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Anticipate, cope and recover from the negative impacts of Covid-19 worsened by Cyclone Amphan Bangladesh has been identified as one of the 22 most vulnerable countries affected by COVID-19 outbreak . The Government lockdown in Bangladesh have continued for a number of months has now been lifted with strict social distancing measures in place from 31st May. Despite this, Bangladesh is continuing to see growing numbers of positive cases and has witnessed the record of highest coronavirus deaths in a day (40 cases) on 31st May 2020. The official number of fatalities in Bangladesh now stands at 650 with under 50,000 positive cases. The average sample test result of 15.26% in Bangladesh is the 2nd highest in SAARC countries. 

To further compound this extremely challenging situation, on 20th May 2020, the destructive Super Cyclone Amphan passed through Bangladesh hit the coastal south west region of the country, particularly affecting the disadvantaged people in Khulna and Satkhira districts. Preliminary findings from the Needs Assessment Working Group indicate that over 2 million people have been affected with crops, homes and businesses destroyed. The food crisis has been worsened by the 2-month Lockdown preventing aid agencies to previously access these remote areas. and support to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable (who are not working) limited.  

With this project DAM aims to provide immediate support to at least 675 households of severely affected vulnerable people of DAM’s ongoing project “PEPSEP”. The project is aligned with the government and private Hospitals. The proposed project will provide the ‘food and dignity kit package’ for survival. The health awareness campaign will also be carried out in the urban area to reduce the impact of Covid-19 as much as possible.
Emergency Flood Response Since 13 August continuous rainfall in north and north-eastern Bangladesh, together with the onrush of water from upstream, have caused flash floods in low-lying and densely populated areas. 
More than 800,000 people have been affected, including 500,000 displaced (ACAPS briefing note, 27.08.2014). 
Caritas Bangladesh has conducted a brief needs assessment in Sirajganj district, where a reported 48,000 households have been affected (CB assessment, 27.8.2014). Following the result of the needs assessment, Caritas Bangladesh plans to undertake immediate emergency relief for 1,000 families who have been severely impacted by the flooding. The emergency relief will provide the 1,000 families with supplementary food for up to 15 days, cash support for essential household items and Cash for Work for ongoing support to 500 people whose livelihoods have been disrupted. The project will work in 4 unions in 2 sub-districts of Sirajganj. The project will be completed within 45 days of the start date.
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Community Managed Basic Education Project (CMBEP) Caritas Bangladesh has been supporting access to education for poor and hard to reach communities for over 36 years. In many areas, their education centers are the only schools available for children. Despite significant progress in numerous regions, in recent years many areas are at risk for closure of their education centers, due to lack of funding and lack of government contributions. Since the COVID pandemic, communities are facing high levels of poverty, with many unable to pay the school fee. There is an increased risk that without funding, the education centers will close and over 11,000 children in hard to reach areas will therefore have no access to education. Since 2019, Caritas Bangladesh have enabled 9 education centers to continue, however, there are 301 education centers still in need of funding and support. This is vital to ensure that schools remain open, teachers are paid, and families are supported.

This project supports the continuation of 301 education centers in the Chittagong Hill tracts, enabling over 11,300 students to continue education and 352 teachers to maintain employment. The project will cover the areas inhabited mainly by the ethnic communities, who live in extreme poverty and face discrimination in accessing education, food security, employment, health care.
Sustainable Reintegration of the survivor/trafficked Bangladeshi returnee migrant workers (SuRe) A total of 3.4 million Bangladeshis have migrated overseas for employment during 2018-2022, roughly 700,000 per year. The remittances sent by Bangladeshi migrant workers was nearly USD 20 billion per year during the last five years which plays a significant role to increase the country's foreign currency reserve having a trickle down effect on the overall economy of the country. Unfortunately, the government does not ensure fair and ethical recruitment system which put thousands of workers in trafficked situation in the migration cycle. Though the government maintains a database of the outgoing migrants, there is no system in place to record the information of the returnees. OKUP has provided direct assistance to the vulnerable returnees since 2010. Roughly 300 to 400 survivor returnees including the victims of trafficking have received direct assistance from OKUP annually. 

Building upon a CAFOD project focusing on reintegration of returnee migrant workers, this project will provide co-funding to OKUP on a UODC funded project supporting survivor women and girl returnee migrants who have been trafficked and abused. Areas of support include: trauma informed psycho-social support, access to safe houses, medical assistance, legal aid and entrepreneurship development training. CAFOD's contribution is toward a key element of the project: the 'Peer Counseling' model that was undertaken by OKUP in the previous projects which seeks to create a community-led support system for the survivor returnee migrant workers through capacity building and mentoring of peer counsellors.
Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Urban Communities in a Multi-hazard coastal areas Given the high vulnerability and exposure of urban areas in Bangladesh to multiple hazards (both natural and man-made) it is important that, with partners, we improve our understanding of urban vulnerability, hazards and develop robust and sustainable resilience building methods. 

