FIVDB

FIVDB Activities Report

July 2017 to June 2018

Friends In Village Development

Vision Mission

Strategy

Vision A vibrant society based on justice, equity, democracy and environmentally sound principles.

Mission

 FIVDB‟s mission is to give disadvantaged women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase their use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.

 To that end, FIVDB pursues educational, social and economic capacity building and social-organization approaches. It works to strengthen social protection and safety networks and participates in national and international outreach and advocacy.

Strategy FIVDB works in collaboration with communities, civil society, government and the private sector. FIVDB combines grassroots service delivery, social mobilisation and advocacy in its work.

Table of Contents

IFSP- Integrated Financial Services Program- 1 Social Programs: ENRICH Project- 2 ALLP- Adult and Lifelong Learning Program- 3 Harmony (Building a loving, caring and tolerant society) - 5 Primary Education Program- 7 READ: Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development- 8 Livelihood Enhancement Program- 9 Suchana: Ending the cycle of under nutrition in Bangladesh- 10 Graduation of Extreme Poor Engaging in Business and Finance (GEP-EBF) Program- 11 Promoting Climate Smart Villages for improved food & nutrition security in Char & regions, the two most vulnerable fragile eco-system of Bangladesh- 12 HarvestPlus Bangladesh- 13 Duck Value Chain- 13 School Feeding Program in Poverty Prone Areas- 14 WASH-Nutrition Joint Programmatic Response Project- 14 WaSH for the Wellbeing of Poor and Extreme Poor in Haor Areas- 14 Community Development Service- 16 Promoting Child Rights through System Strengthening and Community Engagement- 16 Building Community Enterprise of Small Holders in Bangladesh Project- 18 Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness and Response- 18 Developing Midwives Project- 20 MaMoni-HSS Project- 20 Expansion of Maternal /Newborn Health and Family Planning (MNH- FP) Services in Rural Bangladesh (Mamota) Project- 21 Maternal-Neonatal Health Service Care & Family Planning (Mamota) Project- 21 NFR-Malaria Elimination Program- 21 Special Projects Community-lead Outreach on Safe Migration Campaign in Division- 22 Implementation of an Awareness Raising Campaign on Safe Migration in Zone B of Bangladesh- 23 Improvement of the Real Situation of Overcrowding in Prisons in Bangladesh (IRSOP) - 23 Support Services Central Training Centre, Khadimnagar, Sylhet- 25 Central Training Centre, - 25

IFSP Integrated Financial Services Program

This program has been able to bring a significant change in the life & livelihood of the disadvantaged communities in the FIVDB under-served areas. IFSP provides financial services and financial inclusion to disadvantaged women and men. Services include mobilization of savings, micro-credit, enterprise credit, specialized services for ultra poor households and technical assistance and financial support for installation of solar home systems. These services are provided through groups, most of the groups and their members are rural women. Report - 2018 Year Sl. Status up to Indicators July 2017 - No. 30th.June 2018 June 2018 1 Member 5,004 38,346 2 Group Savings 45,792,713 277,700,892 3 Micro Credit Disbursement 579,949,000 4,033,654,936 4 Small Enterprise Loan Disbursement 337,327,784 2,146,638,526 5 Nirmal Shakti Loan Disbursement 2,593,347 86,851,477 6 Festival Loan Disbursement 35,700,000 201,191,414 7 Ultra Poor Loan Disbursement 24,005,000 92,821,776 8 ENRICH IGA Loan Disbursement 9,863,000 26,435,000 9 ENRICH LI Loan Disbursement 530,000 950,000 10 ENRICH AC Loan Disbursement 707,747 2,657,747 11 Sahos Loan Disbursement 10,000,000 10,000,000 12 Total Loan Disbursement 6,601,200,876 13 Loan Disbursement During the Year 1,000,675,878 14 Loan in Field 842,455,211 15 Excess of Income over Expenditure (FY) 82,662,620 16 Yearly Budget (FY) 1,527,561,872

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Social Programs: ENRICH Project

FIVDB is working in health, educational and related social activities under ENRICH project. Under the health program, static and satellite clinic were organized in regular basis. In addition, specialized health camps were organized where child, gynecological, ENT, eye and general medicine specialists provided medical services to the patients. This year a total number of 9,029 patients got free medical services and 37 patients underwent surgical cataract operation. Under education program, a total of 72 learning centers had been established where 2,099 students receive the opportunity to learn daily lessons effectively. Under this project, sanitary slave latrine has been provided to 206 households. Also, 10 culverts were built and 07 tubewells for drinking water were established. A total of 18 ENRICH centers were established in working areas. Also, ENRICH project helped in the rehabilitation of 12 beggars.

Uplifting the quality of the lives of Elderly People Programme This program focuses on uplifting the quality of the lives of elderly people in society. FIVDB has implemented this program in three unions namely Daudpur, Hatkhola and Soila Afzalabad union.

Cultural and Sports Programme This program organizes various cultural and sports events for children and youth. This programme has been implemented in three of Sylhet, Sunamgonj and district.

Duck Value Chain Project This program focuses on egg and meat production of ducks and helping to create market linkage to increase income and employment in Haor areas. FIVDB has implemented this project in three upazillas under Sunamgonj district.

Buffalo Value Chain Project This program focuses on milk, meat and milk products production of Buffaloes and helping to create market linkage to increase income and employment in haor areas of two upazillas in .

Scholarship A total number of 98 children of beneficiaries are awarded scholarship of Taka 12,000/= each who successfully passed the SSC examination.

