annua report 2014-15

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Annual Report 2014-2015

Prodipan Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha

Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh Phone: 88-041-2870008

e-mail: [email protected], web: www.prodipan-bd.org

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Message from Executive Director I am delighted to share with you the Prodipan, Bangladesh Annual Report 2013 that offers an overview of the results achieved by Prodipan supported initiatives in partnership with the Government, international donors and other partners. This document seeks to highlight both sides of Prodipan’s work, from policy-level support to our grass roots impact on the ground. Within the framework of the Strategic Plan 2010-2015 our programme portfolio focuses on four main areas: humanitarian assistance and early recovery, child rights, disaster risk reduction & climate change and poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods. In addition, our gender equality initiatives cut across all project areas and aim to provide equal opportunities for women as well as men. With the fabulous support of our donors along with our beneficiaries are able to make a positive difference to the lives of rural poor people, not only for today, but for years to come. This is due mostly to the dedication and professionalism of our staff and the volunteers from communities and CBO’s. We have had great cooperation from the Government over the last year, at central, regional and local levels, in co-financing poverty reducing projects, in dialogue over policy development and in strengthening municipal processes. Such types of practical and impactful cooperation validate our presence and allow for real pro poor development around poverty reduction. Sincerely Executive Director Prodipan

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CONTENTS Table of Contents ABBREVIATION 4 NETWORK MEMBERSHIP 5 PRODIPAN’S OPERATIONS IN BANGLADESH - 2014 7

Working District 7 VISION, MISSION & FOCUS POPULATION 8

The Vision 8 The Mission 8 Focus Population 8

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE 9 A. Policy and Decision Making Bodies 9 B. Staff Strength 9 C. Human Resource Development 10 D. Training & Education 10 E. Management Information System (MIS) 10 F. Gender Integration 10

PROJECTS / PROGRAM: 12 A. Household Economic and Food Security of Extreme Poor in Khulna and Bagherhat Districts. 12 B. Smile Train Nargis Memorial Hospital Cleft Project 23 C. Strengthening Resilience and Safety in Schools and Communities in Bangladesh 26 D. Empowering Working Children to Sustain and Enjoy their Rights-Jagoron Project 34 E. Sunflower Oilseed processing and marketing in the coastal region of Bangladesh 42 F. Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) Program 45 G. Integrated Child Centered Climate Change Adaptation-Project 48 H. Clinical Waste Management Program 54 I. Eradication of Hazardous Child Labour in Bangladesh (Third Phase) Project 56 J. Water Treatment Plant 60 K. Prodipan Dormitory Project 63 L. Micro Credit Program 65

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ABBREVIATION CBO : Community Based Organization CFW : Cash for Work DFID : Department for International Development DIPECHO : Disaster and Preparedness for European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection DRR : Disaster Risk Reduction ERER : Emergency Relief and Early Recovery FGD : Focus Group Discussion HED : Health Education for Development INGO : International NGO LGI : Local Government Institutions MDG : Millennium Development Goal NGO : Non-Government Organization UNICEF : United Nation Children Emergency Fund WATSAN : Water and Sanitation

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NETWORK MEMBERSHIP PRODIPAN is a member of the following networks: Since its origin, Prodipan is implementing diversified programs on people’s organization building, gender mainstreaming, child protection and with special focus on environment which gradually shifted to climate change. Prodipan has good experience of working with financial assistance ADB & Bangladesh Government, APHD, BAM International, BAM Belgium, Bangladesh Non Formal Education/ Government of Bangladesh, Bread for the World/Germany, Bangladesh Water Development Board/GoB, CAFOD-UK, CARE Bangladesh, Danida-Royal Danish Embassy, DFID, Diakonia-Sweden, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe-Germany, Ekshow Twin Town Organization, Helen Keller International, ILO, IOM-International Organization for Migration, Manusher Jonno Foundation, MISERIOR, NOVIB/NCB, NGO Forum, OXFAM-UK, Palli Karmo Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), Radda Barnen, Save the Children-UK, Save the Children-Australia, Swiss Development Cooperation, Swedish Free Church, Swallows in Denmark, Swallows in Sweden, UNDP, UNICEF, WaterAid Bangladesh, World Bank, World Food Programme etc. Prodipan has appreciating relationship with different Networks namely, ADAB, NIRAPAD, Disaster Forum, Coalition for Urban Poor, CANSA, Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh, Society for Sustainable Agriculture, CSRL and few others at regional or local level.

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About PRODIPAN Commitment towards a more just society, urge to conserve environment and climate; learning and adaptation to the changing development scenario and passion to respond to the development needs of the most vulnerable i.e. the poor and ultra poor women and children is perfectly blended in one organization ‘Prodipan’. Back in 1983 Prodipan was initiated in a small room with three chairs and one table with the intention to support the farmers of Bil Dakatia in stopping military exercise during Aus cultivation season. Subsequently the organization took the lead role in Bil Dakatia movement against water logging. The registration from Directorate of Social Welfare was obtained in 1984 and with the introduction of NGO Bureau registration provision; the organization obtained the same in 1989. More recently the Micro Credit Authority registration came in 2008. Prodipan seriously believe in professionalism. To ensure high level of professional excellence Prodipan embraced on organizational development by using foreign funding. The first foreign funding came from Mr. Barnard Kervin, Country Coordinator of Brothers to All Men International while the first institutional foreign funding was received from Swedish Free Church Aid (present DIAKONIA, Sweden). Prodipan was initiated with a group of people with strong left politics orientation who spent a significant part of their political life with poor and hardcore poor in remote rural areas of Khulna and adjacent districts. As a result of this first hand contact with remote corners, almost all of the initial foreign donation based projects ofProdipan were in very remote areas of Khulna and Bagerhat districts. Urban interventions by Prodipan are relatively new phenomena from early nineties. Khulna origin; direct life experience of the poor and hardcore poor, analysis of natural resource dependency of the rural poor and remote area orientation strongly brought in the issue of nature conservation and people oriented natural resource management in Prodipan’s program designs. More recently, during mid-nineties the partnership of Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change (RVCC) program added the new dimension of climate change impact research and climate change adaptation to Prodipan’s development thinking and program orientation. Prodipan believe in learning from the problems of people and good examples created by other development partners in home and abroad. This is why the organization always tried to introduce new technologies and new development models by adapting them to the need, culture and believe system of the community where the initiative will be introduced. Every development intervention which Prodipan undertook in the past and will undertake in future is based on prior consultation and planning with the target beneficiaries; women and children as well as the progressive elements of the society. Prodipan also follow the principle of “unbundling of responsibility” and share project intervention with the local community.

