BGD033

BD408

Bangladesh Urban Development Initiative - The project works on developing appropriate capacity for CARE Bangladesh to support co-ordinate programs to ensure both immediate needs and underlying causes of the urban poor are addressed in a sustainable way. The CUP (Coalition for Urban poor)/BURT (Bangladesh Urban Roundtable) is supported under the project to effectively engage with national policy makers to strengthen commitment and policies of the government to serve the urban poor, taking into consideration their immediate and long term needs and rights. The project is supported by CARE-UK.

Urban Program

9/06 – 3/08

CARE UK

Dr. Zareen Khair

BGD037

BD001

Sanitation, Hygiene and Water Supply Program - This project aims to reduce mortality, morbidity and malnutrition due to water and excreta related diseases, especially among 600,000 un/under served poor women and children in urban slums in 19 Municipalities in Bangladesh. CARE Bangladesh implements the project with the partnership of Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), Municipalities, local NGOs and UNICEF. The role of CARE Bangladesh is to support Municipalities and NGOs for proper management and implementation of the program through demand driven, bottom up and people's centered approaches. The project has also has a social development component, which covers gender mainstreaming, nutrition education, oral dehydration therapy, birth registration, adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

Water and Sanitation

10/07 – 10/09

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Dr. Jahangir Hossain

BGD053

BD413

Promoting Rights of the Disadvantaged by Preventing Violence Against Women (PROTIRODH) - The overall objective is to reduce violence against women and reinforce the fulfillment of women's rights in four unions (lowest administrative structure) in rural Dinajpur, and among sex workers in Dhaka , Khulna , and Tangail cities in Bangladesh . The specific objective of the action is to improve response to incidences of VAW (Violence Against Women) in the project area and to promote a more enabling environment for the fulfillment of women's (including sex workers) dignity and right to freedom from gender-based violence. The project participants are rural communities and women of all classes in four unions of rural Dinajpur.Female sex workers and their children and interest groups in the surrounding communities from stakeholders to policy level in Dhaka , Tangail and Khulna cities also include them.

Civil Society

1/07 – 12/09

European Commission

Humaira Aziz

BGD053

BD410

Establishing Community Support System (ECSS) - The overall goal of the project is to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity through identifying and removing barriers, which lie between women and the EmOC (Emergency Obstetric Care) facilities. The key project strategies is to partnership with the Bureau of Health Education, Director General Health Services(DGHS), UNICEF, local NGOs, and Community based Organizations (CBO) and Community in order to establish community support system for maternal health and link up them with Skilled Birth Attendants (SBA) and EmOC service providers/facilities.

Health

11/07 - 10/08

Government of Bangladesh (GOB)

Dr. Jahangir Hossain

BGD053

BD423

Save Motherhood Promotion Project - The purpose of the project is to make significant improvements in the maternal and neonatal health in the project areas. The project intents to demonstrate a successful replicable model of community mobilization, within Health &Family Planning service delivery system for promoting safe motherhood in Narsingdi district, in collaboration with JICA and Department of Family Planning. The key approaches of the project include Partnership, Continuous Analysis at field and Learning for Advocacy.

Health

12/06 – 6/10

Japan International Cooperation Agenesis(JICA)

Dr. Jahangir Hossain

BGD061

BD417

Flood Reduction Activities in Sunamganj (FRRAS) - The goal of the project is to reduce flood risk and thereby protect and improve livelihood opportunities of the vulnerable and poor communities in six-selected sub-districts of Sunamgonj district. The project assists in protecting agricultural crops from flash floods by making technical and financial assistance available at the affected communities to undertake structural and non-structural measures. It also facilitates to develop and put in place community-based systems and mechanisms involving Union Parishads to ensure regular maintenance and durability of submersible embankments and tree plantation activities.

Disaster Risk Reduction

10/05 - 6/09

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Mahbubul Islam Khan

BGD068

BD420

Competitive Literacy Initiative-Education - The objective of this pilot is to provide functional literacy to the garment workers of a selected GAP factory in Bangladesh in order to raise their productivity and self-esteem and their capacity to read and write. The pilot will benefit approximately 1,200 employees, primarily women, of the selected factory.

