Project highlights
Camps 5, 6 ,15 and Palongkhali and Rajapalong Union in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.
39,626 direct beneficiaries
01 July 2025-30 June 2026
Supported by
Project summary
This Project “Strengthening the protective environment for children through a comprehensive child protection and GBV response in the Rohingya camps and host communities” in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, funded by UNICEF. Tdh will implementthe project in camp 5, 6 ,15 and Palongkhali and Rajapalong Union in Ukhiya, focuses on strengthening the protective environment for children through a comprehensive child protection and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) response.
Project goal
The project’s goal is to strengthen the protective environment for children including adolescents by ensuring more equitable and higher-quality child protection and gender-based violence services for the targeted beneficiaries. It targets 39,626 children, adolescents, caregivers, community members, and system actors, aligning with UNICEF’s Country Programme and national child protection frameworks.
Key activities and achievements
- Provide individualized and holistic CP and GBV case management services for 1,530 refugee children and adolescents under 18, who have experienced or are at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or violence.
- Through Khushir Khorak and UNICEF Life Skills Curriculum, conduct culturally contextualized psychosocial support sessions reaching 2,160 children in camps.
- Deliver structural life skills sessions for 360 adolescents, promoting resilience and protection awareness using Sports for Proteciton (S4P) curriculum.
- Conduct YouCreate Toolkit sessions with 1,200 adolescents and facilitated youth-led initiatives reaching 4,500 community members with child protection and GBV messages.
- Empower 540 adolescent girls and their parents to enhance GBV resilience, through the Girl Shine adolescent and Caregiver Curriculum.
- Facilitate interactive sessions with 1,440 caregivers to strengthen parenting practices and protective family environments through positive parenting sessions
- Delivered door-to-door mental health and psychosocial support to 480 parents, including GBV survivors, using WHO’s problem management plus (PM+) module.
- Reached 360 male participants and conducted EMAP-led awareness initiatives engaging 5,700 community members in GBV prevention.
- Train, and form CBCPCs to enhance referral mechanisms and Implement CBCPC-led initiatives to ensure locally driven solutions to protect vulnerable children.
- Train government and humanitarian CP and non-CP actors on child protection approaches.