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ALLP

Adult and Lifelong Learning Program

Activities:  Basic literacy program: adult and adolescent  Post literacy follow up  Skills development training through lifelong learning activity  Support in village wise CLC building - Total CLC : 706 - Total Library : 694 - Total Union non formal resource center : 3 - wise CLC federation : 4

 Basic Literacy Program – (64 district) - FIVDB developed and made necessary editing in learner‟s primers (Amader chetona- 1 & 2), teachers‟ guide, flipchart and flashcards for the Basic Literacy Program of Bangladesh government throughout the 64 districts. Printed materials have been distributed in all 64 districts. - FIVDB developed two different training modules - one is for the Core-trainers and Master Trainers, and the other is for the Supervisors and Facilitator. This was done jointly by the Central unit of FIVDB in Sylhet and the material development unit in . Printed materials have been distributed in 64 districts. FIVDB is implementing the “Basic Literacy Program – (64 districts)” of the Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh in Biswanath and Companigonj upazilas of under the Bureau of Non-formal Education of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education.

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Number of unions in two upazilas: The project is being implemented in eight unions in Biswanath upazila and in six unions in Companigonj upazila. Total learners: In two Upazilas the number of total learners is 36,000. Number of center: The total number of centers in two upazila is 600. For each learning center, a Center Management Committee comprising of local community members have been formed. Forming Union Literacy committee: A Union Literacy Committee has been developed in each of the 14 unions of the two upazilas. These committees will support organization, implementation and monitoring the learning centers. Teachers and supervisors selection: FIVDB has recruited 1200 teachers (600 in each upazila) and 30 supervisors (15 in each upazila) through written and viva tests. A recruitment committee lead by the Upazila Executive Officer has done this recruitment process. These teachers and supervisors have been trained by the Master Trainers in the BNFE resource pool, which includes trainers from FIVDB and other NGOs.

Other material development support FIVDB‟s Material Development unit (MDU) is developing different material for the under developed community at grass root level. The MDU has developed the course and training materials of the „Entrepreneur Development Literacy Training‟ for the “Nobojatra” project. MDU also provided training to the Nobojatra staff and course facilitators during the year. World vision Bangladesh, Winrock International, World Food Program and the Ministry of Disaster Management of Bangladesh Government is implementing the project “Nobojatra” funded by USAID. It is working on increasing the capacity of overcoming the risk, improvement of nutrition and food security for 856,116 men and women under 4 upazilas of and Shatkhira district. The material development unit of FIVDB also developed the English version of the entrepreneurial literacy course for the „Feed the Future Bangladesh Women‟s Empowerment Activity‟ project of USAID, implemented by Winrock International. It is mentionable that FIVDB had earlier developed the learning materials and training for use in the implementation of the project in 2015. Many organizations, such as Friendship Bangladesh and Worldvision Bangladesh, have been using the materials of FIVDB in their activities.

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Harmony (Building a loving, caring and tolerant society)

A pilot project titled Harmony (Building, a loving, caring and tolerant society) was carried out by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) in partnership with Democracy International (DI) and completed on the 31st of March 2018. The goal of the project was to reduce the vulnerability of youth to violent extremism pull factors which includes a lack of opportunities for students' engagement in extracurricular activities in their schools. Harmony aimed to achieve this change through engaging school and college students in more constructive extracurricular activities by expanding student club activities. The project also aimed to increase tolerance among students of higher and lower socioeconomic backgrounds through their interaction and cooperation in inter school events, workshops and meetings.

Project Achievements: Harmony project has had a considerable impact through its implementation in 5 schools that covered different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum. Student Clubs for extracurricular activities did not exist in the schools before. Through the project intervention, 15 student clubs were formed (3 in each school) which promoted arts and crafts, music, dance, poetry, diversity, debate, science and games. The formations of these clubs led to higher engagement of students and teachers in extracurricular activities through participation in intra and inter school events and sharing their experiences on social media. Many of these intra school events taught students (especially from the lower socioeconomic backgrounds) new skills such as debating and art. In fact, a textbook for arts and crafts exists in the national curriculum but since there are no provisions for instructors or assessment, the project helped fulfill students‟ needs. The teachers who acted as club coordinators also acquired new skills through the training sessions and workshops that had been organized by the project and student clubs. The project was able to allow students to showcase these newly acquired skills through art exhibitions, art competitions and debates. For many students, their participation in cultural events was their very first stage performances and revealed undiscovered talents. The experience also boosted students‟ self confidence and command on stage. Due to Harmony project, students were able to develop science projects for the first time and participate in a science fair. There had not been any considerable and meaningful interaction between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds age groups. Project‟s intervention facilitated this interaction through club formation and its activities in addition to combined training session, meetings and inter school club fair with participation of all the schools‟ clubs. These events also helped to establish networking between the project schools. The highlight of the project was being able to mobilize large groups of students from the project schools, institutions that promote extracurricular activities, local cultural groups and civil society from the city to participate in the inter school club fair. The presence of one the most celebrated individuals of the country, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder Chairperson of BRAC, was greatly appreciated by the students and garnered widespread local and national media coverage of the event. Perhaps one of the biggest impacts the project has been able to achieve is the fact that students have started to show a greater interest in performing arts and other extracurricular activities. Their enthusiasm in participating in club activities and extracurricular activities in general has been exemplary and beyond expectation. Getting firsthand experience in organizing events in their schools due to the project will enable them to organize similar events in the future.

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Sustainability: It is expected that the clubs formed through the Harmony project would continue to be active due to club members increased capacity from training and workshops. The project has provided many of the cultural clubs with musical instruments so that club members are able to practice music in the school. The art clubs have been given art supplies to continue practicing art. An example of sustainability can be seen in Sylhet International School and College where the school has dedicated a room for the clubs formed through Harmony project. Students have scheduled a number of music, photography and science workshops that they will conduct within the club room. The club room works as a central hub for the club members from different classes to meet and socialize and conduct club activities. The clubs in Sylhet International School and College have also opened facebook pages for their clubs with announcements of future workshops and details of their activity.

