Project Name : Resilience through Economic Empowerment and Climate Adaptation, Leadership, Learning – REE CALL 2021

Doner : Oxfam GB

Sector : CCA & DRR

Area : Shyamnagar,Satkhira

Time Line : 01-04-2017 to 31-03-2020

Brief of activities :

1. Build up capacity of project staff on organizational development, PCVA, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, RBDA, leadership, crop diversification, other innovations and climate adaptive technology, economic empowerment, markets, and VAW

2. Knowledge Management and Sharing

3. Integration of Emergency Capacity Building Efforts

4. Developed volunteer groups in the disaster-prone communities and trained them during and after disasters

5. Developed contingency plans to address disasters and organized meetings and workshops with Union Parishad to practice ‘Disaster Standing Orders’ improving and strengthening disaster preparedness and humanitarian response during disasters to reduce suffering and loss of property for poor people.

6. Link with Policy & Advocacy issues from local to national level

7. Organize training for CBO members

8. Billboard for throwing message

9. Ponds/ Canals excavation and re excavation foe drinking water

10. Promote WASH techniques and Technologies (Solar Chulli Filter)

11. Community based Marketing Extension Plan (market survey, analysis, market link strategy and marketing plan)

12. Formation of producer groups (sector wise)

13. Conduct social and cultural power structure mapping and analyze

14. Assess the gap and challenges to get access in the services and opportunities - Local level study and finding sharing on their entitlements and service

15.  Direct linkage with WE CAN campaign for greater awareness to ending VAW

16.  Direct linkage with WE CAN campaign for greater awareness to ending VAW

17. Monitoring the incidence of violence against women and link up the cases with legal service providers (union council, police and human rights organizations)

18. Encourage to form women groups, association, adolescent club to develop women confident as leader and social protection from violence

Project Name : Savings and credit management

Doner : Shushilan Own fund &Bangladesh Bank & Inclusive Home solution Fund

Sector : Micro Credit

Area : Satkhira & Jessore

Time Line : 01-01-1992 to 01-01-2020

Brief of activities :

• New Group Formation
•   Savings Collection
•   IGA Selection, Awareness
• Loan Distribution

Project Name : International Citizen Service

Doner : Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO) Bangladesh

Sector : Youth Development

Area : Shyamnagar,Satkhira

Time Line : 1/4/2016 to 31/12/2018

Brief of activities :

• Youth have increased income and enjoy their sexual reproductive health in project targeted villages in Sadar and Tala Upazila under Satkhira District
• Youth become advocates on livelihoods and health issues
• Resource development
•  Peer education
•  Action research / Needs assessment
•   Awareness raising
•  Training
• Community Infrastructure Development

Project Name : Sustaining resilience in the south west coastal community through adopting successful models on advanced agriculture, SME and self-reliant CBOs

Doner : Christian Aid

Sector : Livelihood

Area : Shyamnagar,Satkhira

Time Line : April 2018-March 2020

Brief of activities :

• Continue nursing, trouble-shooting and follow-up of the People’s Organizations (POs) (Shushomoy, Sadhikar, Sujon and Shuvoshakti groups) upto June 2020
• Community Action Plan (CAP) through vision exercise and reviewing PVCA
•  Application and follow up of the CAPs and Visions by up to December 2020
• Confirmation of registration for A category groups by 2018, B category of groups by June 2020, C category groups under registration process by December 2020
• Formal and informal advocacy and consultation meeting with relevant stakeholders
• Inter Organizational Ward level coordination among Shusomy, Shadhekar, Shuvoshakti and Sujon.
• Developing and application of the saving management guideline for functioning group savings
•  Capacity building training for POs on proposed good practices of agriculture, IGAs, SMEs, groups and savings management.
• Scaling up of good practices/models of the composite agriculture, turmeric cultivation, duck farming and sheep rearing.
• Training on IGAs.
• Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise
• Motivate the farmers/ beneficiaries for federation/ collective action to develop marketing channel meeting.
• Linkage with potential private sectors and local government, agriculture and other departments
• Assist to make functional of the farmers sales center through trouble shooting interventions
• Court yard meeting for CCA & ICT
• Review and update of PVCA
• Community action project
• National level workshop
• Staff meeting
• Staff training & planning  workshop
• Result Based Management and Monitoring
• Visibility - reporting & documentation

Project Name : Training/ Orientation officials of UHC and LGIs ( Municipalties) dealing with health matters in urban areas of Bangladesh

Doner : Local Government Division (LGD)/EU

Sector : Capacity Building (taining)