Conventionally CAFOD and its partners have focused on rural community based DRR projects in addition to mainstreaming DRR thinking across other sectors such as livelihoods and humanitarian relief. However projections of urban growth and climate change indicate that urban risk will increase dramatically over the next 10 years. Resilient cities can help reduce poverty, increase growth and employment opportunities, deliver greater social equity, fresh business opportunities, more balanced ecosystems as well as better health and improved education. 

In order for CAFOD and our partners to address future urban risk it is vital that we undertake a needs assessment which is interlinked with urban DRR capacity building workshop. This proposed pilot scoping study will identify and document various existing coping strategies and adaptive practices of urban households in Bangladesh. Thus this initiative will help design the next phase, a practical application to enhance adaptive capacity of some urban households.
Alternative Options for Access to Safe Water for the coastal area International Training Network - Bangladesh University for Engineering and Technology (ITN-BUET) will  use their research expertise to construct community rainwater harvesting systems with solar and UV based purification systems, introduce simple household level desalination plant generated by solar power, and modified Pond Sand Filters (PSF) to provide access to safe drinking water for large numbers of people, and also will modify current sanitation system.  
 
ITN-BUET will also provide technical advice to CAFOD partner Action on Disability and Development (ADD) who will be providing disabled friendly sanitation in another project. Another CAFOD partner DAM will also be part of the coordination, learning and sharing meetings, as they are also working on disaster preparedness project in the same sub-districts (Mongla and Rampal).  ITN-BUET will work closely with Caritas, and will collaborate with other CAFOD partners ADD and DAM, and also with relevant government organization/university such as Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) and Khulna University in this project.
Safeguarding Mainstreaming for Caritas Bangladesh CAFOD has been working with Caritas Bangladesh over a number of years to strengthening their accountability to the people and communities they serve and to protect their staff. Support has included protection mainstreaming training, some short term safeguarding sessions and support to develop a Safeguarding Policy which approved by Caritas Bangladesh's General Body in May 2019. Caritas Bangladesh has now developed a strategic and holistic project to train all their staff and volunteers (over 6,000 people) across Bangladesh on the Safeguarding Policy, to strengthen systems and practices around safeguarding and to ensure all people, including children, young people, women and vulnerable adults are adequately protected within Caritas Bangladesh's work. The project will include design materials, strengthening systems and training all staff and volunteers. Additionally, it includes developing a holistic and transparent feedback and complaints mechanism across the organisation. 
Due to the size of this work, Caritas Bangladesh will be jointly supported by a working group from CAFOD, CRS, Caritas Australia and Caritas Denmark. This group will include technical safeguarding experts including support from CAFOD's Safeguarding Advisor. The project is jointly funded by these organisations in support of Caritas Bangladesh.
Empowering Ethnic Communities to Defend their Land Rights and Promote Conservation Land is life to the ethnic community people of Bangladesh. They are dependent on land for their life, livelihood,  culture, religion, food and water. The land and forest is like their mother. For many reasons the indigenous people are losing their land including through forceful occupation by the powerful people or businesses or by the Forest Department. In other cases poverty is leading people to mortgage their land or they are being evicted due to government policies which favour the powerful. 
This project will work in Greater Mymensingh region where there are 8 different Ethnic community peoples who have been struggling for land rights for many years. Caritas Bangladesh and BELA will work together to strengthen the capacity of ethnic community people to establish their rights over their land and other rights while promoting bio-diversity conservation and development.
Caritas Bangladesh will lead the project on the ground and mobilize the community and CBOs of the ethnic community peoples for awareness raising and capacity building through different meeting, seminar, workshop, training etc. BELA will provide a technical and professional legal support for the Indigenous People and CBOs to initiate advocacy interventions with the policy makers at National and International level on land and other rights as well as ecology and conservation issues. For example  demanding a separate Land Commission for the Indigenous People of the Plain land.
Safeguarding training with Caritas Bangladesh GFEMS project team Consultant to undertake training on basic safeguarding, staff expected behaviour, reporting and managing sensitive complaints to the project staff.
Training will be provide on:
