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Project Name

Donor

Duration

Project Brief

Working Area

Project Summary as per FD6

PRiME

Promoting Rights through Mobilization and Empowerment
Bread for the World (BftW) 01.07.2021-

30.06.2024
Promotes activism of grass-roots women and youth through improved conceptual clarity, better analytical and negotiation skills and leadership capacity to gain more space in the society, creating pressure on local policy makers and duty bearers for better accountability.

In Chittagong Hill Tracts strengthen the capacity of indigenous organization and traditional leaders to take action for making the customary law gender sensitive.
Dhaka City Corporation (North and South); Chittagong City Corporation; Chattogram (Patiya Upazila, Sandwip Upazila), Bandarban (Sadar Upazilla), Khagrachari (Sadar Upazilla) and Rangamati (Sadar Upazilla) district
AWAM

Advancing Equality of Women and Marginalized People
Misereor and WWDP 01.07.2020-

30.06.2022 and

01.07.2022-

30.06.2024
Leadership development of grass-roots women and youth to facilitate dialogue with duty bearers and local government bodies, enabling them to raise their voices and claim their rights and access to services. Dhaka City Corporation (North and South) and Netrakona (Sadar and Barhatta Upazila) district Click To See
REE-CALL 2021, SDP

Resilience through Economic Empowerment, Climate Adaptation, Livelihood and Leadership
Oxfam, GB 01.10.2017-

30.06.22 and

01.04.2021-

31.08.2022
Focuses on coping mechanism of women and men at risk of disaster and climate change. Strengthen CBOs and local government institutions to anticipate a possible impact of climate change, to create sustainable income and employment options for women and men at risk.

Address the legal framework to ensure rights and access to services, natural resources and markets.
Netrakona (Mohangonj Upazila) district Click To See
Girls Power, SHE

Strengthening Her Efficiency
Women's World Day of Prayer (WWDP) 01.01.2021-

31.12.2022
The project arranges martial arts training for girl students to build confidence, it promotes participation in school sports, fostering a proactive attitude and actions against VAWG in schools and in the community. It also works to make schools MHM friendly. Mymensingh (Sadar and Trishal) district
SRHR-VAW, OLHF

Our Lives, Our Health, Our Future: empowering adolescent girls and young women in Chittagong Hill Tracts to live with dignity and without violence
Simavi-EU 01.01.2019-

31.12.2023
BNPS, in consortium with Simavi, NL, is developing the organizational and financial capacities of ten local indigenous NGOs in the Chittagong Hill Tracts that implement activities for the wellbeing of indigenous women and girls.

Besides supporting the capacity building of these NGOs, BNPS provides funds, monitors program activities and finances, ensuring quality implementation.
Bandarban (Sadar, Rowangchari and Thanchi Upazila); Rangamati (Sadar, Jurachari, Kaptai, Rajasthali, Barkal, Bilaichari, Baghaichari, Naniarchar and Kawkhali Upazila) and Khagrachhari (Sadar, Panchari, Mahalchari, Guimara and Dighinala Upazilla) district
Minority Rights, URBB

Upholding Rights of Minorities beyond Borders - South Asia
IMDAR-AC-EU 01.05.2019-

30.04.2022
A multi-country project (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) for Reinforcing capacities and skills of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), organizations and networks in combating discrimination, intolerance and violence on the grounds of religion and belief, or non-belief.

Strengthening South Asian platforms and networks that are voices of minorities and reporting on the status of religious minorities.
Bangladesh
Means to Lead

Empowering Rohingya Refugee and Host community women through leadership, learning and livelihoods
Oxfam, BD-UN Women 15.09.2020-

14.09.2022
The project works to improve women's and girl's access to resources and opportunities by increasing individual and collective capacity through the practice of transformative leadership within a safe an enabling environment. The initiative is funded by UN Women and implementing through 04 partner organization: Oxfam, BNPS, Mukti Cox's Bazar & RWWS.

The project is running a Multi-Purpose Women Center (MPWC) in Cox's Bazar Host Community where women come for livelihood training & leadership training and other purposes.
Cox’s Bazar (Sadar Upazila) district
AFWA

Research project on Covid-19 impact on Garments Workers
Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF) 01.02.2021-

31.01.2022 And

01.02.2022-

31.01.2023
This initiative is conducting a study on the impact of COVID on wage losses, health and livelihood among garment workers and the impact of COVID on gender-based violence faced by women garment workers. The project is also responsible for building alliances with labour organisations. Technical support is provided by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA). Dhaka (Savar Upazila, Ashulia Thana) Gazipur (Kaliakoir Upazila and Tongi Thana) district Click To See
Rohingya Response

Delivering Health, Nutrition and Livelihood, and Protection services to Rohingya Refugees and vulnerable host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
International Rescue Committee (IRC) 01.11.2021-

30.04.2022 and

01.05.2022-

30.08.2022
The project is a part of BPRM, a larger program that has been implementing by the NGOs with support from IRC. BNPS is involving 5850 adolescent and young girls, female caregiver, male caregivers, boys and men including community leaders in prevention and protection of VAWG in Rohingya Camp 16 and host communities in Ukhiya Upazila under Cox's Bazar district.

To improve SRHR knowledge and reduce Gender Based Violence (GBV) and to promote responsive behavior among the girls and boys, women and men; the project activities are embedded with comprehensive training packages for the targeted population addressing with Girls Shine and EMAP module.
Cox's Bazar, Ukhiya Upazila at Camp-16. Click To See
NAP WPS

Building capacity of women and key stakeholders at national and grassroots level to contribute to effective implementation of National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAP WPS)
UN Women 01.11.2021-

31.03.2022 And

01.04.2022-

01.06.2022
PEACEBUILDING IN A PANDEMIC: Empowering Women to Promote Social Cohesion and Prevent Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Context of COVID-19; in January - March 2021 UN Women supported efforts to strengthen capacity of women and CSOs at grassroots and national level to contribute to the implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAP WPS). A total of 60 women participants from 15 districts and another 60 women from Peace Café representatives (university level young women) were provided a three-days training on Women Peace and Security including NAP WPS. Another eight consultations were held at district and national level to share the NAP WPS and discuss means of effective implementation from a civil society perspective, with over 120 participants in total including representatives of CSOs, women-led organizations, government officials, academics and media. Developed a bilingual booklet in Bengali and English on NAP WPS to share 3000 copies among the stakeholders during training and orientation. Organized 2 TV talk shows and publish a newspaper supplement based on national network event on NAP WPS for wider dissemination and mass awareness. Dhaka, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Netrakona, Tangail and Jessore.
Localization of NAP WPS

Contribute to Sustainable Peace
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) October 2021-

June 2022
It is a short time project to organize dialogue sessions and consultations at local and national level to amplify the messages on WPS among the stakeholder to accelerate the process and implementation of NAP-WPS in Bangladesh on the context of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Cox's Bazar. Dhaka and Cox's Bazar

 


       
       
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