Project Period: January 2020- March 2024
Reporting Period: January -December 2023
Project Location: Dhamoirhat and Badalgachi upazila of Naogaon district
Supporting Partner: Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF)
Financial Partner: Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Goal: Enhance empowerment of women and girls of Noakhali district, Bangladesh
Target Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries # 3,383 and indirect beneficiaries #14,860
Project Staff: 16 (F-9, M-7)
Major Activities
- Access to knowledge & information for beneficiaries collectiveness
- Capacity building training
- Event on transformative leadership and life skills building
- Sensitization/advocacy and awareness events on Gender Equality and Child Marriage
- Education inputs to adolescent girls
- Women economic empowerment support to women and girls
- Counselling and immediate medical assistance to violence victims
Major Achievements
Organizational Development Initiatives:
- Developed a succession plan after the training for the executive committee and staff.
- Developed a policy brief or position paper to combat child marriage in Bangladesh.
- Developed a videography of the program to inform perspective, persuade, defend a perspective, critique, and observe real life.
Women’s and Girls’ Advocacy:
- Women and girls raised their voices to claim their rights in the family, public sphere, etc.
- A member of a women’s group contacted hotline number 109 to prevent physical torture against her.
- A member of a girl’s group contacted the local thana to prevent domestic violence & sexual harassment against her.
- Two child marriages were prevented by the girl’s group members.
- A member of a women’s group approached local government offices to get her sister-in-law’s property rights, and they succeeded.
Beneficiaries’ Engagement in Income-Generating Activities:
- Two members of the women’s group facilitated skill training on spinning yarn as facilitators.
- Ten women engaged in spinning yarn activities after receiving skills training.
- Fifteen women & girls engaged in income-generating activities after receiving Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) support.
Direct & Referral Linkage Supports:
- Collected dower money amounting to Taka 160,000.00 for two women through mediation & referral linkage support.
- Thirty adolescent girls are able to continue their studies through scholarship support.
- Program office arranged VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) support for 41 persons (women-35 & girls-6) through referral support.
Initiatives for Network & Alliance:
- Presented the Deyalika on “Say No to Child Marriage” by the girls’ group members in local secondary schools & madrasha.
- Formed the child marriage prevention committee “Amrai Rukhbo” in 20 local secondary schools and madrasha.
To know more about previous activities of this project please click on this link: Previous Work
