Multisectoral response to COVID-19 UNICEF
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UNICEF has applied to Sida for support to Multisectoral response to Covid 19: Building Resilient and Integrated Essential Services for Underserved Communities in Cox’s Bazar and Gazipur Districts, Bangladesh. In partnership with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) International and National Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations UNICEF ...
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UNICEF has applied to Sida for support to Multisectoral response to Covid 19: Building Resilient and Integrated Essential Services for Underserved Communities in Cox’s Bazar and Gazipur Districts, Bangladesh. In partnership with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) International and National Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations UNICEF proposes to contribute to the reduction of the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on poor and vulnerable children and women in two districts of Bangladesh. This project complements GoB’s commitment to achieve food security and improved nutrition, ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing at all ages and elimination of different forms of violence to women and adolescent girls, by improving their human capabilities. The Integrated Package of Services proposed are aligned with the Bangladesh Preparedness and Response Plan (BPRP) for COVID-19 health response and address the critical lifesaving interventions in nutrition, WASH, and protection including GBV and are essential to minimize the impact of the pandemic among vulnerable children and women. The proposal is developed in consultation with Government of Bangladesh and multisectoral partners. The proposed one-year project will contribute to the following outcomes by addressing at the national level key issues of targeting and quality of social protection and in the districts of Gazipur and Cox's Bazar focused on strengthening systems and access to social protection and social services for women and children in poor and vulnerable communities by: I. Enhanced capacity of essential services and personnel to respond to COVID-19 outbreaks and provide quality health, nutrition, child protection, GBV, water, hygiene, waste management and sanitation services II. Advocate to expand the coverage and strengthen effectiveness of national social protection system and ensure the urgent release, reunification, and reintegration of children in juvenile detention facilities and other institutions. III. Integrated support to the Bangladeshi host communities and Rohingya refugees undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the 200 bed SARI ITC in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar District. The intervention budget is 30 000 000 SEK and will be financed by Sida.
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The following summarised results were achieved during the reporting period 2022-2023: Results are reported mainly at the level of activities under different objectives. During the reporting period the project has contributed to the reduction of the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on poor and vulnerable children and women in the targeted 16 districts of Bangladesh (Bhola, Patuakhali, Barguna, Cox's Bazar, Khagrachhari, Rangamati, Gazipur, Jamalpur, Kishoreganj, Narayanganj, Sherpur, Bogra, Sirajganj, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Moulvibazar. • The project supported in continuation of essential health care, prenatal, delivery and postnatal care, new-born care, immunisation, treatment of childhood illnesses during the pandemic. A total of 416,732 men, 860,542 women and 252,903 children have been with essential health care, prenatal, delivery and postnatal care, new-born care, immunisation, treatment of childhood illnesses. • A total of 40,627 pregnant women were registered and 25,067 pregnant women were referred to health facilities, where they received maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) services. • A total of 686 severe acute malnutrition (SAM) children were admitted to SAM facilities and received treatment. • A total of 16,393 children were reached through community sessions on community-based child protection systems. • A total of 12,245 adolescents were sensitised to GBV and child protection issues in one-on-one sessions. • A total of 5,390 children were released through virtual courts from detention centres. These children were reunified with their families and were supported in transitioning back to everyday life with family support activities including case management, the provision of cash grants and referrals. • A total of 4,211 children (were supported through case management with family support, counselling, referral services, and reintegration into families during this period. • A total of 14 Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Centres (SARI-ITCs) were established with a combined capacity of 1,000 beds to manage the increasing cases of COVID-19 patients in Coxs Bazar. A 200 bed SARI-ITC was also established in Teknaf. Since the start of the project in September 2020, the centre has managed 47,693 patients. • An analytic study to map out systemic bottlenecks to address targeting errors was conducted. This study specifically analysed systematic bottlenecks and targeting effectiveness of the selected social security programmes (SSPs), namely the mother and child benefit programme, primary education stipend programme (PESP), and secondary and higher secondary stipend programmes. • Many best practices and innovations were introduced and successfully implemented such as improvement in several national dashboards such as COVID-19, vaccine, maternal and perinatal death surveillance, and response (MPDSR), maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) dashboards that have improved real-time data reporting and enhanced the datadecision making process. • Over 53,000,000 people were reached with COVID-19 related messaging on social media. • Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) has been incorporated as a topic in the well-being subject as part of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2021. • A costed action plan for MHM has been developed on MHM strategy and MHM market survey with stakeholders. • A total of 42,647 adolescents have received child protection and life skills packages including SRHR. • More than 120,000 adolescents, young people and their communities participated in different awareness raising and social mobilisation activities including dialogues, debates and local media activities. • Currently the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) Bangladesh has 1,043,337 adolescents and youths enrolled as U reporters who have been reached with messages on climate change issues. • UNICEF supported DSHE to launch Muktopaath an online adolescent psychosocial health and support learning platform. A total of 285,000 teachers completed the course. As a result of UNICEF advocacy and technical support, Climate Change and Environment Education have been embedded in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) The result framework shows the project has achived most of the targets at the activity level.
The proposed one-year extension will contribute to the following outcomes by addressing at national level key issues and two districts by end of July 2022 through the following actions: The costed extension proposal has three objectives like the original proposal. Although Objective 1 and 3 remains the same but the objective 2 is different than the previous proposal considering the ground reality. 1. Enhanced capacity of essential services and personnel to respond to COVID-19 outbreaks and provide quality health and adolescent services to underserved women, children and vulnerable communities in 16 districts. 2. Contribute to the reduction of community transmission by empowering people with updated and consistent information and engaging them in taking informed decisions to prevent COVID-19. 3. Integrated support to the Bangladeshi host communities and Rohingya refugees undergoing treatment for respiratory illnesses and COVID-19 at the 200 bed SARI ITC in Teknaf, CxB District. The proposed interventions will be implemented under the leadership of GoB within the existing structures including those at institutional and community levels. Systems strengthening, preparedness, and addressing key underlying issues will support the Government's efforts to improve the effectiveness of the national social security system and to suppress COVID-19 in the 16 districts. In CxB for instance, it is projected that at least 1,000 beds will be needed for an isolation and treatment centre for the expected COVID-19 cases both for Rohingya refugees and the host communities. Evidence will be developed for policy engagement and policy influencing on social protection, public health and basic service delivery both in urban and rural Bangladesh. The interventions will also reduce protection risks for children and women including physical violence, trafficking, early marriages, and child labour which are prevalent in the two districts. Lastly, the proposed budget of USD 3,500,000 will support the stipulated interventions, strengthening systems and communities, addressing underlying fragilities towards a more resilient approach to the lower transmission of COVID-19 and better respond to future public health challenges in Bangladesh.
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