Area : Countrywide Project

Time Line : 01.06.2018-31.10.2019

Brief of activities :

1. Inception meeting with PMU in the MoLGRDC

2. Participate one or more workshops to develop materials for orientation training program organized by the MoLGRDC

3. Collect training modules for the designated coordinator of the MoLGRDC

4. Adopt training materials of all project staff provided by the designated project coordinator from the MoLGRDC

5. Printing of training materials for 1800 copies

6. Develop and Share the training Management plan (including training schedule, session plan) to the designated project coordinator in the MoLGRDC for approval

9. Circulate letter from the MoLGRDC/MoHFW LGIs to its field offices

11. Communicate with the with PMU in the MoLGRDC for finalization of participants list based on each batch

12. Arrange venues and training logistics

Issue of invitation letter to the selected participants and Share training implementation plan including training location, venue, date and time

13. Pre test and need assessment of the trainees

Implementation Phase

13. Conduct 61 batches (each for 30 participants) of orientation trainings based on training schedule by the two teams

14. Conduct post training assessment of the trainees

Monitoring Phase

15. Monitoring and quality control of training program

16. Development and Submission of Reports

Project Name : Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO)”

Doner : UNDP

Sector : Livelihood

Area : Tala,Assasuni,Debhata,Kaliganj,Shyamnagar,Satkhira

Time Line : 06-05-2018 to 31-12-2019

Brief of activities :

• Selection of 65,000 extreme poor women as core beneficiaries
• Employment of 65,000 extreme poor women in public works for an 18-month tenure – 2 cycles in 15 districts; 1 cycle in 7 districts
• Skills training of 65,000 extreme poor women for economic opportunities and post-project employability
• Life skills training of 65,000 extreme poor women
• Promotion of expanded household asset base for sustainable livelihoods development
• Promotion of savings habits amongst beneficiary households
• Counseling of graduated women in selection and operation of a sufficiently large and diversified business portfolio that can protect future livelihoods
• Creation of social capital in support of graduated women and their post-project livelihood activities
• Nutrition awareness campaigns
• Establishment of linkages between service providers, in particular Upazila service providing departments, and SWAPNO beneficiary households and other poor households in participating local communities

Project Name : KHAMATAYAN

Doner : EUROPE AID_Solidarity International

Sector : Agricultura and Good governnece

Area : Assasuni,Sathira Sadar,Tala

Time Line : May 2018 to Deceber 2021

Brief of activities :

Project Name : Resilience Project

Doner : ACF

Sector : Food Security

Area : Fingri and Dhulihar Union satkhira sadar

Time Line : March 2018 to December 2018

Brief of activities :

-Farer Selection-24

-DemoFarm Stablish -24

-Link with Khulna Univercity agro-tech Depertment

-Farmers monitoring

-Resilience Practice

-DRR and Climate Change aduptatio technic sharing

Project Name : Agricultural and water resilience project

Doner : Practical action

Sector : Agriculture

Area : Shyamnagar and Kaligang upazilla of Satkhira,Koyra,Paikghasa Upazilla of Khulna and eshobpur and Monirumpur Upazilla of Jasore District

Time Line : March 2018 to July 2018

Brief of activities :

In Bangladesh, Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district under coastal area is facing a lot of climate change related problems like decrease agriculture production, agro biodiversity, livelihoods potions, physical environment and increase drinking and irrigation water scarcity, social insecurity, women headed families, seasonal and permanent migration from the area. Climate change is affecting most the poor people due to their dependency on natural resources and biodiversity for their livelihoods. Shuvashini Mondal is one of the most climate vulnerable women of South Atulia village under Shyamnagar upazila. Her husband Shachindra Nath Mondal is a farmer. They have two daughters. Traditionally they could cultivate seasonal crops for their livelihood. But due to increase soil and water salinity in their area they shift their profession from agriculture to shrimp farming. Unfortunately for Virus attracts shrimp farming was not profitable and they become day labor.

From 2017 Shushilan start a project on Agriculture and Water Resilience in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh by the support of Practical Action Bangladesh. Under the project Shushilan is providing different kind of technical support of selected beneficiaries as a business model to reduce climate change vulnerability. According to selection criteria Shuvashini Mondal select as a beneficiary who has received practical training on sack gardening and also taken technological input support from the project. As per seasonal crop calendar Shuvashini Mondal start to cultivate diver’s vegetables like chili, tomato, bean, sweet gourd, pumpkin, puishak, korla, borboti, cabbage etc. At present Shuvashini Mondal is producing 250 to 300 kg vegetables and earning 3000 to 3500 thousand taka in every month. Now Shuvasini Mondal is a successful sack gardening farmer in her village.

