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Hiring a consultant for Final evaluation of the Featuring Green Earth Project, Bangladesh 1. Background of the Organization: Founded over 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children's development organizations in the world. Plan International plays an important role in mobilising children, communities and civil society organisations to claim the rights of children and achieve agreed upon local development priorities, towards a commitment to ensuring the wellbeing of children in support of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). 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 52 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the South America, and 21 countries raise funds to support these efforts. In 2015, Plan International worked with 84 million children in 85,280 communities. 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. 2. Project description: Featuring Green Earth (FGE) 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. Although around nine million people in Dhaka live under these conditions, these inequalities are not high on the agenda for politicians, middle classes or the upper class in Bangladesh. Many slum dwellers lack birth certificates as well as security of tenure limiting their ability to influence local development processes through formal voting and hearings; they are invisible and without any influence on their own life. Civil society in slum communities such as youth groups and community-based organizations are often poorly organized and lack knowledge and capacity to push for change collectively. Slum communities have no voice in decision-making processes neither at local, city nor national level. Featuring Green Earth project supports the youth of the slum towards becoming strong activists who create awareness and visibility about the inequality that exists in Dhaka contributing to making their city a more secure place to live. The project focuses on sustainability by mobilizing a strong activist movement though establishing Earth Clubs in several of Dhaka's worst slums. Through the Earth Clubs young women and men in- and outside the formal school system will have the opportunity to create lasting changes that make the slum a fairer and safer place to live in. The foundation for the project is to strengthen the dynamic and diverse civil society in Dhaka through i) the establishment of Earth Clubs either at secondary schools around selected slum areas or directly in the slum areas themselves, and ii) build the capacity of the Earth Clubs and their members through action learning. Earth Club is a concept developed by project partner Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative (BYEI). It’s a club where young people meet (often on a weekly basis), learn and discuss environmental problems they face, and devise plans for addressing them – starting from awareness raising to concrete initiatives tackling specific issues. In this project the Earth Clubs will also connect young women and men across different social layers and from different urban areas. In doing this, the project focuses on three critical and interconnected issues:
Along with the above the outcomes of Featuring Green Earth project are as follows,
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Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be downloaded from this link. Submission of Proposal The technical and financial proposals should be submitted electronically to the email address: Proposal submitted to any other email account except this and in hard copy will be treated as disqualified. Submissions deadline 03 May, 2021 at 3:00 pm Both technical and financial proposal should be submitted PDF format into one zip folder with a covering letter addressing to Mr. Enamul Haque, Supply & Procurement Specialist, Plan International Bangladesh. |
