The project will improve the maternal and child health status of women by creating an enabling environment to ensure service seeking, mobilizing collective community actions to support and hold government service providers accountable to increase the provision of quality services.

Since 2012, CARE Bangladesh has been implementing an innovative public private partnership to address the shortage of health human resource issues in remote areas with funding from GSK’s 20% profit reinvestment policy. To address the above issue, the project has developed 300 Skilled Health Entrepreneurs (SHE) in Sunamganj and 110 SHE in Netrokona district supported by communities, public health system, and Local Government bodies. The private providers are accredited by Bangladesh Nursing Council with six months’ community skilled birth attendant training complemented by community based integrated management of childhood illness (C-IMCI), FP, nutrition and social entrepreneurship training. Each provider has a market size of about 7500 population and is supported

“Vulnerable Supply Chain Facility (VSCF)” project, a UK Aid funded initiative which aims to benefit nearly 1 million people in developing countries. CARE is working with Marks & Spencer (M&S) on a jointly on this initiative. The joint venture is working together to improve health services for 80,000 factory workers, of 25 factories from selective areas of Gazipur, Savar and Valuka. Facilitated by CARE, the trainings and awareness include maintaining personal hygiene, the importance of frequent handwashing, nutritious food intake, and maintaining menstrual hygiene, awareness about COVID-19 such as maintaining physical distance, and certainly wearing masks, COVID-19 vaccine intake and registration related training. Other includes training and awareness includes pain management, family planning, anti-sexual harassment training, and many more.

IMAGINE stands for Inspiring Married Adolescent Girls To Imagine New Empowered Futures. The goal of this project is to identify, design, and test interventions that hold promise for delaying the timing of first birth among married adolescents and importantly, document and share learning from this initiative with the wider development community to inform others working to address the issue of adolescent childbearing.

Promoting worker well-being project designed to ensure that partnerships with targeted stakeholders include workers’ voices and influence business plans and practices, by building a cadre of competent and experienced women worker leaders. Dignified Work for All will promote the wellbeing of women workers by strengthening their capacities and increasing the leadership, representation and voice of women in Bangladeshi industry and society.

The multi-country Tipping Point project addresses child marriage through a dynamic process of innovation, insight, and influence through advocacy in Nepal and Bangladesh. The project focuses on identifying the root causes of child marriage and facilitates innovative strategies to create alternative paths for adolescent girls. Grounded by this work, the project also seeks to influence the way policymakers, donors, researchers, and civil society approach the issue of child marriage, specifically to steer the global discourse beyond short-term solutions. The project works with adolescent girls and boys, parents, community and religious leaders, and nationally with networks of social activists, experts, and government agencies. These areas are both geographically and economically isolated from other regions. CARE expects this learning and innovation initiative to contribute to global understanding of the complex issues driving child marriage and strategies that can contribute to a “tipping point” of sustainable change to prevent child marriage and create viable alternative paths for adolescent girls.

Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) will work to strengthen the HR development and management systems in order to provide equal access and control over career development processes for the female garment employees. The programme seeks to improve women’s access to leadership in the RMG sector- with a focus on line leader and supervisory roles.

“Action for Supporting the Host Communities: Adaptation and Resilience” (ASHAR ALO) project funded by USAID has the main focus on WASH, Shelter, DRR through cash for work activity and GBV in Ukhiya and Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar. After successful completion of intervention in Jaliyapalong Union of Ukhiya Upazila, in the current phase the project is targeting Haldiyapalong and Ratnapalong Union for Shelter, Settlement and WASH activities and Palongkhali Union for GBV and protection activities. For DRR activity the project has targeted Chakmarkul Union of Ramu Upazila. CARE has also applied for a top up funding of USD 2 million for further extension of project coverage and reach.

Promoting Resilience to Risks of Natural Hazards (PRERONA) will support communities in Cox’s Bazar to anticipate and be resilient to natural hazards and disasters. Through physical improvements to Multi-Purpose Cyclone Shelters (MPCS), communities will have safe, accessible shelter and school infrastructure that is adapted to natural hazards that reduces disaster risk. In addition, through local capacity building, communities will be better able to plan for disasters in order to increase resilience, reduce climate change impact and ensure continuity of education. The program will support the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), particularly the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and local government, to maintain facilities that are essential to the disaster preparedness of communities in Cox’s Bazar.

