Save the Children (Scale Fund): Economic and Food Security through Asset Transfers and Access to Social Entitlements
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Project Area
Khulna, Bagerhat
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Target
15,000 Beneficiary households (BHH)
Project length
3 years
Budget (BDT)
The total budget is BDT 407,402,455
Key Aspects
- Targeting extreme poor of the hard to reach areas of the coastal belt, which include women headed households, fisher folk, ethnic and religious minorities
- Household based economic intervention, and adaptable disaster risks reduction and promotion of climate change resilient livelihoods
- Preparing ‘Household Micro Plan’ to inform present socio-economic status, problems and their key causes, and support needed, such as skills and resources to improve the situation
- Capacity building for BHH for improved access to social entitlement related to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation services
- Strengthening three livelihoods options/income sources and diversification of employment opportunities through a variety of approaches such as asset transfer, skills building and cash stipend, business counselling, training and market linkage
- Improving resilience of the target group to climatic change, cultivation of disaster resilient crops, practicing improved fishing method etc.
- Promoting women friendly livelihoods options and at least one option will be directly made suitable for the target woman in a BHH
- Supplying multiple Micro-nutrients to all children under the age 5
- Monitoring and supervising implementation progress through two field offices at Khulna and Bagerhat
- Partner NGOs namely Prodipan and CODEC will be mainly responsible for household and community level delivery
- Working beyond the project period (4th and 5th year) for self-sustaining the livelihoods who have moved out of extreme poverty at the end of the third year through livelihood diversification and community led mechanism
Outputs
- Enhanced capacity to access to safety-net
- Increased productive assets and livelihoods opportunities
- Improved capacity to adapt climate change resilient livelihoods
- Improved access to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation facilities
- Improved capacities to cope with shocks, disaster and climatic change
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