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Fair Finance Asia II Sida - Bangladesh The Fair Finance Asia Program (FFA) envisages to reduce the negative impact of national and cross-border bank investments in Asia on human rights, the environment and climate change, and to increase adequate financial services for pro-poor, inclusive economic development. The goal is to establish a sustainable financial sector in Asia, with financial sector institutions operating at national and regional level being more transparent and accountable and adhering to Economic, Social and Governance (ESG)-criteria. FFA is funded by Sida.

Bangladesh, like many other countries, faces global economic challenges. Rising commodity prices and a surge in imports in the second half of Financial Year 2022 resulted in a widening Balance of Payments (BoP) deficit and accelerating inflation. Allthese factors are affecting the stability of Financial Institutions (FIs) in Bangladesh. Though, the government had taken several steps to strengthen the financial sector, including implementing stricter regulations and increasing oversight. For instance, Bangladesh Government has created a dedicated department for sustainable financing under Central Bank which is known as Bangladesh Bank. However, despite these efforts, there are still concerns about corruption and weak corporate governance in some financial institutions. Specially in the case of mainstreaming green finance, there is no clear roadmap for managing those funds.

In this context, civil society actors such as potential Fair Finance Asia (FFA) coalition memberscan play a key role to improve their governance with regards to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and Human Rights (HR) criteria. However, due to shrinking civic space, occurrence of frequent climatic hazards and upcoming election can influence theplanned activities. Also, since it’s an inception phase for Bangladesh team, the coalition members will require capacity building on Fair Finance Guide International (FFGI) methodology and policy assessment.

For Fair Finance Bangladesh, it will operateunder the Climate Justice and Natural Resources (CJNRR) portfolio which will work in integrated manner with other thematic portfolios like Economic Inclusion and Gender Justice team. The project activities can be aligned with existing project activitiessuch as Just Energy Transition and Climate Finance work, which will ensure sustainability. The project will be overseen by 2 programme officers and 1 skills development and business incubation specialist with overall guidance from thematic leads of Oxfam. The team will also take support from programme finance and meal specialist. Overall, the project will be guided by the Programme Director of Oxfam in Bangladesh.
CO-Masarouna: Oxfam in OPT The Masarouna programme implements two main pathways of change:

1: Lobby and advocacy with young people for their SRHR
The first pathway promotes greater accountability of governments to adhere to international SRHR standards, human rights frameworksand agreements; promotes young people’s active and meaningful involvement in policy agenda-setting and decision-making; and increases public awareness on SRHR, including through media engagement, aiming to create new narratives on SRHR.

2: Strengthening civil society and reinventing civic space
A strong civil society can be a mobilizer, an amplifier of voices and a watchdog. With strengthened capacities,CSOs can create a sense of urgency around SRHR to push for sustainable change. CSOs need the spaceto play this political role, which Masarouna aims to reinvent by promoting the political activation and participation of young people and creating and strengthening alternative civic spaces, both online and offline. Working online allows for reaching young people at scale by circumventing gatekeepersand mitigating risks around censorship.

