Term of Reference (ToR)
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Hiring Agency/Consultant for development of  Project Video Documentary and Soft copy of Brochures for “Prevention and Response of Child Protection Concerns through Timely Initiative with Children Engagement (PRACTICE) Project in Camp- 21 & 24, Cox’s Bazar.

About Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) and Plan International Bangladesh:

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB), is a Bangladeshi non-governmental organization founded in 1979 under the Societies’ Registration Act, 1860. The organization is also registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau and the Micro Credit Regulatory Authority, of the Government of Bangladesh. FIVDB started to implement its own socio-economic development programmes from 1981. FIVDB commenced its humanitarian response program in Cox’s Bazar immediately after the huge Rohingya influx in 2017.

FIVDB mainly emphasizes on creating conditions for overcoming development constraints faced by the disadvantaged communities towards their sustainable socio-economic development. FIVDB’s societal vision is articulated as being ‘a vibrant society based on justice, equity, democracy and environmentally sound principles. It works with the mission to ‘give the disadvantaged women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase their use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life’. To that end FIVDB pursues educational, social and economic capacity building and social organization processes. It works to strengthen social protection, and safety networks and participates in national and international outreach and advocacy. The organization combines grassroots service delivery, social mobilization and advocacy in its work and works in collaboration with communities, civil society, the Government and private sectors.

Plan International has started working in Bangladesh since 1992 to generate positive change by promoting girls’ and young women’s leadership. Through all our work, we encourage Children & youth, especially girls & young women, to be recognized as leaders of change in gender norms and empower them to take decision about their lives.

The refreshed country strategy 2030 of Plan International Bangladesh stated the vision to empower girls and young women, to be heard, to live without fear of violence and to achieve their rights. The strategic priorities imply children and youth leadership, girls make decision, and young women control over resources. These priorities will chip in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) goal of Gender Equality and Girls Rights through empowering children and youth leadership as agent of change maker in gender norms, also promoting them decision making about their lives by 2030. We won’t stop until we are all equal.

About PRACTICE Project:  

The PRACTICE project is working to strengthen the protective environment and empower Rohingya refugee children, in particular girl children and adolescent girls, through the provision of protection services, community-based Child Protection action, and the engagement of parents/caregivers. Since beginning, the project has been strengthening the protection environment for the Rohingya children, with a focus at the most at risk and affected children, and in particular adolescent girls and boys, in camp locations 21 and 24 under the Teknaf sub district of Cox’s Bazar, placing affected communities at the center of the response.  This project will run from July 1, 2023, to March 31, 2025, in partnership with Plan International Bangladesh, supported by Radiohjalpen

The objective of this project is the following:

  • Strengthened community-level child protection mechanisms (CBCP) to provide protective environments for vulnerable children and adolescents, promote positive social and gender norms, and prevent and respond to violence.
  • Vulnerable girls, boys, adolescent girls, and boys have improved knowledge, skills, capacities and well-being to protect themselves from violence.
  • Improved ability of parents and caregivers to perform their protection responsibilities against violence in families through positive norms on parenting, gender equality, and SRHR.

7 CBCP (Community-Based Child Protection) Committees have been formed in Camps 21 and 24 to achieve the project's main objectives. To strengthen the Community-Based Child Protection Mechanism, capacity building of members is being done through participation in various training, orientations etc. As a result, members of these committees are playing a role as safeguard for children in the area and continuing to take initiatives to strengthen child protection systems.

In the meantime, PRACTICE Project passed a milestone to graduate 4000 (2000 adolescent girls and 2000 boys) in camp-21 and 24 through the completed Champion of Changes module. After completing the module, graduate learners can now identify the major child protection risks and concerns, considering the risks and concerns, they can properly plan how to address the issue in a collaborative and systematic process. They also learnt how to relate to their sexual and reproductive rights, emotions, traumas, peers, and family members etc. in order to better cope with stressors and achieve self-protection in their day to day lives.

To meet their basic needs, and prevent negative coping mechanisms such as child marriage, child labor, and child trafficking at the camp level, the project PRACTICE also provided homestead gardening training and materials support among the selected 400 Rohingya adolescents girls and women under Camp-21 and 24. It also facilitates the distribution of essential gardening inputs such as seeds, tools, and organic fertilizers to ensure that adolescent girls and women have the necessary resources to start and maintain their homestead garden or pit. Additionally, 20 entrepreneurs will be supported with small agricultural shop for bringing a sustainable solution in generating income opportunity and availability of climate-smart food at camp level.

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