Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) Grant for Burmese Refugee and Asylum Seeker Programs

(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;
c) Providing extracurricular programming that incorporates physical and psychosocial development components at community-based refugee education centers.