SWAPNO beneficiary women who were destitute and hapless are now employed and part of the vibrant work crew working 6 hours in maintaining important community public assets of Union Parishad. For the next 18 months they all will have waged employment and simultaneously...
7210 elected, selected community members and UP Secretaries of 1030 Union Parishads and about 65000 women beneficiaries are trained on relevant subjects. SWAPNO will enhance capacity of Union Parishads, the lowest tier of...
All SWAPNO women have individual bank accounts and each woman receives BDT 67,500 in cash as wages, BDT 22,500 with interest as mandatory savings at the end of 18 months public works employment tenure....
65000 extreme poor women are being employed for 18 months to maintain rural infrastructures of 1030 Union Parishads. To ensure the livelihoods of these women...
Period stigma remains pervasive in many countries, including Bangladesh, where a culture of silence creates barriers for adolescent girls to manage their menstruation...
Mitu, Hasina, and Jamila are three women of different backgrounds, sharing the same fate: widowed, abandoned or divorced, they were left to fend for themselves and....
Twenty-five-year-old Nazma Begum from Kurigram became unemployed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Then, she heard about the ‘Kollyani Nari Kollyan Initiative’, a...
65000 extreme poor women are being employed for 18 months to maintain rural infrastructures of 1030 Union Parishads to promote rural socio-economic activities....
SWAPNO (Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities) is a social transfer-based graduation model project targeting ultra-poor rural women who are...
This summary section focuses on SWAPNO’s crash program on COVID-19 pandemic to poor and extreme poor people. In the very beginning of COVID-19 pandemic...
The warm and welcoming 42-year-old Khaleda told me her story -- her parents also couldn’t escape poverty, and they struggled to provide for a family of eight...
One of the innovations of the SWAPNO project is to inculcate the saving habit among the beneficiaries through the introduction of the model of Rotating Savings and....
SWAPNO provides Life skills training on seven topics to build human capital for ultra-poor women. The key goals of life skill training are to enable them to make...
SWAPNO focuses on improving women’s access to skills development opportunities as skills are possibly the least erosive ‘assets’ a poor person can own....
Apart from ensuring financial stability, SWAPNO initiated several climate-adaptive livelihoods and interventions to make the rural women more climate-resilient. Some...
In general, Gaibandha residents draw water for drinking at a depth of 35 to 50 feet below ground level. This water is tainted with iron and arsenic, both are harmful....
