Rights activists on Wednesday urged all concerned to promote public-private partnership to improve health, education and livelihood for the ultra poor, particularly to ensure their food security.
The call was made at a national workshop on ‘sharing evaluation findings and lessons learnt: health, education and livelihood support programme for ultra poor households project’ at a Dhaka city convention centre.
The Islamic Relief, Bangladesh is implementing the HELP-UP project funded by European Union in 21 unions in Rangpur.
Islamic Relief, Bangladesh under the project provided skill development training, monthly subsistence allowance, literacy education, poultry feed, human and animal health campaigning with medicine and building linkages with different institutions to ten thousand households in the three targeted upazila including Kaunia, Taraganj and Gangachara in the district and they monitored the beneficiaries’ activities where the total budget was 3.9 million euro.
The report said at least 80 per cent income generating activities actively produced income, monthly household income was increased by 70 per cent against baseline, asset ownership was increased by at least 1.5 times, daily food consumption quantity was increased to three meals a day, women actively participated in household and community decision making process, targeted households accessed public or private services at least twice a year, hundred per cent school-aged children in target households were enrolled in school for education and households adopted safe and hygiene livestock, good garbage management, cleaning and personal hygiene practice.
Minister for food Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, first counsellor and head of cooperation from the delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh Philippe Jacques, BRAC University vice-chancellor Ainun Nishat and country director of Islamic Relief, Bangladesh Shabel Firuz, among others, addressed the programme.
-With New Age input
