Bangladesh Situation Report - April/June 2025

From April to June 2025, heavy rainfall and widespread waterlogging in Cox’s Bazar disrupted access to services, compounding persistent gaps in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and maternal care. Reports of coerced family planning among Rohingya refugees raised serious protection concerns, while risks of gender-based violence (GBV) remained widespread despite a slight decline in reported cases, indicating normalization and underreporting. Adolescents and youth faced additional barriers, with many learning facilities closed and new risks emerging, including child marriage and gambling.

UNFPA maintained life-saving SRH services across 22 facilities, delivering nearly 84,000 services, including 2,500 facility-based deliveries. Integrated SRH-GBV services reached more than 195,000 people through 55 safe spaces, while 111,000 visits were recorded across youth centres, community houses, and schools. Supplies of essential reproductive health commodities covered over 90 per cent of needs. Capacity-building initiatives for health providers and GBV caseworkers, as well as new partnerships under the World Bank’s ISO project and a voucher scheme with WFP and IRC, expanded service delivery.

Under the 2025–2026 Joint Response Plan, UNFPA appealed for $35.86 million, including $16.2 million for SRH, $12.4 million for GBV, and $7.2 million for adolescents and youth. By Q2 2025, 65 per cent of the appeal had been funded, leaving gaps of $5.13 million for SRH, $3.8 million for GBV, and $3.6 million for adolescents and youth programming.