Innovation Fund Round 2
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 the surrounding areas, mean that a sustained effort with an injection of new ideas is required to tackle Monga.
The round provided funds to NGOs with a current operational presence in the Monga-prone districts of North-West Bangladesh: Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Kurigram, Jaipurhat, Thakurgaon, Bogra, Panchaghar, Dinajpur and Nilphamari. Through a rigorous process, 6 NGOs were selected to implement innovative projects to alleviate extreme poverty among households in the Monga-prone areas.
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Land Leasing, Technology Transfers and Biodiversity Centres ActionAid leases land & provides extreme poor households with technical training for bio-diversity centres @ Nilfamari |
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Integrated approach to maximise the benefit of livestock value chains Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation provide income opportunity to extreme poor household by setting up biogas plant and livestock rearing in the Monga effected extreme poor households @ Rangpur
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Estrous Synchronisation and Artificial Insemination Mahideb Jubo Somaj Kallayan Somity reduces seasonal food insecurity through artificially inseminated, high yield dairy cows @ Kurigram |
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Improved nutritional status through crop diversification and employment generation National Development Programme improves nutritional intake of extreme poor households through diversified vegetable farming @ Bogra |
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Hog Rearing by the Adivasi Women with Improved Access to Land Panchbibi Upazila Adibashi Multipurpose Development Organsiation reduces food insecurity during monga by providing access to land & support for hog - rearing to Adivasi women - headed households @ Joypurhat |
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Micro enterprises through high value fruit varieties SKS Foundation promotes strawberry & high value fruit production on leased land to generate alternative livelihoods for the extreme poor @ Gaibandha |
