POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2018 *6(:;^HZVULVM[OLÄYZ[HUKMHZ[ YLZWVUKLYZ[V[OL9VOPUN`H/\THUP[HYPHU JYPZPZ*6(:;O\THUP[HYPHUYLZWVUZLZ PUJS\KL[OYLL[`WLZVMHJ[P]P[PLZZ\JOHZH WYV]PKPUNLTLYNLUJ`Z\WWVY[ZSPRLMVVK HUKUVUMVVKP[LTZKPZ[YPI\[PVULK\JH[PVU OLHS[OJHYLZ\WWVY[^VTLUHUKJOPSKYLU JHYLL[J(SS[OLHJ[P]P[PLZ^LYLK\S` HWWYV]LKI`[OLNV]LYUTLU[I3VJHS UH[PVUHSHUKPU[LYUH[PVUHSSL]LSHK]VJHJ` HUKJHTWHPNU[VW\[WYLZZ\YLVU4`HUTHY MVYPTTLKPH[LYLWH[YPH[PVUHUKJ3VJHS UH[PVUHSHUKPU[LYUH[PVUHSSL]LSJHTWHPNUZ HUKHK]VJHJ`MVY[OLWYVTV[PVUVM SVJHSPaH[PVUVMO\THUP[HYPHUHPK0UULY JV]LYZVM*6(:;(UU\HS9LWVY[ PZZOV^JHZPUNZVTLWOV[VZVM*6(:; O\THUP[HYPHUYLZWVUZLZ[V[OL9VOPUN`H *YPZPZ Acronyms annual AFA: Asian Farmers Association GBV: Gender Based Violation BDT: Bangladeshi Taka LNGO: Local NGOs report 2018 report C4C: Charter for Change MBBS: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery CBCPC: Community Based Child Protection Committee MDGs: Millennium Development Goals CBOs: Community Based Organizations MF: Micro Finance CCNF: Cox’s Bazar CSOS NGOs Forum MJF: Manusher Jonno Foundation CDO: Credit and Development Officer MT: Metric Ton CFTM: Climate Finance Transparency MTCP: Medium Term Cooperation Project Mechanism NGO: Non-Governmental Organization CITEP: Coastal Integrated Technology Extension Program NRC: Norwegian Refugee Council CJRF: Climate Justice Resilience Fund NVF: New Venture Fund CMC: Centre Management Committee NWDP: National Women’s Development Policy COAST: Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust PACE: Promotion Agricultural Coomercilization and Enterprize CoP: Conference of Parties PIU: Project Implementation Unit CSO: Civil Society Organization. PSEA: Protection Against Sexual CWD: Children With Disabilities Exploitation and Abuse DFID: Department for International RBA: Rights-Based Approach Development RRRC: Refugee Relief and Repatriation DoF: Department of Fisheries Commission ECOFISH: Enhanced Coastal Fisheries SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals EquityBD: Equity and Justice Working Group SEEDS: Socio-Economic Empowerment Bangladesh with Dignity and Sustainability ENRICH: Enhancing Resources and Increasing SFP: School Feeding Program Capacities of Poor Households towards Elimination of their Poverty SRGs: Self Reliant Groups FDMN: Forcibly Displaced Myanmar National UN: United Nations FDP: Family Development Plan UNESCO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation FGD: Focus Group Discussion UNFCCC: United Nations Framework FO: Farmers’ Organization Convention on Climate Change GB: Grand Bargain UNICEF: United Nations International Children Emergency Fund HCG: Hilsha Conservation Group USAID: United States Agency for IDLC: International Development Leasing International Development Corporation WASH: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene IECM: Integrated Ending Child Marriage WDC: Ward Development Committee IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development WF: World Fish IGA: Income Generating Activities WTO: World Trade Organization INGO: International NGO WHO: World Health Organization GDP: Gross Domestic Production annual Table of Content report 2018 report Executive Summery 3 COAST Working Area 9 Management Notes 10 Economic Justice 18 Micro Finance 18 Primary Health Care 20 Disaster Management Fund 20 Radio Meghna 21 Equitybd 23 Social Development Projects and Programs 27 Socio Economic Empowerment with Dignity and Sustainability 27 Integrated Ending Child Marriage Programme In Bhola 30 Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households 31 Enhanced Coastal Fisheries 32 School Feeding Program in Poverty Prone Area 33 Torun Alo (Light Of Youth) 34 Climate Finance Transparency Mechanism (CFTM) 35 Climate Justice and Resilience Fund 36 Ujjibito (Revived): Effective Revival in Lives 37 Promoting Agricultural Commercialization and Enterprises 38 Medium Term Cooperation Project 40 Humanitarian Response to Rohingya Crisis 41 Advocacy at National and International Levels 40 Projects and Programs on Humanitarian Responses 47 FIS/ MIS Microfinance Trend and Sustainable Analysis Audit Report 2017-18 Ensuring Positive Engagement for Promoting annual Sustainable Development To ensure the sustainability of any effort 2018 report towards development and empowerment, positive engagement of the program participants and stakeholders is a must. Ensuring the positive engagement of the participants and stakeholders in its efforts is one of the core development strategies of COAST Trust. To ensure the sustainability of its efforts of socio-economic development, COAST ensures engagement of the program participants in the field level in need assessment, designing programs, monitoring, and evaluation of the programs. Early Child Care Center in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Din