National Committee on Coordination and Management of Rohingya Response
Profile
- Head
- Salahuddin Ahmed
- Role
- Convener (Home Minister)
- Annual budget
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- Staff
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- Established
- 2026
- Legal basis
- Cabinet Division gazette notification signed by Additional Secretary (Committee and Finance) Md. Humayun Kabir, April 22, 2026. No act or constitutional provision cited in public record; established by executive order of Cabinet Division.
Committee held its inaugural meeting May 4, 2026 focused on camp law and order; Bangladesh government under BNP-Tarique (sworn Feb 17, 2026) maintains safe and voluntary repatriation as the only long-term solution while calling for increased international funding after US cuts of ~50%; repatriation remains suspended due to Myanmar civil conflict and Arakan Army control of Rakhine State.
Recent activity
- 2026-04-22 regulation Cabinet Division gazette notification established the 16-member national committee with Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed as convener; members include Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman, State Ministers for Women and Children Affairs and Disaster Management and Relief, Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary to PM, Armed Forces Division Principal Staff Officer, security agency heads (NSI, DGFI), Inspector General of Police, NGO Affairs Bureau DG, Chittagong Divisional Commissioner, and the RRRC Cox's Bazar. ↗↗↗
- 2026-05-04 policy First meeting of the national committee on Rohingya camp security held; law enforcement agencies tasked with reducing crime and drug trafficking in camps. ↗
- 2026-05-05 international Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed met UNHCR country representative Ivo Freijsen; highlighted 50% reduction in US humanitarian funding, called for increased international support, reaffirmed safe and voluntary repatriation as the only sustainable solution. ↗
- 2026-05-06 international Home Minister met Australian High Commissioner Susan Ryle; urged stronger global support for Rohingya, discussed law and order in camps, policing capacity building, and bilateral cooperation on irregular migration. ↗↗
- 2026-05-06 statement State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam led first high-level Foreign Ministry delegation to Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar (Kutupalong/Ukhiya) since BNP government assumed office; held stakeholder consultation at RRRC office with government agencies, security forces, UN representatives, and NGOs. ↗
Provenance & notes
No body has been found in any primary source under the exact name 'National Coordination Committee on Rohingya Response' or with the acronym 'NCCRR'. This record represents the apex whole-of-government coordination committee established by Cabinet Division gazette on April 22, 2026, which is the closest confirmed match to the slug. It is chaired by Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed (BNP) and is a new body under the BNP-Tarique government (sworn February 17, 2026). A separate pre-existing body, the National Task Force (NTF) on Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals, is chaired by the Foreign Secretary (currently Asad Alam Siam, appointed June 2025) and involves 29 ministries; the April 2026 committee's ToR explicitly states it will monitor and evaluate activities of the NTF, placing it hierarchically above. The NTF was established via the 2013 National Strategy on Myanmar Refugees and Undocumented Myanmar Nationals. entity_type is set to 'parliamentary_committee' per schema constraint; this is an executive coordination committee, not a parliamentary one, but no closer schema type exists. established_year 2026 reflects the formation of this specific body; the broader NTF coordination architecture dates to 2013/2017.
Sources
- https://www.bssnews.net/news-flash/380322
- https://www.arakannow.com/bangladesh-govt-forms-national-committee-to-coordinate-rohingya-issues
- https://rohingyakhobor.com/government-forms-new-national-committee-to-oversee-rohingya-affairs/
- https://banglamirrornews.com/2026/05/05/204670/
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- https://www.bssnews.net/news-flash/233949
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