Practical Action Bangladesh

Pathways from Poverty: Building Economic Empowerment and Resilience for Extreme Poor Households in Riverine areas of Bangladesh   

Project Area:                         4 vulnerable districts namely Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat and

                                            Nilphamari     

Target:                                  16,850 Beneficiary Households (BHH)

Years to Graduate:                 3 years

Budget & Cost per BHH:         Total Budget is BDT 365,871,079; cost per BHH is BDT 21,713 of which direct cost per BHH is BDT 11,330.

Key Aspects

  • Generating employment opportunities for 8,000 extreme poor households through the utilisation of sand-bars, under-utilised lands and water resources; 
  • Providing operational access to sandbar cropping in char and fallow lands; 
  • Provide skills training to the beneficiaries in different fields of farm and non-farm activities;
  • Adopting participatory market development approaches to link the extreme poor to markets to create income opportunities;
  • Creating opportunities for the extreme poor through various on and off farm livelihood options to cope with risks and ensure year round livelihood security;
  • Capacity building for protecting assets during climate variability induced disaster;
  • Female-headed extreme poor households will be given priority for grants and asset transfers;
  • Empowering the extreme poor by building links, awareness and enhancing their ability to increase their access to services from the local institutions, government and the private sector;
  • Works in partnership with local NGOs, various stakeholders, service providers etc.;  
  • Partners are particularly responsible for sensitisation, motivation, organisation and group formation, assessment and the development of needs-based programmes;
  • 2 strategic partners of PFP shiree project one is responsible for mainstreaming the Peoples With Disability (PWD) and another one is responsible for measure the poverty graduation and advocacy.
  • Strengthening Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM), which need access to common water bodies;  
  • Developing  600 Rural Service Providers (RSP)
  • Focus on remote and vulnerable embankment dwellers;

Outputs 

  • Secured operational  access to sandbar and underutilised lands by the extreme poor; 
  • Secured  market access and increased  income;
  • Provided asset protection strategies that increase resilience to impacts of disaster and seasonal food crises;
  • Strengthened market linkages of the target group at the local level and increased decision making capacity.  

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