Name of the Assignment: Design and Implement Training Program for Vulnerable Women (Capacity Management and Skill Development)
Project Location: Comilla, Rangamati & Chandpur District
Project Authority: Department of Women Affairs, Ministry of Women & Children Affairs
Financier: World Food Programme (WFP)
Project Background: The Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) program is the largest social safety net program of the Government of Bangladesh that exclusively targets ultra-poor households. About 750,000 direct ultra-poor participants across the country receiving monthly food ration for the household and development support services (inclusive of life skills and income generating skills training, savings and access to credit) for the project cycle covering 482 Upazilas. To ensure sustainability of development results and to provide women with opportunities to further improve their livelihoods. The overall objective of this project is to increase income, food security, and livelihoods in impoverished and agriculturally dependent regions of Bangladesh.
Objectives of the Assignment: The main objectives are 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 (IGAs), provision of credit and other support services during and beyond the food assistance period
Actual Services provided by SAMAHAR:
- Formation of groups with VGD women
- Training conduction– a). Life Skills and b). IGA Skills
- Food entitlement
- Savings collection and Management of VGD women
- Access to credit under different Micro Finance Institutions.
- IGA enhancement by the VGD households.
- Monitoring and Supervision
- Reporting and Documentation