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.

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.  Understanding that disasters affect access to basic needs and security, our integrated approach includes food security, emergency shelter and non-food items, water, sanitation, and hygiene  (WASH), health, early recovery and livelihood, child protection, and education in emergencies (EiE). We also work with these communities to empower them through knowledge, skills, and resources that allow them to anticipate crises, reduce risk, and recover stronger.

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 approach is strategically centered on real-time forecasting, community readiness, institutional coordination, and proactive measures. We combine early warning with rapid, risk-informed early action in our landslide anticipatory action (AA) initiatives for more prepared communities in high-risk areas of Chittagong and Bandarban. Our community-specific analysis has enabled local governments to create localized AA plans so communities can act before disasters. We engaged youth as leaders in AA through innovation platforms and conducting child-centered Community Risk Assessment (CRA) and Vulnerability Mapping. 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. 
 

Dropping into Fresher Solutions

We are strengthening community adaptation capacity for freshwater 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 enable communities to anticipate and cope 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 guide communities to put the needs of children first, strengthening their resilience to minimize disaster impacts and respond effectively to crises following these events. Our assessments guided early actions against droughts and heatwaves, providing safe water for children while building infrastructure to help them access reliable sources. We activate infrastructure development to repair cyclone-affected schools and establish some schools as shelters during disasters. 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 smart cities with proper infrastructure and adaptive capacity so these spaces work for the most climate-vulnerable, low-income communities. Through climate vulnerability risk assessments, we focus on locally-led adaptation through a participatory approach to develop an inclusive adaptation plan and strengthen community capacity and governance. Our vision for cities that work for children motivates us to enable their participation in platforms that lead urban development and management. We mobilize child-led campaigns and youth-driven research grounded in data to recognize the need for action in urban spaces. Our network engages civil society, the private sector, academia, the media, youth organizations, and groups representing persons with disabilities to develop inclusive solutions to urban challenges.