devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Promoting Education for Early Learners (PEEL) (Bangladesh):  This activity produces and broadcasts audio visual episodes for television to support the education of early learners.  In addition to the television program, an innovative teacher training program that gives teachers the tools and knowledge they need to create a supportive and interactive classroom environment, incorporating inclusive education strategies.  Other school-based interventions will engage children at pre-primary and early primary levels with educational content that addresses issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI.) Community-level interventions. This early learners' activity supports two USAID Education Policy priorities: 1) increasing access to quality education for pre-primary aged children, particularly the most marginalized and vulnerable, and 2) preparing children for school by developing their literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills. With FY 2022 funds, USAID will improve the learning outcomes of marginalized, pre-primary and primary level children in private/non-government organization schools. The activity will support the education of early learners through the development and broadcasting of television programs; development and distribution of video episodes and other education materials to schools; training of teachers; and increasing awareness of communities, parents, caregivers, and teachers to ensure their support towards ensuring quality education of marginalized children. This activity will meet the basic education ($650,000) earmark.
Improved Capacity for Energy Access-ICEA Improved Capacity for Energy Access-ICEA
Humanitarian Assistance The program goal is to to contribute to improved institutional response to natural disasters through strengthened national level coordination and collaboration in disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions in Bangladesh.
Promoting Advocacy and Rights Activity (PAR) (Bangladesh):  The Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR) activity works to strengthen the capacity of civil-society to advocate for improved democratic governance and establish partnerships to improve government responsiveness to citizens' needs.  USAID provides local organizations with grants to build their advocacy capabilities and supports the advocacy efforts of coalitions of civil society organizations (CSOs) and local government agencies to address community problems, such as gender-based violence, drug addiction, environmental pollution, and unplanned urbanization.  The advocacy model involves an initial community survey in which CSOs and citizens prioritize social concerns or community problems.  CSOs then form a coalition of stakeholders, including local government agencies, and then develop a charter of action to collectively advocate for change and to address a specific social issue or community problem.  USAID will continue to provide CSOs with technical support so they can conduct a variety of strategic advocacy campaigns with the goal of increasing the confidence of citizens in their local government's ability to resolve community problems.  USAID will also provide CSOs with digital security tools to help them learn about their legal rights and compliance responsibilities.  This IM contributes to meeting the required GBV ($200K), Child Marriage ($1M), DRG ($1.7M), and Freedom of Expression ($300K) earmarks. This activity will be in line with the State-USAID Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) Mission Goal Two and the U.S. government development objective of enhanced opportunities for an inclusive, healthy, educated society, and a robust economy.. .
Improving Nutrition through Community-based Approaches (Bangladesh):  .The Improving Nutrition through Community-based Approaches activity is designed to improve communities' knowledge of nutritional requirements during the first one thousand days of life (from conception to 24 months of age), and increase access to and use of health and nutrition services at targeted health facilities. The activity addresses high levels of stunting and malnutrition in 11 priority sub-districts across three districts. The activity trains and supports Community Nutrition Promoters to reach '1000-day' households with counseling on infant feeding and care practices. In addition to household visits, the Community Nutrition Promoters provide community and family support through sessions with mothers, fathers, mothers-in-law, and adolescents. The activity improves the quality of nutrition services by training providers in nutrition and building the capacity of established community clinic management groups to advocate for support from district health officials...This activity is aligned with Agency-wide objectives under Global Health such as Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths. Undernutrition is estimated to be an underlying cause of 45 percent of child mortality and anemia contributes to 20 percent of maternal mortality. Thus, investing in nutrition is fundamental to achieving the goals of the Call to Action and Sustainable Development Goals. This project contributes to United States government's support of the 2025 World Health Assembly targets for nutrition...This activity is also designed as a tool to enhance the knowledge, and increase access to and use of health and nutrition services. The activity supports the U.S. National Security Strategy, the State-USAID Joint Strategic Plan Goal Two, and the U.S. Government's mission objective of improved health status in Bangladesh..
Strengthening Democratic Local Governance (SDLG) The overall goal of the SDLG program is to improve transparent and participatory public administration at the sub-national level and to enhance legal and policy reform at the national level in order to promote and expand decentralization.
