Rohingya refugees in 34 camps with the provision of direct support through the distribution of hygeine and sanitation and carried
out COVID-19 awareness raising in more than 160 community sessions.
Structural Change
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In ten countries, government officials and decision-makers were actively engaged on structural challenges.
Four governments included stateless communities within their vaccination or humanitarian responses.
One government relaxed its quarantine-related policy which disproportionately affected non-citizen spouses.
For example: in Lebanon, the Minister of Health announced that the Ministry would accept hospital admissions connected to
COVID-19 and simplified the vaccination procedures for stateless people. In Malaysia, key ministers and various members of
Parliament stated their public support for equal citizenship rights of Malaysian women.
Greater Awareness and Mobilisation
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In eight countries awareness raising initiatives on statelessness issues and/or access to information regarding COVID-19 for
stateless people were organised.
More than 100 government officials received training on addressing statelessness and/or ensuring stateless people’s access
to COVID-19 responses.
Information generated by Consortium members about the impacts on the ground was shared directly with several
organisations whose work was critical to the COVID-19 global response, including the Red Cross and the World Health
Organisation.
For example: in Central Asia, CANS held trainings for 41 officials on how to address statelessness and documentation issues in
three regions with communities with the largest number of people with unregulated status. RWDN held four webinars on the
impacts of COVID-19 faced by Rohingya communities in Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and Malaysia reaching a total of 29,400
people.
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