BSS, Rangpur :
The extremely poor char people have sustainably improved livelihoods following successful implementation of the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) on the remote and hardly reachable riverine island chars.
Under the comprehensive livelihoods programme, over 1.33 lakh river-eroded and have-nots group landless families have changed their fortune through achieving self-reliance bidding permanent good-bye to abject poverty during the past one decade.
The CLP beneficiary households have also easy access now to hygienic sanitation, pure drinking water and family planning and their children are now going to the schools, colleges and even universities with the dream of brighter future.
The CLP has been working with the extremely poor char households to improve their livelihoods through providing package supports, assets and raising plinths for promoting income generation activities since 2004 under adverse climatic situations.
Livelihoods Coordinator of CLP Dr. Mahbub Alam said the multi-dimensional and comprehensive CLP activities are being implemented through GO-NGO collaboration in the hardly reachable char villages in ten northwestern districts.
More than 5.25 lakh poorest char households have been benefited under CLP phase-I during 2004-2010 and phase-II (2010-2016) periods to ultimately improve livelihoods of around two million extremely poor char people by 2016.
The UKaid through the Department for International Development (DFID) and Australian Government through Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) have been supporting for implementation of the CLP activities.
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives of Bangladesh Government has been sponsoring implementation of the comprehensive programme with the management of Maxwell Stamp Plc, he said.
The extremely poor char people have sustainably improved livelihoods following successful implementation of the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) on the remote and hardly reachable riverine island chars.
Under the comprehensive livelihoods programme, over 1.33 lakh river-eroded and have-nots group landless families have changed their fortune through achieving self-reliance bidding permanent good-bye to abject poverty during the past one decade.
The CLP beneficiary households have also easy access now to hygienic sanitation, pure drinking water and family planning and their children are now going to the schools, colleges and even universities with the dream of brighter future.
The CLP has been working with the extremely poor char households to improve their livelihoods through providing package supports, assets and raising plinths for promoting income generation activities since 2004 under adverse climatic situations.
Livelihoods Coordinator of CLP Dr. Mahbub Alam said the multi-dimensional and comprehensive CLP activities are being implemented through GO-NGO collaboration in the hardly reachable char villages in ten northwestern districts.
More than 5.25 lakh poorest char households have been benefited under CLP phase-I during 2004-2010 and phase-II (2010-2016) periods to ultimately improve livelihoods of around two million extremely poor char people by 2016.
The UKaid through the Department for International Development (DFID) and Australian Government through Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) have been supporting for implementation of the CLP activities.
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives of Bangladesh Government has been sponsoring implementation of the comprehensive programme with the management of Maxwell Stamp Plc, he said.
