Deadline: 25-Sep-2025
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a call for expressions of interest to strengthen the protective environment for children and women through a comprehensive child protection and gender-based violence response in the Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
This initiative seeks to ensure that women, girls, boys, and adolescents have safe, equitable access to lifesaving protection services, with an approach that combines prevention, outreach, community engagement, and structured interventions.
The programme will establish and manage integrated facilities that provide both child protection and GBV services, while maintaining distinct and coordinated case management for each. It emphasizes inclusivity, ensuring interventions are gender- and survivor-centred and accessible to children and women with disabilities. A core focus is placed on localization, particularly the empowerment and structured involvement of community members and Rohingya volunteers, ensuring cultural relevance, ownership, and sustainability of the services provided.
Partners are expected to coordinate closely with other sectors such as education, health, nutrition, and WASH to build strong referral pathways and maximize the impact of integrated service delivery. Technical expertise and demonstrated capacity to operate within an integrated model will be essential, with an emphasis on efficiency, coverage, and consistency across camps and host communities.
Under the Joint Response Plan (JRP) 2025, child protection activities will include case management, structured and sustained child-focused activities, outreach, adolescent empowerment, community-based protection, and systems strengthening. On the GBV side, services will cover case management, prevention and risk mitigation, capacity building, and social behavioural change to challenge harmful norms. While these represent the minimum standard, additional activities will be considered as integration guidelines and prioritization documents are developed.
Beyond service delivery, the initiative also seeks to build the skills of the social service workforce, community volunteers, and protection networks through training, mentoring, and coaching. Participating organizations are encouraged to bring an area of expertise, such as GBViE, MHPSS, adolescent development, or community capacity strengthening, that can be transferred to other agencies. This approach will enhance the overall quality of programming and foster stronger inter-agency collaboration.
By investing in integrated protection responses, UNICEF aims to create a sustainable system that ensures children and women in Rohingya camps and host communities have access to equitable, high-quality child protection and GBV services, strengthening resilience and promoting safety for the most vulnerable.
For more information, visit UN Partner Portal.