Transforming Resilience Capacities through Community-Led Savings Groups in Southwest Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the rural poor, particularly women, have limited financial literacy and access to financial services.
Nobo Jatra (New Beginning) is a five year USAID Food for Peace Title II Development Food Assistance Project that seeks to improve gender equitable food security, nutrition and resilience in southwest Bangladesh. World Vision Bangladesh, together with the World Food Programme and Winrock International, in partnership with three local partner NGOS, undertook the program in September 2015, integrating interventions in maternal and child health and nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene; agriculture and alternative livelihoods; disaster risk reduction; and good governance, social accountability and gender to achieve its objectives.
Nobo Jatra is jointly implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief of the Government of Bangladesh in four upazilas under two districts – Dacope and Koyra upazilas in Khulna and Shyamnagar and Kaliganj upazilas in Satkhira – and it aims to reach 856,116 direct beneficiaries.