PAB

Practical Action Bangladesh: Pathways from Poverty

Building Economic Empowerment and Resilience for Extreme Poor Households in Riverine areas of Bangladesh

Project Area
4 vulnerable districts namely Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari
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Target
16,850 Beneficiary Households (BHH)

Years to Graduate
3 years

Budget & Cost per BHH
Total Budget is BDT 365,871,079
cost per BHH is BDT 21,713
of which direct cost per BHH is BDT 11,330

Key Aspects

• Generating employment opportunities for 8,000 extreme poor households through the utilisation of sand-bars, under-utilised lands and water resources;
• Providing operational access to sandbar cropping in char and fallow lands;
• Provide skills training to the beneficiaries in different fields of farm and non-farm activities;
• Adopting participatory market development approaches to link the extreme poor to markets to create income opportunities;
• Creating opportunities for the extreme poor through various on and off farm livelihood options to cope with risks and ensure year round livelihood security;
• Capacity building for protecting assets during climate variability induced disaster;
• Female-headed extreme poor households will be given priority for grants and asset transfers;
• Empowering the extreme poor by building links, awareness and enhancing their ability to increase their access to services from the local institutions, government and the private sector;
• Works in partnership with local NGOs, various stakeholders, service providers etc.;
• Partners are particularly responsible for sensitisation, motivation, organisation and group formation, assessment and the development of needs-based programmes;
• 2 strategic partners of PFP shiree project one is responsible for mainstreaming the Peoples With Disability (PWD) and another one is responsible for measure the poverty graduation and advocacy.
• Strengthening Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM), which need access to common water bodies;
• Developing 600 Rural Service Providers (RSP)
• Focus on remote and vulnerable embankment dwellers;

Outputs

• Secured operational access to sandbar and underutilised lands by the extreme poor;
• Secured market access and increased income;
• Provided asset protection strategies that increase resilience to impacts of disaster and seasonal food crises;
• Strengthened market linkages of the target group at the local level and increased decision making capacity.

See the works of SHIREE funded project of Practical Action Bangladesh on flickr