SHOUHARDOIII (Strengthening Households Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities) Project

Duration: 01.01.2016 to 30.08.2022

Objective: To improve gender equitable food security, nutrition and resilience of vulnerable people within Bangladesh for 549,000 poor and extreme poor people by 2020.

Major activities: Development of beneficiary database, facilitation in organizing VDC/EKATA/ Mothers/Adolescent girls and boys groups, capacity development, skills training, agricultural and non-agricultural input supports; organizing meetings, seminar, workshops, day observance, assist in developing linkage with service providers and small infrastructural supports.

Implementation process: The project is focused on five purposes- (1) Agriculture and Livelihoods (2) Health, Hygiene & Nutrition (3) Disaster & Climate Risk Management (4) Women’s Empowerment and Youth Engagement and (5) Responsive Governance and being implementing following theory of changes (TOC) approach- Empowerment, Governance, and Engagement.

Matching of SDG :  SDG-1 : End poverty in all its forms everywhere. SDG-2 : End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. SDG-3 : Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. SDG-5 : Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. SDG-13 : Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact.

Source of fund: CARE-USAID