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2014 Bangladesh Annual Review 2012 Transforming the Lives of Extreme Poor People in Bangladesh Annual Review 2012-14 Our Our Partners & Donors Identity Pages 33-35 Pages 1-5 Contents Our Our Money Matters Achievements Pages 31-32 Pages 6-25 Our Graduation Measurement Pages 26-30 For more information, please contact: Sadia Hossain [email protected] Photo credits : Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh, Sadia Hossain, Shafiqul Alam Kiron, Design & Production: Habibul Haque, Shehab Uddin, Mahmud, Amin Head Office Communication House 50, Road 10A, © Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh, 2015 Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka 1209 Country Director’s Message It is my great pleasure to present to you the programmatic achievements of Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh from 2012 to 2014. Concern aims to support people living in extreme poverty and vulnerability through its humanitarian response and long term development programmes focusing on livelihood, health, nutrition and education, while addressing inequality, disaster risk and impact of climate change as cross-cutting themes. We have introduced digital data-gathering and analysis techniques for monitoring and evaluating our work, using which we measure the key outcome indicators in all our programmes annually. Over the last 3 years, we have continued our steady progress towards achieving our organisational objectives, and maintained a high level of achievement in Bangladesh. These achievements in programmatic results, including our success in helping people graduate out of extreme poverty, have been captured in this book. None of these achievements would have been possible without the continuous support of the people we work for, the Government of Bangladesh, the partner organisations, and the institutional and individual donors. I take this opportunity to thank you all, and look forward to our future collaborations to end extreme poverty in Bangladesh. A. K. M. Musha Country Director Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh Our Identity About Concern Worldwide Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering, and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Our vision To work towards a world where no-one lives in poverty, fear or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy and creative life; a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our mission To help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives which last and spread without ongoing support from Concern Worldwide. To achieve this mission, we engage in long term development work, respond to emergency situations, and seek to address the root causes of poverty through education and advocacy. 1 Concern Worldwide in Bangladesh Founded in 1968, Concern Worldwide was formally established in Bangladesh in 1972. Over the last 43 years in the country, we have been working relentlessly to alleviate extreme poverty by focusing on these 3 dimensions - i) the lack of and/or low return to assets, ii) inequalities, and iii) risks and vulnerabilities. Extreme poor households How we Inequalities Risks & Vulnerabilities understand extreme poverty Lack of &/or Low Return to Assets Using a programmatic approach to best tackle the emerging poverty pockets, we have structured our work into different contexts - Urban, Char, Haor and Coastal programmes, along with our Emergency response programmes. We work through direct partnerships with 35 implementing organizations, including various consortia, coalitions and humanitarian clusters. All our programmes are designed with interventions at 3 levels: micro – at the community and union levels; meso- at the sub-district and district levels; and macro- at the national level. Working at these 3 levels, we aim to reduce extreme poverty by addressing hunger, maternal and 2 child health, primary education, inequality, and disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh. Our Guiding Objectives Our ultimate goal is not a short-term escape from extreme poverty; rather, we want our programme participants to sustain themselves even after our programmes are over. We want to enable more than 6,00,000 men, women, and children currently targeted by our which will allow them to move out of extreme poverty. programmes to graduate out of extreme poverty permanently, or to make signi�icant improvements poverty lines. This overall objective is linked to the overarching goal of the Government of BangladeshThis will be de�inedto in 2 ways- through our context-speci�ic poverty analyses, and also the national reduce poverty from 31.5% in 2010 to 13.5% by 2021 set in the Perspective Plan of Bangladesh 2010-2021. Freedom from hunger through increased Our incomes & assets. Country Access to maternal & child Strategic Plan health care services. Access to education for all children of 2011-15 primary school age. states 5 specific Respect & equal treatment for extreme objectives: poor or socially excluded people. Protection from loss of life, injury, or asset due to natural disasters or climate change. 