Under this project, and through its theory of change, Oxfam has committed to continue supporting 6 organizations  national level- Palestinian  human and women's rights organizations.  Believing that driving positive impact can be achieved through building national partnerships that focuses on creating spaces for the active engagement of right holders and working together towards holding key stakeholders accountable todrive structural change. Oxfam will continue facilitating strengthening partners capacities, through supporting the organizational and financial capacities of partners throughout the course of the project implementation.  Likewise, Oxfam will work towardsoffering capacity building opportunities to partners in key areas that will increase the quality of implementation by linking with national and International expertise (through linking with HQ staff) to build their capacities in influencing skills, focusing on International Influencing specifically on the UN Influencing mechanisms, youth active citizenship, women transformative leadership, civic space. Likewise, Oxfam will work on linking the work of partners to international level, making use of international events, fora and mechanisms to raise young people and partners voices on SRHR rights. Similarly, Oxfam will facilitate wider alliances through linking with its wide network of partners and coalitions and through theimplementation of internationaladvocacy trips to increase CSOs influence on national and international decision makers by linking and building local regional and international alliances for gender sensitive peace and security.
Mother School Society The Mothers School Society (MSS) has been working on women’s economic empowerment and valuing women’s work for the past 13 years. Almost 10 years ago, MSS began targeting and working with Palestinian women working in Israeli settlements. They provided women with awareness raising and mental health sessions to enhance their awareness of the violations of their rights  due to experiencing harshworking conditions. Women working in Israeli settlements are under a lot of pressure to provide for their families since the majority are women-headed households. Palestinian women workers in  Israeli settlements endure the most extreme human rights violations inthe workplace. The majority of women workers reside in areas near the settlements, unsupervised by the Palestinian Authority (PA), who cannot protect their labor rights.  Due to  social stigma (since Israeli settlements are regarded as illegal under internationalhumanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL)), these women are not encouraged to express their feelings and thedaily challenges and obstacles they are facing . Therefore, MSS works on continuing to empower women mentally and psychologically and builds their capacities to lead small business, providing them with alternative income generation activities that would support them to stop working in the settlements. MSS was able to support and mobilizing funding for 24 income generating projects/small businesses. As a result, women reported being more confident and engaged in public life/in their local communities. Coordinate  the development of the interviews/needs assessment forms (3 volunteers from MSS staff)  with the researcher.
Hold 3-5 Introductory meetings with potential stakeholders, CBOs, local councils.
Conduct interviews with women workers in Israeli settlements and conduct 2 focus group discussions and 10-15 individual interviews.
Conduct a round table as a closing event / to discuss the needs assessment findings and statistics
Share final reports
Conduct mental health and psychosocial support sessions
SD=HS in Zambia The program Sowing Diversity = Harvesting Security works with partners in eight countries (China, Laos, Nepal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Peru and Guatemala) on better access, use and sharing of plant genetic resources (seeds). The program#s ambition is to contribute to a global food system that is just and sustainable, that supports the rights of small-scale food producers - men and women, that guarantees food and nutrition security and that promotes the sustainable management of natural resources and seed biodiversity within the context of a changing climate. Oxfam Great Britain (OGB) country office in Zambia will be the overall project coordinator in Zambia while CTDT will be responsible for the implementation of the different Pillars of the project.  The Oxfam Country Office will be the grant holder hence will sign contracts with Oxfam Novibon one hand and with CTDT in Zambia on the other.
CO- AgriMulheres This project (2017-2021) has the objective of increasing the agricultural incomes generated and managed by the rural women of Nampula province through their insertion in local and sustainable agricultural production of horticulture (vegetables). It will strengthen the capacities of civil society organizations particularly women associations and women / girls in three rural districts (Malema, Ribaue and Monapo) of Nampula province to balance power relations between men and women and to influence the implementation of agricultural policies to facilitate women#s small-scale farmers access to technical and management training, production resources and access markets (vegetables supply chain). The project has 5 Mozambican civil society partners and 7 other stakeholders (Mozambican and international organizations and civil society platform, university research center, private sector).
The expected results are the strengthening and security and protection of women's land access, the development of influence strategies to promote women's rights and interests in the implementation of agricultural policies, the creation of favorable conditions for the promotion of women in the supply chain of vegetables of and strengthening the capacities of civil society actors in Nampula province for advocate for more investment in agriculture focusing women small scale farmers. The target groups will be 1200 women small scale farmers, 2300 men and women from rural communities, 100 employees and members of partner organizations. The indirect beneficiaries will be 10,000 small scalefarmers in Nampula province.
In its role of Executing Affiliate, Oxfam Novib offers support on capacity building to all affiliates who contribute to Oxfam's strategic program in Mozambique; This includes: capacity development (5C methodology, GAL methodology) hiring staff, renting offices, managing human resources and finances. This guaranteed role for all affiliates in the country contributes to greater efficiency.
Inclusive Humanitarian Flood 2022 The monsoon floods of May-June 2022 have severely impacted several districts in North and North-Eastern parts of
Bangladesh. An estimated 7.2 million people are affected by the sudden flash flood and water congestion in the nine
North-Eastern districts Bangladesh. In total as many as 472,856 people have been displaced and taken to around 1,605
shelter centers according to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR). The flash floods swept away
homes and inundated farmlands, forcing families to seek shelter on higher ground and temporary flood shelters, while
power cuts are making life miserable. Experts considered the flood worse than the ones they had experienced in 1998
and 2004. CARE will lead a consortium with Oxfam, Federation Handicap International -Humanity <(>&<)> Inclusion, and five
local partners to implement a comprehensive and inclusive emergency response to address basic and immediate
lifesaving needs in terms of food, shelter, water, sanitation <(>&<)> hygiene and protection of most affected people in Kurigram,
Sylhet, Netrokona and Sunamgon districts where all three partners have long term presence through existing
interventions. Through this emergency action, 43,035 individuals/8,607 hh will be directly benefitting through Food and NFI
(cash/in-kind) support, (WASH and protection services. Special attention will be given to the poorest households displaced
by the floods, who incurred the most significant losses. Consortium partners further prioritize needs of women, children,
elderly, persons with disability and marginalized groups with a focus on protection and gender mainstreaming throughout
the response action. All three partners have pre-approved FD approval, pre-positioned vendors, trained pre-selected staff
in the target districts, and most importantly HI, Oxfam and CARE are operating through ongoing development projects
and will be able to implement within the proposed period.
VU-Sexual Violence prevention In this initiative, the Center for Legal Advice – Vinh University (VU) desires to address the issue of sexual abuse, targeting the children of ethnicity in Thanh Chuong district and several communes in Do Luong district, Nghe An. The project aims to raise legal awareness for children, especially girls from 10 to 16 years old through communication and dissemination of laws on preventing the risk of sexual abuse. Simultaneously, it emphasizes the importance of raising awareness for child caretakers (parents, grandparents, and relatives) about knowledge of child sexual abuse prevention and control. Especially, to protect abused children in the locality, the Center will develop key including staff of the Women's Union, commune medical stations, commune judicial officers, commune and district police officers, middle school teachers, etc. elementary school and primary school, village elder, village head, Ho Chi MinhCommunist Youth Union cadre, parents or caregivers... and equipped with knowledge, legal communication skills and  legal consultancy skills, legal aid on the protection of children's rights. Furthermore, the Center aims to provide legal advice, initial legal aid for cases of children being sexually abused or at risk of being sexually abused. Last but not least, to ensure children’s rights to be protected, the project also targets to recommend policies and coordinate to develop regulations and plans for coordination in between the agencies with authority in Thanh Chuong and Do Luong districts in receiving and explaining in the receipt and settlement ofdenunciations and news reports about crimes, propose prosecution, investigate and conduct instance trial for cases of child sexual abuse. The expected results are to be: raising legal knowledge and understanding for 3500 (1500 women, 600 ethnics, 3000 children, 500 poor/near-poor people), providing legal aids and consultation for 120 cases, develop 1 research for policy recommendations for local authorities on children rights protection.
KE MSINGI_100 Voices for Change Over the years, the church has found a number of ways to obscure the impact of systems of power and patriarchy within the church. The church asks those who are oppressed to carry the burden of their own oppression, and expects them to do so silently. Through thisproject, Msingi Trust will challenge that culture of silence and investigatewomen’s multiple social cultural identities and how those identities intersect or clash in the journey to freedom, self-realization, and the pursuit of leadership withinfaith communities. We shall challenge the participants to share their stories of change and also share the messages on faith and feminism within their social media platforms and continue to hold such dialogues within their church spaces. This may includeholding online meetings andalso blogging about the subject and we shall link it to have a direct or indirect contribution to the change we desire.

