A. DEMOCRACY& POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT

 

Objective: To increase local level governance, transparency and accountability through people’s participation and to promote grassroots women leadership.

  • APARAJITA: Political Empowerment of Women-Khulna. Supported by Embassy of Switzerland and HELVETAS Inter Cooperation; implementing in Bagerhat and Khulna districts. The project period is from 01 November 2018 to 31 December 2022.
  • Promoting Peace and Justice-Jashore. Supported by Democracy International (DI); implementing in Jashore district. The project period is from 01 June 2019 to 30 April 2023.
  • Promoting Peace and Justice-Khulna. Supported by Democracy International (DI); implementing in Khulna district. The project period is from 10 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
  • APARAJITA- Political Empowerment of Women-Barisal. Supported by Embassy of Switzerland and HELVETAS Inter Cooperation; implementing in Barisal district. The project period is from 01 December 2019 to 31 December 2022.
  • Promoting Participatory Engagement to Strengthen Governance. Supported by The Asia Foundation; implementing in Khulna City Corporation. The project period is from 09 December 2021 to 08 February 2023

B. PEACE & TOLERANCE

Objective: To facilitate the process fostering peace, tolerance, mutual respect, social harmony by maintaining secular and syncretic culture where the targeted communities autonomously perform as resilient one to prevent and counter violent extremism, ensure institutional functioning and combating trafficking at all level and to build effective accountable and inclusive human society to achieve sustainable development.

  • Preventing Extremism through Active Community Engagement (PEACE) Consortium. Supported and supervised by Country Strategy Mechanism (CSM) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh and funded by Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund (GCERF); implementing in Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Satkhira and Chapai Nowabgonj. The project period starts from 01 July 2016.
  • CSO PVE Capacity Building in Bangladesh. Supported by Helvetas Intercooperation-Germany; implementing in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogura, Jaypurat, Naogaon, Pabna, Dinajpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari. The project period from 01 September 2020 to 30 August 2022.

C. DISASTER MANAGEMENT& CCA

Objective: To conserve biodiversity, reduce climate change and disaster risk among vulnerable people and ensure accountability of institutions engaged in environmental and disaster management.

    • Promoting Climate Resilient Water Supply & Sanitation in southwest Bangladesh (PCR-WASH). Supported by WaterAid Bangladesh; implementing in Assasuni Upazila of Satkhira district. The project period is from July 2019 to 31 March 2025.
    • Collective Responsibility, Action and Accountability for Improved Nutrition (CRAAIN). Supported by Concern World Wide, WaterAid Bangladesh/European Union; implementing Bagerhat district. The project period is from 01 January 2020 to December 2022.
    • Supporting COVID Recovery through Emergency Actions for Marginalized (SCREAM). Supported by Embassy of Switzerland; implementing in Khulna and Bagerhat District. The project is from 01 July 2021 to 31 July 2022.
    • Enhancing Climate Resilient WASH in Dacope Upazila. Supported by WaterAid Bangladesh; implementing in Dacope Upazila of Khulna district. The project period is from March 2022 to March 2023.
    • Enabling Communities with WASH for better future. Supported by WaterAid Bangladesh; implementing in Shyamnagar and Kaligonj Upazila of Satkhira district. The project period is from March 2022 to March 2023.
    • Stop the Stigma: Empowering Dreams of Menstruating Girls in Bangladesh. Supported by WaterAid Bangladesh; Shyamnagar and Kaligonj Upazila of Satkhira district. The project period is from 01 July 2022 to April 2025.
    • Community Led Innovation for Climate Risk Mitigation in Bangladesh (CLIMB). Supported by CARE; implementing Sarankhola Upazila in Bagerhat District. The project is from 01 August 2022 to 31 August 2025.

D. CHILDREN AND YOUTH RIGHTS

Objective: To empower children, adolescents and youths by involving them in social initiatives which will capacitate them to take decisions by combating against prevailing community harmful norms & values.

  • Combatting Early Marriage in Bangladesh (CEMB) Project. Supported by Plan International; implementing in 5 Meherpur, Chuadanga, Jhinaidah, Magura and Jessore Districts. The project period is from 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.

E. POPULAR MEDIA & FOLK THEATRE

Objective: To involve citizens at the grassroots level, in modern and folk media to enable them to access information and to claim their rights.

  • Radio Programming under USAID’s Promoting Peace and Justice (PPJ) Activity. Supported by Democracy International (DI); with the country-wide coverage in Bangladesh. The project period is from 15 March 2020 to 30 April 2023.
  • Improving community level public health facilities through engagement of targeting communities using radio programs. Supported by NOREC; implementing in Bangladesh and Nepal with co-partnering of Rupantar and AMARC-Asia Pacific. This project period is from 01 November 2021 to 31 October 2022.
LAST UPDATE: 22 AUGUST 2022