BACKGROUND:

Start Fund Bangladesh is a civil society‐owned and led, rapid emergency fund, that activates within 72 hours of a crisis. It attempts to address a crucial gap in humanitarian funding by addressing small‐to medium under the radar emergencies and enabling direct access to local, national and international NGOs. It is modeled on the experience of Start Network’s successful Start Fund. It was created in 2017 with support from UK Aid.

Since its inception, the Strat Fund Bangladesh has grown from a membership of 20 international agencies to include 27 local and national organizations, through a comprehensive due diligence process. In terms of our legal placement, Save the Children holds the contract with FCDO as our grant custodian and Save the Children in Bangladesh (SCiBD) hosts the Start Fund Bangladesh secretariat team. Our members, local and national NGOs frequently engage with extremely vulnerable people in humanitarian response. Victims of abuse in the humanitarian sector have begun to have their concerns heard and responded to in recent decades. Many aid stakeholders have begun to put in place mechanisms and structures to mitigate safeguarding risks within the same time period. These strengthening measures, including capacity development, have been further enhanced since 2018, when allegations of major safeguarding incidents involving various large aid INGOs were brought forcibly to the public’s attention. Yet, more needs to be done to systematically build the capacities of Safeguarding practice throughout the aid sector and specifically to provide ongoing training and support to those tasked with leading the safeguarding response within NGOs and suppliers (hereafter referred to as aid organizations). Training is particularly needed among smaller local and national organizations, where less human and training resources are dedicated to safeguarding and therefore it is essential that member capacity is strengthened to safeguard against harm that could be caused through the delivery of emergency response or interventions.

To ensure we are meeting our duty of care toward SFB and member staff, as well as project participants in the communities in which we work, SFB is going to provide capacity strengthening support including mentoring to its 27 national and local NGOS on Safeguarding issues. In this regard, SFB would like to hire a consultant who will be supporting member agencies to build and strengthen safeguarding approach of our member agencies by developing a safeguarding training pack, managing three days training and providing mentoring support for a three months period including assist member agencies to develop or update their policy, procedures and practices in line with SCI Safeguarding standards and supporting them based on their needs to enable them to integrate safeguarding consistently in our approach and ways of working

Interested individual consultant, may submit their technical and financial proposal along with CV, TIN certificate and VAT registration copy to the following email address: prosanta.roy@savethechildren.org.

Application closing date: December 07, 2021.

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