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Host Country Strategic Information Systems (Nutrition) Expand sustainable provision of FP/RH service in clinical and non-clinical programs including those in the public, private, NGO and PVO sectors, and at the community level; activities that help improve the quality of the services and care provided including pre- and in-service training of providers and application of evidence-based service delivery norms and standards; and availability of a wide range of contraceptive options (temporary methods, fertility awareness methods, long-acting reversible and permanent methods) for men and women. (N.B. Commodity procurement/ supply chain assistance is HL.7.6, a separate element.) Improve responsiveness to client needs including the FP/RH needs of youth and men, women and girls affected by violence, refugees/IDP, and other underserved populations. Included are activities that integrate FP and related RH care, including integrated FP/MCH services, especially provision of postpartum FP, FP information within the ANC setting, and post-abortion care; FP in the context of HIV/AIDS/STI prevention, treatment, care and support; fistula prevention and repair; prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence in the context of FP/RH programs; and programs that encourage abandonment of female genital cutting and other harmful traditional practices associated with negative RH outcomes. Facility construction and renovation specifically for FP/RH service delivery improvements is also included in this element.
Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Health Development (Bangladesh):  The Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Health Development activity will continue to meet market demand for family planning, health products, and services through its distribution networks. USAID helped establish SMC in 1974; SMC is now a sustainable local organization, with over $150 million in annual revenue. Since 2016, USAID's partnership with SMC has been through a Global Development Alliance, and for every $1 of USAID funds spent, SMC leverages $17. Using FY 2023 funds, SMC will utilize its vast network of sales agents and service delivery outlets to deliver public health products. The networks include private physicians, pharmacists, non-graduate medical providers, and rural female community sales agents. These networks will deliver services such as growth monitoring and promotion for children under five, nutritional counseling, counseling to delay early marriage and pregnancy, and referring gender-based violence survivors to care centers. Network providers will sell SMC-branded commodities, such as contraceptives, oral rehydration salts, maternal and child micronutrient products, safe delivery kits, menstrual hygiene products, electrolyte drink, and micronutrient fortified biscuits. SMC will create new private sector partnerships to expand the reach of its products and services and increase their contributions of commodity cost, reducing reliance on USAID funds. Funding will contribute to Health Workforce ($400,000), Macronutrients ($300,000 of which Vitamin A is $250,000), and Science and Innovation ($100,000) key issues. The activity will support the Joint Strategic Plan FY 2022-2026 (USAID and U.S. Department of State) Goal Three, with the U.S. government's Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective of Improving inclusive and equitable health, education, and livelihood services, especially for women, youth, and marginalized groups.
Low Emission Planning Development in Land Use and/or REDD+ Activities improve the ability of the USG, host countries and other partners to prepare for and mitigate the effects of disasters. Activities include any efforts to enhance the capacities and operational readiness of the USG (in Washington and in the field), humanitarian assistance providers, national host-country authorities, and local communities to engage in disaster reduction and response activities. Activities consist of standardized and coordinated assessments, monitoring, information sharing, data and situational analysis, joint planning; enhancement of coping mechanisms, including the capacity to address adaptation to constantly changing situations on the ground including climate variability and climate change. Activities may also reduce the likelihood that a shock will occur, limit the damage caused by a shock, and increase the affected populations resilience to future shocks.
USAIDs Youth Empowerment for Social Cohesion (YESC) Activity USAIDs Youth Empowerment for Social Cohesion (YESC) Activity
Bangladeshs Democracy and Governance Program Evaluations Project (BDGPE) Bangladeshs Democracy and Governance Program Evaluations Project (BDGPE) conducted a multi-faceted national survey to establish baseline data to support program performance management and program learning. Through subsequent surveys, the Missions Office of Democracy and Governance (ODG) will be able to track changes in values attached to the performance indicators. For this reason, it will be an important management tool as ODG determines any technical or resource adjustments for ongoing or future projects.