We will engage women from diverse church and community groups and hope to be able to put faces, names,and context to patriarchy in the church.The interviews will be focused on giving space for women to tell their stories - not through an intermediary or heavily edited lens. While storytelling is not a new strategy for enacting change, it has not been usedto tell stories of patriarchy within church spaces. Having women chronicle their struggles for freedom and leadership in church and how it impacts their identity will be our innovation and learning.
HO-503001 Seeds This project plans to refurbish and improve one or multiple community seed banks in or near  the SD=HS project sites in Uganda withthe active participation and ownership of community members. It is planned that the community seed banks will form the centre around which the activities around seed in the community will revolve including farmer field schools and adequate land for purposes of establishing demonstration plots for farmer learnings. Adequate land will also be reserved for characterization of the germplasm in the seed bank and for crop development and seed multiplication. The community seed bank will focus on all the crops that contribute tohousehold food and nutrition security, ensuring that neglected and underutilized species (NUS) that contribute to nutrition and which are important during the hunger period are given special attention. To achieve this, the main planned activities in addition to refurbishment of seed bank(s) include focus group discussions within the community, establishmentof (women led) Farmer Field Schools,food processing and preparation training sessions for NUS etc.
ONL - Team Seeds activities will take place to ensure proper monitoring and evaluation of the project.
KE USAWAINC_God Is Not A Man The change we want to see is the transformation of social norms that fuel SGBV and political exclusion of women and sexual and gender minorities, in favour of norms that promote gender equality, tolerance of diversity and the realisation of human rights of women and sexual and gender minorities in all spheres. We seek to Amplify the voices of Islamic and Christian feminists who are upending biased historical and exegetical methodologies of interpreting the holy scriptures that fuel oppressive norms, promote progressive cultural and religious norms as a result of localised cooperation, Interfaith Circles, that offer safe spaces to discuss faith and cultures that shape the realities of women, gender and sexual minorities, Increase the number of cleric and lay leaders willing to consider feminist approaches to the interpretation of scripture and cultural logic Encourage collaboration between mainstream feminists and religious feminists. We will create a podcast that will be a learning resource on religion and feminism, that can be integrated into local contexts and that can facilitate intersectional, crosscutting learning. Our solution is innovative because it creates interfaith spaces for public discourse which are rare across the continent, it attempts tobridge gaps between religious, non-religious,urban and grassroots feminists and finally, it uses digital storytelling as a tool for social norm change.

