JNUS has been
implementing the second phase (July 2020 – June 2021) of “Women in Building
Social Cohesion in Cox’s Bazar” project funded by the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED) at Rohingya Refugee Camp- 9, Camp- 26 and Camp -27 and
surrounding host communities. Some
influential women have been selected from the host community, who will act as
animators to initiate discussions and dialogues with the women in the Rohingya
refugee camps. They are provided with leadership and life skill training and
which are further transferred to other women members of both communities
through group formation and discussion approach. The trained and skilled women
play a key role in organizing the peace dialogue within their own community and
opinion exchanging sessions across the communities. The project empowered them
to get engaged with a wide range of stakeholders especially the youth and the
community leaders who are the gatekeepers to the Rohingya Refugee camps and
host communities. Thirteen forums, comprising influential women, twenty in
each, have been formed under this project, out of which seven have been
organized in the refugee camps and the rest of the groups are active in the
host community.
