Poverty alleviation for women in Bangladesh
Aligned SDGs
- Poverty alleviation for women in Bangladesh
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
- Poverty alleviation for women in Bangladesh
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
General overview
Stage of development: Scoping
Policy sectors: Social protection
Type of instrument: Impact Bond / Outcomes Fund
Delivery locations: Bangladesh
Country classification: Lower-middle-income
Expected launch date: Q2 - 2023
Max potential outcome payment: USD 25m
Intervention
Social or environmental challenge
An additional 24 million Bangladeshis are living in poverty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities in remote areas, socially excluded women, disabled, and indigenous people were most impacted. Millions of Bangladeshis lack the ability to provide a sustainable livelihood for their families and do not have access to sufficient food, income, health care and education services. Additionally, they lack the skills, networks and resources to engage productively in the economy.
Description of the intervention
BRAC will be using its evidence-based, multifaceted Graduation model providing a two-year intervention --cash, asset transfer, training, mentoring, linkages to markets to underserved women. This would result in an additional: 1) 50,000 women-headed families permanently above the poverty line 2) Increased participation by women in household decision making 3) Increased productive assets and savings for the poorest Bangladeshis.
Target population
Rural women-led households earning less than $1.90/day.
Location
Country:
- Bangladesh
Locality:
- Bangladesh
Outcome metrics
- Average total savings per business savings group, average increase in household savings, average increase in annual household consumption and expenditure, average increase in daily meal consumption, average increase in weekly animal protein consumption.
Last data update
Data for this pipeline project was last updated in April 2022
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Spreadsheet of data
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