Introduction :
Jibon O Jibika, Food Security in Bangladesh is proposing an innovative and exciting initiative which will focus creative nutritional behaviour change methodologies in areas of high malnutrition. It is an integrated programme that will bring together activities to promote household food production, improved access to and quality of basic health and nutrition services as well as improving resilience to shocks among families who are under constant threat of natural disasters.
Jibon O Jibika is being jointly implemented by Save the Children
USA, Helen Keller International, Bangladesh Red Crescent
Society and NGO Forum in partnership with several other national, local and community based NGOs operating in the
costal area and disaster prone 3 districts, Patuakhali, Bhola & Barisal.
NGO Forum will work together with Save the Children
USA to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities in selected communities
for improving health situation. The programme will collaborate extensively with the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) and other key stakeholders on district, upazila and community levels, and will provide training and sensitization to appropriate community member, Local
Government Institute (LGI), private sector actors, governmental actors.
The programme will aim at reaching a total population of over 2,600,000 with specific focus on 180,000 children under 2 years of age and over 72,000 pregnant women in the 11 upazila of Barisal division.
Project Implementation Area: Barisal, Patuakhali and Bhola districts under Barisal Division.
Project Duration: 2004 – 2009
Strategic Objective:
■ To increase food availability and purchasing power at the household level
■ To improve the health and nutrition of pregnant women and children under the age of 2
years.
■ To more resilient to shocks that threaten the target communities and households
Major Activities:
■ Conduct needs assessments and promote water switching
■ Rehabilitation non-functioning safe water points and install new ones
■ Testing tubewells for arsenic contamination as well as marking the tested tube-wells (green for acceptable, red for contaminated)
■ Implement demand driven sanitation programmes
■ Establish village sanitation centres to demonstrate different latrine options
■ Formation
of Village Development Committees
■ Technical and Non-Technical Training support to LNGOs, masons
■ Construct school sanitary latrines
■ Mass-media campaign
with using different approach of media to promote WatSan
and hygiene behavior. |
