Description
PRM will prioritize funding for proposed NGO activities that best meet the Bureau's priorities in Thailand for Burmese refugees in camps along the Thailand-Burma border as identified below. (1) Health (including curative, preventative, reproductive health, mental health and psychosocial care), Water and Sanitation, and addressing Gender-Based Violence -- PRM will accept proposals from NGOs for activities that focus on the following priorities in Site 1, Site 2, Tham Hin, Mae La, Umpiem, and Nu Po camps: a) Improving access to quality health care services, focusing on integrated health services provision, including the incorporation of training and capacity building of key responders with the provision of services; b) Improving the quality of life of refugee populations by addressing their mental health and psychosocial needs and developing income-generating activities, with an emphasis on the development of skills and vocational training to achieve a measure of self-sufficiency and a reasonable livelihood; c) Improving access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in line with Sphere standards; d) Strengthening the community's capacity to respond to the health, psychosocial, safety and justice needs of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV); and e) Strengthening the community's capacity to address health, and water and sanitation needs. (2) Nutritional Assistance -- NGO proposals to provide nutritional assistance to Burmese refugees in the nine camps should focus on the following: a) Providing nutritionally adequate rations for the most vulnerable; b) Providing sufficient cooking fuel to meet the basic household needs of camp residents; c) Ensuring malnutrition rates amongst children under five remain at or below current levels; and d) Increasing self-reliance behavior of beneficiaries. PRM will accept proposals from NGOs that focus on the following priorities for assistance to Burmese refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia: (1) Mental Health and Medical Services: a) Building the capacity of refugees and asylum seekers to work with their own communities to promote mental health and access to mental health and medical services; b) Strengthening an effective referral and case management system by integrating refugee community-based organizations, UNHCR, NGOs, and medical facilities; c) Conducting mental health promotion and screening among refugee communities across Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley; and d) Providing medical support and rehabilitative services for refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced torture, forced labor, human trafficking or economic exploitation; or who may be unable to work because of mental or physical ill health. (2) Education: a) Providing informal education to out-of-school refugee youth through community-based English language training and/or computer skills development; b) Improving teaching skills and capacity of refugee teachers at community-based refugee education centers; and c) Providing extracurricular programming that incorporates physical and psychosocial development components at community-based refugee education centers.