HLVETAS swiss Intercooperation এর প্রকল্প সমূহ
Nari Associate for Revival and Initiative (NARI) project
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GOAL: |
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Poverty alleviation, capacity building and sustainable livelihood of the socially disadvantaged women |
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Govt. concerned departments are cooperative |
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1.1. Organization development and capacity building of NSSL |
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2.1 Effective planning, coordination and monitoring of NSSL activities |
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3.1 Increased sensitization and effective contribution and participation of community people and project stakeholders in implementation of activities of NSSL activities |
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4.1 Alternative livelihood and increased income of PooCs. |
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ACTIVITIES |
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1.1 Organization development and capacity building of NSSL |
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1.1.1Take Legal entity / registration from social welfare for the NSSL.
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NSSL is registered with Department of Social Services by 1st and 2nd quarter of 1st year (2015) to running or acting as a self dependent organization and to seeking the donor fund for NSSL. |
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1.1.2. Organize workshop to revise or update the constitution of NSSL with UPEC and UNEC leader. |
The constitution of NSSL is revised and updated in a workshop through contribution of UPEC and UNEC leaders participated by 20 persons by 1st quarter of 1st year ( 2015) to smoothly implement of all activities as per rolls and regulations. |
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1.1.3. Provide honorarium to the President, Secretary & Treasurer of NSSL for capacity building. |
The President, Secretary and Treasurer of NSSL are paid with monthly honorarium for their contribution in the organization development and capacity building effort. |
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1.1.4. Provide training to the Volunteers and UPEC leaders on Accounts keeping & Financial management including IGA |
06 IGA and Savings volunteers and 12 UPEC leaders developed their capacity /knowledge on Accounts keeping and financial management including IGA management by 1st quarter of 1st year. |
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1.1.5.Develop easy documentation process for NSSL on IGA & Savings management (IGA and Savings collection sheet, Office based IGA & Savings register, money receive book etc). |
Easy and effective documentation process on IGA & Saving Management established by 1st year through introduction of systems such as IGA and Saving Collection Sheet, Office based IGA and Savings Register, Money Receive Book etc. And all documentation papers printed by 1st quarter of 1st year. |
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1.1.6. Arrange exposure visit for PooC to other organization on value chain field |
40 PooCs in total and 20 per year in 2 batches travelled to other organizations and observed their IGA and Value Chain related activities for 3 days to develop the value Chain system and promotion the life of PooCs by 1st and 3rd quarter of each. |
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1.1.7. Provide monthly honorarium to the sales persons of NARI show Room. |
Nari Show Room Sales Person receives monthly honorarium each month of the project during the whole project period. |
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1.1.8.Provide emergency and need based medical support for PooC |
A total of 12 persons (6 persons per year) received emergency need based medical support especially for the purpose of and treatment on pregnancy, sexual transmitted diseases and other completed issues during the whole project period. |
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1.1.9 Staff Development Training for MDO / Exposure Visit on Value chain related issues (L/S) |
Market Development Officer develops his expertise on the value chain related areas through participation in training or visit to other organizations in 1st and 2nd quarter of 1st year (2015) and one visit in 1st quarter of 2nd year (2016). |
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1.1.10.Provide training on Organization Development & Management - ODM |
18 UPEC and UNEC Nari leaders developed skills on organization development & management to smoothly monitoring and management of NSSL through participating in a 3-days training organized in 1st quarter of 1st year. |
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1.1.11. Provide Honorarium to the Volunteers for capacity building (on the job training) |
A total of 8 volunteers (2 in 1st year, 6 in 2nd year) received monthly honorarium for providing their voluntary service to monitoring and management of IGA and Savings activities through on job training during the project period. |
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2.1. Increased efforts of staffs and effective planning, coordination and monitoring of activities |
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2.1.1 Organize orientation meeting on phase-out strategy and yearly action plan with project staff. |
A meeting is organized for orientation of staffs on phase-out strategy and yearly action plan by 1st quarter of each year to easy implementation of project activities. |
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2.1.2 Organize Monthly staff meeting in 2015 and Bi monthly meeting in 2016. |
12 Monthly staff meeting organized in 2015 with 09 project staff & volunteers 6 Bi monthly meeting organized in 2016 with 10 project staffs & volunteers to smoothly implementation the project and NSSL activities. |