“Piloting and Expansion of Flood Preparedness Programme (FPP)” is a unique approach to combine Forecast based Action and Early warning to reduce loss & damage in the flood-prone districts in Bangladesh. The Programme is being piloted in flood hotspots area of Jamalpur and Kurigram districts. CARE Bangladesh in implementing the “Piloting and Expansion of Flood Preparedness Program (FPP)” in collaboration with NRP, DDM-Part. A pool of 1440 FPP volunteers have been created and trained in target 20 unions of Kurigram and Jamalpur. The volunteers contributed to reduce suffering, loss and damage of vulnerable people during 2020 foold although they were just trained by CARE. This year, the volunteer will be given refreshere along with introduction to a web-based flood risk model which is being developed by IWFM-BUET (Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), technical partner of donor.

“Supporting Flood Forecast-based Action and Learning in Bangladesh” (SUFAL) is funded by European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and is being implemented in a consortium led by CARE, with Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief and technical support from Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES) in the three flood-prone districts/sub-districts along the Ganges-Brahmaputra river, namely Kurigram, Gaibandha, and Jamalpur. SUFAL focused on developing the Forcaste based Action (FbA) approach to saving lives and assets through community-based early actions; which means the definition of triggers and identification of early actions are done to implement early actions to support the whole community. The project is currently working on no-cost extension till June. Meanwhile, Phase II proposal for USD 1.58 million has been submitted and the propoeal is at the the final review stage with high likeliness of being awarded. As like the phase I, CARE will lead the consortium likely to be started from early July ’21 through to January ‘23.

The overall objective of this project is to achieve the desired positive public health impact from zero open defecation, use of improved sanitation facilities, safe hygiene behavior and ensuring safety sustainability of safe water through arsenic-safe union and water safety communities’ declaration.

Krishi Utsho (KU) Microfranchise has established a network of branded rural agro input supply shops to meet the needs of smallholder farmers. Through operating at the last mile, the network acts as an one stop solution center for over 51,000 smallholder farmers, particularly vulnerable women in Northwest and Southwest of Bangladesh, contributing to their increased productivity and resilience. Apart from the supply chain network KU has initiated non-traditional financing and customer relationship management system for rural farmers.

Living Blue produces high-quality, hand-made products dyed naturally using Bengal indigo to retail in high-end markets, under its own label. The surplus generated by the social enterprise contributes to the general well-being of local communities and help to create sustainable social, cultural and economic life. It is owned and managed by the indigo farmers, dyers and artisans.

CARE Bangladesh’s ‘Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities’ (SHOUHARDO) is one of the largest food security programs in Bangladesh as well as in the world. Following the trail of two successful cycles in the past, SHOUHARDO is now in its third phase of implementation. As an integrated and multi-sectoral program, it acts on ensuring food security, maternal and child nutrition, women and youth empowerment, improved governance and disaster resilience for the poor and the extreme poor households. The program is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a complimentary funding from the Government of Bangladesh. The six implementing partners of SHOUHARDO III are Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM), Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO), Mahideb Jubo Somaj Kallayan Somity (MJSKS), National Development Program (NDP), People’s Oriented Program Implementation (POPI) and SKS Foundation.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the existing agricultural extension system in 20 districts in South-West and Central Bangladesh in order to sustainably improve food security  

This project, which forms part of President Obama's Global Health Initiative (GHI),supports the delivery of essential service packages through a network

CARE's Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO) III is designed to address food security and nutrition challenges for Poor and Extreme Poor (PEP) communities in Bangladesh's Haor and Char regions. It covers 947 villages in 115 unions in 23 upazilas and 8 districts. This multi-sectoral program covers, agriculture and income promotion and diversification; maternal and child hygiene and nutrition, building resilience in communities and two cross-cutting result areas on women and girls empowerment and improved public service provision to program recipients. SHOUHARDO III is funded by USAID under its Development Food Security Activities (DFSA) mechanism and has received non-matching contributory funding from the Government of Bangladesh (GoB). It is hosted by the Local Government Division of the ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives of the GoB.
For more details visit http://carebangladesh.org/shouhardoIII/

The goal of JATRA is that Union Parishads' public finance management systems are strengthened, transparent and aligned with the Local Government Act 2009. The core objectives are: strengthening capacity of the citizens, especially the poor and the marginalized, to engage in budget planning and implementation; strengthening provision and access to information and influencing social accountability practitioners with knowledge and learning for improved results through constructive collaboration and effective networking. Various governments' institutions, from the local to the national level, will benefit from stronger accountability mechanisms which will ultimately strengthen the local government Division and the effectiveness of the decentralization system of the government of Bangladesh. The JATRA project has been awarded by the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability and will be implemented in 8 Unions of Nilphamari district under Saidpur and Kishoregonj Upazilla; and 7 unions of Gaibandha district under Polashbari Upazilla; located in the North-West of Bangladesh.