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PEP

Primary Education Program

During the reporting period, Primary Education Program has provided support to a total of 10 primary schools in underserved areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj. Following table given a picture of ongoing operation under primary education. District: Sylhet Upazila: Sylhet Sadar Number of Schools: 7 Total number students: 994 Number of girls: 527 Number of boys: 467 Total number of teachers: 21 Female: 14 Male: 7 District: Sunamgonj Upazila: South Sunamgonj Number of Schools: 3 Total number students: 390 Number of girls: 196 Number of boys: 194 Total number of teachers: 9 Female: 7 Male: 2 Total Number of districts: 2 Number of Upazilas: 2 Number of Schools: 10 Total number students: 1,384 Number of girls: 723 Number of boys: 661 Total number of teachers: 30 Female: 21 Male: 9

In order to enhance overall quality of teaching-learning approaches and methods in schools, PEP staffs were regularly engaged in carrying out following activities: Agreement: Annual agreements with all 10 school managing committees and teachers have been finalised and updated. Inclusion of new schools: A total of 3 new schools in underserved areas of South Sunamganj have been included under PEP operation. AGM: Annual progress reports were presented and reviewed at AGMs held in all schools. The meetings were attended by the SMC members, parents and the teachers.

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Mother Assembly: A total of 40 mother assemblies were held during the period. Education Fair: Two education fairs were organized with participants of seven schools under Sylhet district. Students enthusiastically participated with different cultural and sports events Mr. Ashfaque Ahmed, Chairman of Sadar Upazila, Sylhet attended in the event as the chief guest. Training: Training for teachers and SMC members were held as per plan. In addition, timely supplies of education materials to schools were ensured. Co-curricular activities, reading and writing festivals and classroom decorations were carried out on a regular basis. Child protection policy of FIVDB was being shared with teachers and parents.

READ: Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development This project financed by the USAID, technically assisted by Save the Children-International and implemented by FIVDB was designed to address gaps in early grade learning, especially literacy learning, which affect all aspects of a child‟s learning trajectory. By ensuring a strong foundation at the beginning of school, the expectation is that fewer children will repeat grades or drop out in the primary cycle, and a higher proportion will complete school with skills – such as literacy and numeracy. Goal Increased reading competencies among grade 1-3 students in READ-supported schools (GPS) in selected districts.

Expected Outcome 1. Improved teacher competence in evidence-based, interactive literacy instruction in grades 1-3. 2. Increased use of early grade (1-3) reading assessment. 3. Expanded provision and use of relevant and age-appropriate supplementary materials. 4. Strengthening community support for early grade literacy. FIVDB Operated Area Coverage of READ SL. Name Male Female Total Remark No 1 Total district - - 02 Habigonj & Sunamgonj , Bishwamborpur, 2 Total upazila - - 04 Bahubal & Chunarughat 3 Total School - - 395 120 GPS added in 2017 4 Total SMC Members 2720 1592 4312 5 Total Students 19112 19129 38241 6 Total Community Literacy Volunteer 0 260 260

READ project has entered its 5th and last year of operation in 2018 (no cost extension till September 2018). During the reporting period major activities included teachers training, monitoring of students improved reading competencies with focus on weak performing students, support head teachers and AUEOs in academic supervision, implement additional learning sessions with community support and activities to strengthen SMCs. In addition classroom decoration with attractive learning materials, training to volunteer teachers and discussion with stakeholders on sustainability issue were carried out as planned.

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LEP

Livelihood Enhancement Program

Livelihood Enhancement Program (LEP) provides technical assistance, training, input and marketing support to disadvantaged communities. Focusing on women headed households, this program includes farm, para-agricultural and non-farm activities. The agricultural activities include development and promotion of organic agricultural practices and products. Some of the organic methodologies developed are:  Vegetable production in sack (micro-gardening)  Land-care approach  Vermin-compost  Pile compost  Basket compost  Pest and disease management  Non-chemical and Biochemical methods  Liquid fertilizer and growth hormone  Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)  Cage fish culture  Rhizome basket culture The LEP has been implementing a number of projects between July 2017 and July 2018. Outside of the core impact area of FIVDB, the organization also started implementing projects in the camps housing forcibly displaced Myanmarese citizens (Rohingya) and their surrounding Bangladeshi communities from December 2017, following the refugee influx in August-September and a scoping exercise in October 2017.

