Project Highlights
Title: Sports for Protection, Resilience and Transformation
Donor: Olympic Refugee Foundation (ORF)
Duration: April 2022 – March 2025
Number of Beneficiaries: 10,000 (Kurigram – 9000 and Dhaka 1000)
Partners: Solidarity (Kurigram) and Breaking the Silence (Dhaka)Location: Kurigram (Chilmari, Ulipur, & Kurigram Sadar) and Dhaka (Baowniabadh & Begun Tila Slum)
Project Summary
In Bangladesh, as the country suffers heavily from frequent droughts, tropical cyclones, and floods due to climate change, many are forced to emigrate internally. It is estimated that by 2050, climate change will cause one in every seven people in Bangladesh to suffer displacement. The project focuses on inclusion and empowerment of 10,000 young People who are displaced or at risk of climate-induced displacement through sports for protection (S4P) initiatives in Kurigram district and Dhaka.
Project Objective
This project aims to promote the inclusion and empowerment of adolescents and youth who are displaced or at risk of climate-induced displacement in Kurigram district and Dhaka slums. This will be realised by (1) enhancing the physical, mental, and psychosocial wellbeing of displaced or at risk of displacement adolescent and youth by promoting their access to safe sports, (2) engaging displaced or at risk of displacement adolescent and youth to advance their knowledge on coping strategies to respond to migration and displacement linked risks and other climate induced vulnerabilities as well as to promote sustainable local solutions through youth-led initiatives, (3) enhancing sports coaches’ and other stakeholders’ knowledge on gender-friendly safe sports and gather their support for implementing sports for protection initiatives in Bangladesh.
Key Activities
- Providing youth with regular and meaningful access to safe sports activities, designed to enhance their physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
- Developing leadership skills in youth so they can undertake development activities that contribute to sustainable local solutions through youth-led initiatives.
- Encouraging sports actors at local, district, and national levels to contribute to creating an enabling environment for safe sports participation for youth and adolescents in Dhaka and Kurigram.