Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the policy paper Bangladesh Sexual and Gender Based Violence Assessment, Dhaka and Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 14 to 21 November 2017, which of the recommendations have been implemented and how.

The UK is leading the way in supporting a range of organisations providing specialised help to women and survivors of sexual violence among Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh. The Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative team’s report and recommendations have informed the government’s response to gender-based violence in this crisis. We continue to put protection and the needs and voices of girls and women at the centre of our response, and our support for the international effort in Bangladesh.

UK support to address GBV in the Rohingya refugee camps has included:

• 30 Child Friendly Spaces providing protective services and psychosocial and psychological support.

• 19 women’s centres offering a safe space, psychosocial support and activities to women and girls.

• 206,287 Rohingya refugees and host communities have received GBV and SRH services with UK funding. Services provided have included referrals, midwife care, survivor’s cases and healthcare and GBV care.

• Case management is being provided for 2,190 survivors of sexual and gender based violence.

• 19 sexual and reproductive health clinics are providing family planning, maternal and newborn services.

• Up to 60,000 women now have access to midwifery care.

• Up to 30,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 120,000 under-fives have been provided with emergency nutrition support.