USAID's Shomota (Equality) Activity (Bangladesh):  In Bangladesh, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) individuals must navigate broad opposition, stigma, discrimination, exclusion, and violence across all aspects of their life. In particular, the LGBTQI+ community continues to face employment discrimination, gender-based violence, isolation, and a lack of access to public services, such as, education, health care, social, and legal services. In response, this activity promotes social justice for gender-diverse populations across Bangladesh by enabling them to exercise their rights, respond effectively to human rights violations, and obtain access to state and non-state opportunities and services. The broader LGBTQI+ community is not recognized under Bangladeshi law, however, in 2013 the Government of Bangladesh officially recognized Hijras as a third gender. At the same time, LGBTQI+ organizations and other groups are quietly organizing and developing innovative strategies to promote and protect the rights of LGBTQI+ people.With FY 2023 funds, USAID will assist the LGBTQI+ community by increasing public awareness of their human rights, responsibilities, and duties; will work with government officials, police, lawyers, religious leaders, academics, media, and medical providers to improve LGBTQI+ access to basic services; enhance the capacity of relevant stakeholders to reduce harassment, stigma, discrimination, and human-rights violations in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; and support and build the capacity of LGBTQI+ community-based organizations across Bangladesh. This activity meets the LGBTQI+ attribution ($50K) and directly contributes to the Integrated Country Strategy Mission Goal 2 - Bangladesh is committed to democracy, transparency, pluralism, tolerance, good governance, and respect for human rights. It also supports USAID's CDCS Mission Development Objective 1 - Democracy Strengthened for an Inclusive Society.
Jibon-O-Jibika Program - Development Activity Program (DAP) The JoJ program seeks to reduce high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition with the stated goal of decreased household food insecurity in three districts of Bangladesh's Barisal division. The program is based on three interrelated strategic objectives (SOs) serving vulnerable households in the target area, especially those households with children under the age of two years.
USAID Contribution to the Bangladesh Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh):  Using FY 2015 funds, USAID will continue its grant to the multi-donor, World Bank-administered trust fund that supports activities under the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) Health Sector Development Program (HSDP).  The HSDP funds national operational plans that strengthen public health in the areas of newborn/child health, adolescent and maternal health, tuberculosis, and national nutrition services.  The HSDP also strengthens Bangladeshi public health systems through funding national operational plans in planning monitoring and research, health information systems and E-Health, procurement, logistics and supplies management, and drug administration and management.  This activity harmonizes USAID assistance with GOB health planning as well as the health programs of other donors, thereby increasing the effectiveness of assistance.
Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning (AUAFP) - Shukhi Jibon Activity (Bangladesh):  The Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning (AUAFP) activity will work with the GoB to increase access to and quality of family planning (FP) services to improve the contraceptive prevalence rate for modern methods, including long-acting reversible contraceptives. AUAFP will also help to address the reproductive health (RH) needs of adolescents and reduce the rate of adolescent pregnancies. With FY 2022 funds, USAID will implement AUAFP at the national level, with FP training institutes and public and private sector service providers in four divisions, covering half the country and focusing on the most in-need and vulnerable populations. AUAFP will improve the capacity of FP training institute trainers to use competency-based and adult learning approaches, teach supervisors to adopt mentorship and supportive supervision skills, and integrate adolescent care and gender into their training programs to expand the skills of health service providers. AUAFP will strengthen service readiness interventions by ensuring focus facilities meet the required standards to deliver quality FP and RH services. USAID will apply innovative demand-side approaches, including digital and social media, focused on adolescents and youth. The activity will increase the utilization and track the use of FP services by underserved groups, including ethnic and religious minorities, ready-made garment workers, and people with disabilities.  AUAFP will address the underlying issues perpetuating gender-based violence and strengthen clinical services to care for survivors. This activity will contribute to the adaptation-indirect (FPRH-$300K) earmark.
Early Childhood Development Activity (ECDA) (Bangladesh):  The Early Childhood Development Mass Media Activity Sisimpur supports the development of pre-literacy skills and the dissemination of key life skills messages to more than 10 million children aged 3 to 8 through popular television programming. In the coming year, Sisimpur will develop 52 television episodes and broadcast them throughout the year. In support of the goals of the Mission's Country Development and Cooperation Strategy, Sisimpur episodes will deliver child-friendly key messages on the importance of basic health, nutrition and hand washing. To complement the television episodes, the activity will also create and distribute 20 new story books with these key messages to 100 schools, and develop 10 e-learning materials to support the technology initiatives of the Government of Bangladesh. Finally, the activity will build the capacity of the local implementing organization Sesame Workshop Bangladesh to ensure the initiative's future sustainability.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.
Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises (PRICE) The Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprise project reduced poverty in Bangladesh by supporting the creation of sales, jobs, and investment, particularly for the benefit of women, young adults, and small and medium enterprise suppliers. Through the project, Chemonics built the capacity of Bangladeshi industries to increase their competitiveness by improving workforce skills and determining the most lucrative market opportunities.
