Project name: Empowering Women and Girls Project
Project duration: 16 August 2024 to 30 June 2025
Project location:
| SL | Unit | Upazila | District |
| 1 | Suruj | Tangail sader | Tangail |
| 2 | Deuty | Kaunia | Rangpur |
| 3 | Damkura | Godagari | Rajshahi |
| 4 | Jaldhaka | Jaldhaka | Nilphamary |
| 5 | Nayadiary | Gomastapur | Chapainawabgonj |
| 6 | Ranirbander | Chirrirbander | Dinajpur |
| 7 | Jointapur | Jointapur | Sylhet |
Direct beneficiaries: 5,000 Women and girls
Indirect beneficiaries: 18,865
Total Budget: 163,59,068/- (BDT)
Objectives:
- Provide technical and vocational education and training (TVET) to 5,000 women and adolescent girls through safe centers to enhance their skills and empower them economically through employment or self-employment, thereby improving their quality of life. This includes establishing linkages with institutions and entrepreneurs in the fields of business and employment.
- Organize awareness events for 5,000 women and girls on human rights, gender equality, legal empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
- Conduct awareness events for 5,000 women and girls on public health services and their right to equal access to such services.
- Provide training to women and girls on how to use digital platforms related to public health services.
- Raise awareness among community members about public health services and their right to equal access to such services.
- Conduct awareness sessions for men and boys on human rights, gender equality, and their role in transforming social norms.
- Develop a support mechanism like Safe Help Desks to encourage community members to engage in social transformation.
- Train community leaders on gender equality, human rights, holding the state accountable for gender equality, and networking.
- Identify women’s rights and civil society organizations and provide them with advocacy training to influence the state in implementing gender equality laws.
- Train women’s/women-led rights organizations on community mobilization.
- Train volunteers on community mobilization.
- Organize community awareness campaigns on gender equality, human rights, and gender-based violence through street plays, mobile theater, and evening shows.
- In collaboration with local and school authorities, assist both girls/women and boys/men with or without disabilities in re-enrolling in open or formal schools.
- Establish open school centers and safe learning centers in collaboration with local and school authorities.
- Monitor the use of Aptus devices in pilot schools/centers.
- Provide training to school teachers and management committee members on addressing gender-based violence.
- Train school committee members on prevention and response to gender-based violence in schools.
- Train community members on how to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in schools.
- Include women farmers with disabilities or from marginalized backgrounds in sustainable agricultural practices and provide relevant training.
- Provide training on financial literacy to women and adolescent girls with disabilities or from marginalized groups and help them develop business plans for e-commerce.
- Link and assist women farmers and entrepreneurs to access microcredit from financial institutions.
- Provide training to persons with disabilities/marginalized groups on climate-related issues.
Trades wise participant list:
| Sl | Unit | Trades | |||
| Computer | Dressmaking and Tailoring | Vermicompost | Total | ||
| 1 | Suruj | 240 | 270 | 205 | 715 |
| 2 | Deuty | 240 | 270 | 205 | 715 |
| 3 | Damkura | 240 | 270 | 204 | 714 |
| 4 | Jaldhaka | 240 | 270 | 204 | 714 |
| 5 | Nayadiary | 240 | 270 | 204 | 714 |
| 6 | Ranirbander | 240 | 270 | 204 | 714 |
| 7 | Jointapur | 240 | 270 | 204 | 714 |
| Total | 1680 | 1890 | 1430 | 5000 | |
Total Staff:
| SL | Designation | No. | Place |
| 1 | Project Manager | 01 | Head office & field office |
| 2 | Senior Program Organizer (M&E liaison) | 01 | Head office & field office |
| 3 | Program Organizer (Gender equal committee) | 01 | Head office & field office |
| 4 | Accountant | 01 | Head office & field office |
| 5 | Technical Trainer (Computer) | 07 | Unit office |
| 6 | Technical Trainer (Dress making and Tailoring) | 07 | Unit office |
| 7 | Agro based Trainer & Facilitator | 07 | Unit office |
| 8 | Care Taker cum Night Guard (CTNG) | 07 | Unit office |
| Total | 32 |