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CSPB

With the aim of protecting underprivileged children, the Ministry of Social Welfare is implementing two separate projects through the Department of Social Services. One of these is the Child Sensitive Social Protection in Bangladesh (CSPB) project


Context of CSPB Project :

Appropriate Resources for Improving Street Children's Environment (ARISE) project funded by UNDP started in April 1999 and ended in March 2007 with the aim of providing benefits to socially disadvantaged children, especially street children. Subsequently, the Protection of Children at Risk (PCAR) project, funded by UNICEF Bangladesh, started on 1 April 2007 and ended on 31 December 2011. Then the CSPB project, Phase-I, started on 1st January 2012 and was completed on 30th June 2017. CSPB Project, Phase 2, started from 1 July 2017 till 31 December 2020 and thereafter the child friendly emergency activities of the project are ongoing as per approved annual work plan. Meanwhile, the revised TAPP of this project has been submitted to the ministry for its kind approval, proposing a tenure of up to December 2024.



Aims and objectives

By 2024, implementation of the Children's Act 2013 will be able to develop a balanced prevention system and take necessary measures to reduce violence, abuse and neglect against children. For this purpose, special arrangements have been made in 52 upazilas and 11 city corporation areas of 26 districts covered by the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) of the country through this project.


specific purpose

By 2024, UNDAF will develop child-friendly social protection programs and create a balanced environment for 1 million children and community people in affected districts.

 

Project area

United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) identified 20 districts. Jamalpur, Netrakona, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Bandarban, Cox's Bazar, Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Sirajganj, Nilphamari, Kurigram, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Sunamganj, Sylhet, Habiganj, Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola District. Apart from this, project activities are being conducted for the protection and development of the rights of street children in the divisional cities of Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal.

This project is being implemented in Charfashan, Lalmohan and Manpura upazilas of Bhola district.


Activities:

Capacity building of social workers, probation officers, child welfare board members and other social workers through various learning and training;

Child Helpline 1098 strengthened and modernized;

Prepare child risk assessment and community-based child protection frameworks through case management;

Provision of conditional child protection allowance (prevention of child marriage, elimination of hazardous labour, prevention of school dropout);

Ensuring child protection social workers through the use of innovative technologies;

Strengthening child-friendly services with disabilities;

Adopting creative model projects to provide disabled child friendly services;

Development of related institutions to enhance services and care of children;

adoption of family and community-based alternative care systems for the care of orphans and underprivileged children;

Introduction of various courses, trainings and academic degrees related to child rights and child protection through universities;

Providing basic social work training and professional social work training on social work and child protection;

Creation of operational framework for implementation of social work;

To fulfill the objectives of the Child Act 2013, increasing the child protection manpower at the upazila and union levels of the Department of Social Services;

Strengthening Child Friendly Justice System;

Provision of education, psycho-social counselling, entertainment by establishing child service hubs;

Strengthening community-based child protection structures and making child helpline 1098 more effective for prevention of child abuse;

Strengthening of activities of Child Welfare Board as per Children Act 2013;

Providing advocacy for the adoption of child protective laws, regulations and policies;


Conditional Financial Assistance Program

'Conditional financial assistance' to a total of 4,275 children including 133 children of the families killed in the Savar tragedy on 24 April 2013 in the 'Rana Plaza' building collapse of the Savar tragedy on 24 April 2013, including the orphaned and underprivileged children of different upazilas and tea gardens of Sylhet, Habiganj, Sunamganj and Rangpur districts. provided. The main conditions of conditional financial assistance program are regular attendance of children in school, protection from child marriage and protection from child labour. The selected child is paid Rs 2,000 monthly in three installments of Rs 12,000 for a total of Rs 36,000 over 18 months.


  Background of Child Helpline-1098 :

According to the Child Act 2013, Child Helpline 1098 has been operating nationwide with the financial and technical support of UNICEF since December 2015. A central call center of Child Helpline has been set up on the 8th floor of the Department of Social Services. The call center operates 24 hours a day including public holidays and weekends.


The Honorable Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on October 27, 2016 AD. He announced the auspicious opening of Child Helpline-1098.


Transformation of Institutional Care:

Pilot activities are being conducted in the following nine institutes under the project


department

Name of the institution

Dhaka

Child Development Center (Boys), Tongi, Gazipur

Child Development Center (Girls), Konabari, Gazipur

Sheikh Ras Disadvantaged Children Training and Development Centre, Tungipara, Gopalganj

Chittagong

Safe Home, Sylhet

Government Child Family (Girls), Cox's Bazar

Sylhet

Safe Home, Sylhet

Barisal

Safe Home, Barisal

Government Child Family (Girls), Bhola

Khulna

Child Development Center (Boys), Pulerhat, Jessore


Developing child-friendly conditions, providing services in the light of case management, improving the quality of education services and ensuring children's family or social reintegration, recreational facilities in selected institutions under the experimental program, increasing the capacity of service providers, developing children's life skills, case management and taking necessary measures to improve the infrastructure of the institution. has been


Case Management Database

Providing necessary technical support to Department of Social Services in developing case management database for monitoring existing child protection programs. Meanwhile, trial operation of case management database in Bhola and Cox's Bazar government children's families (girls), Jessore Kishore Development Centre, Sylhet, Barisal and Chittagong Women and Children's Child Custody Safe Housing Center and a drop-in center in Aparajay Bangladesh, a subsidiary. completed


Child Protection Network

In order to establish a child sensitive society, 'Child Protection Network' Committees have been formed at the district and upazila levels headed by District Administrators and Upazila Executive Officers in 20 districts and selected upazilas identified by UNDAF. As the Children Act 2013 has been approved, activities under the project have been undertaken to increase the capacity of 'Child Welfare Board' at the district and upazila levels.


Institutional capacity building

With a view to enhancing the knowledge and skills of social workers in child affairs, the CSPB project has so far imparted two-week Basic Social Service (BSST) and four-week Professional Social Service (PSST) training to 1,958 social workers through the already completed PIKAR project. 254 service providers working in the institution have been trained on 'Child Development', 447 officers and union social workers on 'Conditional financial assistance program and case management', 18 officers and social workers have been trained on online case management.

Child Welfare Boards have been formed in district and upazila offices to provide legal services, financial assistance, education and medical assistance to helpless, neglected, distressed and oppressed children. Decisions taken in several meetings of the Child Welfare Board at the district and upazila levels are being implemented. Steps are being taken to increase the capacity of Child Welfare Board through CSPB project.


Place of receiving service: 

# Upazila Social Service Officer, Upazila Social Service Office, Lalmohan/ Charfashion/ Manpura, Bhola

# Deputy Superintendent, Government Child Family (Girls), Charnoabad, Bhola