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Improved access to basic services: Safe work environments and improved work conditions.

Socio-economic empowerment through access to education and vocational training: Improved family and community capacity to prevent exploitative child labour.

Establish community-based child protection mechanisms.

Advocacy for changing and implementing policy toward prevention of child labour exploitation and fulfillment of basic rights of working children.

To ensure access to basic services like health, education etc for the disadvantaged and working children through making the duty bearers responsive.

To develop an abuse and exploitation free area for the target population through mobilizing children and other stakeholders for necessary actions.

300 working children and 700 poor and slum children have got health services from GO/NGO service providers.

Proper wages for 300 working children has been ensured and their working hours have also been reduced.

At least 75% poor and working children have been enrolled with formal education and 25% have been enrolled with non-formal and vocational education.

Corporal Punishment free educating environment has been ensured in 6 schools of 3 wards. All students of 6 targeted schools know about their rights in general.

Parents or guardians of targeted children (1000) have acted more responsively for establishing rights of their children.

3 Ward Child Council (WCC) and 1 City Child Council (CCC) have functioned as right defender for the children.

3 ward development committee (WDC), local administration, city corporation, government/non-government service providers such as district primary & secondary education office, police, civil surgeon, ward commissioner office have become responsive towards needs and the rights of the children.

Necessary information and edutainment have been given to the children for their psycho-social development through establishing child resource centre (CRC).

60% of trained children(120) on skill development are involved with income generation activities.

Positive discipline intervention to ensure the child friendly learning environments: Over 36,820 children across 122 schools in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar municipality & Daulatdia Union Council realize their right to a protective & child friendly learning environment.

Participation in education governance as a means to ensure quality education: Children, community and local government progressively contribute to and/or takeover the responsibility to ensuring quality education in the schools in program area.

Target children realized rights to participation, association, and freedom of expression, leisure, recreation, identity, access to information, education and health.

Target children empowered with enhanced skills to claim their rights from the duty bearers.

Increased support of key stakeholders for child right and local resources mobilized to support child development.

Children advocated with related policy makers and established network.

To create children Advocacy Forum from district level to national level to ensure their participation and voicing their views/opinions in policy and decision making process

Networking framework established between community, NGOs and Local Government.

Advocating on CRC through community, parents and local government is on going.

Children aware regarding their rights.

Documenting the lessons learnt.

To Ensure livelihood security of the 50 fishermen households adopting alternative income generation activities and establishing a fishermen’s cooperative credit union.

They received 4 quantities of IGA Skill Development Training on Dress Making & Cutting 2 batches, Shopping Bag (Denim –Chat-Synthetic Fiber) Making 1 batches and Livestock Training 1 batches. Two groups member also formation a Cooperative Society and under process to get registration from Cooperative Department for Legal Status.

Awareness session on Reproductive Health, Gender & HIV/Aids at school and community level.

Sanitary ring slave distribution.

Primary health care service for mother and children.

Advocacy meeting with Stakeholders like as parents, teachers, marriage register, social elite persons and ward commissioner involved with project.

Days observation.

To provide skill development training to persons with disability (male/ female) on different trades.

To provide technical and financial support to trained PWDs to be involved in their own IGA.

To promote marketing opportunities of the products of beneficiaries.

Increased participation in local economy and decision-taking space of 420 women & adolescent from Patiya upazila, Chittagong district via training and income generating activities. Economic training of women through Income Generating Activities (IGA) and increase in social awareness combined with literacy/training culminated in reinforcement of women’s leadership. Through execution of this project women and adolescents were trained in groups and together identified their problems, after which they started economic activities thus increasing their income.

Base line survey on Project area using participatory tools.

Income generating activities (IGA) for 16 Groups

Staff orientation on IGA and overall project.

Financial assistance to groups for entrepreneur for 16 groups.

Participatory decision making for Financial Assistance to members.

Network with Govt. Departments & NGO's for activate Network with Govt.

Departments and NGOs for activate the rural level market management committee.

