Local Poverty Reduction Cluster

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Local Poverty Reduction Cluster
Majeda Haq
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Goal

• Enable rural poor women and youth in rural and
  urban vulnerable areas to attain sustainable
  livelihoods by reducing economic and social
  inequalities and securing pro poor growth

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CONTEXT
National

48 of population below poverty line in 2000
This has been reduced by
a further 5 by 2005
Between 1990 and 2000 poverty gap ratio declined
from 17.2 to 12.9 Urban

Between 2000 to 2005 urban poverty
declined from 34.9 to 28.4 Urban population
growing at 3.7 p.a and will reach 50 million by
2015

35 urban households live in slums Rural

Poverty reduced
from 61 to 53 between 1990 and 2000 Employment

38 unemployed or
underemployed
1 million new job seekers per year

About 300,000 to 400,000 new migrant, mostly
poor, arriving to the Dhaka city
annually
Youth unemployment 41.6
Womens wages 58
of mens
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CLUSTER'S RESPONSE

• Key Areas
• Local Economic Development
• Social Inclusion
• Approaches
• Community based approach
• Capacity development for Govt. and other
  stakeholders
• Income and employment generation through
  vocational training and apprenticeship
• Policy advocacy
• Donor co-ordination
• Focus
• Socially and economically marginalized women and
  youth in urban and rural areas.
• Female headed households
• Illiterate or partially illiterate women.
• Urban slum dwellers
• Extremely poor urban households and individuals
• Monga and other poverty stricken Areas.

• Local Economic Development
• Town ,District Upazilla and Union strategy
  development
• Linkages to markets
• Value chains
• Partnership with private sector and Government
• Market research
• Access to financial services
• Promotion of corporate social responsibility
• Womens access to finance
• Social Inclusion and Protection
• Reducing social and economic vulnerability
  through social safety nets
• Research on impact of government and donor
  programmers.
• Insurance against natural and man made calamites
• Policy advocacy
• Enhance access to and expansion of existing
  government social safety net programs.

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Achievements and Results
Urban Partnership of Poverty Alleviation Project
(UPPR)

• 600,000 people had improved access to basic
  services
• Significant improvements in community family and
  individual health.
• US 1 million in community savings
• 600 organized communities solving their own
  problems including early marriage, domestic
  violence and early marriage
• Womens empowerment through managing 90 of
  community contracts for construction of basic
  services, social and economic programmers.
• Integration into the urban economy through
  apprenticeship programmes in non-traditional
  urban poor skill areas
• LPUPAP experiences and successes have leveraged
  US120 million from DFID for expanded programmed
  to cover 3 million urban poor people.

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Rural Employment Opportunity for Public Assets
(REOPA), Capacity Strength Team

• Project Operation Activities started by bringing
  all staff on board, setting up office and other
  equipment facility both in Dhaka and necessary
  equipments both in Dhaka 6 districts offices.
• Creation of employment for 30,000 year round and
  600,000 seasonal employment through creation of
  public assets
• Initial successful implementing helped to build
  donor confidence and resulted increase project
  funding US 2.25 to US 27.58 million.

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PARTNERS

• On going
• Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development
  and cooperatives
• Local Government Engineering Department
• Ministry of Industry
• DFID
• FAO
• UNICEF
• EC
• PNGO

• RESOURCES
• Financial
• EC US 27.58million
• DFID UK 60 million
• UNDP TRAC US 3m US 0.25 m
• GoB US 5.2 million US 0.66 m
• Human
• 137 existing project staff with over five years
  experience in urban Rural poverty alleviation.
• 2,400 community leaders
• Knowledge, research and innovative skill of rural
  urban poor community members
• UNDP
• UNDP team management skills
• Policy expertise
• Donor coordination
• Engagement with government
• partners

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Expected Outcomes

• Increased share of women and poor in national
  resources and services channelled to the poor
  people
• Significantly enhanced capacity of the government
  functionaries to ease constraints? Hinder growth
  of the pro-poor private sector both in urban and
  rural areas.
• Removal of economic, social and infrastructure,
  information barriers ?Restrict urban and rural
  poor to effectively capitalize on market
  opportunities.
• Safety net programs expanded, leakages reduced,
  improved targeting.
• Partner institutions become market oriented.
• Local level institutions and organizations become
  more responsive and responsible to needs and
  aspirations of poor and women of urban and rural
  areas.

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THANK YOU