Investment Component of VGD (ICVGD)

 

Duration: September 01, 2018 to December 31, 2021

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Objectives: a. To enhance capacity of the implementing organizations for proper implementation of ICVGD programme. b. To provide guidance and mentoring support to the staff of the implementing organizations to implement the ICVGD programme. c. To support to enhance capacity of the respective DWA offices of 16 Upazilas of 16 districts of Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions. d. Generated evidence to inform necessary adaptions to the programme and related policies in order to scale up the programme at national level.

 

Major Activities : Impart orientation, training, technical support, entrepreneurship development, market linkage, business promotion, value chain management, IGA training, scale up the existing grievance mechanism, behavior change communication and support to creation of enabling environment for VGD women.

 

Implementation process: The ICVGD project implementing by DWA under the guidance of Mowca under a Letter of Understanding (LOU) signed between MoWCA/DWA and WFP. In order to ensure good quality implementation of improved VGD, WFP deployed five (to serve Upazilas in clusters) NGOs as lead NGOs. These lead NGOs contributing to build capacity of the 32 implementing NGOs selected by MoWCA and DWA. As one of the strategic NGOs NDP support to implement the project in cluster-4 (Rangpur and Rajshahi division) 16 districts.

 

Matching of SDG: SDG-1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere and SDG-2: End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

 

Source of fund: United Nation World Food Programme-UNWFP.