The latest safeguarding concepts, practices and guidance appropriate for the country context. Topics should include VAWG, protection, child rights and safeguarding reporting and referral processes (referring to Bangladeshi laws and referring to Caritas Bangladesh’s existing Safeguarding policy and other relevant policies). 
The latest gender equality concepts.
Improved food and livelihood security in Bangladesh (CAFOD) This project is part of a programme in which four Bangladeshi partners are collaborating together in order to address food and livelihood insecurity, which were identified as the key problems in Bagerhat district.  CAFOD has appointed a Programme Co-ordinator based in Bangladesh to coordinate the reporting and monitoring, and ensure that the programme is well implemented in accordance with the programme documents and the contract with the European Commission.
Access to Land and Food Sovereignty Project This grant is a solidarity grant to support BKF's core work in supporting landless people to access government land which they are entitled to under Bangladeshi law. With CAFOD's support, BKF will initially scope areas in the country where government land is available and not being distributed to the landless people. BKF will then arrange a serious of workshops to raise awareness on the Land Act, and other legal rights around land. Additionally, BKF will provide awareness to rural communities on food sovereignty. The workshops, will be followed by demonstrations and petitions to the relevant local and national government officials for the right to the land. In incidents where land is not distributed according to the law, BKF will mobilise the landless people to occupy the land, raise their voice and demand their rights. The 3 year support is expected to reach 1,000 landless families in Bangladesh.
Documenting the Lives of Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence This is a small solidarity grant to support Naripokkho and help to strengthen CAFOD's gender justice work in Bangladesh. Narripokkho are a member based women's activist organisation committed to the advancement of women's rights and entitlements, while building resistance against violence, discrimination and injustice.   This funding will support Naripokkho's activism around the issue of violence against women in Bangladesh, and will aim to raise the issues faced by survivors of sexual abuse and rape, including the issue of honour, family and societal exclusion and treatment of survivors. 
The grant will support work on a project called the Forgotten Women of 1971 which is supporting survivors of rape and sexual assault during Bangladesh liberation war. Many of these women were rejected by their family and community, and are living in extreme poverty. Naripokkoho and likeminded organisations have worked tirelessly to advocate for the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to recognise these survivors as 'freedom fighters' a term used in Bangladesh to recognise a persons sacrifice to Bangladesh during the 1971 war. As a result of this work by Naripokkho, the GoB has recognised these women as freedom fighters, giving them access to government welfare support allowance. This grant will help to fund a documentary which will raise awareness on the extremely challenging and poor conditions the women live in and be used to advocate for the way survivors of rape and sexual abuse are seen and treated in Bangladesh society. It will be an important advocacy tool to challenge issues of honour and treatment of women more widely in Bangladeshi society. 
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UK Aid Match Fund III: Climate Resilient Agriculture (Caritas Bangladesh) The project is part of a consortium based programme in which 5 organisations are collaborating together to support poor women, men and children from hazard-prone or marginalised rural communities to adapt their livelihoods strategies to better cope with climate-related shocks and stresses. Caritas Bangladesh will work in the districts of Dinajpur, Sunamganj and Rajshahi on activities related to climate-resilient sustainable livelihoods, DRR, improved access to markets and access to solar powered irrigation. Activities include, training on climate-resilient agriculture, input and equipment support to promote climate-resilient livelihoods, awareness raising on DRR and capacity development of Union Disaster Management Committees. Market linkage support for Caritas Bangladesh’s project participants will be provided by Practical Action Bangladesh. Caritas Bangladesh aim to reach a total of 96,376 people (14,377HHs) in this 3 year project.
Improvement of livelihoods through honey bee farming This project will support 2,250 (500 families) extremely poor people, including adivasis (indigenous), landless and women headed households to undertake multi-cropping and inter-cropping, including the production of crops favourable to honey bees. The project will also train and provide inputs for 200 families to start beekeeping which will form part of wider Integrated Crop Management for improved crop yields. Ten bee-keeping groups will be formed, which will provide a platform for the participants to discuss learning, receive training and support each other. Small holder farmers groups will also be formed to train and disseminate techniques on multi-cropping and promote crops which benefit from bee pollination. 50 people will be supported as honey sellers and provide links between the producers and market.