Funded by DG-ECHO over a period of 18 months, DIPECHO VIII is being implemented in all Unions in Kurigram Sadar, building community disaster resilience by enhancing the capacity of existing institutions and government agencies. The project strengthens and expands the institutionalization of Disaster Management Committees by enforcing the implementation of the existing Disaster Management Act and the Standing Orders on Disaster. It consolidates community-led inclusive processes by using the Community-Based and School-Based Disaster Preparedness approaches, promoting resilient livelihood practices and advocating for policy implementation and accountability. This project is a continuation of DIPECHO VII, which was implemented by the National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives (NARRI), titled 'Building a disaster resilient Bangladesh'.

The OIKKO project ('unity' in Bengali), contributes to the realization of fundamental rights of workers in the RMG industry. The project applies a workforce empowerment approach for female workers supporting them in both the workplace and the communities they live in. Marginalized and socially excluded female workers joining into solidarity groups (the OIKKO impact group) will reach and inspire more than 18,000 co-workers and community members. Alongside initiatives with unions' and labor rights organizations' will inform and motivate up to 22,500 workers to associate and link into the grass-roots labor rights movement. The Project is funded by European Union.

Female farmers are not recognized in the agriculture sector with their earnings negatively influenced by gender based discrimination. The project aims to strengthen the role of women farmers in agriculture by increasing the productive engagement of poor women in climate resilient agriculture; and contribute to their empowerment and resilience. Simultaneously, it aims to enhance the scale of climate-smart agriculture programming in CARE; and contribute to the global discourse that surrounds women, climate change and agriculture. The project is funded by MAC Foundation.

IMIHB aims to improve the maternal health status of women, primarily who work in 'ready-made garment' factories, and the health of their children in Bangladesh. It will directly benefit 63,000 people through capacity building, awareness generation and referral linkages. IMIHB is to be implemented in 4 upazilas (Sadar, Kaligonj, Kaliakoir and Kapashia) of Gazipur district. The project is funded by ANCP and Target Australia

The project aims to create open defecation free (ODF) communities comprising of 100,000 people; promote hygiene among 333,000 people with hand wash demonstration by at least 84,000 people. As part of the hygiene promotion intervention, it will rehabilitate water and sanitation facilities in 100 schools and hand wash facilities in 180 schools to promote improved hand wash and sanitation practices of 43,000 school children (as part of the 333,000 group mentioned earlier). The interventions will be implemented through Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, government health workers' capacity building for awareness generation and School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS). The project is funded by UNICEF.

The overall goal of this project is to enhance resilience of targeted urban communities and institutions to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, & recover from shocks & stresses. The project is being implemented in Gazipur which is a newly formed city corporation. The city hosts many garment factories and industries and vulnerable to different hazards such as water logging, fire, earthquake etc. CARE intends to address both shocks and stresses and works at both community level and institutional level in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and Bangladesh National Plan for Disaster Management.The project is being funded by C&A foundation.

The JNA, which was being used as a rapid information tool in the past, has now started again to provide much needed information on the humanitarian needs during natural disasters. The Project is jointly carried out by HCTT (Humanitarian Coordination Task Team) consisting of international NGOs including CARE, IFRC and UN organizations. This project is to help humanitarian practitioners, government and in-country decision makers to make informed disaster management plans and respond accordingly. The project is funded by DFID and ECHO.

This project aims to establish a sustainable and comprehensive SRH and nutrition program delivery model which can be replicated to ensure consistent access and availability of health and nutrition services and information related to health and GBV emergency and awareness to garment workers and their families. The project is developing a multi- sectoral sustainable partnership model, collaborating with garment factory owners, garments workers, BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufactures & Exporters Association), municipality/city corporation authority, and other local NGOs. The project is funded by GSK.

