Background of Islamic Relief Bangladesh:

Islamic Relief Bangladesh (IRB) started operations in Bangladesh in 1991. Presence in 35 districts. IRB envisages a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others. Our innovative integrated approach sees us work closely with the vulnerable communities that we serve. They identify the problems and are part of the solutions. As a result, our programs often encompass many interlinked areas. These include the Humanitarian and Resilience Programme, Child Rights and Inclusion Programme, Economic Empowerment and Governance Programme.

Overview of ALO II Project:

The “Alternative Orphan Family Sponsorship through Sustainable Livelihoods” project is developed for supporting orphan families with an integrated approach. This project addresses the livelihood needs of the most vulnerable orphan families through business development, assists them in protecting their children with continued education, maintains their family with dignity, and creates quality access to line departments through voice raise platform and supports communities to implement community-led total sanitation (CLTS). The project aims to address vulnerabilities, social dignity, rights, and poverty issues of the orphan families by supporting the most vulnerable women-headed households to develop their capacity as well as to ensure sustainable development and social dignity through enhanced productivity, income, livelihood security, rights, and protection.

Overall objective: To ensure sustainable development of the orphan and their families as well as restore their social dignity and protection.

Specific objective: To ensure sustainable development and social dignity through enhanced productivity, income, livelihood security, rights, and protection of the orphans and their families at Ulipur Upazila under Kurigram District in Bangladesh.

Project Duration: July 2017- June 2021

Beneficiary Details: Total 628 orphan families [500 direct and 128 replicated]

Project Location: Total 7 unions named Balapara, Tepa Madhupur, Kursha, Haragach, Shahidbag, Sarai, and Haragach Pourashava under Kaunia Upazila in Rangpur District

Expected Results of the project:

Result -1: Enhanced wellbeing - survival, protection, participation, mobilization, and healthy development - of the targeted orphan children including to continue their education.
Result-2: Improved status of the orphan families and their livelihood through economic productivity, income, asset, food accessibility and- consumption and living status
Result-3:  Increased community awareness and established linkage of the community organizations with local government institutions for ensuring social dignity through participation, social inclusion, and voice rise to rights and protection
Result-4: Replicated and scaled up ALO model in new 02 Unions under the same sub-district through local resources mobilization (community contribution, linkage with local government institutions and private and public service providers)

Interested Individual consultants/Organizations are expected to submit the technical proposal to technicalproposal@islamicrelief-bd.org and Financial Proposals to financialproposal@islamicrelief-bd.org on or before September 11, 2021. It is strictly advised not to send any other document unless specified above. Violation of the clause will result in disqualification from the bid participation. Please mention only the Proposal on knowledge & learning documentation of the ‘Alternative Orphan Family Sponsorship Programme Through Sustainable Interventions-Phase II’ (ALO-II) Project as the subject of the email.

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