PROSHAR: Expanding Workers' Safety in Bangladesh Activity PROSHAR: Expanding Workers' Safety in Bangladesh Activity
Smiling Sun Franchise Program (SSFP) Building Responsibility for Delviery of Government Services (BRIDGE) Program. USAID/Sudan issued this award as part of a series of new instruments designed to provide a multi-sectoral approach to support the Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement by delivering tangible peace dividends through building capacity of local government at all levels to engage constituencies and delivery services in the three protocols area and Upper Nile State
Humanitarian assistance in disaster-affected communities To provide protection, disaster risk reduction, shelter, and water supply and sanitation in disaster-affected communities.
Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities.III(SHOUHARDO III). Shouhardo iii+ will work in delivering agriculture and livelihoods, health and nutrition, disaster risk reduction, financial inclusion, and water, sanitation, and hygiene. integrated in these result areas are cross-cutting components gender, governance, and private sector and youth engagement.read less
Bangladesh COVID-19 Emergency Response Approval obligation of emergency response COVID-19 supplemental funds for Bangladesh.
Institutionalization of Food Safety in Bangladesh for Safer Food (Bangladesh):  .The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) identified food safety as a priority with the passage of the 2013 Food Safety Act and the creation of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA). BFSA is responsible for developing science-based regulations and coordinating all food safety activities within the 18 Bangladeshi line ministries and 450 district offices for enforcing food safety laws. A science based regulatory agency is also a necessary step to encourage private sector investment in the potentially lucrative agriculture sector in Bangladesh. Focused activities will include: support GOB to operationalize the BFSA management board, develop BFSA organizational structure and performance standards, standardize food lab processes, and create a template for writing food safety regulations. Recently, the BFSA received authority to hire 350 key leadership staff positions, including laboratory and training teams. Operationalizing activities will include training, capacity building activities with key leaders, including the 350 to-be hired, associated agencies, and working to bring the private sector into the food safety regulatory realm. FAO, with technical guidance from USAID, will conduct technical capacity building workshops with key members of the Bangladesh Food Safety Board and private sector actors. These workshops will focus on developing food policy, strategy for future growth, and key science-based regulations. FAO will usher through the legislative process these key regulations which will be translated into laws. The activity will also help create a 4-year Bachelor Degree program in Food Management at Bangladesh Agriculture University. This will be the first of its kind program in the region...The activity supports the State-USAID Joint Strategic Plan Goals Two and Three, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy, and the U.S. Government's mission objectives of improved food security in Bangladesh and increased fair and reciprocal trade and investment..
Sesame Street Bangladesh (SSB) Sisimpur -Early Childhood Educational Mass Media Outreach Acitivity to achieve equitable access to Quality Basic Education
USAID Miscellaneous Goods, Services, and Operations Maintanence Mercancías diversas, servicios, y operaciones Maintanence de USAID Bens variados, serviços, e operações Maintanence de USAID Biens divers, services, et opérations Maintanence d'USAID Administrative costs and operating expenses of USAID contributing to Miscellaneous Goods, Services, and Operations Maintanence. Costes administrativos y gastos de explotación de USAID que contribuyen a las mercancías diversas, a los servicios, y a las operaciones Maintanence. Custos administrativos e despesas de funcionamento de USAID que contribuem aos bens variados, aos serviços, e às operações Maintanence. Frais d'administration et dépenses de fonctionnement d'exploitation d'USAID contribuant aux biens divers, aux services, et aux opérations Maintanence.
New Business Enabling Environment Solutions Activity (Bangladesh):  .USAID Bangladesh's Business Enabling Environment activity will support the Government of Bangladesh to improve 100+ government services to businesses by simplifying, integrating, and digitizing those services. The activity will support 40+ government agencies by providing training to reduce bureaucracy in service delivery, which will save time, costs, and number of visits for both the government and businesses. Digitally enabled simplified services to businesses will particularly help the rural population and the women in country for starting and operating businesses. The interventions will especially ensure small and medium enterprises, to develop and grow more efficiently, as well as encourage domestic, regional, and international investments. The activity will also work in the policy level to ease the overall business environment in Bangladesh. By doing this, the activity's ultimate goal is to provide technical assistance to achieve Bangladesh government's objective to bring its ranking below two digits in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index...This implementing mechanism was selected as the most efficient way to support the Government of Bangladesh's goal of improving the business enabling environment by expanding the GOB's Access to Information (A2i) program from government-to-citizen services to include government-to-business services. A2i is part of the Digital Bangladesh initiative started by the Prime Minister. A2i is implemented by UNDP and is funded by UNDP, USAID, and the GOB. This activity supports the Global Food Security Strategy, State-USAID Joint Strategic Plan Goal Two, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy, and the U.S. Government's mission objectives of increased fair and reciprocal trade and investment, and further developed regional links with India and like-minded partners..
