A Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) for agent banking has recently signed between COAST Trust and Midland Bank Limited. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Executive Director of COAST Trust and Ahsan-uz-Zaman MD & CEO of Midland Bank Limited signed the MoU on...
Dhaka, 25th October, 2017. Today in a dialogue held in a hotel in the capital global CSOs expressed their concerns as spaces for CSOs is shrinking in the global development processes. On the other hand, Bangladeshi CSOs urged an...
19 October 2017. Today in a press conference NGOs and CSOs of Cox’s Bazar district demanded localization of the Rohingya relief works, they also demanded accountabilities in all forms of relief operations in this regard. It is beyond the...
COAST Trust is actively involved in humanitarian responses to the Rohingya crisis in Cox’s Bazar. COAST Trust is regularly producing update on the situation. This is the 6th update in this series.
Today 08 October 2017, COAST Trust (Coastal Association for Social transformation Trust) and PKSF (Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation) have taken joint initiatives for water and sanitation system in Rohingya Refugee camp in Ukhiya Upazilla in Cox’s Bazar. PKSF has...
In line with the first commitment of the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) according to which humanitarian response should be appropriate and relevant, COAST Trust conducted a rapid assessment of the refugee situation and drafted a...
The influx of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh is still going on. So far, more than half of a million Rohingya people have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since 25th August2017. Rakhine state of Myanmar has become a crucible...
October 03, 2017. Cox's Bazar. Today International Council of Voluntary Association (ICVA) organized a meeting of local, national and international NGOs with Mr. Mark Lowcoock, UN Emergency Coordinator and Under Secretary General of OCHA. The meeting was organized in...
Many sources are confirming the number of Rohingya refugees recently fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh is now beyond 500 thousand and it is still counting! UN forecasts that the number cam be 1 million at the end of this...
According to latest UNHCR report, about 270,000 people have so far fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar. Most of them have so far taken shelters in Cox's Bazar. As a fast responder to any humanitarian crises in its working areas,...
