Innovation fund
Innovation Fund Round 4 Projects
Innovation Fund Round 4 focuses on achieving sustainable impacts in the lives of extremely poor people, with a focus on the most vulnerable and socially excluded groups: women, the elderly, the disabled and adivasis. The mechanisms for the sustainable movement ... Read More »
Innovation Fund Round 3 Projects
In consultation with a number of key stakeholders, shiree identified people within ‘marginalised groups’ as making up a disproportionate number of the extreme poor. These groups; including elderly people, the physically challenged, religious or ethnic minorities etc have been largely ... Read More »
Innovation Fund Round 2 Projects
Innovation Fund round 2 (Summer 2009) provided grants to projects which tackle the root causes of income, food and employment insecurity, often referred to as ‘Monga’. Shiree acknowledges the nature of Monga, along with the socio-economic cleavages which prevail in ... Read More »
Innovation Fund Round 1 Projects
Innovation round 1 focused specifically on eradicating extreme poverty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Haor and Coastal regions of Bangladesh, given the high percentage of extreme poverty in these areas. With the goal of encouraging new innovative ideas to improve ... Read More »