The Scale Fund supports large projects which apply tested and proven approaches to providing sustainable pathways out of extreme poverty, by generating assets, improving incomes, decreasing dependency and vulnerability, and increasing food security. With the aim of eradicating extreme poverty in Bangladesh, shiree is currently funding 6 Scale Fund Round 1 projects which cover a broad spectrum of issues facing the extreme poor including: increasing assets; technology transfers; improving market linkages; small business development; transferring khas land; and improving access to rights and social entitlements. Five of these focus on extreme rural poverty and one on extreme urban poverty in Dhaka.
Care Bangladesh |
Dustho Sastho Kendro (DSK) |
NETZ Bangladesh |
Practical Action Bangladesh (PAB) |
Save the Children |
Uttaran |