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PRODIPAN’S OPERATIONS IN BANGLADESH - 2014 WORKING DISTRICT

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VISION, MISSION & FOCUS POPULATION THE VISION Prodipan strives for a Society in which the every member lives with dignity and has social, environmental and economic protection. THE MISSION Prodipan engages itself in the process that enables marginalized groups ensure basic rights despite resources scarcity, disaster risk and climate change. FOCUS POPULATION People who are displaced from their originally livelihood due to climate change and other calamities with specific attention to women and child.

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ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE A. POLICY AND DECISION MAKING BODIES Following bodies formulate and implement Prodipan’s policy and decisions at their respective levels: THE GENERAL BODY (GB), provides necessary policy direction to the organization. At present, out of 7 members, 3 positions of the Executive Committee and out of 24 members, 10 positions of the General Body are held by female members. The GB of Prodipan is a permanent body with changes in membership. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The EC, comprising of 7 members, is the highest decision making body of Prodipan. By provision, the secretary of EC is the Executive Director. The EC is elected for a period of 2 years from the General Body of 21 members. Yearly activities and budget of the organization are finally approved from the GB. STAFF FORUM: The highest staff level decision making body comprising of the Executive Director, Coordinator and Section Heads. COORDINATION FORUM: Staff level coordination forum to forward field related decisions for final approval of the authority. The Executive Director, Coordinator, Section Heads and Field Supervisors/ Project Coordinators are the member of the Coordination Forum. GENDER COMMITTEE: A Committee at central level comprising of senior and mid-level staff to scrutinize gender related issues at Policy level. B. STAFF STRENGTH As per the service rule and administrative procedure, committed and full-time development programs undertaken by the organization. In addition, for sectoral and technical components and projects, temporary or part time contract personnel’s are invited to work alongside the core team. The table, given below, shows the broad line of present staff numbers working with Prodipan as on 30th December 2013 in broad line.

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PRESENT STAFF STRENGTH Status Male Female Total Male Female Ratio (%) Junior Level 145 324 469 Male 30.90, Female 69.10 Mid-Level 35 7 42 Male 83.30, Female 16.70 Top Level 05 01 6 Male 83.30, Female 16.70

Total Staffs 185 332 517 Male 35.80, Female 64.20

C. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Human Resource Development is a very important department of Prodipan. It preserves personal information as well as service books of different stage staffs of Prodipan. Prodipan honestly and properly follows the HR manual policy to keep the regular administrative benefits of all staffs. Prodipan recruited 323 employee among them 214 were released and 10 were transferred during the last year 2014. Prodipan rejoices to regularize 20 staffs and promoted 1 staff during this period. The HR department of Prodipan is under construction towards digitalized. D. TRAINING & EDUCATION Prodipan always gives especial emphasis on staff development. In general, Prodipan provides staff training by its central Training and Education (TED) cell but for technical and exceptional courses external trainings are arranged in home and abroad. After receiving the training the trained staff shared their learning’s with others in the organization. E. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) Prodipan is maintaining its central management system from Head Office through the MIS section. The section is mainly responsible to preserve, analyze and document data and information from field to management level on regular frequency through a set of defined formats. The MIS data keeping and process documentation ensures the flow of information within Prodipan. Apart from the Status Report different sorts of data and information are documented and disseminated under the supervision of MIS. F. GENDER INTEGRATION Prodipan's mission is especially concerned about gender development, which is reflected in Prodipan's programs through gender integration. Prodipan has an unique Gender Policy. In June 2000, the Gender Focus Program in Prodipan officially came into an end which was aimed at giving women more access to economic resources and decision-making process in organisational activities. It was an initiative of NOVIB that included more NGOs, mixed by nature, over the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. As a partner of Novib, Prodipan piloted the Program. An alternative Action Plan on Gender was prepared in 1995, and according to that action plan a gender diagnosis was conducted before implementing the Program in field. Initially the program was designed to incorporate Gender concept in two levels within the

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organisation namely in the organizational level and project level. And as the program was to institutionalize gender both in organizational and program level, therefore, a solid structural mechanism was developed within the programme period for which, even after closing of the program officially with Novib’s partnership, the conceptual gender exercise was continuing as before. The Gender Committee was functioning as well according to the ToR. To Create a great impact and to link up the gender program with the main stream of the society female concerned significant days observed with due respect with the participants of Govt, local Govt, Community leaders, local elites, grass root and other female focused organization.

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PROJECTS / PROGRAM:

A. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY OF EXTREME POOR IN KHULNA AND BAGHERHAT DISTRICTS.

Since gaining independence in 1971, Bangladesh has increased its real per capita income by more than 130 per cent and cut poverty by more than half. It is now well positioned to achieve most of its Millennium Development Goals, but it remains a low-income country with substantial poverty, inequality and deprivation. At least 45 million people in Bangladesh, almost one third of the population, live below the poverty line, and a significant proportion of them live in extreme poverty. The poverty rate is highest in rural areas, at 36 per cent, compared with 28 per cent in urban centers. Many people have an inadequate diet and suffer from periods of food shortage. Half of all rural children are chronically malnourished and 14 per cent suffer from acute malnutrition1. The Economic Empowerment of the Poorest Programme (EEP) is a joint initiative of the Government of Bangladesh and UK Aid (EEP Challenge Fund) from the Department of International Development (DFID). The programme has adopted the title SHIREE - Stimulating Household Improvements Resulting in Economic Empowerment. The aim of SHIREE is to support the Government of Bangladesh achieve the Millennium Development Goal targets MDG 1 and 2 of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The project, having commenced in 2009, was implemented in its first phase - upto 2012 - by six partners, of which Save the Children International, Bangladesh (SCiBD) was one of them. Save the Children International, Bangladesh (SCiBD) selected two implementing partners for two districts, Prodipan was one of them for Khulna district, covering 7,000 extreme poor households. Prodipan was subsequently awarded and extension for the second phase of the project till 2015, covering an additional 12,500 households. The SCiBD intervention has been based on the “Household Economic Security (HES) Model.” of Save the Children, UK which takes a family-centric approach, considering the family as an economic unit identifying multiple family level initiatives (livelihoods, nutrition, health, education, basic services and preparedness to household shocks and undertows) to graduate and maintain a family out of poverty. The graduation path, conceptualised at the start of the project, envisaged 6 key milestones to move a family out of poverty - as depicted in Figure 1

1 Accessed at http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/1302/Chronic_Poverty_in_the_Southwest_of_Bangladesh_Article_11Dec12.pdf

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GOAL: GoB MDG targets1 and 2 on income poverty reduction and hunger, are achieved by 2015 OBJECTIVES: 19500 extreme poor households in the coastal areas have graduated out of extreme poverty within three years

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BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): Budget on Livelihood part under the project was BDT 6,22,36,203 and budget on Nutrition part under the project was BDT 45,16,559. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01)

Upazila (#05) Union (#35) Village

(#504)

Khulna

Dacope Bajua, Banishanta, Dacope, Kailasganj, Kamarkhola, Laudubi, Pankhali, Sutarkhali, Tildanga

89

Dighalia Barakpur, Dighalia, Gazirhat, Senhati. 37

Koyra Amadi, Bagali, Koyra, Maharajpur, Maheshwaripur, Uttar Bedkashi, 118

Paikgacha Chandkhali, Deluti, Gadaipur, Garuikhali, Haridhali, Kapilmuni, Laskar, Lata, Raruli, Sholadana.

