The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $41.4 million in grant to help improve infrastructure and manage basic needs of the displaced persons from Myanmar sheltered in Cox's Bazar.
The additional assistance will be available in the second phase of the ADB's ongoing Emergency Assistance Project worth $100 million in grant approved in 2018.
To this effect, the government of Bangladesh and the ADB signed an agreement on Wednesday, reads an ADB press release.
Economic Relations Division secretary Fatima Yasmin and ADB country director in Bangladesh Edimon Ginting signed the deal on behalf of their respective sides.
"The assistance will scale up the ongoing project by addressing the unmet basic and urgent needs identified for ADB assistance in 2018 but which remained unfunded due to grant funding constraints," Ms Ginting was quoted as saying.
Disaster shelter centres, health facilities, improved water supply and sanitation, and better waste management will reduce disaster risks, strengthen resilience against Covid-19, and serve basic human needs of the camp population until their repatriation.
The new assistance will build 200 water and sanitation facilities, three solid waste management facilities, and establish a piped water supply system at Ukhiya.
The same day, a deal was also signed for a $30-million concessional loan to rehabilitate a 30.76-km section of National Highway-01 to improve transportation of relief and essential goods between Teknaf and Cox's Bazar.
The ADB support has so far provided clean drinking water, bathing facilities, food distribution centres, and disaster shelters benefitting over 1.2-million people in camps and host communities.
Safety in camps also improved through solar streetlamps and lightning arresters, it said.
Roads, walkways, and bridges inside the camps have improved overall camp management as well as food distribution and other services.
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