Vulnerable Group Development Programme (VGD)

Duration: 01 January 2015 to 30 October 2018

Objective: To empower and change livelihoods of the vulnerable poor women.

Major activities: Training on skill development, IGA management, mother & child care, STD/AIDS, vegetable cultivation, livestock and poultry rearing, encourage in savings building and developing linkage with MFIs.

Implementation process: The selected VGD card holders’ poor women are given three-day field level package trainings on health, nutrition, skills development and right-based awareness three and a half hours everyday under coordination with the department of women affairs.

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: Department of Women Affairs (GoB).