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2.1.3. Arrange Bi-monthly meeting with UPEC Upazila Nari Executive Committee |
12 Bi-monthly meetings arranged during the whole project period with UPEC-Upozila Nari Executive Committee with 15 persons to discuss project related issues, reviewed the progress of activities and taken decision. |
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2.1.4 Arrange monthly UNEC meeting with Nari leaders. (Per UNEC 22 leaders)-only snacks. |
A total 144 monthly UNEC meeting (monthly 6 meeting of 06 UNEC committees) are arranged participated by UNEC/Nari Leaders during the project period to implementation, monitoring and enhance of all activities of project and NSSL as per organizational policy. |
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2.1.5 Organize meeting with Project coordination and review committee-PCRC |
Project Coordination and Review Committee meeting organized once per year and held in 2nd quarter of each year with 12 participants to discussed project related issues, increase linkage with the govt. service provider of NSSL, reviewed the progress of activities and taken decision. |
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2.1.6 Organize yearly AGM of Nari Org. |
Annual General Meeting of Nari organized in 3rd quarter of each year and participated by 150 Nari Leaders and general members to discuss the success and failure of the year and ensuring transparency, accountability, amendment of NSSL policy. |
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2.1.7 Organize sharing meeting with Self Help Groups on business plan of NSSL. |
43 sharing meetings are held with 43 Nari primary groups/ Self help groups (SHG) discuss on the issue of business plan to smoothly start and running the all business as per plan and it will be held in 2nd quarter of 1st year. |
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2.1.8 Organize sharing meeting with UNEC leaders on business plan. |
06 sharing meetings organized in 1st quarter of 1st year with 06 UNEC leaders and each meeting participated by 22 persons on business plan of NSSL to smoothly start and running the all business as per plan.
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2.1.9 Organize sharing meeting on with UPEC leader on business plan. |
A sharing meeting organized with 12 UPEC leaders in 1st quarter of 1st year on business plan of NSSL to smoothly start and running the all business as per plan. |
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3.1 Increased sensitization and effective contribution and participation of community people and project stakeholders in implementation of activities of NSSL activities |
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3.1.1 Organize sharing meeting with social protection committee on exit / way forward of NSSL |
NSSL Leaders share with Social Protection Committee members the issues related to project phase out and way forward, review the situation of union in context of social and cultural aspects and to protect outside disturbances to take actions during the project period and after the project phase out. 02 meetings organized in 1st and 3rd quarter of 1st year and 04 meetings held in 2nd and 4th quarter of 2nd year (2016) and each meeting participnats are 13. |
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3.1.2 Arrange sharing meeting with Union parishad, civil society and NSSL leader on way forward/exit plan |
06 sharing meeting organizes with people from Union parishad, civil society and NSSL leaders to discuss the issues related to project phase out and way forward, 2 meetings organized in 1st & 4th quarter and 4 meetings organized in 2nd & 3rd quarter of 2nd year (2016) and participated by 25 persons for each meeting. |
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3.1.3 Organize experience sharing and way forward meeting at Upazila level with Nari leaders, GO - Ngo administration and Civil society. |
NSSL leaders share their experience of work and the issues of phase out /exit and way forward with people from Upazila level administrative bodies and civil societies participated by 50 persons in 4th quarter of 2nd year (2016) |
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3.1.4 Organize sharing meeting with spouse forum on exit / way forward. |
NSSL leaders share their experience of work and the issues of phase out / exit and way forward 6 times per year and 12 times in 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter of each year with people from Spouse Forum participated by 25 persons. |
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3.1.5 Arrange Advocacy meetings with Upozila administration on involvement of Nari leaders with various committees at UPZ level. |
An Advocacy meeting organized at Upazila level in 2nd quarter of 1st year (2015) participated by people from Upazila Administrative bodies and NSSL leaders participated with 30 persons focusing various issues or to involvement of Nari leaders with various committees at UPZ level to better achievement and increased acceptance of NSSL. |
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3.1.6 Arrange Advocacy meetings with Union parishad and civil society to involvement of NSSL leaders with various committee at Union |
06 advocacy meetings organized at Union level participated by 25 persons selected from Union Parishad Leaders, Civil Society Representatives and NSSL leaders to involvement of Nari leaders with various committees at Union level, 02 meetings organized in 1st & 4th quarter and 4 meetings organized in 2nd and 3rd quarter of 1st year (2015). |
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3.1.7 Arrange Advocacy meetings with Upozila Health Complex for need base health services of PooCs |