To see her crop cultivation succession, villagers, UP members and upazila agriculture officer has visited her demonstration. On the other hand, others farmers of this village are taking training from Shuvasini to start sack Gardening. To get training and advice from Shuvasini Mondal 62 families of South Atulia village are cultivating vegetables in sack gardening. For climate resilience agriculture Shuvasini Mondal has increased her skill and capacity. Through the project training Shuvasini has continue connection and communication to 16123, 1090 call centre and Union Weather Board for crop cultivation information and weather update. Shuvasini said,” through the project support I am capable to reduce my climate vulnerability and others are also practicing to see and learn from me. Sack gardening is a climate smart agriculture technology in this saline prone area. I am very much grateful to Shushilan and Practical Action Bangladesh”

Name                     : Shuvashini Mondal

Husband’s Name                : Shuvodra Rani

Address                 : Village; Kalikapur

Union                     : Mowtola

Upazila                  : Kaliganj

District                    : Satkhira

Age                         : 38

Religion                 : Hindu

Marital Status       : Married

Occupation           : House Wife

No. of Children    : One son

BnF ID                    :

Name of Group    :

Vermicompost: Changing livelihood

Soil fertility is most important for quality agriculture production. Due to climate change, top soil salinity is increasing in coastal agriculture area day by day. On the other hand, use of modern chemical pesticide and fertilizer is also obstacle to reduce soil fertility in agriculture land of this area. Shushilan is implementing a project on Agriculture and Water Resilience in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh by the support of Practical Action Bangladesh. Under the project Shushilan is supporting its beneficiaries to make Vermicompost as a business model. Kalikapur is one of the agricultural Village of Kaliganj Upazila under Satkhira District of Coastal Bangladesh. Most of people of this village are involve in agriculture. A group of 9 women farmer has received practical training and technological input support from the project. This climate adaptive technology is contributing to change for livelihood development of the supported beneficiary. Bellow case studies are the reflection for clear understanding. Shuvodra Rani is living in Kalikapur village. She has only homestead land and livestock. She has one son and one daughter but her daughter got married. Her husband is a vegetables retailer. Culturally Shuvodra was responsible for food preparation, water and fire fuel collection, rewiring livestock’s and others activities for her family. But she was not involving any income generating activities. Traditionally her livestock cow dung is used to make fire fuel. According to beneficiary selection criteria Shuvodra has selected as a beneficiary of AWR project. She has received practical training and technological input support from the project. She said,” My husband has a business. He is a vegetable retailer and earning 10,000 taka at least in every month. Now I have also business. I am producing Vermicompost and selling in market and earning. After starting, first month I earn 2500 taka and increasing income every month and last month (March 2018) my income was 7800 taka. Already I have started my business in large scale. I am helping my husband business and he is also helping to my business. Now every month I am contributing economically for our family development. My husband is very pleased for my contribution. I have planned to buy some agriculture land through this business. Shuvodra would like to continue this business until alive”. She also said,”we have 5 groups in three village of this Union and the total member is 34. We have a Union women association. All are trying to practice this women friendly income generating business. Every day farmers from my village and out of the village are visiting our business and taking advice how they can learn and start this practice. Now we have special honor in society. To see the succession DAE has provide economical and equipment support within our two beneficiary. We have accesses to take any kind of decision for family development and have active linkage and communication relationship with DAE, Market, Local Government and villagers also. DAE, Union Parishad, Media and NGOs representatives are also visiting our vermicompost business farm. In ward we earning through this business and also contributing to protect soil health and ensuring human health”.

Name                     : Shushila Rani

Husband’s Name                : Kanu Mondal

Address                 : Village; North Tarali

Union                     : Tarali

Upazila                  : Kaliganj

District                    : Satkhira

Age                         : 33

Religion                 : Hindu

Marital Status       : Married

Occupation           : House Wife

No. of Children    : One son

BnF ID                    :

Name of Group    :

“I am economically empowered through crab nursery”