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Suchana: Ending the cycle of under nutrition in Bangladesh Suchana is a multi-sectoral nutrition program that aims at achieving a significant reduction of stunting amongst children less than two years of age. In response to the multidimensional impacts of malnutrition, the program adopts an integrated approach of nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to prevent chronic malnutrition within the critical 1,000 days from conception to until a child reaches his/her second birthday. The program targets poor and ultra-poor households with women of reproductive age (15-45 years) and adolescent girls. FIVDB implements Suchana program in 31 Unions of 7 working Upazilas of Sylhet district. At present, the total number of beneficiaries stands at 48,040. Total expenditure of Suchana amounting 17.5 crore (BTD. 176,648,115) during the one year reporting period. Suchana envisages in achieving three major results as follows:  Household food security status improved and sustained through GoB and market systems  Improved IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding) and MCHN(Maternal Child Health and Nutrition) practices and improved systems to sustain changed practices  Strengthened coordination and governance for multi-sectoral nutrition program at national & sub- national levels. Under Outcome 1, Suchana demonstrated significant achievements in the case of nutrition sensitive activities, including the input distribution and extensive training of BHHs (Beneficiary Household) for HFP (Homestead Food Production) Poultry, HFP-Aquaculture, HFP Horticulture and Income Generating Activities (IGA). In the case of HFP-Horticulture, the accomplishment rate is more than 93%, HFP-Poultry is more than 85% and HFP-Aquaculture is 91%. Accomplishment rate is also satisfactory for IGA distribution which is 90%. A round monitoring conducted by HKI revealed that despite the extensive flood of 2017, 95% of BHHs are currently practicing home gardening while 60% households are using inter-cropping techniques and 75% are using organic fertilizer. Complementary to the livelihood activities, market system strengthening was pursued during the period to provide a strong and resilient enabling environment for BHHs in their IGAs. The program focused on supporting advanced beneficiaries working in horticulture production to increase their input and output linkages. Farm Business Groups were formed, relevant linkage meetings between producer groups and private actors organized, collaborative agreements facilitated, and collection points established to aggregate surplus produce in areas which have low market linkages. Under Outcome 2, Suchana has strengthened its nutrition specific component based on experiences and lessons from 2016 and early 2017. The revised strategy focused strongly on staff capacity and skill development on Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP), household counseling and community nutrition education through a series of courtyard sessions. GMP is a constituent part of NNS delivery in Bangladesh and Suchana collaborates with MOHFW (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) to organize monthly sessions at CC (Community Clinic) along with EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) in the outreach sites. Trained field staffs (Suchana Community Mobilizer: SCM) counsel mothers according to the growth status of each child. The number of GMP sessions in this reporting period is 3686 which is 92% of the target. A total of 1592 groups were formed with pregnant and lactating mothers for conducting courtyard sessions and 88% sessions have been successfully conducted. Monitoring of the sessions were carried out separately and the process revealed that the sessions were well delivered (good or very good). Apart from this, SCMs conducted household counselling focusing one to one interaction with caregivers on the issues that beneficiaries

10 were earlier oriented during courtyard sessions. In addition, counselling initiatives focused hands on skill development and issues appropriate to the specific beneficiary related to IYCF, MCHN, child care, feeding, sanitation etc. In the reporting period, a total of 83482 HHs counseling were conducted, the average number of counseling per HH per year is 9.6. Moreover Suchana observed some national days for promoting appropriate behavior relating to health and nutrition like Global Hand Washing Day, World Breastfeeding Week, National Vitamin A+ Campaign etc. Another form of mass communication campaign is Pala Gaan, a form of community level theatre which is proven to be successful in spreading useful information on life skills, gender and health issues to entire communities. In this reporting period, a total of 17 such events were organized. As part of its commitments under Outcome 3, Suchana made a strong effort to strengthen advocacy initiatives and collaboration with multi-sector engagement to deliver integrated nutrition services. As an implementing partner, FIVDB focuses advocacy activities only in sub national level. Suchana organized a total of 23 trainings with Union Disaster Management Committees (UDMC) on their roles and responsibilities and 17 sessions held on appropriate targeting of social protection scheme for Union Parishads. With a view to sensitize nutrition –appropriate practices to wider community, Suchana organized nutrition training for the office-bearers of Union Parishad in 18 unions and nutrition training for community leaders in 21 unions that resulted in building an enabling environment at the community for smooth program implementation. Moreover, 3 gender orientation sessions for Upazila level GoB staffs were organized with the assistance of HKI. Suchana organized inception workshop with 13 union parishads where interventions started in 2018 and a program review workshop organized in 17 union parishad where Suchana initiated its work in previous years. Moreover, a learning workshop with chairmen of 31 Union Parishads has been organized at district level. To make the system well-functioning and enhance the quality of service delivery Suchana is collaborating with the GoB health officials at the union and upazila level. Suchana staffs along with frontline supervisor (HI/AHI/FPI) conduct joint monitoring visit to Community Clinic and EPI centers. A total of 112 visits have been materialized during the reporting period. This initiative is to help increase accountability of MoHFW supervisor to actively participate in quality enhancement of service delivery mechanism. As a result of all those interventions, involvement of GoB stakeholders has markedly been increased both in nutrition specific and sensitive interventions of Suchana which evidently shows that the link between the system and community people is being strengthened.

Graduation of Extreme Poor Engaging in Business and Finance (GEP-EBF) Program

Program Location: South Sunamgonj, Sunamgonj.

Goal/Expected Impact of the Program: To enable households in selected Haor areas of Bangladesh to move out from extreme poverty and to ensure that graduated households sustainably stay out of poverty through accessing microfinance, expanding their productivity, increasing their assets, and sustaining income and savings.

Specific outcomes:  Targeted households will increase their income through promoting improved and diversified agricultural technologies and income generation activities (IGAs).

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 Extreme poor households in Haor will increase the total value of their assets.  Women and the extreme poor of Haor will be involved in representative structures at community level institutions and have increased access to and control over productive resources and opportunities.  Financial literacy among the extreme poor will increase.  Households will have improved linkages to microfinance institutions and continue to make investments with newly acquired skills and knowledge.  Households will have access to affordable microfinance products.  Households will be engaged in tested profitable and diversified small business options. The reporting period July to December 2017 was the final six months of this three year graduation project. Project staff focused on consolidating project achievements, and organized a number of exit meetings with the community and local authorities to handover the project to the community. Project staff shared lists of beneficiaries and other project documents with the Union Parishad and concerned government officials. Government social safety net programs were contacted to ensure beneficiaries receive ongoing services after the project is phased out. An external project evaluation was conducted during this period, which highlighted the following key project impacts:  The average monthly household income of selected beneficiaries increased from BDT 3,942 ($51) to BDT 12,427 ($155). The increased income allowed them to consume three meals a day with dietary diversity, send their children to school, and obtain proper treatment for any illness.  By increasing the number of household IGAs, the average value of household productive assets increased from BDT 13,200 ($165) to BDT 40,416 ($505) by December 2017. The project focused on removing the barriers to financial inclusion experienced by the extreme poor. The project helped all 700 project households open mobile bank accounts and around 87% project households had joined micro finance institutions by December 2017. By the end of the reporting period 18% of women and extreme poor were involved in local representative structures and community institutions, whereas the baseline value was 1.1%.Access and control over productive resources and opportunities increased around 10% from the base line during project period. During the project period 132 BHHs received BDT 576,628 from different government safety net programs (VGF, OMS and VGD) and from local government institutions. A total 2,082 girls and women and 1,809 boys and men representing 700 households were the direct beneficiaries of the project.

