Less than 2,000 Rohingya adolescents have access to education or life-skill training at Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.
Those fortunate constitute only 2.0 per cent of the total 117,000 children in need of education services.
Educational inadequacy for adolescents between 15 to 24 years of age remains a major concern, says the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) in its latest report.
The Youth Working Group is preparing a white paper to highlight the needs and consequences of underserving the youth, said the platform of global NGOs.
The ISCG is engaged in humanitarian response to nearly one million Rohingya Muslims who fled home in Myanmar to Bangladesh.
It said over 12,800 persons have been verified as of August 15 through a Bangladesh-UNHCR joint verification exercise.
All persons above 12 received an identity (ID) card and households got family certificates.
The papers will be used for the provision of protection and assistance in Bangladesh, the report cited.
The exercise aims a unified database for identity management, documentation, provision of protection and assistance, population data and ultimately solutions.
According to the report, 40,296 refugees have been relocated into newly developed sites till last week.
About health-sector response, it said the recent assessment of over 100 health facilities revealed that medical waste management is a key gap at the camps.
"Critical health gaps also remain in some speciality areas, including host communities close to the camps, like surgical services, 24/7 availability of health services and clinical mental health services."
"Heavy rains raise risks of water- and vector-borne disease," the report mentioned.
The CDC-aided WASH sector is reviewing emergency water quality surveillance guidelines for monitoring water quality using a community engagement approach.
The ongoing work on the protection of latrines and bathing facilities include sand bagging, foundation reinforcement and earthworks.
Safe space for emergency evacuations is urgently needed due to the ongoing risks of high winds and heavy rains.
More land is also needed for sustainable relocation sites as severely congested camp conditions have far-reaching negative consequences.
Sizable funding gaps continue to limit humanitarian capacity, the report pointed out. For example, the number of mobile nutrition teams available for the monsoon and cyclone preparedness and response has been reduced for fund shortfall.
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