Crab culture has been playing a vital role in the lives and livelihoods of the farmers in South-Western coastal regions of Bangladesh since the early 1990s. Satkhira district is located in the South-Western region of Bangladesh. Kaligonj is one of the seven upazilas in Satkhira. Fishing is still the main occupation in the area. Many people are also involved in either shrimp or crab culture or both. At present, approximately 3500 poor households in the area are involved in crab collecting, crab fattening and marketing. Shushila Rani is one of the most climate vulnerable women of north Tarali village under Kaliganj upazila. Her husband Kanu Mondal is a farmer and they have two sons. From 2017 Shushilan start a project on Agriculture and Water Resilience in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh by the support of Practical Action Bangladesh. Under the project Shushilan has provided different kind of technical support of its selected beneficiaries to reduce climate change vulnerability and livelihood development. Shushila Rani has been selected as a beneficiary and received practical training and technological input support on crab nursery from the project. To get support Shushila prepare small ponds in her homestead with bamboo fence so that the crabs cannot run away. After 30 to 45 days, the crabs get ready for fattening and she sell them to commercial crab farmers at Tk 15 to 20 per piece. Sushila Rani said she started crab nursery eight months ago and got success in the earliest time. Usually I nurture 500 to 600 juvenile crabs and earn around Tk 10,000 to 12,000 each batch, which is very profitable. My husband helps me in this work and we almost get hundred percent success. From start to till I have sold crabs at TK 34000 from my nursery. Through the project support I am economically empowered and capable to reduce my vulnerability. Others farmer are also coming to see my crab nursery and learning from me. Crab nursery is a climate smart agriculture business in this saline prone area. I have planned to extend my business and will continue. I am grateful to Shushilan and Practical Action Bangladesh for this support”.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

                                                Crab nursery successful in coastal region

Seeing the high demand of juvenile crab many farmers in coastal districts like Satkhira have established crab nursery and successfully changed their financial condition. This is contributing to the uplift of rural economy and women's empowerment as well. Two of the women who become successful by crab farming are Sushila Rani of Kaliganj in Satkhira and Nurjahan Begum of Munshiganj area under Shyamnagar upazila in the district. According to farmers, juvenile crabs weighing less than five grams usually are not collected and thus a large number of juvenile crabs are wasted while fishing or collecting fish in coastal areas. However, the crab farmers collect these juvenile crabs, mostly from rivers and river channels around the Sundarbans, for farming.They prepare small ponds in their homestead and surround the ponds with bamboo fence so that the juvenile crabs cannot run away. After 30 to 45 days, the juvenile crabs get ready for fattening and farmers sell them to commercial crab farmers at Tk 15 to 20 per piece. Juvenile crab farmer Sushila Rani said she started crab nursery six months ago with the help of Practical Action, an international NGO, and got success in the earliest time."Usually I nurture 1,000 juvenile crabs and earn around Tk 15,000 to 20,000 each batch, which is very profitable. My husband helps me in this work and we almost get hundred percent successes," she said. When asked about where she got the idea of nurturing juvenile crabs, Sushila said she received training and subsequent support from Practical Action to run the juvenile crab farming business. Another juvenile crab farmer under the initiative, Nurjahan Begum of Munshiganj of Syamnagar in Satkhira, has become a role model in her area. "Juvenile crab nursery changed my life and livelihood.I got around Tk 15,000 within three months from a single nursery pond," she said. AJM Shafiqul Islam, Capacity Building Coordinator (Food, Agriculture and Market Program) of Practical Action, said they got the idea of establishing crab nursery as there was no crab hatchery in the country."Such crab nurseries are changing the fate of many families. Currently, we are taking care of eight beneficiaries in the Satkhira and many have expressed their interest in such business," he said. He also said this farming had been contributing to climate change adaptation.He said they developed a cluster-based dyke gardening in the salinity-hit Satkhira's Syamnagar area. Under their monitoring and assistance, 20 farmers in the area are involved with dyke farming along with the fish farming which ultimately took out the families from the poverty trap within a reasonable timeframe. Enamul Hossain Chotu, chairman of Tarali union parishad of Kaliganj, said the innovative idea had changed the economic condition of farmers involved in juvenile crab nursery. "In Satkhira district, most of the people are dependent on shrimp farming, which is adding to the climate     change impacts.

Project Name : Housing Project

Doner : Bangladesh Bank

Sector : Housing

Area : Shyamnagar,Kaliganj,Kolaroa,Debhata of satkhira and Keshobpur of Jasore District

Time Line : 2010 to ongoing

Brief of activities :

-218 House Loan Distribution

- Budget Distribution 10757000BDT

- Updated cost up to August ,18 - 10177000 BDT

- Install ment recovery -5212069 BDT

-No Deflter

Project Name : School Feeding Program in Proverty prone areas

Doner : Bangladesh Gov. and WFP

Sector : Education

Area : Shyamnagar,Assasuni,Tala,Kaliganj and Kolaroa Upazilla ,Satkhira

Time Line : January, 2017 to December , 2018

Brief of activities :

- 865 School of Assasuni,Tala,Shyamnagar,Kaliganj and Kolaroa Upazilla,Satkhira District.