An Advocacy meeting is organized at Upazila level in 2nd quarter of 1st year participated by Upazila Health Complex officials and NSSL leaders focusing on the issue of need based health support for PooCs by referral system. |
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3.1.8 Observe National / International days |
National and International days observed for 2 times in 1st and 4th quarter of each year (Women day and Protection violence against women) focusing on the issue of Protect violence against woman and enhance the mainstreaming process of PooCs. |
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3.1.9 Update and renew the Website of Nari org. by yearly. |
The website of NSSL updated on regularly on yearly basis and in 2nd quarter of each year to NARI disseminating, NARI product information and activities. |
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3.1.10 Publication of case study / article through news paper by the NARI members about program success and constraints, |
8 numbers of case studies or articles published in local or national news papers throughout the project period (Quarterly 01 and 4 per year) highlighting the issues related to their success and problems. |
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3.1.11 Print Poster, Brochure on program success of NSSL.
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1000 copies of brochures and posters published in 2nd and 3rd quarter of each year and per year published 500 posters and 500 brochures highlighting the events of success of NSSL/projects. |
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4.1 Alternative livelihood and increased income of PooCs. |
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4.1.1 Arrange quarterly meeting with input seller / service provider and NSSL leaders. |
Input seller / service providers and NSSL leaders meeting 8 times in Quarterly Meetings (per year 4 meetings) organized throughout the project period each participated by 20 persons with the objective to discuss on promotion of products of NSSL and livelihood development of PooCs. |
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4.1.2 Arrange quarterly meeting with buyer/output seller and NSSL leaders. |
Buyers/Output Sellers and NSSL leaders meeting 8 times through Quarterly Meetings (per year 4 meetings) organized throughout the project period each participated by 20 persons with the objective to discuss on promotion of products of NSSL and livelihood development of PooCs. |
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4.1.3 Provide communication cost to the PooC for contact with value chain actors.
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PooCs communicate with Value Chain Actors for the purpose of their income generation for around monthly 12 PooC received communication support and 144 per year, total 288 times during the project period. |
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4.1.4 Arrange training for the PooCs on bamboo product/Jute bag/shopping bag making/rope making |
30 PooCs developed their skills, enhance of self employment of PooC and market linkage on bamboo product /Jute bag / shopping bag making / rope making by 02 trainings, and it organized in 2nd quarter of each year with 20 PooCs participated in 1st year and 10 PooCs participated in 2nd year. |
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SHOUHARDO-II (Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities)
SHOUHARDO II Program
Strengthening Households Ability to Responds to Development Opportunity
Goal: Transform the lives of 370,000 Poor and Extreme Poor (PEP) households in 11 of the poorest and most marginalized districts in Bangladesh by reducing their vulnerability to food insecurity
SO 1: Availability of and access to nutrition foods and enhanced and protected for 370,000 PER households
SO 2: Improved health, hygiene, and nutrition status of 281,000 children under 2 years of age
SO 3: PEP women and adolescent girls empowered in their families, communities and Union Perished
SO 4: local elected bodies and government service provides responsiveness and accountability to the PEP increased
SO 5: Targeted community members and government institutions are better prepared for, mitigate and respond to disasters and adapt to climate change
Child Rights
Empowering Working Children to Sustain and Enjoy their Rights-JAGORON
Development objective
Families, communities and employers able, responsible and held accountable to prevent labour exploitation of children and ensure working children have a rights-fulfilling working experience
Immediate objectives
Improved access to basic services: By 2015, 60% of working children of the working areas have access to basic services through linkages with available Government and NGO services
- Safe work environments and improved work conditions: At least 15,000 working children work in safe workplaces, with better pay and other working conditions
- Socio-economic empowerment through access to education and vocational training: At least 40% working children registered at the Learning and Recreational Centers are socio-econimically empowered through linkages with educational and vocational institutes
- Improved family and community capacity to prevent exploitative child labour: At least 30-40% of parents of the targetcommunities sensitized and capacity built to prevent hazardous child labour, unsafe migration work and child trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation
- Community-based child protection mechanisms: By 2015, community based child protection mechansims established and/or strenghtened the working communtieis to prevent and respond to all forms of abuse and exploitation faced by working children and other children in the children
- Advocacy and policy change: Coordinate and mobilize actors to comply existing legal frameworks, laws and policies with necessary amendments, especially roll out and enactment of NCLEP-10, CP-2010 and CA-11 as well as allocate resources for NPA implementation.