CARE has been working in the Tangail brothel since 1995, and has implemented a number of projects aimed at protecting the rights of sex workers and improving their conditions including the most recent EC funded SEEMA Project. As a follow up to that, CARE is carrying out an assessment of the humanitarian needs of the evicted sex workers, create awareness on the conditions and risks faced in the sex trade and carry out advocacy with the government for protecting the human rights of sex workers.

The project is distributing cash (BDT 1,800 per household), non food items, bathing and laundry soaps and ORS to 7,000 households affected by the flood. In addition, the project also plans to carry out health and hygiene sessions separately for the flood affected men and women to inform them about the essentials of health and hygiene especially during a flood. The distribution is being carried out adhering to gender sensitivity and people with special needs, with embedded mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability to the beneficiaries. The project is funded by CHAF, CARE and Humanitarian Coalition.

This project is a strategic funding for research, institutional strengthening and innovation under which CARE Bangladesh has previously carried out critical formative research and analysis in the areas of private sector engagement, governance, climate change and women empowerment. In the current phase, the PPA is supporting contextual research for program development in the southwest and northeast of Bangladesh, financial inclusion of marginalized women, governance and social accountability and pilots in the agro value chain and agro inputs distribution. The Project is funded by DFID.

The "P.A.C.E. at Community", an innovative project of CARE aims to have positive impact in the lives of marginalized female migrant workers,employed in the formal-informal sectors, in the urban areas. The project focuses on upgrading their literacy and life skills, enabling them to advance in the workplace and in life. With the support gained from this initiative, women will be able to address their issues better; negotiate their needs and demands with various stakeholders; and gain access to knowledge and necessary skills. It will also help them form important relationships for personal advancement and career enhancement. The project is currently reaching out to 600 urban migrant workers living in the Gazipur District. This project is funded by Gap Inc.

The project is a continuation of two years planned interventions of GWEEI-Phase I. The aim of the project is to create an enabling environment in which women attain their full potential, positively contributing to their careers and personal lives. This project works with 15 factories with approximately 30,000 garment workers (>80% women). It also works with factory management - approximately 45 mid-management staff. CARE is working with these factories and women on life skill development i.e. health, hygiene and nutrition, communication, gender, decision making, time and stress management, rights and responsibilities etc. A further 1500 women will receive training on their leadership skills that will assist them in their lives and careers. This project is funded by Walmart Foundation.

The overall goal of the project is to improve resilience of targeted vulnerable communities, in five villages in Kurigram district, to the impacts of the increasing variability of rainfall patterns by promoting adaptive agricultural practices and sustainable water resource management. The project has been designed based on the findings of "Where the Rainfalls" research project. The project will target 3,500 small farm holders and assist them to efficiently use available water and adopt adaptive agriculture practices. Linkages will be established with key stakeholders from Department of Agriculture Extension, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute and Bangladesh Rural Academy. The project is being funded by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

To meet the commitment to the UN Secretary - General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health and MDG 5, CARE Bangladesh has been implementing ICT4RH project to strengthen the supply of quality Maternal Health/Family Planning service and stimulate the demand for these services. The project aims to increase equitable access to and utilization of family planning methods and maternal health services among women of reproductive age, particularly the poor and the marginalized. The project is funded by UNFPA.

CARE Bangladesh in partnership with Uttaran and MJF is implementing SALE project with an overall objective to strengthen access to land and property rights for all citizens, especially the poorest part of the community in line with the overall Access-to-Land program. The project should play the role of a facilitation to engage NGOs to interact and take the support to ensure transparency and accountability in land administration and management through introduction of digital land management system for updating land records in the targeted areas. The project has been implementing in three Upazilas i.e. Amtoli Upazila of Borguna District, Mohanpur Upazila of Rajshahi District and Sadar Upazila of Jamalpur District. The project is funded by European Commission.

This multi-country project aims to learn about strategies to influence change-makers and root causes (drivers) of early forced marriage. In Bangladesh, CARE works in three sub-districts of remote Sunamganj District in Sylhet Division, Approximately 5,000 marginalized girls and boys are benefitted directly and 150,000 indirectly through peer groups, school management committees, youth "fun centers," campaigns and mediation. The Project is funded by the Kendeda Fund.

