PRM Grant for NGO Programs Benefiting Burmese Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand and Malaysia

Current Funding Priorities for Malaysia: PRM will accept proposals that focus on the following priorities:
(1) Mental Health and Medical Services:
a. Build 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. Strengthen an effective referral and case management system by integrating refugee community-based organizations, UNHCR, NGOs, and medical facilities;
c. Conduct mental health promotion and screening among refugee communities across Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley; and
d. Provide 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:
e. Provide informal education to out-of-school refugee youth through community-based English language training and/or computer skills development;
f. Improve teaching skills and capacity of refugee teachers at community-based refugee education centers;
g. Provide extracurricular programming by incorporating physical and psychosocial development components in community-based refugee education centers.

a. Provide curative healthcare, including reproductive health care services, by a strengthened health workforce and partnership among all health stakeholders;
b. Provide HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care and TB services;
c. Provide mental health services; and
d. Implement an effective system for disease prevention and control in coordination with all health partners and through community participation, with a particular emphasis on preventive healthcare services in Mae La;

Current Funding Priorities for Malaysia:
PRM will accept proposals that focus on the following priorities:

(1) Mental Health and Medical Services:

a. Build 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. Strengthen an effective referral and case management system by integrating refugee community-based organizations, UNHCR, NGOs, and medical facilities;
c. Conduct mental health promotion and screening among refugee communities across Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley; and
d. Provide 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:

e. Provide informal education to out-of-school refugee youth through community-based English language training and/or computer skills development;
f. Improve teaching skills and capacity of refugee teachers at community-based refugee education centers;
g. Provide extracurricular programming by incorporating physical and psychosocial development components in community-based refugee education centers.