Main area: Migration
Theme: Other support to migrants and refugees in developing countries and to their hosting communities
Assessment: ODA-eligible
Provider country: Sweden
Recipient country: Bangladesh
Implementing agency: Save the Children Sweden (SCS)
Budget (USD million): 5.3
Year(s): 2019-2020
Purpose code: 15190
Case number: Migration / 32
Child Protection 2019-2020
Save the Children Sweden (SCS) has submitted a funding proposal for the project "Strengthening Resilience through Child-centred Programming". Under this project, Sweden will support the expansion of child protection mechanisms in Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox´s Bazar.
Overall objective: Children affected by the Rohingya Refugee crisis are protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and other forms of violence through integrated multi-sector preventative and remedial interventions based on the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Sphere Standards.
Some examples of results relate to reduced risks and increased protective factors at community level, 36 Community-Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPCs) (27 camps; 9 host communities) were supported, with the capacity of the committees developed to increase identification and response to child protection concerns within their communities with referrals to government and NGO services. As a result, 366 children (170 girls; 196 boys) were identified and referred by CBCPCs to a case management team. According to the project evaluation, 100% of CBCPC members felt confident to conduct community awareness-raising activities, including on child marriage, child labour, violence against children, trafficking and other child protection issues.)
This activity is deemed ODA-eligible. The intervention is designed to prevent and respond to violations of children´s rights and hence has a clear primary developmental goal (Principle 1). The main motivation of the activity is to facilitate the transition from humanitarian relief actions to early recovery development interventions in the Rohingya protracted crisis.
This work was approved and declassified by the Development Assistance Committee’s Working Party on Development Finance Statistics.
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