Bangladesh Organisation for Social Service (BOSS)

• The project aims to help reduce the social and economic marginalisation experienced by beneficiaries through complementary interventions that build linkages between marginalised and mainstream communities.
• The project takes a community approach and works with both beneficiary Hindu communities and non beneficiary Muslim communities, beginning with Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) to mobilise community resources towards common objectives.
• Beneficiary IGAs are developed through dialogue with beneficiaries - considering their needs, experience and desires – as well as local market and cost/benefit analysis. Supplementary support such as livestock advice is offered to all local community members. 
• Building on the community mobilisation in the CLTS, community groups are developed which, with assistance from BOSS, advocate with local government actors for access to social protection/safety net services as well for access to Khas resources. 

• Output 1: 400 marginalised households receive assets/skills which allow them to sustainably graduate from extreme poverty
• Output 2: Community groups developed from all beneficiary households (BHHs) which are capable of advocating with state actors
• Output 3: Community wide sanitation projects developed reducing social marginalisation for all households