Promoting Climate Smart Villages for improved food & nutrition security in Char & Haor regions, the two most vulnerable fragile eco-system of Bangladesh This project aims at contributing to the reduction of hunger period and increase food and nutrition security in two of the most vulnerable fragile eco-systems of Bangladesh, namely Char and Haor regions. FIVDB is implementing the project in the Haor region – in two unions of Madan upazila in district.

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The target beneficiaries of this project are the families that belong to the poor and extreme poor categories, with emphasis on destitute women headed families. Apart from the poor communities, the project also helps pregnant women of all socio-economic groups, children, and poor and marginal farmers who would learn and adopt appropriate climate smart farming technology.

HarvestPlus Bangladesh This project promotes cultivation of zinc-enriched rice (BRRI dhan62 and BRRI dhan72), which could be cultivated in the Aman season in Chattak, Sylhet Sadar, Bishwanath and Companiganj. It is a short-duration high-yielding variety (HYV) of rice. These varieties of rice are rich in nutrition and helps children to fight diarrhea and pneumonia. The project covered sixteen (16) unions in four upazilas of Sylhet and Sunamganj. BRRI dhan74 was provided to 1,268 farming households, while 514 households received the BRRI dhan62.

Duck Value Chain Supported by the DanChurch Aid, the project is being in . Some of the key activities done during the project period are mentioned below:  Duck Farmer Group formation and strengthening  Duck production acceleration among poorest households  Commercial production of duckling through Duck Hatchery  Duck Service Provider (DSP) development  Introduction of new verities of duck  Provide ICT based advisory services  Promote access to finance  Establishment of (including Preparation for Hatchery developing a business plan and capital support) and functioning Duck Centre  Business Development Support for Duck Centre  Develop duck feed supply chain  Develop duck vaccine and medicine supply chain  Develop business partnership with private companies  Market promotion The table below summarizes profits (in Taka) from different activities of the Duck Center during the reporting period. Egg Medicine Vaccine Feed Hatchery Total 23,073 4,595 2,340 2,263 42,830 75,101

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School Feeding Program in Poverty Prone Areas The aim of this project is to implement a School Feeding Program as a complementary and nutrition- focused activity within the scope of the National Education Policy. In addition to increasing children enrollment and retention (i.e. attendance/completion) and improve children‟s nutritional status, the project, through training and information, will also enhance awareness of the importance of improved diets on learning and education in general among school authorities, local communities and children. Under contract from the Directorate of Primary Education, and with support of WFP, FIVDB has been implementing this project in two upazilas, Dhormopasha Upazila in Sunamgonj District and Lakhai Upazila in Habigonj District. At a glance of School Feeding Program: Year Boys Girls Total Attendance rate (%) Dharmapasha upzila: 10 unions, 193 schools 2017 17,087 19,032 37,119 80% 2018 17,273 18,067 35,340 80% Lakhai upazila: 9 unions, 72 schools 2017 11,004 13,881 24,885 82% 2018 11,823 13,412 25,235 85%

In 601.52 tons and in Lakhai 315 tons of biscuits were distributed in the reporting period.

WASH-Nutrition Joint Programmatic Response Project This project - an integrated water, sanitation, hygiene and nutrition activities, is supported by UNICEF and implemented in all 9 unions of Guwainghat Upazila. The primary objective of the project is to reduce stunting through eliminating enteropathic diseases. It is implemented through courtyard meetings, mothers group meetings, popular theatre, activating community clinics and helping establish communities‟ linkages with government health facilities in the upazila. Some of the major activities done:  Foundation Training of Ward Promoters &  Courtyard Meeting Union Coordinators  Community Dialogue  Orientation of Health, Family Planning &  Guardian Assembly DPHE Staffs  IPT Show  Advocacy meeting at Union Parishad  Mothers meeting at Community Clinic (CC)  Civic Engagement  Other activities  Household Visit

WaSH for the Wellbeing of Poor and Extreme Poor in Haor Areas Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) has been implementing the WaSH project for the well-being of poor and extreme poor people living in the Haor region in Bangladesh. This project has been in operation since April 1st 2017, receiving technical assistance from Concern Worldwide.

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The main objective of the project is to increase access to improved drinking water sources, sanitation facilities and awareness on hygiene practices among the underprivileged poor and extreme poor communities.

Specific outcomes of the project:

Increased access to safe drinking water source and sanitation facilities among Outcome #1: targeted households and schools

Improved hygiene and sanitation knowledge, attitude and practices among Outcome #2: students and the wider community

Strengthened capacity of the community-led institutions to mobilize local Outcome #3: resources for maintaining the water source and sanitation facilities

Enhanced support and response by local and national decision makers to rights Outcome # 4: and entitlements of targeted communities and schools in relation to improved water and sanitation.

