Deadline: 02-Oct-2025
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is calling for partners to support the roll-out of integrated child protection and gender-based violence facilities and services in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
This initiative seeks to ensure that women, girls, boys, and adolescents have safe and equitable access to lifesaving protection services while strengthening the wider system of community-based care.
The program aims to deliver a comprehensive package of protection services that integrates both prevention and response. Partners will be responsible for managing facilities and interventions that combine outreach, structured activities, and community engagement while maintaining clear case management for child protection and gender-based violence. A particular focus is placed on inclusive and survivor-centered approaches, with attention to the needs of children and women with disabilities. The initiative also emphasizes localization by empowering community members and Rohingya volunteers to drive interventions, ensuring cultural relevance and sustainability.
Partnerships under this call are expected to coordinate closely with other sectors such as education, health, nutrition, WASH, food security, and livelihoods. By strengthening referral pathways and mitigating risks, these collaborations will maximize the impact of service delivery. Applicants should demonstrate proven expertise, trained staff, and the ability to operate effectively within an integrated model while ensuring consistent coverage across both camps and host communities.
Within the framework of the Joint Response Plan 2025, partners will implement a core set of child protection activities. These include case management, sustained structured programming, outreach initiatives, adolescent engagement, community-based protection networks, and strengthening of child protection systems. On the gender-based violence side, activities will include case management, prevention and risk mitigation, capacity building, and social behavior change to address harmful norms. These efforts are designed to reinforce UNICEF’s commitment to building sustainable systems of protection.
In addition to direct services, partners will also be tasked with building the capacity of the social service workforce, including case workers, community volunteers, and child protection networks. Training, mentoring, and coaching will play a central role in improving service quality. Organizations are encouraged to bring forward expertise in areas such as GBV in emergencies, mental health and psychosocial support, adolescent development, community strengthening, or monitoring and evaluation, with the aim of transferring skills across agencies and boosting inter-agency cooperation.
The project will be implemented between January 2026 and December 2027, incorporating essential compliance measures under the World Bank-supported ISO Project. These include adherence to Environmental and Social Standards and the integration of risk management plans into the program framework. Renewal of activities beyond this period will depend on funding availability, and UNICEF reserves the right to scale down or terminate the partnership in the case of financial constraints, with one month’s notice.
Through this initiative, UNICEF builds on its years of work strengthening community-based child protection systems in the Rohingya response. By aligning with Bangladesh’s national child protection strategy and reinforcing ties with the Department of Social Services and other government institutions, the program seeks to integrate services into the broader national framework. This approach not only ensures resilience in the camps but also supports sustainable, long-term child protection and gend
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