Initiating collaboration between allies, religious feminists and mainstream feminists will increaseinterface between and amongst the groups, thereby reducing stigma and exclusion of faith feminists and allies. Additionally reframing public theological discourses to include feminist approaches to the interpretation of holy texts, amongst communities will mitigate SGBV and social political oppression of women, sexual and gender minorities. Through our work in producing feminist podcast content we recognise the power of digital storytelling to shift social norms, change attitudes and beliefs. We are keento interrogate how we can engage diverse audiences (urban and in informal settlements) by collaborating with mainstream media and production houses to publish and distribute feminist content to centre feminist approaches in current affairs and public discourses.
DRA Upscale B.Ready Oxfam PH B-READY has now been tested in the Philippines (B.Ready A-05666), and has initial funding to be piloted in Sudan. To make the jump from ‘pilot’ to ‘preparing for scale’ B-READY needs to:
1. Evidence the current B-READY Model for iterative improvement, advocacy and impact: The project will cover 2 new locations in the Philippines, and continue in its current operational area to generate evidence including a Randomized Control Trial, to create iterative improvement, advocacy materials and build B-READY for adoption.
2. Codification of the B-READY Philippines and Global Scale Model includes mapping similar initiatives elsewhere for collaboration or learning, considering ‘fertile’ areas for scale up (financing, locations, actors, policy routes), choosing astrategic scale up trajectorybased on lessons learned, and then a collaborative codification process linking the Philippines National Model, with a Global ScaleModel and ‘testing’ these with new funders and implementers to ensure greatest impact, cost-efficiency and ethical risk management.
3. Building B-READY for Sustainability at Scale by practically testing local and global sustainability pathways through government uptake (Philippines), private sector finance business models, global FbF, and pre-emptive financial tools/mechanisms currently under-discussion. Furthermore, there will be global advocacy, influencing and knowledge sharing, having B-READY and its Scale Model featured in many appropriate forums, exposure visits, webinar presentations, socialisation workshops, targeted policy papers, and discussions with strategic actors to build new partners for adoption.
Oxfam in Philippines capacity is based on advocacy, resilience, localhumanitarian leadership, digital financial inclusion and cash programming, for which they have received awards from Google and the Australian Government on accelerating financial inclusion with technology. They will provide technical advice, finance private sector oversight, coordination of actors, advocacy in country, gathering evidence and codification of B-READY.
Oxfam PH will be the main project implementer in the Philippines, sub granting to several local partner organizations.  Oxfam PH will also contract the project auditor.