3 Where We Work PANCHAGARH LALMONIRHAT THAKURGAON Lalmonirhat NILPHAMARI KURIGRAM DINAJPUR RANGPUR Urban Programme GAIBANDHA JOYPURHAT SHERPUR SYLHET Char NAOGAON Sunamganj BOGRA JAMALPUR NETRAKONA SUNAMGANJ Programme CHAPAI NAWABGANJ MYMENSING HABIGANJ MOULAVIBAZAR Rajshahi RAJSHAHI KISHOREGANJ Haor NATORE SERAJGANJ Kishoreganj Habiganj TANGAIL Programme GAZIPUR PABNAPabna NARSINGDI BRAHMANBARIA Coastal KUSHTIA MANIKGANJ MEHERPUR N.GANJ RAJBARI DHAKADhaka Programme CHUADANGA MUNSHIGANJ JHENAIDAH MAGURA FARIDPUR COMILLA SARIATPUR CHANDPUR KHAGRACHARI MADARIPUR JESSORE NARAIL GOPALGANJ FENI LAKSHMPUR BARISAL NOAKHALI SATKHIRA PEROJPUR KAPTAILAKE PATUAKHALIPatuakhali Satkhira CHITTAGONG KHULNA India Khulna BHOLA RANGAMATI BAGERHAT Barguna BARGUNA SANDWIP HATIA RANGABALI BANDARBAN KENDRAPARA JAGATSINGHPUR Odisha COX’S BAZAR MYANMAR 4 Bay of Bengal How We Measure Our Work Since 2013, we have been using Digital Data Gathering (DDG) – a custom-built mobile application for real-time data collection, to conduct our Annual Outcome Monitoring and Graduation Survey for all programmes in 2013 and 2014. dataOur innovativethat is more DDG reliable process and uses of aa highercloud-based quality. platform With DDG, developed we are by able PSI to Mobile, manage which and analyseallows us data to gatherquickly data and faster cost-effectively. and more ef�icientlyThis helps than us monitor paper-based our performance methods. It accurately,also yields and make effective decisions accordingly. The DDG process 2 4 6 8 Survey Data Live data Data 1 translated 3 5 collection; 7 9 backup & analysis Survey built, & Survey tested Data trouble- Data Report questionnaire tested imported �ield enumerator shooting cleaning generation designed to mobile training platform 5 Our Achievements Programmatic Results, 2012-14 Our Programmatic Results, 2012-14 *BL -Baseline (2011) *BL: $ 3,401 2012 Monthly income Monthly of households $ 4,201 2013 $ 5,505 2014 $ 6,642 Children enrolled inprimaryschools enrolled Children *BL: $ 4,216 Monthly expenditure Monthly 2012 2012 74% of households $ 4,238 2013 2013 $ 6,405 80% 2014 $ 7,723 2014 84.2% 2012 household assets Livelihoods Education Total value of value Total $ 20,453 2013 Children attending primary schools attending Children $ 28,111 2014 2012 $ 33,592 67% 2013 Households employed *BL: 16% 53% 2012 in occupations 21% 2014 2013 81.4% 36% 2014 47.3% *BL: 4 Dietary diversity in Dietary diversity 2012 households 5.2 2013 6.3 2014 7.3 7 77% 72.4% 62% 61.5% 54% 53% 52% 49% 30% 27% 19% 18% *BL: 46% *BL: 17.3% 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 Penta-3 vaccination for children Antenatal care visits by skilled Acute respiratory infections & Children (0-23 months) whose (12-23 months) health personnel diarrhoea treatment for births were attended by children (under 5 years) by skilled health personnel Results, 2012-14 Results, trained practitioners Health Households Households Households using reliable knowing the following drinking water 5 critical improved sources moments for hygiene 89.9% 67.6% hand washing practices 31.7% 71% Programmatic 57% 23% 41% 33% 21% *BL: 9.6% Our 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 8 *BL -Baseline (2011) 85.9% 65.9% 19.7% 29.8% 3.9% 2014 62.4% 41% 13% 22% 35% 2013 56.6% 48.3% 5.6% 15% 26.4% 2012 *BL: 47% *BL: 39.8% Women’s in�luence & Women's control over Women’s involvement in Households receiving Incidence of engagement in household important resources representative community assistance from Social gender-based violence decision-making in households structures Safety Net programmes in communities Empowerment 100% 50% 42.6% 31% 14.3% Households aware of at least 4 preparedness *BL: 15% Our Programmatic Results, 2012-14 Results, Our Programmatic 0% measures against disasters 2012 2013 2014 Disaster Risk Reduction *BL -Baseline (2011) 9 Programmatic Results, 2012-14: Geographic Areas URBAN INTEGRATED PROGRAMME PROGRAMME GOAL To transform the lives of urban pavement & squatter dwellers by improving their lives & livelihoods, & addressing their issues of rights & entitlement. SECTOR FOCUS Livelihoods, Health & Education WORKING AREAS PLANNED DURATION Dhaka & 2012 – 2016 Chittagong PROGRAMME BUDGET DIRECT BENEFICIARIES BDT 472,707,050 22,456 (until 2015) 8,541 13,915 5,013 $ 7,331 7,064 8,463 6,864 7,120 7,601 12,767 12,991 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 6.5 7.8 7.9 58.5% 65.7% 42.4%
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