183

Terokhada Ajugara, Barasat, Madhupur, Sachiadah, Sagladah, Terokhada. 77

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location Address

Head Office Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh

Project Office: Khulna Road # 10, House# 148, Sonadanga R/A, Khulna.

Unite Office :

Dacope Prodipan Dacope Unit Office, Acabhua College Road, Chalna, Dacope.

Koyra Prodipan Koyra Unit Office, House of Saiful Doctor’s Fultola Bazaar, (Left side of road 1 floor building), Koyra, Khulna.

Paikgacha Prodipan Paikgacha Unit Office, Beside PolliBidduit Office, BatihkaliKoborkhana Road, Paikgacha Pourashava, Paikgacha.

Terokhada Prodipan Terokhada Unit Office, Upazilla Road, Terokhada. PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Phase Project Starting Time

(month/year) Project Ending Time (month/year)

Total duration

Phase-I, II 01 April, 2009 December, 2015 6 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: Save the Children International, Bangladesh (SCiBD): Life is difficult for families in Bangladesh. The country is riddled with malnutrition, illiteracy and infectious diseases due in great part to abject poverty among about half of the country's 150 million people. What's more, natural disasters often strike, devastating the country's limited resources. Save the Children has worked in Bangladesh since 1970. Since then, we've improved millions of children's lives by focusing on better nutrition, health and education.2 2http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6150521/k.1450/Bangladesh.htm

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TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Women play a crucial role in the economic welfare of the family. Women perform different tasks depending on their socio-economic structure, number of members in the family, the nature of professions they are involved in and many other factors3. HEFS-PPN project follows the household approach. And female person as well as the main income earner is the entry point of the household. BENEFICIARY/POPULATION SELECTION CRITERIA: EXTREME POOR SELECTION CORE CRITERIA (LIVELIHOOD COMPONENT):

1. Less than 3 meals a day for at least 4 months in a year; 2. Non recipient of long term (1 year) livelihood recovery support or non-recipient of

asset transfer program except relief; 3. Owner productive assets worth Tk. 5000 e.g. goat, pig, poultry, rickshaw, van,

bicycle, sewing machine, boat, fishing net, small shop, etc.; 4. Not owner of more than 10 decimals of cultivable land; 5. Not owner of more than 05 decimals of homestead land; 6. Are not member of micro finance institutions.

SELECTION CRITERIA FOR NUTRITION COMPONENT:

1. Pregnant women 2. breastfeeding mother ( 0-6 month Chid's Mother)/ 0-6 month Children 3. 7-24 month Children 4. 25-60 month Children 5. Adolescent girls (10-16 years) 6. Others family member (NBHH member) 7.

DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFICIARY/POPULATION: Upazila Phase-I Phase-II Additional Total

Dacope 2900 2771 684 6355

Koyra 2129 2525 664 5318

Paikgacha 1971 3024 756 5751

Terokhada 972 285 1256

Dighalia 708 111 819

Total 7000 10000 2500 19500

3Reddy, G.N. 1987. Women and Child Development. Allahabad: Chugh Publishing House.

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STAFF CAPACITY: Position Male Female Total Project Manager 1 0 1 Project Officer 2 0 2 Nutrition Master Trainer cum Officer 2 1 3 Upazila In-charge 3 1 4 Field Facilitator 18 14 32 Community Mentor 8 60 68 Community Pusti Karmi 0 130 130 Accounts and Logistic Assistant 0 1 1 Support Staff /Security Mam 6 0 6 Total 40 207 247 MAJOR ACTIVITIES: ACTIVITIES OF HEFS PROJECT (LIVELIHOOD COMPONENT):

1. FGD 2. PRA 3. Beneficiary selection 4. Household profile collection; 5. Prepare micro-plan (MP); 6. Prepare scheduling; 7. Arrange IGA based/small business training; 8. Deliver Asset/Income Generating Activities/ Inputs; 9. Motivate and help to make social linkage for disable or over aged people; 10. Conduct mobile based and traditional monitoring regularly; 11. Help them to include safety net linkage and receive support from GO, NGOs; 12. Demonstrate homestead gardening; 13. Help them to access on Khas land / Water body; 14. Support them to receive health referral; 15. Motivate them to introduce savings/ VSL/ court yard based saving; 16. Formation of community support groups (CSG) and conduct regular meeting with

them; 17. Conduct court yard session: WATSAN, health & hygiene, early marriage & dowry,

DRR, etc.; 18. Arrange TVET training for the adolescents; 19. Advocacy program and exit program: CSG, Union Parishad, Upazila, District,

GO/NGO, LTC, business association, DRR, etc.; 20. Conduct Midterm review; 21. Conduct Graduation Monitoring System (GMS).

ACTIVITIES OF HEFS PROJECT (NUTRITION COMPONENT):

1. Beneficiary selection, 2. Conduct training for Community Pusti Karmi (CPK) on IYCF, basic, gender, CSP

and regular CPK follow-up; 3. Conduct sessions for Adolescent girl, Pregnant mother, other member of the nutrition

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family, 4. Build-up linkage with local level GO and NGOs health organization, community

clinic, FWC, etc.

ACHIEVEMENTS BY THIS TIME:

1. 19500 BHHs (100%) Profile have been collected (CMS 1). 2. 19500 BHHs (100%) have been subjected to Livelihood Micro plan. 3. 19500 BHHs (100%) Input Schedule have been completed. 4. 50 different types of IGA have been provided from Prodipan. 5. 19500 BHHs (100%) received Income Generating Activities (IGA) as 1st input

delivery. 6. 7500 BHH received Income Generating Activities (IGA) as 2nd input delivery. 7. 272 BHH have been introduced with social linkage. 8. 228 adolescents received TVET training on Mobile Servicing (46), Bag Sewing (8),

Tailoring (166) and Beauty Parlor (8) and after training all participants received materials;

9. 100% BHHs are being followed-up by mobile based monitoring system (CMS 2) regularly.

