We put children and caregivers at the center of every response. Our ethos for response is built on effectiveness and immediacy, whether it be cyclones, displacement, floods, landslides, or any other natural disasters, ensuring lifesaving assistance is provided to the communities that need it most.  

Our collaboration with the government, national clusters, and local partners collectively strengthens early warning and preparedness systems, improves rapid response capacity, and ensures essential services are accessible during and after disasters. Our actions are dedicated to the most vulnerable communities in the nation, including Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) and disaster-vulnerable host communities. Understanding that disasters affect access to basic needs and security, our integrated approach includes food security, emergency shelter and non-food items, WASH, health, early recovery and livelihood, child protection, and education in emergencies (EiE). Our engagement with communities equips them with knowledge, skills, and resources so they can anticipate crises, reduce risks, and recover stronger. We activate communities to join in delivering assistance so they take ownership of actions in an accountable, dignified, and safe manner.

Going beyond response, we work to build resilience within communities so they can lead, act, and recover. Our safe water access plants provide communities with freshwater near their doorsteps.

Acting Ahead, Preventing Risk

Our landslide anticipatory action (AA) initiatives combine localized early warnings with rapid, risk-informed early actions to build community resilience in the high-risk hilly areas of Chittagong and Bandarban. Identifying and analyzing the most vulnerable households, we developed 21 localized AA plans with local governments so communities can act before disasters. Our approach is strategically centered on real-time forecasting, community readiness, institutional coordination, and proactive measures. Conducting child-centered Community Risk Assessment (CRA) and Vulnerability Mapping, as well as youth innovation platforms, have allowed us to engage them in AA and disaster response. With over 16 million farmers, Bangladesh is a country that thrives on its rich soil. We introduced farmers to agromet forecast applications for risk and resource management across 22 unions, preparing them for climate shocks.

Less Drips, Safer Drops

We are strengthening community adaptation capacity in coastal parts of Satkhira by combining climate-resilient water technologies, expanding local knowledge on climate risks, and activating youth platforms for informed advocacy. Our trainings, risk-reduction planning, and evidence-based learning support communities in anticipating and coping with climate threats while protecting safe water sources. We promote community-led water governance through water management committees, women-user groups, and community-based organizations to ensure management of water sources and equitable access. 

Respond, Reach, Recover

We strengthen community resilience to minimize the impacts of disasters while responding to post-disaster crises effectively and efficiently, putting children's needs first. Our assessments guided early actions against droughts and heatwaves, providing safe water for children while building infrastructure to help them access reliable sources. We extend infrastructure, repair cyclone-affected schools for over 4,000 students, and enhance certain schools to serve as shelters. We support faster recovery so communities can rebuild their lives, immediately responding by delivering multipurpose cash, dry food packages, hygiene kits, kitchen kits, shelter kits, and conditional cash for shelter repair in four districts following Cyclone Remal.

Turn into Urban

We promote climate-smart cities, supporting climate-vulnerable, low-income communities that lack infrastructure and adaptive capacity. Focusing on locally led adaptation (LLA), we conduct climate vulnerability risk assessments, develop inclusive adaptation plans, and strengthen community capacity and governance through a participatory approach. Our endeavor to engage children in urban platforms and lead sustainable urban management that focuses on their needs is part of a coalition that starts with their participation in relevant stakeholder platforms. We mobilize child- and youth-led campaigns, research, and studies to drive data-driven advocacy that recognizes their challenges and needs in urban areas. Our network engages civil society, the private sector, academia, the media, youth organizations, and groups representing persons with disabilities to develop inclusive solutions to challenges in cities.