The project will be implemented in Dinajpur in northern Bangladesh where the climate and topography is suitable for beekeeping for 9 months of the year.  In this area, small and marginal farmers, particularly adivasi and women headed households suffer from food insecurity. Major reasons for this include low productivity of land, reliance on one rice crop, lack of capital and lack of knowledge on diversified cropping. Bees are of great economic importance as they not only produce honey and wax but act as primary pollinating agents for many crops varieties. This project will introduce this technology to exploit opportunities for honey production and improved crop yields for marginalised farmers. Beekeeping also plays an important role in sustainable agricultural development as it supports the environmental balance.
COP 27 Partner Support Costs Provision of support to BELA Director for her flight costs and partial accommodation costs for the COP 27 event taking place in Egypt in November 2022.
Climate induced migration and modern slavery in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India The south-west border region of Bangladesh with India, close to the Sundarbans mangrove forest has some of the most vulnerable districts to climate change. At the same time the region is a hot spot for trafficking and modern slavery. On the Indian side of the border there are high levels of trafficking and in Bangladesh forced labour, child exploitation and trafficking are rife. The whole area is hugely vulnerable to climate change, including high intensity cyclones and sea level rise. Floods and tidal surges frequently breach embankments, flooding areas with saline water which destroys crops and drinking water. The loss of land, livelihoods and decreasing productivity trigger migration. With more and more people looking to migrate, they rely increasingly on trafficking networks. Those most vulnerable are women from women headed households, children, and men from extreme poor families. Victims are forced into hard labour working in sweatshops or in construction with others being forced into prostitution. Modern slavery conditions can also be found in the Sundarbans region, including labour exploitation through fish and shrimp production and processing, as well as brick kilns where debt bondage is common. 

With this in mind, CAFOD has developed an 18-month pilot initiative which aims to support research and then scale interventions which address issues of climate change and modern slavery in the Sundarbans (both in Bangladesh and India). The project will start by forming a partnership with a leading academic institution  or organisation to conduct a detailed assessment of the link in the Sundarbans (both in Bangladesh and India) between climate change, environmental degradation, migration and modern slavery. The findings of this study will be used to inform and refine project activities with aim to reduce the prevalence of people most affected by climate change and environmental degradation falling into modern slavery.
Emergency Assistance to the households severely affected by floods 2020 in Chandpur district In August 2020 at least 5.49 million people of 1,057 unions of 160 upazilas in 33 Districts of north, north-eastern and middle parts of Bangladesh were flooded due to heavy monsoon downpour and overflowing of rivers.  

CB are proposing a 3 month project (August 15, 2020 to November 14, 2020) to provide Unconditional Multi-purpose Cash Grants (MPCG), distribution of hygiene kits and awareness raising sessions on COVID-19 & hygiene promotion targeting 3,288 people located in remote areas of Chandpur district. CB has targeted the most affected families in terms of loss of livelihood and shelter due to the riverbank erosion.

 The impact of the 2020 Monsoon floods on affected communities is especially severe and complex - given the prolonged inundation and complications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Social distancing and hand-washing are almost impossible to maintain as flood affected people are displaced and evacuating to congested shelters where WASH facilities are also compromised. Losses of income caused by COVID-19 make it even harder for families to recover.
Replacement of lost livelihoods assets for most affected households following 2011 floods - DAM Exceptionally heavy monsoon rain from late July to August 2012 affected or damaged crops, fish/shrimp/crab ponds, other household assets and income generation activities. Approximately 4,277 households of the ‘Improved Food and Livelihood Security’ (IFLS) programme beneficiaries in Bagerhat district, Bangladesh were affected. 

This grant will support DAM's response to the needs of beneficiaries who are most affected by the floods: households that lost their livelihoods assets and households that are severely vulnerable owing to the floods. Activities will include strengthening plinths, repairing houses and provision of energy efficient portable stoves.
Vocational training and entrepreneurship support to support marginalised families. This project aims to improve the income, livelihoods and living conditions of the most disadvantaged and marginalised people, including women, indigenous people and people living with disabilities. The project will directly target four Unions of Kalapara sub-district in Patuakhali district, on the southern tip of Bangladesh. The project will reach a total of 200 people with vocational and entrepreneurship support benefiting a total of 900 people including their family members.

The project design follows the successful completion of a 3-year project in Bangladesh, supported by CAFOD and funded by the UK Government. Learning from this project found that many extremely poor people benefit from specific agriculture-based support, but these traditional agriculture projects often exclude extremely vulnerable groups such as people living with disabilities and those who have no access to land, such as women, some young people or indigenous groups. 

Caritas Bangladesh, with support from ADD (a specialist disability organisation), will carry out an assessment in the local community to understand suitable livelihood options for marginalised people, including people living with disabilities. This assessment will draw together the interests and abilities of people to participate in such livelihoods as well as analyse the local market potential to earn a sustainable income from the livelihood options. Following the assessment, Caritas Bangladesh will develop modular courses specially tailored to marginalised groups, such as those with disabilities and women. 

Expected results of this project are;
1.	200 disadvantaged and marginalised individuals (130 men, 70 women) are trained in technical trades of their choice.
2.	80% of trainees have increased earning capacity as a result of the training received.
3.	80% of trainees have secured employment or income generation activities:.