10. Near about 50% of BHH demonstrate different type of savings, like institutional/ VSL/ non-institutional/ pusti bank, etc.

11. 100% BHHs receive different kind of safety-net supports from GOs and NGOs 12. 13 BHHs have got asset as 3rd option due to previous loss by natural disaster. 13. Prodipan management team hand over the list of 19500 BHHs to different UP

chairmen and members so that they can get priority to receive various support from GO and NGOs;

14. 58 BHHs got health referral support from HEFS-PPN project. 15. 289 Community Support Groups (CSG) with 3071 active members had been formed

by the project to take care our BHHs locally. 16. HEFS-PPN project have 438 court yard session to disseminate the project information

to the BHHs. 17. Around 10000 BHH are getting nutrition support from the project; 18. Near about five thousand (4888) adolescent girls receive awareness massage on health

and hygiene, sanitation, early marriage, etc. from the project. 19. The nutrition BHHs are getting different type of drug support from the project like

IFA, Deworming Tab. and suspension and Micro Nutrients Power (MNP). CHALLENGES:

1. Communication and means of transport is costly. 2. Procurement in the rural market. 3. Dealings with Sonali Bank in Koyra, Dacope, Paikgasha & Terokhada. 4. Migration of project beneficiaries.

FUTURE PLAN: Bring all the targeted population out of extreme poverty and under the coverage of safety net support.

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PHOTO GALLERY:

Asset delivery as Income Generating Activities (IGA) to the BHHs

Some of the BHHs with their business asset.

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Adolescent girls with Pusti Bank as the part of savings of their family.

Workshop with Selected Women Entrepreneurs at Dacope, Khulna.

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Exit meeting with Upazila level Business Association at Terokhada, Khulna.

Advocacy Meeting at Koyra chaired by UNO, Koyra.

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Demonstration of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Health referral Cheque handover to the BHH by the Upazila In-charge (UI)

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Counseling on Nutrition by the Community Pusti Kormi (CPK)

BHH introduce Homestead gardening

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B. SMILE TRAIN NARGIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CLEFT PROJECT Smile Train is a not-for-profit corporation, as defined by Subparagraph (a)(5) of section 102 of the New York Not-for- Profit Corporation Law, duly organized validly existing and in good standing under the laws of New York and has the requisite corporate authority to carry on its business as now being conducted. It’s a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to provide assistance to poor children born with cleft lip and palate around the world including Bangladesh. GOAL: Provide funding for primary surgical interventions to indigent children born in Bangladesh with a cleft lip and/or palate. I.e. provide free reconstructive surgery to poor children. OBJECTIVES: The Smile Train will provide funding limited to a maximum amount of US 125,000 during the Funding Period to support the existing cleft lip and palate program with the intent of significantly augmenting the cleft care already being provided by Nargis Memorial Hospital Khulna, Bangladesh so that about 500 poor children/patients with cleft lip and palate can receive free of cost primary surgical care. BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was USD 125,000. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA:

1. Khulna District; 2. Bagerhat District; 3. Satkhiran District; 4. Pirozpur District; 5. Barisal District; 6. Patuakhali District 7. Jessore District.

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location AddressProject Office: Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Project Starting Time (month/year) Project Ending Time (month/year) May, 2013 On going DONORS/PARTNERS: New York based not-for-profit Corporation represented by its South Asia office located at S-240 Panchsheel Park.

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TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Through this project the poor people living in rural remote areas, especially in South part of Bengal are getting opportunity for free cleft lip and palate repair surgery. As a result physically disabled people will be able to get rid of the curse of physical disability and they would be able to live in society like others. BENEFICIARY/POPULATION SELECTION CRITERIA: The poor children (6 month-15 years) who are disabled with cleft lip or cleft palate by born. DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFICIARY/POPULATION: Initially the target is 500 (both male and female) patients. STAFF CAPACITY: POSITION MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECT OFFICER 1 0 1 MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Meeting and Sharing with Upazilla Health Department and Family Planning Department,

2. Communicate with NGOs staffs and various communities. 3. Search the patients and bring them under treatment so that they can get rid from the

disability.


1. 7 shearing meeting have been completed in different places. 2. 68 patients took the medical support from the project.

CHALLENGES:

1. Bitter cold, 2. Have long distance, 3. Should have extreme confidence on CSS and the treatment & extra facilities of Santa

Maria Hospital. FUTURE PLAN: Patients would be able to get ride from their physical disabilities.

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PHOTO GALLERY:

Small child before the operation

Small child after the operation

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C. STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE AND SAFETY IN SCHOOLS AND

COMMUNITIES IN BANGLADESH This project also known as “DIPECHO VII” GOAL: Strengthen DRR capacity of and linkages between government systems, schools and communities in the most vulnerable areas of Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: To increase the disaster resilience of local communities, schools and relevant stakeholders through the development and implementation of community and school based DRR approaches. BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 78,46,500. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: After survey Prodipan DIPECHO VII team has discussed with UDMC members and finally selects the seven schools. Of the even schools there were five primary schools, one madrasha and a secondary school. These seven schools have valid by UP chairman and Upazila Primary education officer and secondary education officer. District (#01)

Upazila (#01) Union (#2) School (#7)

Khulna Koyra

1. Koyra

1. Gobra Ghatakhali Gov Primary School, 2. 4 No Koyra gov Primary school, 3. Koyra Uttar Chak Amenia Bahumukhi Fazil

Madrasha

2. Maharajpur

4. Moharajpur gov Primary school, 5. Loka gov Primary School, 6. Srerampur Kalna Auntabunia gov Primary School. 7. Gazi Abdul Jabbar High School


Project Office: Koyra

DIPECHO VII,Prodipan Koyra Unit Office, House of Saiful Doctor’s Fultola Bazaar, (Left side of road 1 floor building), Koyra, Khulna.

PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Phase Project Starting Time

(month/year) Project Ending Time (month/year)

Total duration

Phase-VII April, 2013 December, 2014 1 Years & 8 Month

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DONORS/PARTNERS: European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: This project mainly enlightens strength and resilience of schools and communities in Bangladesh. Schools in the disaster prone areas are highly vulnerable due to a lack of awareness and preparedness to protect children and children's education. MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Monthly School Management Committee (SMC) meeting; 2. Monthly Meeting with Ward Disaster Management Committee (WDMC); 3. Monthly Union Disaster Management Committee (UDMC) meeting; 4. Monthly Upazila Disaster Management Committee (UzDMC) meeting; 5. Story telling competition; 6. SMC roles and responsibility orientation; 7. Task force training on Early Warning, Search and Rescue and First Aid; 8. CRA conduction; 9. CRA Sharing and Validation Workshop; 10. IDDR Day observation; 11. Mock Drill; 12. School Level Improvement Plan (SLIP) Training; 13. School Disaster Management Plan (SDMP) training; 14. School drills; 15. Small scale mitigation work.


1. In total 91 meeting was held with the participation of total 888 SMC, PTA, monitoring committee representatives (Male- 600, Female-288).

2. In total 109 meeting was held with the participation of total 2255 WDMC members (Male- 1664, Female-591).

3. In total 16 meeting was held with the participation of total 349 UDMC members (Male- 299, Female-50).

4. In 04 meetings was held with the participation of total 123 UDMC members (Male-108, Female-15).

5. In total 07 stories telling competition was held with the participation of 70 students (Boys-35, Girls-35).

6. In 07 SMC orientation was held with the participation of 66 SMC members (Male-47, Female-19).

7. Prodipan DIPECHO VII project arranged two (02) task force training on Early Warning, Search and Rescue and First Aid in two Unions with 46 participants. (Male-34, Female-12).

8. In the CRA conduction was held in Koyra and Moharajpur Union with the participation of 110 (Male-80, Female-30).

9. In the District level CRA sharing and validation workshop was held on 14 July’14 at DC Office Conference Room, Khulna. There was 63 participants (Male- 58, Female-05).

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10. . In the Upazila level CRA validation was held on 21 May’14 at BRDB Hall Room, Koyra with the participation of 26 participants (Male- 22, Female-04).

11. On the other CRA sharing and validation workshop of Moharajpur union was held on 05 May’14 at Moharajpur UP Hall Room with the participation of 31 participants (Male- 25, Female-06).

12. In the Day observation was held on 13 October’14 with the participation of 58 participants (Male- 24, Female-34) in the different events competition.

13. Two Cyclone preparedness Mock Drill was arranged in two Unions, with total 120 CPP Volunteers 46 (Male-28, Female-18) and School students 74 (Boys- 41, Girls-33).

14. There were two batches SLIP training held in two Unions with total participants of 50 (Male- 33, Female-17).

15. DIPECHO- VII Project, Prodipan arranged drills in 7 different schools on fire and earthquake with total 1725 participants (1631 students, 49 teachers, 45 SMC & PTA members)

PHOTO GALLERY:

Honorable DC Khulna in Dist. Inception Workshop

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UNO, Koyra in Upazila Inception workshop

Female Group work in CRA

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CRA Validation in District level

Story telling competition at 4 No Koyra govt. school

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Harmonized training for DDMC members

Task force training on Early Warning, Search & rescue and First Aid

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Mock drill at community level

Small Scale Mitigation activity visited UNO

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Earth Quack Drill at School level

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D. EMPOWERING WORKING CHILDREN TO SUSTAIN AND ENJOY THEIR RIGHTS-JAGORON PROJECT

Prodipan is implementing the project in unban context at Lalbagh under Dhaka City Corporation. The economy of Lalbagh is different from other area in Dhaka City. The difference between rich and poor is very high in the area thus forces poverty. Lalbagh Thana (Dhaka district) with an area of 5.74 sq km Population 3,65,323; male 59.09%, female 40.91%; Muslim 97.73%, Hindu 2.01% and others 0.26%; population density per sq km is 60,645. Lalbagh is characterized mostly by Medium, small, and local factory. Textile factory, Plastic factory, printing factory and packaging factory, Chemical factory, Cosmetics factory everywhere children aged from 5-18 years old are the main labor source. In most cases children are asked to do a particular job by adult male guardians, often by command, sometimes by request and encouragement. The children who are involved in hazardous working environment face different problems in term of working hours, wage, abuse and exploitations, seasonal migration, some owner of the factory makes pressure on them to involve in hazardous working environment. Sometimes children are not got actual wages according to work condition. According to labor law the working hour is 8 hours per day but in Lalbagh area Children work for up to 10 hours per day. In this area labor law is not implemented properly. The owners of the factory are only looking for child labor due to cheap labor cost. For this particular reason, children are no getting their deserving salary. Sometime children are abused by manager or supervisor in different ways. Poverty is one of the major challenges in the lives of our working children, particularly in at Lalbagh area in Dhaka City. They are not only victims of poverty, in additional every day they fall victim of abuse - physically and verbally at home, at school and work places. Most of the children working in Lalbagh area, they are involved in hazardous working environment. They need to face different problems in term of working hours, wage, abuse and exploitations. Some owner of the factory makes pressure on them to involve in hazardous working environment. GOAL: 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 OBJECTIVES:

1. 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;

2. Safe work environments and improved work conditions: At least 15,000 working children work in safe workplaces, with better pay and other working conditions;

3. Socio-economic empowerment through access to education and vocational training: At least 40% working children registered at the Learning and Recreational Centers are socio-economically empowered through linkages with educational and vocational institutes;

4. Improved family and community capacity to prevent exploitative child labour: At least 30-40% of parents of the target communities sensitized and capacity built to prevent hazardous child labour, unsafe migration work and child trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation;

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5. Community-based child protection mechanisms: By 2015, community based child protection mechanisms established and/or strengthened the working communities to prevent and respond to all forms of abuse and exploitation faced by working children and other children in the children;

6. 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.

7. BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 48,27,781. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01) Upazila/ Thana/Municipality (#02)

Dhaka 1. Lalbagh and 2. Chalk bazar

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location AddressLiaison Office Dhaka 6/1-A, Block-F , Lalmatia, Dhaka-1207 PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Project Starting Time (month/year)

Project Ending Time (month/year)

Total duration

01 February, 2013 November, 2015 2 Years & 9 Month DONORS/PARTNERS: Save the Children (SCI) TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Poverty is one of the major challenges in the lives of our working children, Parents and the Community People. The poor children who are working. DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFICIARY/POPULATION: Children Parents Community People 4000 2700 7000 STAFF CAPACITY: Position Male Female Total Regular staff 7 7 14 Partial staff 1 1 2 Total 8 8 16

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MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Health service facilities for the working Children; 2. Health service facilities for the family member of the working children, 3. Provide Skill Development training, like 4. Day Observation/ Participation; 5. Vocational Training; 6. Bank account opening for the working children (Savings) & Emergency relief.


