistance.
- By the end of June 2024, with UNICEF support, the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) reached 185,000 people (93,000 female) with 842,770 Water Purification Tablets (WPTs), 5,330 Jerry Cans, 578 water buckets and 5,217 Hygiene Kits, and 10 mobile water treatment plants deployed to provide clean and safe water to families in the affected locations to prevent outbreaks of water-borne diseases.
- 6,048 households with pregnant women have received US$51 (60% of Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB)) as multipurpose cash transfers to facilitate their access to a range of critical goods and services.
- Approximately 16,650 school children have been affected schools as their schools have been damaged by inundation of flood waters. UNICEF will ensure teaching and learning continues in the affected schools by distributing 205 Education in Emergency Kits in Barisal, 200 in Khulna, and 155 in Chattogram, benefiting approximately 16,650 school children in the affected schools and communities. Repairs and emergency reconstruction of damaged classrooms are being coordinated with the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) in 992 Government Primary Schools affected by Cyclone Remal.
- Social workers reached 40,303 people (21,377 children and 1,988 people with disabilities) in the cyclone-affected areas of Khulna, Barisal, and Chattogram divisions, providing them with referrals, psychosocial support, and information on protection issues.
- UNICEF, a co-lead of the Accountability to Affected People (AAP) Working Group of the ICCG, is facilitating the the development of an integrated collective AAP framework for CERF-funded agencies responding to the Cyclone Remal emergency.
- The Cyclone Remal Humanitarian Response Plan 2024 appeals for US$53 million and targets 784,000 severely impacted people. The funding gap for UNICEF remains significant at 78%. UNICEF needs US$10.9 million to support the vulnerable women and children with immediate and medium-term interventions.
