Strategic Program Priority:

The strategic priorities of BTS for 2022-2026

• Child Rights, Protection and Governance;
• Youth Development;
• Women Empowerment and Gender equity;
• Climate Change and Humanitarian response;
• Health and WASH; and
• Organizational Development.

Scope of work

Child rights and protection: Community base child protection, provide services for the survivors through referral and capacity building of children, youth, community, CSOs, local government and service providers on child rights.

Child friendly Governance: Organize the Children, Participation in the decision making process, Child led child rights and service provision monitoring.

Adolescent, Youth and Women Empowerment: Women empowerment and prevention of violence against women

Education support: Early Childhood Development, pre-primary education support, support to primary schools to ensure quality education.

Emergency response: Awareness raising, monitory and materials support, response through collaboration with CSOs and government department.

Environment and climate change: Awareness raising, children inclusion in LGIs response process.

Empowerment and Capacity Building

• Developing leadership qualities among the children to protect child sexual abuse
• Preparing children to claim their rights and to say ‘No’ or ‘Stop’ louder
• Capacity building of community stakeholders
• Capacity Building of Networking Partner Organization

Awareness building

• Raise awareness amongst children, caregiver & duty bearer to prevent sexual abuse
• Promote social awareness
• Media campaign
• Group Formation and conducting regular session

Empowerment and Capacity Building

• Developing leadership qualities among the children to protect child sexual abuse
• Preparing children to claim their rights and to say ‘No’ or ‘Stop’ louder
• Capacity building of community stakeholders
• Capacity Building of Networking Partner Organization

Support and Service

BTS Rescue of the survivors or at risk children especially from child marriage and different types of abuses and provides para-counseling and counseling support to the children and care-givers who experience the trauma of child abuse. We know that counseling isn’t the only support they need. A network was built with the government and non-government service providers so that when BTS finds a case with the need of legal, medical or any other support, it refers the child to the appropriate service provider.

Community Based Child Protection

• Community based awareness building with IEC materials and direct session
• Building knowledge and skill of children
• Caregivers and other stakeholders in the community
• Complaint and Response Mechanism, Network of community centric service providers)

Promote Child Friendly Governance

• Children engagement in the decision making process of LGI
• Meetings with local government representatives to make the governance more child friendly
• Advocacy to allot a portion of budget of local government for the children

Advocacy and Networking

• Implementation of Protection Education
• Incorporate CFLG index in the Local Govt
• Institution Manuals