1. During this time near about 3636 working children received health service facilities, 2. 1092 family members of the working children got the health service facilities form the

project, 3. 214 children were trained on different skill development training, like training on

dance, training health and sanitation, training on youth fire service, training on Judo, training on personal hygiene, training on theater.

CHALLENGES:

1. DC/UNO clearance certificate, 2. Shutdown of LRCs, 3. Children Savings Accounts Opening, 4. Birth Registration, 5. Political unrest.

PHOTO GALLERY:

Agreement Signing ceremony with City Bank Ltd for giving opportunities of opening savings account for working children

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Agreement Signing ceremony with One Bank Ltd for giving opportunities of opening savings account for working children

Inaugural program for savings opportunity at Bank for working children

Working Children opening Savings account at City Bank

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Working Children depositing money at One Bank Ltd.

Network Forum meeting

Meeting with Service Provider

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Group Discussion session on Refresher, Review & Reflection workshop

Training on Accountability with Prodipan Staffs and Volunteer

Rally on World Day against Child Labour

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Children are performing Drama on early marriage and savings on National Child Rights Week 2014 at Bangladesh Shishu Academy

Save the Children representative participated on Fruits Festival

Children are visiting Information corner of Jagoron Project during National Child Rights week 2014.

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Signed Community Declaration was installed at Chalk Bazar Thana

Korean celebrity is enjoying with working children at Lalbagh

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E. SUNFLOWER OILSEED PROCESSING AND MARKETING IN THE COASTAL REGION OF BANGLADESH

GOAL: Improve the standard of living for farmers OBJECTIVES:

1. Increase the net income of Sunflower seed producer; 2. Introduction of Value Chain & Business of Sunflower Seed to create a secondary

livelihood option for Sundarban dependent people BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 16,50,000. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01) Upazila (#01) Union (#2) Village (#3)

Bagerhat Sharonkhola 1. Dhansagor, 2. Rainda

PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Project Starting Time (month/year)


Total duration

25 February, 2014 24 February, 2014 1 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: Mangroves for the Future (IUCN) TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: 200 Households MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Beneficiaries selection; 2. Data base Information; 3. Introduction of Savings; 4. Bank account; 5. Registration of Cooperatives; 6. Land selection; 7. Tendering & machine Procurement process; 8. Electricity line for mill.

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1. Cooperative formation; 2. Sunflower oil production mill establishment in process 49,375/=savings collected; 3. Two bank account opened; 4. Two cooperative registration completed; 5. At Amragachia building construction is on going 6. Rayandia land selection completed; 7. Tender notice is circulated on 27/08/2014 at The daily Purbanchal; 8. Application submitted for electricity line; 9. Two Sunflower oil production mill purpose Demand Note taka payment complete for

electricity line.

PHOTO GALLERY:

Training on Sunflower Production conducted by Upazila Agriculture officer.

Sunflower production at field

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Sunflower seed processing by the Beneficiary farmer

Installation of Sunflower Oil Processing Machine

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F. VULNERABLE GROUP DEVELOPMENT (VGD) PROGRAM GOAL: Enhance socio-economic status to the miserable women of village OBJECTIVES:

1. To build the income-earning capacities of VGD women and to socially empower them through training on awareness raising, provision of training on variety of Income Generating Activities (IGA);

2. Provision of credit and other support services during and beyond the food completion of the contract period;

3. NGO shall continue the follow up services to the VGD women for three years after the completion of VGD cycle.

BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 11,70,000. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01) Upazila (#01) Union (#4)

Bagerhat Sharonkhola

1. Khontakata, 2. Dhansagar, 3. Royenda, 4. Dakshin Khali

PROJECT GRANT PERIOD:

Project Starting Time (month/year)


Total duration

May, 2013 May, 2014 1 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: Ministry of Women & Child Affairs (MWCA) TARGET STAKEHOLDERS:

1. Extreme Poor Household; 2. Miserable women of village. 3. 2505 Households.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Prodipan delivers the services to 2505 VGD women in Sharankhola Upazilas of Bagerhat District;

2. The development support services consist of providing the training on awareness and Income Generating Activity (IGA) issues, savings collection & management and may have access to credit;

3. The target for development support services are as follows :

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• Awareness training to VGD women. Top provide training to 100% of VGD women.

• IGA training: at least 90% of the total VGD women. • Savings management: 100% of the total VGD women. • Access to credit: Those who are interested to take micro credit form the NGO.


1. 100% VGD women got the training on life skills, IGA skills, Entrepreneurship Development Program;

2. 100% BHH have covered by the institutional savings (Bank and BDT 1163985) PHOTO GALLERY:

Training on VGD program

Training program on VGD conducted by Upazila Women Affairs Officer

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Training program on vegetable production conducted by Upazila Agriculture officer.

Training program conducted by Women Affairs Brue

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G. INTEGRATED CHILD CENTERED CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION-PROJECT Integrated Child Centered Climate Change Adaptation (ICCCCA) Project in Bangladesh (Phase II) is one of the most vital projects implemented by Prodipan, funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) of Australian Government and supported by Save the Children. In order to strengthen community resilience through increasing children, youth and their caregivers’ knowledge on climate change adaptation (CCA) and developing an ‘adaptive culture’ Prodipan started to work in Khulna City Corporation (KCC) from August, 2014. Prodipan is implementing this project in total six ward of KCC (ward no. 9 &13 to 17). GOAL: To strengthen community resilience by increasing children, youth and their caregivers’ knowledge on climate change adaptation (CCA) and developing an ‘adaptive culture’. OBJECTIVES:

1. Children, youth and caregivers are empowered through CCA planning processes and the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptations (CCA) actions at the community level.

2. Local (Union Parishad) and sub-national (Ward) government mandated disaster management committees are engaged in child-centered adaptation planning processes and validate the resulting community plans.

3. Key line ministries at sub-national level (Upazila, ward and district), including those responsible for agriculture, fisheries, livestock and health, provide support to the development and implementation of the child-centered adaptation plans.

4. Key Save the Children and partner NGOs staff have the capacity to integrate climate risk and adaptation actions into existing projects and utilize integration indicators to measure progress.

BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 33,10,260. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: Khulna City Corporation (6 wards), ward no. 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17

• No. of Ward- 6 • No. of Child & Youth Club- 6 • No. of School- 10

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location AddressProject Office: Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh

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PROJECT GRANT PERIOD:

Project Starting Time (month/year)


Total duration

August 2014 July, 2017 3 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: Save the Children and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australian Government TARGET STAKEHOLDERS:

• School Children/ Children and youth: 1,500 • Care Giver: 1,200 • Climate resilient Children club: 6 • School: 10 • Ward Councilor Office/WDMC: 6 • Government Official: 6

STAFF CAPACITY:

Designation Number Project Coordinator (PC) 1 Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (M&E) 1 Accountant 1 Program Organizer 3 Support Staff 1 Total 7 MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Sessions on CCA & DRR at club with club children 2. CVCA Training for club children on DRR integration and adaptation plan preparation 3. Community Level CVCA by children in communities 4. Community workshop (children, community) to validate CVCA findings 5. Courtyard sessions for awareness raising on CCA 6. Consultative workshops on climate-resilient livelihood options with children and care

giver (agriculture, fisheries, health, women & child department, food, etc.) 7. Demonstrating and applying climate resilient livelihood options by care giver 8. Adopted climate friendly energy access by children and caregiver 9. Conduction of school awareness raising training 10. Workshops on waste management and natural resource management with school

children and care giver 11. TFD/street drama on CCA 12. Special day observation 13. Annual school contest on CCA 14. Participation in fair, exhibition to disseminate CCA message 15. Training/workshop on CCA/DRR for WDMC 16. Child-centered community meetings with 6 WDMCs to prepare adaptation plan in 6

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WDMCs 17. Local level mitigation adaptation activities/schemes through Ward councilor 18. District level workshop with key line ministries on impact of climate change

adaptation and recommendations for CVCA planning 19. Orientation session will be conducted through government officials to target groups

on climate adaptation tools and techniques on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, environment etc.

20. Sessions/workshops on CCA and integration of CC for other project staffs of partner


1. Staff Orientation completed; 2. Kick Off Workshop completed; 3. Total 6 ward have been selected as project area; 4. Total 6 Child & Youth Club Formation have been formatted; 5. 10 Schools have been selected for the project; 6. 6 workshop on Participant selection have been completed; 7. Selection procedure of 2700 participants/ beneficiaries have been completed; 8. During this period donors visited the ICCCCA field area; 9. 3 monthly planning meeting had been completed.

CHALLENGES:

• The political situation is not in favor of conducting the projects activities. • Due to political instability the attendance level of students at school is very much low,

which highly hampering to conduct project activity in the school. • The political power of some community people may hamper the selection process and

project activity. • Some participants also recommended selecting beneficiary far away from child club. • We have very short time to complete all projects activates.

FUTURE PLAN:

• Sessions on CCA & DRR at club with club children • CVCA Training for club children on DRR integration and adaptation plan preparation • Community Level CVCA by children in communities • Community workshop to validate CVCA findings • Courtyard sessions for awareness raising on CCA • Consultative workshops on climate-resilient livelihood • Demonstrating and applying climate resilient livelihood options • Adopted climate friendly energy access • Conduction of school awareness raising training • Workshops on waste management and natural resource management • TFD/street drama on CCA • Special day observation • Annual school contests on CCA • Participation in fair, exhibition to disseminate CCA message • Training/workshop on CCA/DRR for WDMC • Child-centered community meetings with WDMCs to prepare adaptation plan

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• Child-centered community meetings with WDMCs to prepare adaptation plan • Local level mitigation adaptation activities/schemes through Ward Councilor • District level workshop with key line ministries on impact of climate change

adaptation and recommendations for CVCA planning on children’s health, agriculture, livestock, fisheries

• Orientation session through government officials on climate adaptation tools and techniques

• Sessions/workshops on CCA and integration of CC for other project staffs of partner • Quarterly/monthly planning meeting

PHOTO GALLERY:

Donor Visit at Child Club

Donor Visit at Head Office

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Fill up of participants’ profile

Project Inception Workshop at Word Level

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Session with children

Staff Orientation

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H. CLINICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM In April 2000 Prodipan also started clinical waste management at Khulna City Corporation. Set Up the disposal plant at Rajbandh, Khulna area. Prodipan also expand this survice to Barisal City Corporation. GOAL: Creating Awareness and Developing User Friendly System. OBJECTIVES: Collect Clinical Waste, Clinic staff training & orientation,Meeting,Ensuring Waste Separation & Dispose. BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 92,000. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01) Upazila / City Corporation Union / Ward Khulna Khulna City Corporation 1 ward -31 ward PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location Address Project Office: Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh

PROJECT GRANT PERIOD: Project Starting Time (month/year) Project Ending Time (month/year) April, 2000 On going DONORS/PARTNERS: World Bank, Prodipan, Khulna City Corporation & Honors of Clinic, Hospital, Pathology and Diagnostic center. TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Clinic, Hospital, Pathology, Diagnostic Center etc. STAFF CAPACITY: POSITION MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECT OFFICER 5 0 5

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MAJOR ACTIVITIES: Collect Clinical Waste, Clinic staff training & orientation, Meeting, Ensuring Waste Separation & Dispose. CHALLENGES: Bitter cold FUTURE PLAN: To cover total Clinic, Hospital, Pathology, Diagnostic Center.

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I. ERADICATION OF HAZARDOUS CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH (THIRD PHASE) PROJECT

Creating social awareness against child-labour and distributing necessary utensils among the children in order to engage 50% of them in various relevant trades after successful completion of 18-month informal education and skill-development training. GOAL: Reducing hazardous child-labour through skill-development training and informal education in 2015. OBJECTIVES: Creating social awareness against child-labour and distributing necessary utensils among the children in order to engage 50% of them in various relevant trades after successful completion of 18-month informal education and skill-development training. BUDGET (IN THE YEAR 2014): The budget of the project was BDT 43,38,000. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#01) Upazila / City Corporation Union / Ward Slum Khulna Khulna City Corporation Total 5 wards 16 slums

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location Address Project Office: Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh



Total duration

July, 2012 June, 2014 2 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: Ministry of labour and Employment. TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Hazardous Children aged 10 to 15 Years: working in biscuit factory, match factory, automobile station, chemical industries, construction labour, battery re-charging station, brick / stone breaking, engineering workshop including lathe-machine, salt refining, still furniture printing/ car printer/metal furniture printing etc.

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Male Children Female Children Total 258 192 450

STAFF CAPACITY: POSITION MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECT OFFICER 6 15 21 MAJOR ACTIVITIES: Informal Education Center Operation, Guardians Meeting, CMC Meeting, Discussion on child labor in learners and Guardians, Skill-Development Training in different Trades. CHALLENGES: Working in biscuit factory, match factory, automobile station, chemical industries, construction labour, battery re-charging station, brick / stone breaking, engineering workshop including lathe-machine, salt refining, still furniture printing/ car printer/metal furniture printing etc. PHOTO GALLERY:

Honorable Mayor Handover the stipend to the children.