USAID's Youth are Resilient, Interconnected, Socially Cohesive and Engaged (YouthRISE) Activity (Bangladesh):  USAID's Youth are Resilient, Interconnected, Socially Cohesive and Engaged (YouthRISE) activity addresses social cohesion issues stemming from the influx of Rohingya refugees in the Cox's Bazar area. This activity supports young people in the host communities to become more resilient to impacts of conflict, more capable of frequently resolving local conflicts in peaceful and non-violent ways, and less likely to be involved in violence. YouthRISE will help youth in the host communities address underlying economic grievances, strengthen skills for constructive engagement, and address harmful gender norms. With FY 2023 funds, USAID will provide livelihood training to 1,200 youth, coupled with life-leadership skills, to strengthen their social and economic resilience and their ability to address potential conflict in their communities. This activity will also engage youth in the informal justice system, and involve 3,000 youth in events, training, and other interventions designed to build mass support for peace and reconciliation. This activity meets the Rohingya Community ($0.5 million) earmark and contributes to Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 1.1 - Bangladesh is more capable of protecting its sovereignty,population, and borders, combating terrorism, and countering violent extremism and USAID's CDCS Mission Development Objective 4 - Strengthened resilience to climate change and other shocks by increasing Bangladeshi youth's resilience to conflict and violence.
IMPROVED FOOD SECURITY OF VULNERABLE GROUPS Improved Food Security for Vulnerable Groups
FTF Bangladesh Horticulture, Fruits and Non-food Crops Activity (Bangladesh):  The FTF Bangladesh Horticulture, Fruits, and Non-food Crops activity supports the Government of Bangladesh's food security objective by increasing the productivity, profitability, and quality of selected horticulture value chains, including fruits and non-food crops. The activity strengthens the efficiency of market systems that result in an increased quantity of safe products, while bolstering the analyses and implementation of policies and regulations that enhance market systems. With FY 2023 funds, the activity will support private sector agribusinesses to address challenges that they face in supporting smallholder farmers to produce quality products through small grants. Increasing the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices will make Bangladesh's food system more resilient to shocks and stressors, increase farmers' incomes and food security, and advance Bangladesh's inclusive economic growth. The activity will partner with the private sector to engage young men and women in productive enterprises. The activity will seek new opportunities to increase the financial resilience of small and medium enterprises to adopt improved management practices, technologies, and digital tools, and mitigate and recover from emerging shocks. The activity supports the U.S. government's objectives of improved food security and increased fair and reciprocal trade and investment and aligns with the Indo-Pacific Strategy because it increases private sector engagement and competitiveness. Funding for this activity contributes to the Digital Technology, Connectivity, and Cybersecurity Programming - Indirect ($200,000); Microenterprises and Livelihoods ($500,000); Youth in Development ($200,000); Small and Medium Sized Enterprises ($700,000); and Women Owned Small Medium Sized Enterprise ($350,000) earmarks and key issues.
NOBO JATRA  'NEW BEGINNING II (NJP II) nobo jatra  'new beginning ii (njp ii) activity is proposed to sustain and solidify key service delivery systems that build the resilience of vulnerable populations in the khulna region. njp ii builds on learning and experience from the usaid funded nobo jatra project (njp) and the usaid led rfsa lessons learned workshops in 20211 to provide continuation of support for selected service delivery systems; leveraging established partnerships with government of bangladesh (gob) and the private sector utilizing established programmatic platforms.
USAID's Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Support (YES) Activity (Bangladesh):  USAID Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Support (YES) activity addresses drivers of conflict stemming from the influx of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar area.  One of the main objectives of the YES activity is to increase market-oriented vocational skills for in-school and out-of-school youths.  The training curricula is created to provide youths with leadership, soft skills, and promote social cohesion.  The activity is specifically designed to target unemployed, unskilled, illiterate and out of school youth, with special focus on female youth.  With FY 2021 funds, USAID will enhance the capacity of local actors, such as civil society organizations, local businesses and local government agencies, with the goal of developing social and economic resilience in host communities.  USAID will build partnerships with local businesses to connect trained youths with employers through job fairs, internships, and apprenticeships.  It will link beneficiaries to financing opportunities to encourage youth entrepreneurs.  With the FY 2021 fund, this activity will also support efforts to counter violent extremism by teaching youths positive-coping techniques and conflict mitigation skills.  This IM meet $400K of the DRG earmarks..This activity will be in line with the State-USAID Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) Mission Goals One and Two and the U.S. government development objective of strengthened resilience to shocks and stressors..
Protecting Human Rights (Bangladesh):  Using FY 2015 funds, the Protecting Human Rights (PHR) activity will continue its work to reduce domestic violence and child marriage and prevent violence against women including sexual harassment, and other human rights violations.  To achieve these goals, the activity will train more than 8,000 Government of Bangladesh (GOB) officials, police, judges, lawyers, elected local representatives, teachers, and civil society organizations to improve their ability to prevent violence against women and child marriage.  The activity will also organize educational and motivational sessions in 101 schools in USAID-assisted areas and provide 66 legal counselors to increase access to justice for survivors of domestic violence through alternate dispute resolution and formal legal proceedings.  Finally, the PHR activity will support the GOB in adopting and enforcing comprehensive women's rights and domestic violence policies, including an amendment of the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act.
