BOSS

Project Area
Pabna, Rajshahi Division
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Project title
Mainstreaming Marginalised Communities (MMC)

Target
Beneficiary households (BHH): 400

Project length
3 years

Budget (BDT)
14,223,630

Key Aspects

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.

Outputs

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

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