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Plan International Bangladesh

Project Title
Bringing Economic Empowerment to Street children (BEES)

Project Area
Rayer Bazar, Mohammadpur, Natun Bazar, Mohakhali, Kachukhet, Gabtoli, Karwanbazar, Rampura DIC, Bashaboo, Sadar Ghat, Babu Bazar, Jatrabari; of Dhaka City Corporation
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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 Centres 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.

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