Development of a Data-driven Geo-spatial Information System THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS FOR A PROGRAM ENTITLED DEVELOPMENT OF A DATA-DRIVEN GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM TO ANALYSE RISKS AND SHOCKS TO AGRICULTURAL LIVELIHOODS AND FOOD SYSTEMS IN FOOD CRISIS AND DISASTER CONTEXTS  NEW PHASE 2023 IN WORLDWIDE. THE PROGRAM GOAL IS TO CONTRIBUTE EFFECTIVELY TO STRENGTHENING THE RESILIENCE OF AGRICULTURAL LIVELIHOODS IN THE FACE OF MULTIPLE LIVELIHOOD SHOCKS IN HIGH PRIORITY FOOD CRISIS COUNTRIES AND COUNTRIES AT RISK OF NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS.
Targeted Financial Asst to Meet Basic Needs for the Poorest Improve the capacity of businesses, including the self-employed poor; micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs); and high growth potential entrepreneurs, to start or grow and integrate into domestic and international markets through increases in productivity and improvements in corporate governance and the development and application of modern technology and marketing practices. Enhance the capacity of businesses and business associations in terms of their corporate governance capabilities and their application of best practices and technologies to achieve increased production and marketing of products and services. It includes adoption of efficient production processes, improved labor productivity, environmentally-sound management of natural resources and the development of accounting and management systems that can help the company and industry group implement business, labor, product and process standards that enhance business competitiveness. Business capacity development programs may include activities that help men- and women-owned firms and associations respond to these international markets and create regional alliances.
FTF Bangladesh Improving Trade and Business Enabling Environment Activity (Bangladesh):  The Feed the Future Bangladesh Improving Trade and Business Enabling Environment (BITBEE) activity is partnering with the GoB, the private sector, and other non-governmental partners to improve trade facilitation by implementing the World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement, building the capacity of government officials, and improving food safety procedures. With FY 2022 funds, BITBEE will improve the business enabling environment through streamlining and simplifying processes and digitizing government services to ease business operations and make services more transparent and accessible. Reducing cross-border trade costs will increase trade flows, facilitate greater integration into regional and global value chains, increase transparency, enhance government revenues, curtail corrupt practices, strengthen partnerships with the private sector, and strengthen economic cooperation with regional and key trading partners. The activity will continue to work with the National Trade Facilitation Committee to adopt international best practices and ensure that businesses, especially those led by women, and disadvantaged groups, have a voice in the government's trade facilitation work. The activity will enhance citizen services, thereby creating a more efficient and transparent business enabling environment. An improved business enabling environment will encourage domestic and foreign direct investment.
Ain Shohayota (Legal Aid) (Bangladesh):  Bangladesh suffers from a dysfunctional rule of law system, which negatively impacts the country's progress towards achieving its democracy, development, and good governance goals. Formal justice institutions are complex and fraught with delays, resulting in low levels of confidence and trust by citizens. Citizens, especially marginalized communities face inadequate access to justice. To address these challenges, the Ain Shohayota (Legal Aid) activity will improve citizen's access to justice, strengthen the judicial system, and enhance services for the poor and vulnerable population. This new activity will promote people-centered justice through increased public participation, inclusivity, and data-driven approaches to strengthen the justice system. With FY 2023 funds, the activity will create increased demand for responsive justice services, promote pro-bono legal services, and build and utilize an evidence-base to strengthen the justice services. It will work with both government ministries and the Judiciary to ensure that effective case management and court administration systems are in place. This activity will focus on strengthening alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation at the local level. USAID will collaborate with local civil society organizations to generate demand and awareness for enhanced rule of law and increased access to justice for all, ensuring due process of law and strengthening citizen's confidence in the judiciary system. This activity meets the Host Community ($1 million) earmark and is in line with the State-USAID Integrated Country Strategy Mission Objective 2.2 - Citizen confidence in governance institutions increases and USAID's CDCS Mission Development Objective 1 - Democracy strengthened for an inclusive society.
SHIKHA (Bangladesh):  The goal of the ongoing SHIKHA activity is to improve maternal nutrition and infant and young child feeding practices in 26 sub-districts within the Feed the Future zone of influence through behavioral change communication.  The activity will achieve this goal by training community health workers and public and private healthcare providers to conduct home visits and community forums during which they provide education and awareness raising on exclusive breastfeeding, appropriate food and feeding practices, and hand-washing with soap before preparing food and feeding children.