Implementation of Positive Parenting Program in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar
Title of the assignment
Implementation of Positive Parenting Program in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar
Purpose
To empower parents with skills to practice positive discipline, improve parent-child communication, manage stress, and build resilience in themselves and their children. The techniques will contribute in strengthening families' ability to adopt positive mechanism and resilience to withstand the challenges posed by the protracted emergencies.
Location
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Regular field visits will be required to Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf particularly in camps 1E, 2W, 4, 6, 7, 8E, 8W, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22 ,24 and 26
Estimated Duration
Project duration is expected to cover 14 months.
From 1st July 2024 to 30th August 2025.
Reporting to Technical Supervisor of this assignment
SBC Specialist -Team Lead, SBC in UNICEF Cox’s Bazar Field Office
1. Background
The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the most complex and protracted humanitarian emergencies in the world, affecting the lives and well-being of over 960,000 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 2017. Among them, children and adolescents constitute a significant and vulnerable population, facing multiple challenges such as limited access to education, health care, and psychosocial support. Children and adolescents who grow up in humanitarian crises and emergencies often encounter violence and endure traumatic experiences. These forms of “toxic stress” can have long-lasting negative impacts on both physical and mental health, with the potential to jeopardize the overall well-being and economic prospects of entire communities. A high level of exposure to trauma and adversity among Rohingya children and adolescents can affect their cognitive, social, and emotional development.
Positive parenting interventions can play a crucial role in supporting children’s healthy development and resilience in adversity. Positive parenting is defined as fostering relationships that are safe, nurturing, and stable; it offers a structured environment in which rules and values are transmitted through routines and habits that are applied flexibly; it provides opportunities for learning, support, and stimulation; and it is based on the acknowledgement of the child’s abilities and accomplishments as well as the daily provision of guidance, all in an environment free from physical, verbal, or emotional abuse.
Positive parenting can enhance children’s self-esteem, confidence, and social skills, as well as reduce behavioral problems, aggression, and violence. Positive parenting can also improve parents’ mental well-being, coping skills, and satisfaction with their parenting role.
UNICEF is planning to roll-out positive parenting programme in 17 Rohingya refugee camps reaching parents and caregivers of children and adolescents. As the initiative brings new knowledge and approaches in reducing violence in the family and community, we are seeking an experienced institution to roll the package which will include training community volunteers, mentorship and supportive supervision.
2. Objectives, Purpose and Expected Results
The overall goal is enhancing knowledge and skills of parents/caregivers with non-violent and gender-sensitive parent-child interactions skills, which will contribute children's holistic development, well-being, and resilience in the context of the protracted humanitarian crisis.
Specific objectives.
- Roll-out the positive parenting package targeting parent/caregivers in its full-course in 17 UNICEF supported camps.
- Conduct a study on the effectiveness of the positive parenting package in reducing violence against children and women at family level.
- Develop a case study based on the findings from study.
Expected outcome and results.
Rohingya parents will adopt non-violent child rearing practices to nurture their children and adolescent’s development within their social cultural context and self-care practices to improve mental wellbeing fostering positive relationship between parents and children.
Expected outputs from parents/caregivers.
- Comprehensive knowledge of children and adolescent’s development milestones and how to address their evolving needs.
- Understanding and practice positive parenting techniques leading to building meaningful connection, empathetic understanding, and effective communication with children.
- Strengthen positive cultural practices emphasizing non-violent attitude, encourage positive discipline, social-emotional learning, and real-life solutions.
- Foster gender sensitivity and non-violent communication by establishing love, respect, openness, and positive environment.
- Building peer support through interacting with other parents sharing experience as a parent and learn from each other.
- Improving the sense of mental well-being and self-care practices among parents/caregivers
Expected outputs from children and adolescents
- Enhanced social-emotional skills.
- Better interpersonal skills with ability to develop positive relationship with other children.
- Gained effective communication and non-violence attitude.
- Improve mental well-being and self-care practices.
3. Description of Assignment
The proposed project will cover 17 Rohingya refugee camps for a period of 14 months as articulated in the table below.
No
Key Tasks
Activity description
Timeframe
1
Project preparations (including recruitment, orientation, and training
Recruit of project staff, basic orientation and training including PSEA and Child safeguarding.
First 3 months
2
Documentation of the effectiveness of the positive parenting interventions
Recruitment of data enumerators, conduct training and undertake data collection
3
Implementation of the positive parenting package in 17 camps targeting 3, 750 parents/caregivers (50:50 gender balanced)
Selection of the targeted population, setting up community space for group sessions and engagement with local/community leaders. Completion of 10 months positive parenting curriculum through engaging parents/caregivers repeatedly bi-weekly sessions and one home visit per month.
10 months – from 4th to 9 months.
4
Programme monitoring, reporting and evaluation
Development of qualitative and quantitative monitoring tools, pretesting and training.
5
Conducting study on effectiveness of the parenting package.
Developing tools for data collection baseline and endline and conduct training for enumerators for both rounds. Data analysis and reporting
12 months of the project implementation period
6
Documentation of the effectiveness study
Data collection, analysis, reporting and presentation
7
Project management, consultation, and reporting
Prepare and submission of monthly, Quarterly and End pf project reports. Hold monthly meetings with UNICEF to discuss project implementation. Participate in weekly UNICEF partners meeting to share key updates and discuss challenges.