FTF Bangladesh Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition (Bangladesh):  .The Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition Activity will provide training and technical assistance, and strengthen market systems, which will enable the availability and accessibility of livestock services such as feed, fodder, veterinary services, and breed improvement through artificial insemination technology. As a result, livestock productivity will significantly increase, reducing the dependency on importation of livestock and livestock products from regional countries especially during the Eid festival. These will result in an increase in household income and nutritional outcomes through increased access to hygienic, diverse and quality food; and, nutrition awareness and practices. ..The activity provides training and builds the capacity of local service providers who in turn provide training to the farmer communities. The local service providers are local entrepreneurs, trusted among farmer communities, and will likely continue delivering livestock services to the farmers over time. Increasing livestock productivity will contribute to Bangladesh's food self-sufficiency. It has created expanded access to Bangladeshi markets by U.S. agribusinesses through the import of ingredients for animal feed, such as soybeans. This activity supports the Global Food Security Strategy, and the U.S. government's mission objective of improved food security in Bangladesh..
Enabling Environment for Media and Free Flow of Information Establish legal and regulatory frameworks that protect the freedom of association and assembly and that promote an enabling environment that protects and promotes civil society and citizen participation. This includes but is not limited to ensuring that legal frameworks enable CSOs to form and operate freely, promoting the sustainability of the CSO sector (e.g., philanthropy and tax concessions for CSOs, access to resources, volunteering), and supporting public participation around changes to legal frameworks and their implementation (e.g., public hearings, instructional seminars, and conferences). This aspect also includes strengthening advocacy, networks, grassroots coalitions, and public support for reforms related to the enabling environment for civil society. This does not include funding for activities carried out by civil society related to Rule of Law, Human Rights, or Political Competition, which are captured by areas DR.1.2 Culture of Lawfulness, DR.1.5 Fairness and Access to Justice, and DR.3.3 Political Parties.Strengthen the organizational capacity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for policy analysis and oversight, advocacy, coalition-building, internal governance, membership representation and services, and providing sustainable services that consistently meet the needs, priorities, and expectations of their constituents and communities. Areas of capacity development may include, but are not limited to, technical expertise (e.g., democracy, legal reform, standards of care); CSO self-regulation (e.g., establishing CSO Codes of Conduct); organizational capacity (e.g., strategic planning, financial management and accountability, public relations and outreach, revenue generation, accountable fundraising, constituency relations, member services, relationship management, learning and adaptation); and advocacy training.Support activities that advance citizen engagement to hold governments accountable and to participate actively in economic, political, go
Humanitarian Assistance Mobilization and formation of local volunteer groups including community disaster response teams (CDRTs); formation of sub-district, district and national level landslide task forces (LSTF); early warning system simulations; observation of World Environment Day, National Disaster Preparedness Day (NDPD), International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR); training volunteer groups on first aid, search and rescue; installation of rain gauges; training community volunteer groups on rain gauge operation and maintenance; integration of on-cast rainfall data into bmd portal for assembling and forecasting; standardization of LEWS protocol and validation; strengthening and capacity building of UDC and DMC structure on LEWS, rainfall data collection and sharing; plantation for land stabilization; HHS level session to build awareness on landslide risks and early warning; coordination and dissemination warning messages with MOA, and MOEF; development and printing booklets on LEWS learning; land stabilization.
USAID Advisory and Assistance Services USAID redactó este campo de acuerdo con las excepciones resumidas en la transparencia de la ayuda exterior y el acto de la responsabilidad de 2016. Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Advisory and Assistance Services. Este programa apoya la meta de la misión para una Ucrania independiente, próspera, y sana unida alrededor de valores europeos de la base en uno o más de los sectores siguientes: el fortalecer del gobierno democrático, y un desarrollo económico más inclusivo, más sostenible, del mercado.
Bangladesh AIDS Program (BAP) FHI Bangladesh began activities under the USAIDs Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) project from 2000 until September 2007 to support interventions for people most vulnerable to HIV. These activities continued under USAIDs four-year bilateral cooperative agreement, the Bangladesh AIDS Program (BAP). Through BAP, FHI received US$13,780,690 to lead the response to HIV in Bangladesh. FHI continued to support USAID/Dhakas strategy and the Bangladesh Ministry of Healths priorities by concentrating efforts on groups most vulnerable to HIV. When BAP started, Bangladesh was still a country with low HIV prevalence; however, during the project phase, the country moved to having a concentrated epidemic (NASP, 2007). BAP, in collaboration with other key players, worked to reduce HIV vulnerability through targeted interventions with several high-risk groups including female, male and transgender sex workers and their clients, men having sex with men (MSM), and injecting drug users.