-139524 Studends  Received High Energy buiscit perday

-Daily school Monitoring

-CMC Meeting attend

-School Follow up

-School Gardenning

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Project Name : Nobo Jatra Project

Doner : WFP-Europe aid

Sector : Food Security and Livelihood on Clyment change Issue

Area : Shyamnagar and Kaliganj Upazilla,Satkhira

Time Line : January 2017 to December 2018

Brief of activities :

• Conduct on 11 UDMC Meeting of Kaligonj Upazila and Present UDMC Member 221 in this meeting.
• Conduct UDMC Refreshers Training and Present UDMC Member 64 in this meeting.
• Conduct 01 day Youth group review meeting and 271 was attend in this meeting.
• Conduct RRAP Validation session and 156 participants was attend in this session.
• Conduct 2 Union CRA Field assessment and 870 participants attend in this session.
• Conduct 2 Union CRA Field assessment and 870 participants was attend in this session
• Conduct 2 VDC Training session and 38 participants attend in this session
• Conduct Youth Group review meeting and 271 participants attend in this session.
• Participant’s bKash account open for CCT-MCHN 250 out of 277 and orient them for Financial Literacy Training on E-Money Account Management
• Banglalink SIM Registration and distribute to CCT-MCHN & PG 250 participants.

Conduct HH level Disaster Preparedness Plan of 03 Union and 3062 participants received DPP-Card and aware by YGV.

Project Name : Nobo Jatra Project

Doner : World Vision Part

Sector : Clymet Change and Adaptation (FSL and Nutrition)

Area : Shyamnagar,Kaliganj upazilla Satkhira and Koyra and Dacope upazilla Khulna.

Time Line : February 2017 to March 2020

Brief of activities :

Nobo Jatra, a five years USAID food for peace Tillte-11 Development food assistance program commenced September 2015 led by world vision Bangladesh (WVB), it is a shared commitment with world food program (WFF) and Winrock International (WI) as sub guarantees and is implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) of the government of Bangladesh. It has been implementing in the south west coastal areas of Bangladesh, in four Upazilas under two districts like Dacope, Koyra, Kaligonj and Shyamnagar. This program goal is ‘Improved gender equitable food security, nutrition and resilience of vulnerable people within Khulna and Satkhira district in Bangladesh.’ In this connection, Shushilan has been working as a partnership with Nobo Jatra project led three components like Promotional graduation-savings group, social accountability and gender at ShyamnagarUpazila. In December-2017 component wise monthly report are given bellow:

Major Achievement: 

In July 2018 the following major activities has been done successfully at Shyamnagar Upazila under Social accountability, promotional graduation & Gender components. The activities are:

• Staffs meeting at Upazila level-monthly meeting.
• Action plan follow-up meeting (CC)
• Conduct FGDs with service providers on monitoring standards.
• Facilitate FGDs with service receiver for Scorecard session.
• Share the results of the monitoring standards and scorecards in CVA Phase 2 interface meetings and develop a community owned action plan including community and government contributions.
• Regular pursuing and motivation to standing committees to hold their meeting (bi-monthly) regularly.
• Facilitate monthly VDC meeting.
• Coordination meeting among VDC leaders at union level.
• Civic educating on agriculture. 
• Conducted of Marriage Not Before 18 Campaign at Upazila and Union level
• Performed of 01 community theater at Upazila level
• Day observation of National Birth Registration Day
• Conducted of Upazila CPC Meeting
• Conducted 463 Life School Based Education Session in 78 groups under 39 Schools
• Conduct 66 Community Life Skill Based Education session in 12 Groups
• Conducted 151 Male Engagement sessions in 71 groups
• Conducted of Networking meeting with GO/NGO
• Facilitate graduation program for the extremely poor
• Finalize graduation beneficiaries based on set criteria
• Business   support committee formation (CSLG wise)
• Support and Ensure procurement of inputs for IGA 1 (1st cohort)
• Support and Ensure procurement of inputs for IGA 2 (2nd cohort)
• IGA selection of beneficiaries’ household visit of graduation program
• Meeting with Village Development Committee for advocacy and promotion of savings group within the community people:
• Mobilize graduation participants on savings activities and trained on specific training module in the group meeting:
• First Savings Meetings:
• Conduct initial assessment of quality of implementation
• Compiled CSLG Financial Report
• Significant Activities of SG Component