REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) PROJECT OVERVIEW Save the Children has been working for child protection in Bangladesh from the 1970s. Through its program Save the Children is both working directly at community level with the end beneficiaries and working for strengthening child protection system and legal framework. Bangladesh has enacted the Children Act 2013 to ensure the rights and protection of the children in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children Act 2013 has provided a structure of Child Protection System in Bangladesh. The population of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (hereinafter, Bangladesh) is 164.69 million, of which about 40% are children under the age of 18. The country ratified the “Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)” in 1989, when it was adopted by the United Nations, and enacted the “Children's Act 2013” in 2013. The law specified the measures necessary for the implementation of the CRC. In the field of child welfare, the Department of Social Services is required to play a central role. However, the rules regarding the law are still in the process of being developed and have not been enforced. According to the Multi-Index Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted in Bangladesh in 2019 by the Bangladesh Statistics Bureau and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 88.8% of children between the ages of 1 to 14 have experienced physical/mental violence by their caregivers in the past month. 6.8% of children aged 5-17 are involved in child labor and 51.4% of women aged 20-24 are married for the first time under the age of 18. As detailed below, although there are laws and regulations regarding systems to respond to the issues of child protection, the systems are not functioning well, and children are at risk of abuse and child marriage. Cox's Bazar District, Chattogram Division, the southeastern part of the country, has a long coast, a well-developed tourism and fishing industry, and a population of about 2.65 million. The population of Cox's Bazar Sadar and Eidgaon Upazilas is 517,149, and the population of Ukhia Upazila is 241,140. About 884,000 refugees who have fled the violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, live in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in the district. Support activities are being carried out for these refugees and people in the refugee receiving area (host community) by government organizations and support groups concentrated in Cox's Bazar District. The large influx of refugees since 2017 has had various social and economic implications for the host community. A preliminary survey conducted by the Save the Children in November 2019 jointly with the Department of Social Services of Bangladesh (hereinafter, the preliminary survey), found that the child protection system was not fully functioning in the project area, and response to the issue of child protection was inadequate. The details are as follows. Click here to download the RFP Click here to download the TOR Click here to download the Pre-Proposal Meeting Minutes TIMESCALES
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