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,...
According to a latest UNHCR statement published on 5th September, during the last 11 days some 1.23 lakh Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh. Some sources claim the number as not less than 1.80 lakh. COAST Trust has so far...
Dhaka, 19th August 2017. Today Bangladeshi NGOs for WHS (World Humanitarian Summit) and COAST has organized a seminar title “Strengthening Civil Society and Promoting Localization Agenda” in the Lakshore Hotel of the city for observation of 19th August World...
COAST is in the process of CHS certification audit. Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative HQAI (http://hqai.org/) is conducting the audit. An agreement between COAST and HQAI has been signed. Cath Blunt, will act as independent lead auditor and Belinda Lucas...
Dhaka, 1st August 2017. Today nine small grass root MFI (Micro Finance Institutions) NGO (non-government organization) in a press conference organized in National Press Club Dhaka called on government to halt the process of further reduction of micro finance...
Climate change effects are directly putting these natural resource-dependent communities at greater risk, with continuous sea erosion, frequent floods,...
