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RDRS’s Social Empowerment Programme support its programme participants by strengthening RDRS’s unique CBOs, making these organisations increasingly autonomous, empowering them to advocate for their rightful access and that of the poor people in their communities to safety net provisions and basic services.
RDRS continues its work empowering marginalised people and ensuring their participation through Union Federations and CBOs by creating enabling environment in the social setting and power structure. Creating access to health, legal aid, case management, social security programmes is continued as priority sector. The protection programmes are focused on women, child protection & empowerment. RDRS contributes towards quality enhancement of primary education systems, community-based ECD, and support in capacity development of teachers. Protection and legal service programmes are developed and implemented in a survivor centric principle.
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Transboundary Flood Resilience Project in South Asia
Since February 2023 RDRS Bangladesh is implementing...
Expanding Nutrients in Food Systems (ENFS) project
RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Expanding...
Transboundary Flood Resilience Project in South Asia
Since February 2023 RDRS Bangladesh is implementing a 3-years “Transboundary Flood Resilience Project in South Asia” under its core development program with long term support from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with a goal to Increase the resilience of communities through multi stakeholder actions in Brahmaputra and GGP river tributaries in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Priority areas of the project are strengthening early warning system, disaster resilience and climate justice. The project is implementing in 3 countries- Bangladesh, Nepal and India. In Bangladesh the project in Bangladesh is implementing at Kurigram Sadar, Chilmari, Ulipur and Nageshwari and Rowmari upazilas (sub-districts) of Kurigram district. The second year of the project is set to conclude in January 2025.
The project aims to reach the communities at upstream, midstream, and downstream of the Brahmaputra basin in Bangladesh. Till the reporting period the project reached 28,560 direct program participants of which 51% represented by female and 49% male. Among them 13% are children, 50% youth, and 37% adults in context of age distribution. The project focused on developing the social and economic resilience of the marginalized population which is a leading factor to enhance disaster risk reduction while working with DDM, Disaster Management Committees, BWDB, FFWC, BMD and other members.
Expanding Nutrients in Food Systems (ENFS) project
Disaster Risk Financing
Start Fund Bangladesh (SFB) is a civil society managed rapid emergency response pooled funding mechanism which was created in 2017. Following Start Network’s Start Fund, SFB releases funding within 72 hours of a crisis alert, and fills a crucial gap in humanitarian funding. RDRS Bangladesh became the member SFB in 2021 started the implementation since 2022.
During the reporting period, the project for 2023 (May 2023 to July 2023) ended on 31 July 2023 and the project for 2024 was for February 2024 only and the project is implemented in Kurigram district. A total of 21,795 vulnerable households covered during the periods.
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