Donor: Normisjon, Norway and own contribution

Project period: January 2012 – December 2016

Project Area: 4 upazila (Tahirpur, Biswamverpur, Derai, Sunamganj Sadar) under Sunamganj district.

Project Goal: The goal of the project is to achieve secured livelihood, health, education for the poor and marginalized people of Sunamganj, ensure environmental sustainability of the area and a more equitable society.

 

Objective: Three project objectives are as follows:

 

1. Enhanced community capacity to manage health, education, livelihood security and environmental sustainability more successfully and effectively
2. Poor and marginalized peoples of the project area have access to existing government services and the GoB service delivery system is more responsive
3. Poor and Marginalized peoples of the project area have got support service of SWF for more community capacity in livelihood, health, market development, human rights issue and strengthening institutional capacity

• Gender based violence (GBV) is reduced and social justice and gender equality situation is improving

Project Program (Output): Five Program Components are designed as major types of output to be achieved to contribute to the project objectives:

1. Community Capacity Enhancement
2. Livelihood Security and Environmental Sustainability
3. Models of Support Services
4. Advocacy for Entitlements and Services
5. Gender justice and human rights

The above-mentioned components are designed to be more congruent with the goal, objectives and role of the SWF. These are also congruent with the main strategy. The MTE and final evaluation recommendations were considered to formulate the components. However, as it is the second phase of the project, the previous activities remained similar under the reframed templates. The subcomponents are as follows:

1. Community Capacity Enhancement

• Formation of Village Committee
• Formation of Peoples Organization (Health, Livelihood and Gender & Human Rights)
• Formation of Peoples Organization for Indigenous, Gipsy, Horizon and Thieves
• Conduction of Training for strengthening of PO
• Staff Development Training

1.  Livelihood security and environmental sustainability

• Development local service provider for PO-Health, Livelihood and Gender and Human Rights
• Development local service provider for Indigenous, Gipsy, Horizon and Thieves
• Environmental development
• Climate change adaptation

1.  Models of support services

• Livelihood Development
• Model support for Gender and Human Rights
• Infrastructure and Equipment for model support service
• Furniture for Peoples Organization
• Furniture for Village Health Center

1. Advocacy for Entitlements and Services

• Advocacy for Health, Sanitation, Networking and other services
• Intersectional Community Platform
• Publishing, Media and Campaign

1.  Gender Justice and Human Rights

• Social mobilization
• Response and Prevention Gender Base Violence(GBP)
• Strengthening Local Government
• Cultural campaign

Result: The most important results have been achieved during the project period 2012-2016 as bellow:

• Perceptions of people on the People’s Organizations have a positive response and community people are interested to develop self-institutions for self-development.
• Community peoples introduced modern technologies in the agriculture sector; farmer’s interests in adapting new technologies are increasing. There has been changed in the attitude of the people; the farmers are benefitted in many forms; getting many crops in small plot of lands.
• Through primary health care services and sessions on health awareness; awareness has been created among the community people to receive modern medical services; peoples are more interested to have services from skilled and trained service providers. Ultimately it contributes to reduce death rate during child births and infant stages.
• The community people articulate their opinion on the intervention that the women are now aware of their rights; they can now move out from their four walls of lives. They have independently undertaken significant measures to stop and minimize early marriage; polygamy and illegal divorce as well as gender-based violence in the family and community level.
• Before the intervention of ICDP, women did not know how to involve with economic earning activities; now they are involved with economic earning activities and they earn additional income which help to meet their family necessities. This indicates the empowerment of women in family and in community levels.
• As community people have gathered knowledge and techniques on disaster risk reduction and climatic change adaptation; adaptation capacity and protection technique initiatives have been improved among the project beneficiaries against climate change affect and sudden or seasonal natural calamities. It helps them to avoid uncertain damages of wealth and lives.
• A cohesive functional relationship among POs, LSPs, CSOs and Government agencies have been developed which will be helpful to continue social development activities after the project support is phased out.