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Prodipan booth, National Child Day

Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment visited the center

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Executive Director attended at Stipend ceremony

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J. WATER TREATMENT PLANT Bangladesh is an extremely disaster-prone nation. Shocks in the form of floods and cyclones affect 30-50% of the country annually which renders a lot of anti-poverty steps taken pointless. The brunt of the damage is borne by the coastal regions to the south of the country which have been repeatedly hit by cyclones SIDR (2007), Aila (2009) and Mohasen (2013). Devastating floods in 2012 also saw floods affecting the lives of 1.3 million citizens in the form of damaged agricultural infrastructure and water and sanitation facilities, infected drinking water plants (tube wells) and losses of livelihood assets which included houses, grain stocks, poultry and livestock. Prodipan handover the Water treatment plant to the Upazila Disaster Management Committee (UDMC) and at present Prodipan provides technical support. GOAL: The communities have benefited substantially from the installation of WTPs. OBJECTIVES: The plants are designed to be profitable to the community and be sustainable in the long-term and will mean that these people would no longer need to spend long hours traveling and waiting for clean water. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#02) Upazila (#08) Union (#8) Village (#40)

1. Khulna and 2. Bagerhat

1. Khulna City Corporation 2. Dacope 3. Paikgacha 4. Koyra 5. Rampul, 6. Sharonkhola 7. Morolganj, 8. Mongla.

08 Unions 40 Villages

PROJECT OFFICE DETAIL (NO/ADDRESS): Office Location Address Project Office: Khulna Shaheb Bari Road, Moheswarpasha, Daulatpur, Khulna-9203, Bangladesh



Total duration

2009 2013 4 Years

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DONORS/PARTNERS: Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Cafford UK and Bread for the World, Diakonia Germany, CDMP and UNDP. TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Poor household having problem of drinking water due to salty condition. STAFF CAPACITY: POSITION MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECT OFFICER 9 1 10 MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. Survey, 2. Area selection, 3. Formation of committee, 4. To facilitate health GO-NGO health support, 5. Awareness on disaster, health hazard, drinking water, etc.


1. Local people positively behaved to access the safe drinking water installed by Prodipan.

PHOTO GALLERY:

Local people collecting drinking water

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Water treatment filtering machine

Local people collecting drinking water

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K. PRODIPAN DORMITORY PROJECT For the hope of self-reliant Prodipan conducting various program. Dormitory project is one of them. Last year Prodipan shortly introduced dormitory project in Koyra and Paikgacha. From this project Prodipan earned net 39,813/- (thirty nine thousand eight hundred and thirteen taka only) in 2014. We hope to enhance this project anew at head office and liaison office respectively by 2015. PHOTO GALLERY:

Single Bed in Shared AC Room, in Dhaka

Small Meeting Room for Discussion

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Single Bed in Shared Room, Paikgacha & Koyra

Single Bed in Shared Room, Khulna

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L. MICRO CREDIT PROGRAM GOAL: Credit program works for enhancement of women empowerment, poor people empowerment and protected the poor people from the disorganized non institution credit difficulty. Credit also works with the marginal poor people, professionals, economically disadvantage people in the country. Credit works for the long time to the disadvantages people to release from poverty, improve wellbeing, ensuring fundamental rights through create self-employment. OBJECTIVES: Reduce poverty and grow savings mentality of the poor people is the main objective of credit program. PROJECT IMPLEMENTING FIELD AREA: District (#04) Upazila (#11) Union (#68) Village (#366)

1. Khulna 2. Bagerhat. 3. Narail 4. Jamalpur

1. Koyra 2. Paikgacha 3. Terokhada 4. Digolia 5. Mollahat 6. Chitalmari 7. Kachua 8. Kalia 9. Naragati 10. Bokshigong 11. Dewangong.

68 Unions 366 Villages


Modhupur Branch Prodipan Tarokhada Modhupur BranchVill-Modhupur, PO-Kola Bazar, Tarokhada, Khulna

Paikgacha Branch Prodipan Paikgacha Paikgacha BranchKaborkhana Road, Paikgacha, Khulna

Jaigirmohol Branch Prodipan Koyra Jaigirmohol BranchAmadi Bazar, Koyra, Khulna

Koyra Branch Prodipan Koyra Koyra Branch Fultala, Moharajpur Koyra, Khulna

Chitalmari Branch Prodipan Bagerhat Chitalmari BranchChitalmari, Bagerhat.

Mollahat Branch Prodipan Bagerhat Mollahat BranchMollahat, Bagerhat.

Daypara Branch Prodipan Bagerhat Daypara Branch Daypara Bazar, PO-K-Daypara, Kachua,Bagerhat.

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Kalia Branch Prodipan Narail Kalia Branch Thana Road, Kalia, Narail.

Naragati Branch Prodipan Narail Naragati Branch Vill+PONarigati, Kalia, Narail.

Dangdhara Branch Prodipan Jamalpur Dangdhara Branch Kawniar Char, Dewangonj, Jamalpur.

Sanandabari Branch Prodipan Jamalpur Sanandabari Branch Char Amkhawa, Sanandabari Bazar , Dewangonj, Jamalpur.

Kamalpur Branch Jamalpur Kamalpur BranchDhanuaKamalpur, Bakshigonj, Jamalpur.

Battazore Branch Prodipan Jamalpur Battazore BranchDhanuaKamalpur, Bakshigonj, Jamalpur.

Marurchar Branch Prodipan Jamalpur Marurchar BranchMarurchar, Bakshigonj, Jamalpur.

Kachua Branch Prodipan Bagerhat Kachua BranchKachua, Bagerhat.



Total duration

1999 Ongoing 16 Years DONORS/PARTNERS: PKSF & Own fund TARGET STAKEHOLDERS: Beneficiary formation with 0-.50 acr land owner of the poor people Total 8360 Household. STAFF CAPACITY: POSITION MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECT OFFICER 38 20 58 MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

1. To work with target People those livelihoods depends on physical labor. 2. Group formation with 0-.50 acr land owner of the poor people 3. Saving formation and engage income generating activities of the target people. 4. Credit support, saving and collection 5. Aware on the burning and rights related issues.

ACHIEVEMENTS BY THIS TIME: Tailoring, Goat rearing, Cow rearing, Agriculture, Poultry rearing.

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