The initiative seeks to improve the delivery, monitoring and uptake of essential nutrition interventions and practices through the local health and food system and the community. The project area covers all unions of Ashashuni and Shayamnagar Upazilas, under Satkhira district and all unions of Muradi Upazila under Barisal district. This is an UNICEF funded project.

The project aims to significantly improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children in resource poor areas by decreasing stunting in young children (6->24 months) by decreasing maternal and child anemia (6->24 months). The program has five components: IYCF, Maternal health and nutrition, Women Empowerment, WASH and Food Security. The intervention areas are Biswamvarpur and Derai Sub-districts of Sunamganj district. CARE Bangladesh is implementing the project through existing government health system strengthening and multispectral approach. The global strategies of implementation of Nutrition at the center project are advocacy, capacity building, social and behavior change and data driven management. Nutrition at the Center has established a great example of Pubic Private Partnership (PPP) having effect from community to national level. In the community level, community clinic (grass root level health facility) works as the implementation hub for N@C activities. The project is funded by Private Donor of USA.

This project plans to assist approximately 60,000 farmers engaged in jute cultivation and 4 million people engaged in the ancillary jute subsector in Bangladesh. It aims to support a value-chain based market engagement strategy planned to improve productivity and income of poor and marginalized farmers and workers so that they can benefit from increased consumption of jute diversified products in Asia and Europe. SWITCH-Asia is a European Union funded project.

This project works with 35,000 smallholder farmers in northwest Bangladesh to double their dairy-related incomes. The project aims to address the major challenges to improving smallholders participation in the value chain, including farmer mobilization and education, access to markets and access to productivity-enhancing inputs in the remote areas. Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Phase II is a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project.

The aim of the project is to reduce HIV transmission rates among the most at-risk populations (both male and female) of Bangladesh. CARE Bangladesh in partnership with local organizations will achieve this goal by operating 31 drop-in centers as well as scaling up service access through outreach work and partnership with a range of key stakeholders. The project is funded by the Global Fund.

CARE-GSK CHW Initiative works in the Sunamganj district with the overall goal of improving health outcomes of women and children under two years of age in traditionally underserved and poor communities of Bangladesh. This is a Glaxo Smith Kline Bangladesh funded project and is a unique public-private partnership in the health sector in Bangladesh.

ETU II works to sustainably graduate 45,000 extreme poor households out of poverty. SETU II is facilitating a community-led total development process to empower women and men in extremely poor households. The SETU II approach provides a holistic and sustainable way of working by ensuring the institutionalisation of development processes within and beyond the community. The project is being implemented in 25 Unions of Gaibanda, Rangpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat districts. SETU II is an EEP/Shiree project, supported by UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID) in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB).

The initiative addresses the root causes of child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) by engaging girls, boys, parents, and community leaders. Promoting girl-led activism and the rights of adolescent girls through centering the voices of adolescent girls, evidence generation for gender transformative approaches, and strategies in South Asia (Bangladesh & Nepal), West Africa, and the Middle East, and multi-level advocacy and cross-learning efforts across the globe. Phase 3 is the culmination of six years of multi-level programming and advocacy to critically engage the discourse on CEFM. The current phase centers on girls’ experiences and evidence-based strategies to facilitate transformative change. To do this, we work alongside and support movements that seek to expand the voices, choices, agency, and rights of adolescent girls and also build on the growing body of evidence and programmatic experience from Phases 1 and 2 to influence positive change on girls’ rights and CEFM alongside donors, governments, and our peers.

Empower adolescent girls (both married and unmarried) by providing them with knowledge and skill sets on SRHR, gender, communication, negotiation, and self-reflection which are being delivered through a structured life skills education program and engaging with key stakeholders in the community & beyond. The project is also creating and expanding opportunities for adolescent girls; promoting a supportive & gender-equal environment; strengthening governance; enhancing sustainability and impact of child marriage programs; building partnerships & engaging with Community-Based Organizations (CBO), and community outreach. As a result, adolescent girls at risk of and affected by child marriage are effectively making their own informed decisions and choices regarding marriage, education, and sexual and reproductive health; sectoral systems and institutions effectively respond to the needs of adolescent girls and their families; and legal and political response to prevent child marriage and to support pregnant, married, divorced, or widowed adolescent girls.