Emergency food assistance To provide humanitarian assistance to peopled affected by COVID-19 in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Elections Support Activity (BESA) Through BESA program, USAID/Bangladesh seeks to strengthen the integrity of the elections processes in Bangladesh, focusing specifically on the significant challenges to hold a peaceful, credible and transparent parliamentary election. To achieve this goal, BESA will engage with civil society, the media, political parties and the Bangladesh Election Commission to strengthen their capacity to monitor and deliver credible national elections in 2014 and beyond, supplemented by independent international election observation missions around the national election.
Modhumita-Bangladesh HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Phase II The objective of FHI 360s Modhumita Program is to support an effective HIV/AIDS prevention strategy through improved prevention, care and treatment services for people most at risk for acquiring the disease, including sex workers, injecting drug users, clients of sex workers, migrants and people living with HIV. The program works to strengthen the national response by increasing and sustaining use of high-impact HIV prevention, care and treatment services by people at risk through high-quality, evidence-based and holistic program approaches. Additionally, Modhumita plans to strengthen government leadership, multilevel coordination and use of data for decision-making, knowledge and advocacy to support HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and effective programming.
Partnering for Tolerant, Inclusive Bangladesh (Bangladesh):  .USAID will contribute to the United Nations Development Programme implemented countering violent extremism (CVE) activity called - Partnerships for Tolerant, Inclusive Bangladesh (PTIB). This activity complements the USAID Obirodh activity by supporting the Bangladesh Peace Observatory, a virtual platform equipped with mapping and data analytics technology that tracks violence in Bangladesh to identify hotspots. The Bangladesh Peace Observatory findings will be used to target Obirodh community projects and inform other donor CVE programming coordination and implementation. This activity will also improve government understanding of policies and practices in other countries to effectively incorporate CVE principles into government policy. This activity's emphasis on building host-country capacity to counter the threat of extremism is an important step toward Bangladesh's self-reliance and protecting its citizens from terrorism and harmful radical ideologies. Addressing the drivers of radicalization in Bangladesh is essential to the stability of the country and the region...This activity was selected as the most-direct method to support important, host-government efforts in Bangladesh that counter violent extremism. UNDP has a longstanding relationship with the Government of Bangladesh, which helps facilitate access to Government officials and policies. This trust-based relationship was cultivated over years and cannot be replicated easily by a new partner. As such, USAID determined UNDP would be the best partner to help build government capacity on CVE. This activity prevents terrorism and directly supports Pillar One of the U.S. National Security Strategy, "Defending U.S. National Security", the State-USAID Joint Strategic Plan Goal One, and U.S. Government's mission objective of countering violent extremism in Bangladesh..
Chittagong Hill Tracts Watershed Co-Management Activity (CHTWCA) (Bangladesh):  This activity builds regional resilience through an integrated, inclusive ecosystem co-management approach that conserves the natural habitats and protects the wildlife of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) watershed. It provides technical assistance to the Forest Department, Ministry of CHT Affairs, Hill District Councils, Village Common Forest Management Committees, local civil society partners and forest-dependent communities. The activity implements the GoB's approved Integrated Watershed Management Action Plan and conducts natural regeneration surveys to inform forest baseline status and utilize geographic information systems mapping to identify suitable micro-watersheds for assisted natural regeneration activities in the forest reserves. With FY 2022 funds, the activity will continue to raise awareness of forest and wildlife crimes; provide training on climate change adaptation, sustainable forest management, and social cohesion; and advance market-linked resilient livelihoods. Social cohesion activities will help mediate land tenure and communal conflict among host communities affected by Rohingya migration. The activity will sequester or reduce greenhouse emissions by improving the management of targeted forests and wetlands. Environmental degradation and climate change intensifies the impacts of water insecurity, floods and storms in the CHT. Protection of forests will prevent landslides and contribute to long-term ecosystem services for food, water, and livelihoods, and thus supports the U.S. government's objective of strengthening resilience to natural hazards. Funding for this activity will contribute to meeting the required Host Community ($1,000,000), Microenterprise and Livelihoods ($500,000), and Gender Based Violence ($250,000) directives. $300,000 of Biodiversity funds will be attributed to Adaptation Indirect.
Improved Capacity for Energy Access - ICEA The Improved Capacity for Energy Access (ICEA) is an energy sector program designed to address critical energy sector priorities in Bangladesh.