FIVDB worked in close association with DPHE, DPE, UP, UZP, UZ administration and the respective communities. The table below shows some of the activities performed by FIVDB. Water Point Site Selection 101 communities and 12 schools Latrine Construction 3 Schools Community Consultation 101 SMC meetings 14 WaSH committee formation 115 Caretaker Selection 230 (repair and maintenance) Orientation Programs (WaSH committee) 115 ToT for Teachers 14 CBOs sharing meeting 14 Health Hygiene education session 535

The project also helped communities observe Menstrual Hygiene Management Day 2017, Global Hand Washing Day 2017, World Toilet Day 2017 and World Water Day 2018. In this project, FIVDB has completed six types of water quality tests:  Arsenic Test  Iron Test  Turbidity Test  Temperature Test  PH Test  TTC in project provided installed 115 DTWs. The budget of the project is Tk. 14,846,147.

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Community Development Service The objective of Community Development project is to improve the socio-economic condition of under privileged men, women and children by giving priority to their opinion, ensuring multidimensional use of their citizen right and providing support to improve their livelihood. 1. Community Health Service (Clinic and sub-center) 2. LSC Community Welfare School 3. Education support center (Field) 4. Community Livelihood Development 5. Observation of Hand Washing Day 6. Farmers training 7. Zinc Rice Seed distribution 8. Courtyard meeting about benefits of Zinc Rice 9. Duck Rearing Training 10. Duck Hatchery Establishment 11. Duckling distribution 12. Duckling vaccination 13. Vermin compost establishment 14. Awareness session 15. Model Test papers distribution 16. Tailoring & Cutting Training 17. Bi-Monthly Health Camp

Promoting Child Rights through System Strengthening and Community Engagement Promoting Child Rights through System Strengthening and Community Engagement (PCSC) project is being implemented in Sylhet, Sunamganj, and Moulovibazar districts with financial and technical support of UNICEF Bangladesh. The project targets to work in hard to reach area specially selected Tea Garden, Slum, Haor and Stone crushing areas in . The project is designed for better synergies among different components (Nutrition, Health, Education, Child Protection, WASH and C4D) through sharing of resources, enhancing effectiveness of networking with communities, field level workers and government stakeholders. The implementing period of this project is from 13 September, 2017 to 13 August, 2018. Objective: To create a supportive environment for children and adolescents where they can grow with their full potentiality and become self-reliant through capacity building of service providers, strengthening process of exciting services and raising awareness of the backward communities.

Health section:  Trained 100 Community Based Health Workers and Nutrition Service on HEALTH and HIV-AIDS Issues  Orientated of 7 Community Groups/ Community Support Groups on Health and HIV-AIDS issues  Mothers assembly, IPT (Interactive Popular Theatre) show, courtyard meetings were also conducted to aware around 15000 community people.

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Nutrition Section:  Trained of 100 Community Based Health Workers and Nutrition Service providers on Nutrition, Adolescent Nutrition issues  Orientated of 8 Community Groups/ Community Support Groups and tea garden Panchayat members on Nutrition issues  SAM screening of 6439 (boy-3077, girl-3362) children and identifying 71 children suffering malnutrition who were referred to arious health facilities.  Orientated 925 adolescents on Adolescent Nutrition, IFA and de-worming supplementation, IYCF for Adolescent Club Members WASH section:  Oriented SMC members and teachers of 8 primary schools and 7 secondary schools on WASH  Installed hand washing block and sanitation facilities in 12 primary schools and 6 secondary schools in the catchment area  A total of 6228 students attended hygiene sessions in school and 3384adolescent girls were informed about hygiene issues during menstrual period.  IPT shows, community dialogues, mothers assembly, courtyard meetings were organized for raising awareness on hand washing, sanitation, drinking pure water and hygiene.

Child Protection section:  Training on birth registration for capacity building of 180 local government, health and FP service officials including tea garden health workers  Identified 898 vulnerable children through case management and were referred for appropriate services.  Facilitated activities of 13 Child Friendly Police desk and conducted 26 planning meeting with police officers and probation officers  Formed CHL (Child Help Line) mobile team in 8 upazilas  About 5000 children received service from 14 Child Friendly Spaces and 183 children were enrolled in primary school after completing ABL course from these CFS  A training was conducted on emergency preparedness and response for the CPiE haor sub cluster members including relevant GoB officials  Facilitated activities of 237 adolescent clubs and 144 CBCPC (Community Based Child Protection Committee)  3250 adolescents were trained on life skill based education, 2500 adolescents were trained on Child Development and 150 peer leaders were trained on connection module  400 CBCPC members, parents and care givers were trained on Child Development  6 football tournaments were organised for adolescents boys and girls where the members of 237 adolescent clubs participated

Communication for Development section:  For raising awareness on different issues 13 billboards were installed along with IPT shows, community dialogues and observing special days.  4 school based quiz competition were organised in 4 districts where around 2000 students participated

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Building Community Enterprise of Small Holders in Bangladesh Project The overall purpose of the project is to combat poverty and food insecurity in the most vulnerable sections of the society in Hill Tracts and Haor region of Bangladesh. It contributes to the improvement of income and livelihood of the target groups. FIVDB is involved in this project in Modon Upazila under Netrokona District. The project has established 8 collection centers for farm products and 2 community owned marketing centers at the union level.

Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness and Response FIVDB started its intervention in Cox‟s Bazar in December 2017 after a primary need analysis was done in the preceding October. FIVDB initially started a program with the following objectives-  To assess literacy and awareness needs of the refugee population and their host communities  To develop awareness raising tools on health, nutrition, WASH, child care, benefit and services, and develop a strategy for implementing awareness raising programs  To explore the scope for literacy and parenting education for adult and adolescents and develop proposals accordingly  To ensure community leadership and participation in the program  To work with other implementing agencies to explore the scope for contributing in quality child education by developing materials and training programs for the teachers Number of Camps Covered: 1 (Camp 14: Hakimpara, Ukhiya) Number of Beneficiaries: 36,776 Number of Families Served: 7,776 The initial exploratory project is being followed up with a camp and host community based interventions, which was initially supported by Action Contre La Faim (Action Against Hunger). It has later been scaled up with support from Welthungerhilfe and BMZ.