Education

3/07- 3/08

GAP Foundation through CARE USA

Taslima Jahan

BGD072

BD405

Adolescent's Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health Initiative (ARSHI) - Supported by the European Commission (EC), aims to decrease maternal mortality and morbidity of adolescent girls and women in Sunamganj district (Northwest of Bangladesh ) in Sylhet division. CARE works to ensure safe motherhood and youth friendly services to empower women and youth with information and skills to support healthy practices, and to mobilize the community and the state to create a social and policy environment in support of the sexual and reproductive rights of women. The project works in 10 upazillas (Sub-district) of Sunamganj district with a specific target to improve sexual and reproductive health among 281,000 youth aged between 10 and 24 years, with a focus on 165,000 girls.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

7/06 - 6/09

European Commission

Humaira Aziz

BGD077

BD352

CEPZ Corporate Pilot Project (CCPP) - The CCPP Pilot Project works with the private sector to improve the lives of factory workers in the Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ). The project aims to improve lives of 15000 people in the CEPZ areas, mainly targeting workers and their families associated with YoungOne factories and other workers located at Navy Gate, Bandartila and Salt Gola in south Halishpur of Chittagong district. The project is supported by a private, USA based company-Timberland.

Economic Development and Maternal/Sexual and Reproductive Health

12/02 - 5/09

Timberland

Humaira Aziz

BGD078

BD406

Local Governance Program - Local Governance Program, a joint initiative of CARE Bangladesh and Intercooperation (IC), works with local governance institutions, especially, Union Parishads, the lowest tier of local government, and the communities to promote inclusiveness, transparency and accountability in local governance. The program is being implemented in two separate districts namely, Rajshahi and Sunamgonj. It aims to facilitate reforms so that local governance becomes more responsible and responsive to the poor and marginalized communities including women. The local governance program builds the capacities of selected Union Parishad (UPs) on participatory planning and budgeting and designing and implementing pro-poor schemes, empower communities to raise their collective voice and facilitate partnerships between different local institutions and organizations.

Governance

1/06 - 8/09

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Mahbubul Islam Khan

BGD080

BD415

HIV and AIDS Prevention Project (HAPP)– Drug Users Intervention – The goal of this program is to reduce the risk, spread and impact of HIV and AIDS among injecting drug users in Bangladesh . The project does this through a high quality, multi-sectoral, harm reduction intervention through drop –in centers, peer outreach using needle-syringe exchange program, detoxification (coupled with drug abstinence and rehabilitation), voluntary counseling and testing, sexually transmitted Infection (STI) management and treatment, abscess treatment, behavior change communication and advocacy with law enforcers and other government agencies. The programme is run in partnership with other NGOs and the national STD and AIDS program.

HIV and AIDS

8/04 – 12/07

National AIDS/STD Programme through United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Andrea Rodericks

BGD080

BD419

HIV Program Reflection and Learning Intervention - The program reflection and learning team links with staff to support effort to process data and information and convert it into knowledge learning that is share and used to influence CARE's program and over time influences polices, resource allocation and programming for HIV n Bangladesh, thus moving closer towards being a resource organization. Also the program support self-help groups vulnerable to HIV and AIDS for their institutional capacity-building and livelihood diversification activities.

HIV and AIDS

1/06 — 2/08

CARE UK

Andrea Rodericks

BGD084

BD380
BD381
BD384
BD385
BD386

Strengthening Household Abilities for Responding to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO) - The goal of the SHOUHARDO project is to sustainably reduce chronic and transitory food insecurity of 400,000 vulnerable households in 18 districts of Bangladesh by 2009. The participants will be the poorest and most vulnerable households, and within them women and girls, living in the remote and difficult areas. The project activities is being implemented in partnership with GoB, NGOs, community based organizations; research institutions; universities; the private sector; and civil society groups.

Multi Sector

10/04 – 9/09

US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Government of Bangladesh

Stav Zotalis

BGD086

BD392

Food Security for Sustainable Household Livelihoods (FoSHoL) - FoSHoL seeks to build the capacities of food insecure households in selected communities in the Barind Tract of northwest Bangladesh . Working in selected vulnerable communities, the project builds the capacities of targeted households to innovate in their agricultural activities; train selected participants to become Resource Farmers capable of facilitating agricultural innovation in their communities; build the capacities of community groups to work together to address constraints and opportunities affecting food security; and build the capacities of local actors to replicate and sustain project activities.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

4/05 – 4/09

European Commission

Mahbubul Islam Khan

BGD087

BD427

Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain in Bangladesh - The vision of success is that targeted landless and smallholding households in North and Northwestern Bangladesh have increased incomes and more sustainable livelihoods through incorporation into a strengthened milk value chain.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

10/07 - 9/11

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Asif Uddin Ahmed

BGD089

BD422

Learning from CARE Bangladesh's Social Development Unit (Nijera) - This initiative is to support CARE Bangladesh's efforts and experimentation on ‘learning' and how structural as well as process factors in Bangladesh office can contribute to larger change in development practices and impact.

Multi Sector

10/07 - 9/11

CARE UK

Stav Zotalis