$125M
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1.5M
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7.5%
Contrary to popular belief
RDRS operates its Microfinance Programme in a client-centric approach. RDRS seeks to make poor people economically self-reliant, increase their household income and assets, and therefore focus on micro, small and medium enterprise development to create employment opportunities in formal and informal sectors.
The current approach of RDRS microfinance programme is two-pronged in offering financial services on the key premise of establishing enterprises, and special consideration is given to women for empowerment. The microfinance programme continues constantly research to diversify its products and to bring innovative solutions to the financial sector by digitization and introducing cashless banking.
Microfinance
Poverty Alleviation through Family-based Integrated Activities Implementation
RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Poverty Alleviation...
Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor
RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Water and Sanitation...
Poverty Alleviation through Family-based Integrated Activities Implementation
RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Poverty Alleviation through Family-based Integrated Activities Implementation project in Char Rajibpur in Rajibpur upazila of Kurigram district. The project is being implemented with the support of Palli-Karma Sahayok Foundation (PKSF). The project is working with 12,000 households in the project area. The group members of RDRS microfinance programme will be benefitted from this project. The project is designed in line with SDG – 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 13 (No Poverty; Good Health and Well-Being; Quality Education; Gender Equality; Clean Water and Sanitation; Decent Work and Economic Growth; and Climate Action).
Char Rajibpur has the highest poverty rate 79.08%, with vulnerability in many areas like socio-economic condition, employment, education, health & nutrition, and communication than any other upazilas in Kurigram district. Natural disasters such as flood, cyclone, drought, river erosion are regular phenomena of this upazila. Considering the vulnerability of the area, RDRS has initiated this poverty alleviation project to increase per capita income of the poor people of Char Rajibpur.
The goal and objective of the project are sustainable poverty alleviation through the ultra-poor community to increase enabled and ensure food and nutrition; to enable adaptation and enhance economic condition improvement; and to assist ensuring of GO and NGO services.
The major activities under the project are training, technical service and income-generating activities (Livelihoods), inclusive finance, health & nutrition, social mobilisation, disability inclusion, gender equality, climate change & disaster management, education, immigration activities.
The key highlights are enterprise development, growing vegetables in the courtyard round the year, health camp, nutrition display camp, providing assistance to children, medicine for curative care, and providing assistance to pregnant mothers.
Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor
RDRS Bangladesh is implementing the Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor of Northern Bangladesh project in Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, & Nilphamari district of Rangpur division and Moulvibazar & Hobigonj district of Sylhet division. The project is being implemented with the support of Water.org. The 50,000 households are the direct and 225,000 households are the indirect programme participants of the project. The Program participants are poor household members. Most of them have no ability to install sanitary latrines, even some of them are not able to set up a tube well on their own. This project is providing loan facilities with technical support to the poor for construction of latrines.
The Water and Sanitation for Rural Poor of Northern Bangladesh project is designed in line with SDG –6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
The goal of the project is to bring the underprivileged community people under access to safe water and sanitary latrines to ensure their good health and a healthy environment for all. The objectives of the project are
- To facilitate access to safe drinking water as well as improved sanitation facilities of poor and disadvantaged people;
- To make programme participants aware of health-hygiene and waste management system; and
- To introduce evidence-based documentation and coordination among WaSH actors for the replication of good practices.
The programme participants are receiving hygiene education and awareness along with the sanitation loans. The major activities of the project are water loan disbursement, sanitation loan disbursement, training for programme participants, group discussion etc.
Case Study
Empowering Enterprise, Changing Lives
Fazlul Haque’s journey from roadside vendor to successful business owner
Empowering Enterprise, Changing Lives
Md. Fazlul Haque's dream started small in 2016 with a modest roadside nursery in Kapasia, Gazipur. For years, he worked hard, but a lack of capital prevented his business from growing. The turning point came in 2020 when he joined RDRS Bangladesh's Unnati Program. With strategic microcredit loans, termed as Small and Medium Entrepreneurship (SME) loan, his business began a remarkable transformation. Starting with BDT 300,000, he built his venture step by step, eventually using larger loans to enter the wholesale market and, crucially, purchase his own land. Today, Messrs. Fazlul Haque Nursery is a thriving local enterprise. From a struggling vendor, Fazlul Haque has become a financially self-reliant business owner, earning around BDT 150,000 monthly and providing jobs for four people. His journey is a powerful example of how determination, paired with the right support, can build a secure and respected future.
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