Description of Activities Need Assessment : FIVDB conducted 8 Focus Group Discussions, 11 Key Informant Interviews and more than 200 interviews with current beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries for need assessment for interventions. FIVDB identified four areas for intervention from those need assessments: 1.Adolescent education 2. Awareness rising 3. Cooking fuel 4. Food security through cash for work Interactive Popular Theater: Two interactive Popular Theater was formed with an adolescent group, consisting of 20 boys and 10 girls. Theater performers were trained following which they developed four scripts with support from FIVDB staff members. Those scripts were based on issues like child marriage, diphtheria, child abuse and hygiene promotion. 8 stage performances were hosted by two groups. IPT Show

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Energy Efficient Stove (Bondhu Chula): FIVDB supplied 2,525 stoves to Rohingya refugee households. Beneficiary selection was done with the help of camp authority, Block Majhees and 18 women groups . These women groups constituted of 20 members each and they provided assistance to FIVDB in implementation of programs. A database for

2,525 households has been created. Bondhu Chula

Compressed Rice Husk (CRH): We provided compressed rice husk to 2,525 households for 8 weeks. Each household received 74 kilograms of CRH every 2 weeks.

CRH Distribution CRH Distribution

Cash for Work: A total of 72 beneficiaries were selected for Cash for Work. They were engaged for 8 to 16 days in Cash for Work in June. Each person was paid Tk.350 per day. They were tasked with site improvement, drainage works and external

cleanliness of camp-14.

Cash for Work Cash for Work

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Future Plan: In the month of June and July, CRH supply to 2,525 households will be continued. The activity Cash for Work will be continued too. We are going to undertake a new project with funding from DFID, under which LP Gas stove and LP gas supply for 3,500 beneficiaries, Cash for Work for 150 beneficiaries, construction of 6 women friendly spaces and 6 adolescent learning centers are expected.

Health Component of LEP: The LEP also implements the health sector projects that FIVDB implements. The projects in this component are described below.

Developing Midwives Project Developing Midwives Project (DMP 2) is a collaborative project under FIVDB operations with technical assistance from the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and funding from the Department for International Development (UK Aid) Report for 2017-2018 fiscal year:  A total of 34 students enrolled in the 4th batch, class commenced in January 2018, of them 24 students (70 pc) are paying students.  27 Students of the 3rd batch have successfully completed semester 4 & 5.  All 29 alumni of 2nd batch have completed 6th semester and became graduate midwives by December 2017. It's encouraging that all students of the batch 2 received BNMC license and got employment.  A total of 29 alumni from the 1st batch are currently employed as grade II midwives under the Government of Bangladesh. Midwifery Class The project is based at Charima Training Centre of FIVDB. A total of 25 staff members including the PC, faculty members, instructors and support staff are working full time for the project. Faculty- student ratio is 1:6.

MaMoni-HSS Project MaMoni HSS‟ goal is to improve utilization of integrated MNCH/FP/N services by increasing availability and quality of high-impact interventions through strengthening district-level local management and health systems. MaMoni HSS proposes a set of high-impact activities to achieve

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Expansion of Maternal /Newborn Health and Family Planning (MNH- FP) Services in Rural Bangladesh (Mamota) Project The project goal is to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in underserved communities, covering Companjigonj, Gowainghat and Jaintiapur upazilas of Sylhet district.

Purposes 1. Increase availability of quality MNH-FP service at the facility and community level 2. Improve quality of MNH-FP service at the facility and community level 3. Strengthen health system at sub-district and community level.

Maternal-Neonatal Health Service Care & Family Planning (Mamota) Project The goal of this project is to improve utilization of MNH-FP services to reduce maternal and newborn mortality rate in underserved communities of Sylhet. The project covered Sylhet district, Companigonj, Gowainghat, Golapgonj, and Balagonj upazila.

NFR-Malaria Elimination Program FIVDB implemented the Malaria Elimination program at Bishwamvarpur upazila since May 2008 and upazila since January 2018, both in Sunamgonj district. The statistics of the project and its sites are shown in the table below: Total Total Name of Total Total Total Budget Expenditure Name of Upazila District Household Population Beneficiaries (July,17- (July,17- June,1) June,18) Bishwambarpur 35342 1717721 1717721 Sunamgonj 35,55,417 33,78,892 Chhatak 66724 469064 469064

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Special Projects

Community-lead Outreach on Safe Migration Campaign in Sylhet Division The goal of the project is to create knowledge and evidence based improved and updated awareness about safe migration. The four months short-term project was launched in December 2017 ended in March 2018 and was financed by the British High Commission (BHC-Dhaka). It covered four Upazilas; Dakshin Surma, Bishwanath, Beanibazar and Jagannathpur under Sylhet and Sunamgonj districts. Migrants and potential migrants were the prime stakeholders of the project. Besides local elected bodies and community people including women and adolescents were stakeholders of the project. Following are the key achievements during implementing period  Identified pool of potential migrants living in the project areas, provided them with information, preferred channels and distributed available IEC/BCC materials.  Communities and primary stakeholders participated actively in delivery of awareness raising campaign.  Improved awareness of local elites, members of local government bodies, local elected bodies, local police and media personnel.  Increased support for the principles of safe migration among the communities.  Increased knowledge and understanding of safe migration and practice regular migration process.  Strengthened the existing migration support groups and migration resource centers.  Shared and disseminated migration focused stories and video documentaries among stakeholders and outreach media.  Shared findings of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) sponsored Baseline Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Survey among stakeholders  Built community support and engaged wider stakeholders in support for safe migration  Increased interest of the potential migrants and young adults seeking information from proper channels about regular migration and avoid illegal/risky ways of migration At a glance: Compiled information of achievements Sl# Name of Activity Target Achievement 01 District Level planning workshop involving stakeholders 02 02 Orientation Session with religious leaders, Union Parishad Members 02 08 08 and School Teachers on Safe Migration Messaging 03 Migration Fair at Upazila Level 04 04 04 Community level meeting with local elites 04 04 05 School College Based Activities 08 08 06 Courtyard meeting with video show 40 40 07 Bazaar Meeting 20 20 08 Open Air Drama Show 12 12 09 Monthly Staff Meeting 04 04 Booklet: containing information for returnee migrants: Desk work 10 01 01 for draft preparation 11 Booklet design and printing (1000 copy) 01 01 12 Staff recruitment and orientation 01 01

