2025 was the deadliest year on record for such voyages, as just last month, a ship carrying more than 270 people, many of them refugees, capsized, leaving only nine survivors.
Against this backdrop of increasing and overlapping pressures, the appeal focuses assistance on the most pressing humanitarian needs.
Support for the growing refugee population must be strategically prioritized, and investment in refugee resilience and self-reliance is critical to maintaining dignity and hope and reducing long-term dependency on aid.
The latest appeal follows a four-day joint high-level donor mission led by Kelly T. Clements and Rania Dagash-Kamara, which brought together a group of leading international donor representatives.
The mission included a two-day visit to Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, with participation from key partners: Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The delegation also interacted with government, UN and NGO partners as well as the wider donor community in Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka.