The skills, knowledge and expertise of our people are crucial to ongoing humanitarian efforts around the world. In the last three years, RedR Australia has supported responses in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. In that time, we have deployed more than 300 specialists to work in nearly 60 countries across the globe. The map above shows where we're worked in the last three years.
In Africa, many countries face complex situations of conflict, drought and the effects of the climate crisis. Together with our partners, in the last couple of years we have supported nearly 20 countries in Africa, focusing on a wide range of needs across the continent - from supporting the response to conflict in Sudan , to supporting accountability to affected people in Nigeria , to tackling disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo , to supporting safe spaces for women and girls in Ethiopia , and managing climate change responses in Malawi .
In August 2017, the Rohingya people of Northern Myanmar suffered systemic genocide leading to one of the largest refugee crises of the 21st century. Today, there are more than 900,000 refugees living in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh. RedR Australia has deployed more than 80 technical specialists to Bangladesh and Myanmar to provide live-saving assistance to the Rohingya people, representing our largest single response to a humanitarian emergency in almost 30 years of operation.