Founded over 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children's development organizations in the world. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations, and with a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential, in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Plan International works in fifty-two developing countries across Africa, Asia and the South America, and twenty-one countries raise funds to support these efforts. Plan International's stated Global Strategic Goal is to reach as many children as possible, particularly those who are excluded or marginalized, with high-quality programs that deliver long-lasting benefits. Children are at the heart of everything we do.

Plan International started its operation in Bangladesh in 1994. Presently under country strategy IV Plan International Bangladesh is implementing programmes in six thematic areas i.e. health, education, child protection, WASH, youth engagement and employment, and disaster risk management and climate change. In recent years, as part of its country strategy Plan International Bangladesh has focused more to implement projects on climate change, and disaster resilient issues in urban settlements.

World cities are increasingly higher and more than half of the world's population lives in the cities. Meanwhile, inequality grows, and millions of young people in the cities grow up in extreme poverty with very few opportunities to influence decisions that concern their own lives and development in their city. Climate change and its related impacts such as more variable and more extreme temperatures and rainfall are expected to affect the frequency, severity and the extent of climate related hazards facing communities across the world. Cities are particularly exposed to climate related hazards because of their high concentration of people and assets, as well as the degradation of protective ecosystems in and around cities.

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the world's fastest growing city with 500,000 new inhabitants a year and has been voted the world’s 2nd worst city to live in by the magazine The Economist, 2018. This is because, among other things, that 60% of the city's population live in marginalized and impoverished slum areas which are often located in the most hazardous and disaster prone areas of the city, and where extreme poverty, poor health conditions, violent abuse, waste and pollution, inadequate services and floods are part of everyday life. Flooding and waterlogging in the slums have observable local impacts on the urban communities. In the slums, families can rent a few square meters of land on which they can build small primitive tin shacks. Here there is no electricity, here is no clean water, and the sewers are just open ditches in roadside. The scallop picks up everywhere, because nobody is getting it. A majority lives without access to adequate toilets, schooling, medical care and basic infrastructure.

In that continuation, Plan International Bangladesh is now seeking consultant/consulting firm to develop training modules and Facilitation of TOT (5 days, Central level) for Training Pool (Plan and Partner Staff) under Activists Schools in Slum Project, Bangladesh

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