M Shibly COAST also tries to engage national-level policymakers and policy implementers in COAST is also promoting the idea of localization of its efforts, COAST believes that positive development and humanitarian aid to ensure the engagement with development actors sustainability of development efforts and sustainability of like government, donor agencies, private the local actors like local and national NGOs. COAST believes sectors, and media is necessary to ensure the that development efforts within Bangladesh should be sustainability of development interventions. If led by local actors like local and national NGOs. COAST is there is any effective intervention in the field promoting a national coordination process of the national level, but if there is no policy support from and local NGOs of Bangladesh. The main aim of this process the national level policymaker and policy is to engage the local actors more in the development arena implementers, it is obvious that intervention and to promote the NGO sector as a third sector along with will not be able to sustain. On the other hand, if the government and private sector. During 2018, COAST any intervention gets support from the policy implemented activities including research, seminar, human level, it can be replicated also in other parts of chain, and public dialogue to promote the idea of localization the country. of aid, especially to promote localization in humanitarian aid That is why positive engagement is must and for Rohingya crisis. that is why COAST is facilitating its advocacy A. Rohingya Influx: Issue of Localization of Aid wing with mostly its own fund. The main Bangladesh is now hosting the world’s largest refugee aim of that advocacy wing is to ensure the camp. As of June 2019, over 900,000 stateless Rohingya engagement of policymakers and related refugees are now residing in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas. key stakeholders and to influence policies From the outset of the crisis, the Government of Bangladesh positively. has saved the lives of nearly one million Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals by keeping its borders open and leading the humanitarian response in close collaboration with the humanitarian communities. COAST was one of the fast and first Local NGO (LNGO) to respond to the Rohingya crisis. COAST started to provide emergency support initially form its own fund. To design and provide the emergency support COAST engaged the affected Rohingya people. Based on their needs COAST was the first organization to provide cooked food and pure drinking water among affected Rohingya people. COAST also started its primary health care support from its own fund. Meeting with stakeholders, Cox’s Bazar Photo: Din M Shibly annual Along with emergency support, COAST also started its advocacy activities to engage different stakeholders to influence policies report 2018 report and to ensure international influence to put pressure on Myanmar and to ensure the repatriation of the Rohingya people to their home country. COAST also organized advocacy and campaign towards the localization of aid in the Rohingya response. During the reporting period, COAST organized different advocacy and campaign programs at the local, regional, national and also at the international levels focusing on localization. Human Chain on Rohingya Issue organized by COAST and CCNF, Advocacy and campaign events included Cox’s Bazar. Photo: SM Tauhid redsearch, public dialogue, seminar, human chain, etc. This process is targeting on uniting local CSO and NGOs for standing protection, adolescent and youth empowerment, women with self-esteem as the development actor of empowerment, gender equality, climate justice, community the country. To do that, COAST is providing radio, and advocacy. secretariat support to Cox’s Bazar CSOs and NGOs Forum (CCNF). CCNF is a network of COAST analyzed the comparison between the results or about 50 local and national NGOs working impacts of 2018 activities with the results and impacts of in Cox’s Bazar and actively involved with the 2017 activities. The analysis shows that COAST has been able Rohingya response. Facilitating the CCNF is to increase its impact and results against all of its 19 major also a part of COAST strategies to ensure the activities. One of the core programs of COAST is to eradicate inclusion and participation of stakeholders in poverty in its working areas. The data shows that during development efforts. 2018 up-gradation of ultra-poor to moderate poor has been increased by 19.2% compared to 2017, upliftiin from ultra- B. A glimpse of Impact of COAST Efforts poverty to moderate level of poverty has been increased by during 2018 8%, the income of participating families has been increased During 2018, one of the major attentions by 15.7%. COAST provides