Advocacy workshop with market management committee/ gender and development issue.

Women entrepreneur network formation.

Women producer & Consumer group formation.

Participatory community resource mapping & power structure analysis through meetings/workshop.

Cross learning exchange visits between PNGOs.

Network / forum formation among groups, Union Parishad (UP), Local Government Bodies and civil society members/activists youth and adolescent peoples.

Workshop & meetings among stakeholders for information sharing action point identification & decision making.

Day Observation(World women's day, Girls Children Day)

Awareness raising on democratic rights workshops and trainings.

Leadership development training for group leaders.

Training & Workshop on capacity building and leadership role development of elected female UP members.

Community/UP level consultation.

Rights to know the information related booklet published Upazila level Govt.service analysis and discussion with community people community people.

Income generating activities (IGA) for 16 Groups.

Financial assistance to groups for entrepreneur for 16 groups.

2 staff imparted with master trainer training.

In turn they provided Peer Educator training to 25 youths aged from 15 to 24 years.

That 15 persons having training they provided the same to 1500 male and 1500 female aged from 15 – 24.

To empower most vulnerable young people working in garment industry through work-place interventions, including the promotion and practice the skill education.

To raise awareness among the Garments Industries to prevent HIV infection among the workers and ultimately avert a generalized epidemic in Bangladesh Organization conduct life skills training program.

Under the program 2 staffs of BBF imparted with master trainer training. After having training they also provided Peer Educator training to 10 Garments workers. In turn they also provided same training to 3300 male and female. 1600 community people also watched HIV/AIDS information related cinema.

Redesign the policy and program of the GDP partners in the light of Gender Equality in order to develop gender sensitive program at the grassroots for the effective and efficient use of micro credit by the women

320 Women trained on gender issue.

40 Women trained on IGA & business development.

Gender Development Forum (GDF) activated.

Gender policy developed.

Protect the rights of children during arrest, detention and trial. It will do so by establishing child welfare desks (CWDs) in police stations and providing legal representation.

Divert children away from arrest, detention and imprisonment, where it is in the best interests of the child and promote rehabilitation by promoting community mediation through child welfare committee (CWCs) and establishing a bail supervision and support scheme and rehabilitation and reunification programme.

Lobby the government for juvenile justice reform and the replication of models of good practice developed.

Increased community awareness and effectiveness for voluntary withdrawal of working children from hazardous work.

Increased competency based education (literacy and technical skill) among the drop out and never enrolled working children.

Strengthened multi-level network of advocates to bring policy level changes and capacity for enforcement of policies that protect working children

Increased economic empowerment of parents of working children through market linkage.

Increased capacity of disadvantaged slum pregnant women/mothers with maternal care and health information for healthy pregnancy and baby.

Greater awareness of slum community to support learning of pregnant/new mothers, create supportive environment for them and effectively use health care systems for maternal care.

Better coordination of services of governmental and nongovernmental health care providers for effective access of maternal and child health care services by the slum community.

To increase institutional capacity and unity of persons with disability to aware them on their human rights, to generate their interest for self-employment and rehabilitation and to give them a unified platform for attainment of their rights.

To enhance knowledge, skill and capacity of persons with disability on profitable and disabled people friendly economic development activities.

To establish a financial support scheme to provide Persons with disability access to financial and input support to successfully start their concerned economic development activities.

Readily availability of social and legal support for the persons with disability through providing them access to information, referral, legal, linkage and device services.

Increased awareness among women regarding their human and legal rights/entitlements, and access to a consistent first contract at community level for legal services and facilities.

Increased access of victimized women in slum areas to mediation, legal advice, litigation and other legal services through Community Legal Support Units.

Increased capacity of –, influence over –, and coordination among – local government, administration, law enforcement agencies and legal-aid actors in Chittagong City for taking rapid action for violence against women reported from slum areas.

Policy makers and city-based stakeholders are better sensitized through research evidences, networking and policy advocacy for provision of availing better mediation services at each ward level with grassroots linking up support.