Expected outputs
Immediate Objective 1: Improved access to basic services
- A Baseline survey on working children in the selected areas
- A case management system, piloting a customized Interagency Child Protection Information Management System, established and functioning at the LRCs
- 25 Learning and Recreation Centre for the working children in 4 districts are functional
- LRC children link with service providers and enjoy medical, educational and recreational facilities
- 2 Safe and secure Night shelters for children
- 25 Centre management committee members mobilizing local resources for the targeted children
- Referral and linkage services established through local centre management committees
Immediate objective 2: Safe work environments and improved work conditions
- 25 Code of Conduct adpated by the employers associations
- 25 Community declarartions signed off by the community and professionals
- 1000 employees under business associations sensitized on the need of working children
- Form a community watch committee for regular visit in the workplaces and checking against CoC
- Disseminate and roll out the newly approved hazardous labour list
Immediate objective 3: Socio-economic empowerment through access to education and vocational training
- 30-40% of gradutaed working children enrolled in the education
- 20-30% of enrolled children linking with skill development organziations following criterias
- Children enrolled in centers build confidence through linking with available educational and vocational institutes
Immediate objective 4: Improved family and community capacity to prevent exploitative child labour
- 30-40% parents of the LRC enrolled children sensitized through awareness raising. and not willing to send children for hazardous work
- 15-20% of parents link with social safety net programs to reduce their dependency on working children by cosnultaion with LGI
- 30-40% of the community members capable to deal child labor issue at the community level through joint action
Immediate objective 5: Community-based child protection mechanisms: By 2015, community based child protection mechansim practice to esnure the reduction of explotative labour
- 25 Center Management Committee formed and working in favor of working children
- 25 Child protection Committee formed under the leadership of local government represenative to protect children from the abuse, violence and exploitation
- 27 Children forum established to develop children leadership and raising voice for their protection, rights and entitlements
- Confidence and capacity built of each committee and forum members
- Community based social workers are linked to ongoing national level capacity development efforts
Immediate objective 6: Advocacy and policy change: Coordinate and mobilize actors to roll out, disseminate and proper enactment 5 local level civil society forum/ platform formed and strengthened
- Different level professionals, activists, GoB officials, NGO staff, social worker, volunteers, children included as active member
- Conducted regular meeting to ensure coordination and collaborative action in favor of working children
- Annual plan developed and subsequent follow up system practiced
- Functional committee and system of monitoring and regular follow up with subsequent action performed
Strategies
The objectives of the project will be achieved through the following strategies:
Community Engagement: Throughout the project cycle, different level of community groups involve for sustaining the project impact. Awareness raising, sensitization and capacity building are the key actions to increase capacity of the relevant.
Capacity building: Emphasize on children, parents, community memebrs, employers, civil society memebrs and local body representatives working together to increase accountability among the parties.
Child Participation: All of its action, children participation and required level abilities supported by the project. Required awareness among stakeholders also supported to ensure representation, opinion expression and participation in the process of decision making that affect their lives.