8
Roll-out the positive parenting package in 17 selected Rohingya refugee camps
Organize parenting groups women and men groups separately with limited number of parents/caregivers in mixed groups.
9
Advocacy events and visibility
Prepare documentation for advocacy events. Collaborate with UNICEF Communication section for Donor’s visibility
4. Deliverables
Deliverable
Tasks
Timeline
% of payment
Deliverable 1:
Inception report on implementation plan for positive parenting in Rohingya context.
Task 1:
- Preparation of the implementation of the positive parenting
- Recruitment of project implementation staff
One month after signing the contract
10%
Deliverable 2:
Inception report on the documentation on the effectiveness of parenting programme
Task 2:
- Literature review on parenting interventions in humanitarian settings
- Recruitment and train of field enumerators
Deliverable 3:
Comprehensive implementation plan – in 17 Rohingya Refugee camps
Deliverable 3:
- Selection of targeted parent/caregivers for the project
- Selection of meeting venues and modifications
- Schedule of meetings with community members
From 4th months after inception
30%
Deliverable 4
Monitoring tools – qualitative and quantitative tools for monitoring implementation and study process monitoring
Tasks: 4
- Develop monitoring tools/pretest and orient and roll-out to support project implementation
- Documentation of the project implementation
- Donor’s visibility
5th months from project inception
30%
Deliverable 5:
Draft report of study on the effectiveness of the positive parenting
Deliverable 5:
- Analyse the data from implementation and prepare reports as scheduled
- Documentation of the project implementation
8th months from project inception
15%
Deliverable 6:
Final report of the project and study reports on the effectiveness of the positive parenting including – Summary report, PowerPoint presentation
Deliverable 6:
- Data analysis, documenting human interest stories
14th months from project inception
15%
- Reporting requirements
- Inception report within 3 weeks upon commencing the assignment
- Regularly monthly meeting with SBC Officer in line with deliverables requirements.
- Minutes of the key issues discussed in monthly meetings 2 days after the meetings
- Participation and presentation on implementation during SBC partners coordination meeting on bi-weekly basis through the contract period.
- Technical interim reports on quarterly basis on the implementation of the project
- Final report within 2 weeks upon receipt of final comments UNICEF SBC technical supervisor.
- Payment Schedule
Inception report on implementation plan for positive parenting in Rohingya context.
3 weeks after signing the contract
Inception report on the documentation on the effectiveness of parenting programme
Comprehensive implementation plan – in 17 Rohingya Refugee camps
3 months from signing contract
Monitoring tools – qualitative and quantitative tools for monitoring implementation and study process monitoring
5 months after signing contract
Draft report of study on the effectiveness of the positive parenting
8 months from project inception
Final report of the project and study reports on the effectiveness of the positive parenting including – Summary report, PowerPoint presentation
14 months from project inception
- Qualification requirement of the company/institution/organization
- Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating programmes in early childhood and child development, positive parenting, child protection programmes with focus on social and behavior change communication component.
- Institutional track record in applying social, and behavior change communication, knowledge management and exchange, capacity strengthening, advocacy and research and evaluation, and integration of cross cutting commitments such as gender, disability, disaster risk reduction in training materials.
- Experience in developing behavioural change communication tools and materials, including applying innovative approaches in resource constrained settings.
- Demonstrated experience in community-based training
- Experience in working with UN agencies in an L3/L2 emergency would be an asset.
7a. Qualification requirement of the team (optional)
- At least 15 years’ experience in SBC research and programming, five of which should be in developing country context.
- A team leader with at least a master’s degree social sciences, or research and demonstrated expertise in behaviour change communication
- Strong organizational skills, analytical capabilities, able to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Proven experience in the use of participatory, qualitative, and quantitative assessment/analytic methodologies.
- Expertise in budgeting and budget analysis especially as it relates to assessing Value for Money.
- Experience managing analysis, synthesis, documentation, and dissemination of lessons for a range of stakeholders
8. Evaluation Process and Method
Guidance for completing this part
Please refer to the below technical evaluation criteria and qualifying points. Customize the evaluation criteria according to the requirement in the ToR, if required.
EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR TECHNICAL PROPOSAL
CATEGORY
POINTS
OVERALL RESPONSE
* Understanding of, and responsiveness to, UNICEF Bangladesh Office requirements;
* Understanding of scope, objectives, and completeness of response;
* Overall concord between UNICEF requirements and the proposal.
5
METHODOLOGY AND DETAILED TIMELINE
* Quality of the proposed approach and methodology;
* Suitability of the approach: To what extent the methodology is designed in response to the needs of the TOR;
* Quality of proposed implementation plan, i.e how the bidder will undertake each task, and time-schedules;
*Risk assessment - recognition of the risks/peripheral problems and methods to prevent and manage risks/peripheral problems.
* Timelines proposed must be detailed and realistic;
(35)
10
10
5
5
5
ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITY and PROPOSED TEAM
* Professional expertise of the firm/company/organization, knowledge and experience with similar projects, contracts, clients and consulting assignments
* Team leader: Relevant experience, qualifications, and position with firm;
* Team members - Relevant experience, skills & competencies;
* Organization of the team and roles & responsibilities;
(30)
10
10
5
5
TOTAL MARKS
70
For this RFP, the Technical Proposal has a total score of 70 points. Bidders must score minimum of 49 points to be considered technically compliant and in order, for the Financial Proposals to be opened. Financial proposal has a total score of 30 points.
The final selection of the bidder will be based on a quality and cost basis as specified in the RFP.