Stakeholder Recommendation Bangladesh Donors, UN, INGOs Allocate funds to help children access distance learning opportunities while schools and other education centres are closed. Provide them with devices for online learning, as well as developing materials that support online learning (and explain how to stay safe online). Donors, UN, INGOs Advocate (publicly and privately) for the authorities to refrain from imposing internet shutdowns, emphasising the negative impacts on child protection activities and access to education. Myanmar Malaysia Indonesia Thailand Bangladesh Myanmar CHILD PROTECTION Country Stakeholder Recommendation Bangladesh Government Ensure UN agencies, humanitarian organizations, and non-governmental organizations have full and unfettered access to communities in need. Recognize child protection activities as critical and life-saving services. Myanmar Malaysia Make further pledges focussed on improved access to and quality of child protection services for refugee children in view of the High-Level Official Meeting in December 2021 and the second Global Refugee Forum in 2023. Indonesia Thailand Myanmar Government Make sure there is full and sustained humanitarian access to Rakhine state, and streamline and standardise the process by which humanitarian and development workers obtain authorisation to travel to conflictaffected or otherwise restricted areas. Bangladesh Government Ensure that individuals are not criminalised, detained or otherwise punished solely for their method of arrival in a country. States that detain undocumented persons, including children, in immigration or other detention centres should immediately enact policies to provide alternatives to detention. Government, UN, civil society Monitor places of detention to identify detained children; to the extent that reliable screening, identification and age assessment procedures are not provided by authorities, governments should ensure independent monitoring of places of detention to identify any detained children and secure their immediate release. Malaysia Government Immediately restore UNHCR’s access to detention centres so that it can identify individuals, including children, who are in need of international protection. Malaysia Government Reform the Immigration Act 1959/63 (Immigration Act) to legally exempt asylum-seekers and refugees from arrest, detention and prosecution for irregular entry. Bangladesh Donors, UN agencies Provide continuing financial support to humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations, particularly children. Malaysia Indonesia Thailand Bangladesh Myanmar Malaysia 4 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Country Indonesia Thailand Myanmar Malaysia Indonesia Thailand 33