Introducing shiree

shiree – Bangla word for steps

stimulating household improvements resulting in economic empowerment

Economic Empowerment of the Poorest

Economic Empowerment of the Poorest (EEP) programme

UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID) in partnership with Government of Bangladesh under the Rural Development & Cooperative Division, MoLGRD&C

to help 1 million people lift themselves out of extreme poverty (poorest 10% of the population) and help achieve UN MDG 1

Economic Empowerment of the Poorest Challenge Fund Md Asadul Islam (Joint Secretary) – PD shiree Colin Risner – CEO, shiree

Extreme poverty 17.6% of our population is extremely poor*

i.e. earn less than that needed to meet just their basic food requirements; on average, that means they earn less than 42 BDT per day rural or 45 BDT urban*

 

~25 million people

low income linked to lack of employment, low caloric intake, no secured shelter, low literacy-rates, no access to micro finance, inadequately covered by safety nets, low community involvement and decision-making, elderly, people with disability and minority groups are the poorest disproportionately high among the extreme poor, 40% female headed compared to national average of 10%, intergenerational vulnerability, structural inequalities

*Source: Household Income & Expenditure Survey (HIES), 2010, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics

shiree portfolio shiree funds 9 scale fund NGOs projects, 27 innovation

fund NGO projects across the country Scale fund: large grants for the scaling up of tried and

tested successful projects to lift people out of extreme poverty

Innovation fund: untested new approaches, technologies and processes to lift people out of extreme poverty

Advocacy, research and lesson learning – shiree also generates and shares knowledge on extreme poverty eradication policy and practice with other stakeholders in the development community, private sector, donors and GOB

Number of districts covered 24 Number of households targeted 259,715

117,955 selected as of April 30, 2012

Pockets of vulnerability

Haor

Urban

Chittagong Hill Tracts

Monga

Barind tract

Costal belt

Grantee NGOsActionAid

SKS

CNRS

IC

PUAMDO

NDP

HKI

Green Hill

Aid Comilla

ShusilianSSS, BOSS

Save the Childrenuttaran

Concern, ADD, Plan

DSK

NETZ

MJSKS

CARE PAB

GUK

CARITAS

Concern

Oxfam GB

Eco-Development

Handicap

HELPAGE

IDE

PRIP Trust

TARANGO

SR2

IR4

SR1

IR1

IR2

IR3

Modus operandi Shiree is an asset-transfer programme that

provides carefully selected beneficiaries (those within the bottom 5% of the population) with a means to earn a sustainable livelihood and graduate out of extreme poverty

Asset-transfers vary from NGO to NGO, and generally include livestock, poultry, land for agriculture, ponds for aquaculture, sewing machines, shops, petty trade, light engineering, etc.

Capacity building, community mobilisation, social empowerment and nutrition is also imparted alongside the asset

Advocacy Aims to share the challenges, opportunities

and learning from within shiree among development partners and also within GoB and other stakeholder groups

This is a start – but we also need to: reduce their vulnerability to shocks make their graduation sustainable prevent the intergenerational transfer of poverty

This can only be achieved through advocacy which links the extreme poor to external support mechanisms!

Thanks …