Develop and practice accountability mechanism: Develop an accountability mechanism to practice and ensure transparency among the actors. Display board, information board, suggestion box will be set up in the centers or at the places selected by the stakeholders. Also committee will be formed for periodic review and monitoring of the suggestion box, and periodic meetings will be held to take move the actions forward to establish and/or strenghten accountability mechanism.
Cross learning: The project staff will learn the expereinces of multi-grade and multi-level learning and education system and customize the learning in Bangladesh context for the working children. Develop flexible curriculum based on cross learning and existing experiences
Partnership with local social organizations and employers associations: To deliver the actions, local level organizations involve as partner, required level of support ensure and joint learning will take place.
Linkage support/ resource mobilization/ referrals: Through community engagement local level resources identification and mobilization facilitate in favor of the working children consideriignt he the issue of sustainability.
Support to advocacy initiatives and research: Project will take initiatives to local and national level advocacy, linking grassroots to national actors with evidences/ local success and adoption in the national system for the wider impact on the life of children.
Learning and Piloting: The project will create local and regional links to know best practices to work with working children and other vulnerable children. Also will document good practices/ best practices to reduce child labour and improvement of working environment.
Research: The project contextualize a Mobility Assessment Tool (MAT) to understand the rural-to-urban migration routes and services needs, including the reasons for migration, of children living and working on the streets of Dhaka. This program component, proposed for 2 years, will be carried out with the support of our existing partners who provide services to children living and working on the streets of Dhaka – lead by a consultant. The process and outcomes of this research component will enhance the planned work under our Child Labour program, particulalry related to supporting night shelters, while enabling us to design and implement informed and comprehensive child protection programs targeting children living and working on urban settings, including programs related to prevention of unsafe rural-to-urban/cross-country migration and trafficking in the future. This will be done through co-financing from EC/SCUK.
Case Management: We will customize and pilot 3. Interagency Child Protection Information Management System (IA CP IMS) within this project. Not having a case-management component in the current child labour project was a gap we have planned to bridge in this proposal. We will receive technical support to customize the IMS for use in the CL project context and receive training and ongoing guidance to use this tool/system effectively over 3 years, throgh co-financing from EC/SCUK.
Learning and recreation centre and Night Shelter facility: Unavailability and inaccessibility of educational and recreational facilities as well as safe & secure shelter for the working children, Save the Children and its partner will set up such centres with the leading support of the local community and local govt representatives. These centers will be gradually managed and operated by the local level stakeholders under the active role of the center committees.
Sustainability
Save the Children and its partner organizations will develop an exit strategy including sustainability of the program through mutual consultation with stakeholders and working children within the three years’ time. Sustainability will be achieved through involving parents, community members and civil society networks, employers and local government representatives throughout the project activities. Involvement and regular interaction will increase the capacity, understanding and sensitivity of the said stakeholders that has been targeted by this project.
Activities
- Base line survey to understand the existing socio-economic situation of the working children and their families
- Staff orientation and project orientation with internal and external stakeholders
- ToT for Center facilitators and shelter facilitators
- Cross learning to develop flexible curriculum for multi-grade and multi-level education for the targeted children
- Periodic meeting with local level stakeholders
- Formation of Center and Shelter functional Management committee
- Community awareness raising events
- Formation an operation local level Child protection Committees, Children forums and Civil society networks
- Centers set up in all the project locations
- Linking targeted children and their families with the service providers
- Community based safety net is established for emergency support of children
- Child Protection resource mapping and establish a referral system
- Workshop with different professionals on referral services
- Advocacy activities with community people, government representatives and policy makers through community level committees
- National level workshop to disseminate the learning, experiences and practices to influence policy practitioners and makers
- Contextualize MAT tools, understanding and exercise
- Piloting of case management system under IA CP IMS and documented as well as disseminate the results
Target group and participants
15000 working children (under age 18), 10000 parents of targeted children, 25000 community people living in the working area, 25 LRC and 2 Night shelters, 27 business associations employed children in the works, 27 Local Government Representatives and 100 GoB officials and national level decision makers.