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A total of 4,500 men, women and adolescent students have directly participated in different activities under the project. Approximately 20,000 people under the project catchment have got the message on safe migration through mass campaign. Total budget of the project was around taka 2.5 million.

Implementation of an Awareness Raising Campaign on Safe Migration in Zone B of Bangladesh

The campaign project was launched in August 2017 with a planning meeting held at the Sylhet Deputy Commissioner Office with GO, NGO and Community representatives from Habiganj, Sunamganj and Sylhet Districts. Main activities included orientation sessions with Religious Leaders, UP Members and Teachers, meeting with Upazila and Union level elites, showcase events, campaign at education institutions, courtyard meetings, bazaar meetings, video shows and delivering messages with loud speakers as well as distributing IEC materials. A total of 28,657 men, women and adolescents directly participated in various project events while messages on safe migration were delivered to thousands in the project catchment. The campaign activities increased awareness among the community people about safe migration process and the risks of irregular migration. Particularly, women become aware about the safe migration through courtyard meetings, drama show, elites meetings and orientation sessions at different level. Community people including local administration, local elected body and adolescent as well as potential migrant population were benefited through the messages on safe migration campaign delivered in different campaign events. People became informed about the cost and benefit effects of migration. By participating different events beneficiaries become informed about the service options regarding migration and the government and non-government organizations functioning in this regard. In order to sustain safe migration the events were also emphasized on skilled migration, way of regular migration and its importance towards the development of country as well as creating demand in the international labour market.

Improvement of the Real Situation of Overcrowding in Prisons in Bangladesh (IRSOP) The project is a joint collaboration between Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh and GIZ. The project worked closely with Prisons Directorate of Government of Bangladesh. Project Objectives  Reducing Recidivism gives its core intention to reduce the number of prisoners in prison by giving them modern and demanding training inside and outside the prison and at the same time counseling and rehabilitation services for drug dependent prisoners. (Under project output-III)  Decrease offense/crime and increase integration, unity, and peace in the community, as well as reduce the inflow of detainees in the prison. (Under project output-II)  Access to legal information and legal services provided by the government and non-government organization and awareness building. Project Area: Sylhet District ( and Jainatpur Upazila for Restorative Justice and Sylhet District including Sylhet Central Jail for Reducing Recidivism)

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Through the project the beneficiaries became more informed about available service options and service providers regarding legal issues. Women and adolescent girls became more aware about their legal rights and services in their locality. Through, restorative justice, mediation and diversion services, disputes are locally discussed and resolved in the community. Inmates of Sylhet Central Jail got the opportunity to participate in different trades under livelihood training package. Counseling services were offered to a limited number of inmates.

At a glance compiled information of achievement (output-II) Name of Activity Target Achievement Quarterly Coordination meeting between IRSOP Project partners 4 4 Coordinate and Monitor Monthly/bi-monthly coordination meeting (Ward 576 567 based CBO) Coordinate and Monitor quarterly progress review meeting (Union based 24 24 CBO) Coordination and liaison meeting with Police and other stakeholders at 16 16 Upazila Level Meeting with DLAC and DWA 07 06 Workshops on Criminal Justice System for local government 08 08 representatives and CBO members Specialized Training on Restorative Justice (RJ) for 72 RJFs 03 03 Awareness Raising Events: Courtyard meetings 90 90 Annual Gathering of RJ Facilitators 01 01

At a glance compiled information of achievement (output-III) Name of Activity Target Achievement Quarterly Coordination meeting between IRSOP Project partners 04 04 Yearly stakeholders workshop with different government and non- 1 1 government organizations Consultation meeting with public and private drug treatment center 1 1 Conduct Peer Volunteer Training and refresher 1 00 Counselling techniques focusing prisoners organized by GIZ 1 00 Conduct counseling sessions for the drug user prisoners As required 4 Provide counseling services to families of identified vulnerable As required 30 prisoners Skill Development Training Inside The Prison 212 Masonry Training 19 male Training On Tiles Fitting 40 Training On Entrepreneurship Development With Basic Literacy 13 female Training On Plumbing And Pipe Fitting 20 Life Skills Training on Motivation Session 240 62 Referral of drug user prisoners 360 02

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Support Services Through its two training centers – in its central office campus in Sylhet and in Sunamgonj, FIVDB provides training to staff and clientele members. The tables below show the statistics:

Central Training Centre, Khadimnagar, Sylhet

Number of NGO / Training Total Program/ Total Male Female Organization Center batch Participant 20 CTC 111 5,117 2,441 2,676 23 STC 70 4,205 2,290 1,915 Total 181 9,322 4,731 4,591

Central Training Centre, Sunamganj

Total Description Batch/no. Male Female Participant Training 85 2568 1148 1420 Workshop 6 520 306 214 Meeting 20 464 324 140 Field visit 4 130 89 41 Others 3 523 423 100

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