TARANGO

Training, Assistance and Rural Advancement Non-Governmental Organisation (TARANGO): Establishing Fair Trade Handicraft Business for Indigenous Community in Bandarban

Project Area
Rowangchari Upazilla of Bandarban district of Chittagong Division
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Target
750 Beneficiary Households (BHHs)

Years to graduate
3 years

Budget and Cost per BHH
The total budget is BDT 34,145,002
cost per BHH is BDT 68,290
of which direct delivery cost per BHH is BDT 34,202.

Key Aspects

• Contributing towards sustainable livelihood improvement of extreme poor households of indigenous community of Bandarban through crafts based skill training, production and marketing of traditional crafts – based on the motto of fair trade handicraft business.
• Increase household income and enhance the indigenous community’s capacity to preserve and promote their rich culture and heritage of traditional craft.
• Enhance craftsmen skill through training and capacity building by which beneficiaries will be skilled enough to produce qualitative and marketable products and earn additional income to improve livelihood standard.
• The beneficiaries will be provided with production equipment, raw materials and other necessary support to produce market-oriented products at their homes.
• Establish Crafts Emporium for promotion which will play a vital role in preserving and promoting traditional handicrafts produced by the beneficiaries.
• Provide design, quality support qualitative and marketable products and establish their market linkage with international fair trade buyers.

Outputs

• Output 1: Understanding of Indigenous Craft and Artisan Skill Improved.
• Output 2: 100 types of market-oriented new craft developed and promoted
• Output 3: Craft-based groups formed and Artisan skills developed.
• Output 4: Production equipments, raw materials and sapling distributed and income increased.

See the works of SHIREE funded project of TARANGO on flickr