OUR GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN EXPERTSAre committed to building sustainable solutions to the world's toughest humanitarian disasters

How it all started

Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) was established as a community-driven program, created out of the need to provide support to the Rohingya refugee crisis that started in August 2017. The program’s objective was to work with the community to find long-term solutions for the newly arrived refugees while focusing on sustainable community development.

The goal was to make the project 90% sustainable in Bangladesh and to remove the need for foreign funding. One of the major objectives of the project is to build the capacity of Bangladesh so that it can adequately address major disasters stemming from political or natural events and to build the resilience of the next generation so that they can handle and address major problems through an approach based on humanitarian values.

Originally the Humanitarian Assistance Program was under the framework of OBAT Helpers, but recently has branched off as an independent for-profit social enterprise.

Leadership

The goal of HAP is to reinforce leadership values and to enhance or build skill sets within the team as well as the community.

Capacity Building

The organization and management is built around consistent and continuous capacity building of personal as well as group skill sets.

Human-Centered Design

The goal is to build the teams’ creative confidence and then train the community on the same methods so that the community can also begin to work on solving their own problems.

Sustainability

Our team specializes in helping find ways for organizations to become financially and operationally sustainable.

In the past two Years We have helped provide support to over 200,000 Rohingyas.

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Core Areasof Expertise

Education

Our team has been working closely with the Education Sector Since October 2017. From the beginning of the response, our team has seen the evolution and challenges of the education crisis in the camps unfold, we have also been developing innovative education models, like digital learning for numeracy and literacy in early childhood development as well as with youth and adolescent population. In a context where access to education remains limited and challenging, our team is committed to making education as part of life saving intervention, especially for the most vulnerable young girls.

Health

In late 2017, we set up primary healthcare facilities in Kutupalong Rohingya camp. Our extensive knowledge of health challenges faced by the community has resulted in collaboration with WHO to set up Diphtheria Isolation Units and helped create large-scale advocacy on community health-related issues. Our team has worked closely with the Community Healthcare Workers and were the first agency to be able to provide sustainable dental services and Palliative Care.

Shelter

We have extensive knowledge on using rammed earth and also sustainable building practices to engineer infrastructure such as shelters, community centers, clinics and Temporary Learning Centers (TLCs). Our team has worked closely with the Shelter Sector and have helped provide emergency shelter materials in coordination with IOM to over 4,500 households in Camp 8E. We also led the design of the midterm shelters through construction with Rohingya refugees. We have been able to build over 1,600 shelters, using a workforce of over 1,000+ Community members to design and build shelters during the monsoon season in early 2018.

Site Management

Community Engagement/Empowerment

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250 Programs

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Over 2,000 Volunteers

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We connect donors to partners

We help donors and partners to implement projects based on humanitarian standards and sustainable community engagement while providing oversight to donors.

We help others

Our goal is to strengthen the large-scale humanitarian response by supporting like-minded agencies and donors and providing solutions and services to ever-changing dynamics in a humanitarian response.

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