Save the Children (Innovation Round 3): Improving income and advancing social identity of rural adolescent girls
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Project title
Improving income and advancing social identity of rural adolescent girls
Project Area
Barisal
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Target Beneficiary households (BHH)
900
Project length
3 years
Budget (BDT)
35,953,630
Key Aspects
- The project will sustainably improve incomes for 900 extremely poor adolescent girls and their households, as well as advance social identities that allow them to positively influence decisions that affect their lives.
- The innovation will help extreme poor households leave poverty behind by empowering adolescent household members to contribute economically and as informed decision-makers.
- Providing extreme poor adolescent girls with the economic means to start up an income generation activity (IGA), as well as social and leadership skills will enable them to realize their potential as productive members of their households, helping to bring their current households out of poverty.
- Providing girls with social and leadership skills will enable them to positively influence other members of their households and their communities, including their future households as a wife and mother, multiplying the effects of the innovation far beyond the bounds of this project.
Outputs
- Output 1: Community leadership and life skills developed in 900 extreme poor adolescent girls.
- Output 2: 900 extreme poor girls provided with the means of starting their own Income‐Generating Activity (IGA).
- Output 3: Peer support systems established for economic and leadership activities of 900 extreme poor adolescent girls, with the support of other vulnerable girls in the community.
- Output 4: Community support established for adolescent girls’ leadership and IGA activities.
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