Plan Bangladesh
| NGO: | Plan International Bangladesh |
| Project Area: | Rayer Bazar, Mohammadpur, Natun Bazar, Mohakhali, Kachukhet, Gabtoli, Karwanbazar, Rampura DIC, Bashaboo, Sadar Ghat, Babu Bazar, Jatrabari; of Dhaka City Corporation |
| Project title: | Bringing Economic Empowerment to Street children (BEES) |
| Target Beneficiary households (BHH): | 2,500 (60% are individuals without any households) |
| Project length: | 3 years |
| Budget (BDT): | 31,441,583 |
Key Aspects
- Drop in Clinics provide a point of entry for street children to be reached with a range of regular services and assistance, and a community focal point through which advocacy campaigns can be delivered;
- Income generating opportunities and negotiating capacity is increased through skills-transfer training, internships and vocational training, designed to prioritise achievement of core-competencies, and respond to learning capacity and training needs of participants;
- Participants can access the innovative, flexible savings product that provides them with a child-friendly, secure and mobile form of asset generation;
- An outreach campaign for the implementation of Child Safeguarding Standards in workplaces and monitored through follow-up activities;
- Advocacy for improved access to basic services targets the local community and government, through mass campaigns, and direct linkages between participants and duty-bearers;
- Graduation period: 18 months, after which beneficiaries will have the ability to earn an increased amount of income that sustains an improved livelihood; enhanced capacity to gain improved employment, or start new business; strong asset base support to start new enterprises and resist life-cycle shocks; marginalisation reduced as able to access basic services available in the community;
Outputs
- Output 1: Street Children are supported to have safer employments and increased income generating capacity (IGC);
- Output 2: Street children are supported in developing responsible financial behaviour through sustainable asset generation;
- Output 3: Street children under current employment are supported in accessing basic services in the community and safer workplaces that enforce child safeguarding standard.
