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Joint Multi Sector Needs Assessment: Cox’s Bazar, Rohingya Refugee Response – August 2020, Refugees

Bangladesh, 2020
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UNHCR_BGD_2020_JMSNA_Refugees_v2.1
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UNHCR, Inter-sector Coordination Group
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Asia Pacific Needs Assessments
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Dec 03, 2020
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Dec 03, 2020
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    UNHCR_BGD_2020_JMSNA_Refugees_v2.1

    Title

    Joint Multi Sector Needs Assessment: Cox’s Bazar, Rohingya Refugee Response – August 2020, Refugees

    Country
    Name Country code
    Bangladesh BGD
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

    Abstract

    Since August 2017, an estimated 745,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, increasing the total number of Rohingya refugees to more than 860,000. The presence of the refugee communities has raised concerns over local environmental degradation, falling wages and rising prices, exerting additional pressures on localities where public services and infrastructure were already lagging behind the national average. As the crisis moved beyond the initial emergency phase, comprehensive information on the needs and vulnerabilities of affected host communities is needed in order to inform the design and implementation of effective inter-sectoral programming.
    Against this background, a Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (J-MSNA) was conducted across Rohingya refugee communities to support detailed humanitarian planning and enhance the ability of operational partners to meet the strategic aims of donors and coordinating bodies. To date, a number of MSNAs have been implemented to support the response. The 2020 J-MSNA aims to provide an accurate snapshot of the situation with the specific objectives of (1) providing a comprehensive evidence base of household-level multi sectoral needs to inform the 2021 Joint Response Plan (JRP); (2) providing an analysis of how needs have changed in 2020 with an emphasis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multisectoral needs; and (3) providing the basis for a joint multi stakeholder analysis process.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Individuals and households

    Version

    Version Description

    v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.

    Version Date

    2020

    Scope

    Notes

    Household: household information, shelter/NFI/site management, education, health, nutrition, food security and livelihood, WASH, protection, accountability
    Individuals: individuals information

    Topics
    Topic
    Health and Nutrition
    Health
    Water Sanitation Hygiene
    Protection
    Food security
    Emergency Shelter and NFI
    Community Services
    Education
    Livelihood & Social cohesion
    Legal Assistance/Protection
    Basic Needs
    Keywords
    Bangladesh Rohingya Refugee Response Needs Assessments

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Cox's Bazar District

    Universe

    34 refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    UNHCR
    Inter-sector Coordination Group
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name
    European Union
    IOM

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Target sample sizes for each camp were based on the most recent population figures available from UNHCR. Points were randomly sampled from the UNHCR refugee registration database. Additional buffer points were sampled to account for instances of non-eligibility or non-response. As interviews were conducted over the phone, with phone ownership known to be more prevalent among men, in order to ensure adequate representation of female respondents, female-headed households were sampled proportionately to their representation in the database.

    Weighting

    Roughly 400 surveys were completed per Upazila to maintain a 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error in each Upazila. However, when aggregating findings up to the overall response level for all host community members included in the sampling frame, surveys must be weighted to account for the unequal distribution of households between the two Upazailas.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Household: household information, shelter and NFI, education, health, nutrition, food security and livelihood, WASH, protection, accountability
    Individuals: individuals information

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2020-07-27 2020-08-12
    Data Collectors
    Name
    REACH
    Data Collection Notes

    Data was collected remotely over the phone from 27 July to 12 August 2020. Enumerators underwent a three-day online training and a two-day pilot in order to familiarise themselves with the tool, data collection protocols, as well as the code of conduct and basic protection principles. Sector representatives directly trained enumerators.

    Informed consent was sought, received and documented at the start of each interview
    Due to restrictions on movement, access to camps and face-to-face interviews as part of the COVID-19 preventative measures,
    all interviews were conducted via the phone. This created some challenges and limitations:
    • Given expected poor connectivity and the lack of personal interaction during a phone interview, questionnaire size was limited to avoid losing
    respondents' attention.
    • As privacy cannot be ensured during phone interviews, in order to avoid creating risks to respondents, sensitive topics were not included in
    the assessment.
    • As phone ownership is more prevalent among men, a lower proportion of female respondents were reached than might have been reached
    during an in-person survey.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Each day, data checking and cleaning was conducted according to pre-established standard operating procedures, including outlier checks, correct categorisation of "other" responses, and removal and/or replacement of inaccurate records. All changes to the dataset were documented in a cleaning log.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation Email
    Curation Team UNHCR microdata@unhcr.org
    Citation requirements

    UNHCR (2020) Joint Multi Sector Needs Assessment: Cox's Bazar, Rohingya Refugee Response July Augusut 2020. UNHCR microdata library: https://microdata.unhcr.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    UNHCR_BGD_2020_JMSNA_Refugees_v1.0_DDI

    Producers
    Name
    UNHCR
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-12

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 (December 2020)

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