Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: 5 Brothels of Khulna Division

Duration of Project (months): 22 months

Name of Funding Agency: UNICEF and National AIDS and STD Program (NASP) of Bangladesh Government

Professional Staff provided by your Organization: 16
No. of Staff: 44
No. of Person-months: 11760 staff months

Management Agency: UNICEF
Start Date [Month/Year] August 2004 Completion Date [Month/Year]
December 2007

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

In Bangladesh, there are 14 registered brothels where approximately 5,063 sex workers are working. Sex workers do not originate HIV/AIDS but they receive it from their clients and then serve as a repository from whom other clients and their other partners can become infected. Majority of the sex buyer have never used condom, and very few even realized they are at risk of exposure to HIV. We need to change the existing behavior of the sex workers and their clients to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission and infection.

Broad Goal:

The broad goal of the project is to create an environment for the brothel based sex workers, their clients and others linked to reduce risks of HIV/AIDS transmission.

Objectives:

To achieve the broad goal the objectives of the project are as follows:

a) To crate positive attitude of the brothel based sex workers and their clients to take preventive measures during sex activity for preventing HIV/AIDS and work safely in their present profession;
b) To reduce risk of HIV/AIDS and STD infection among brothel sex workers and their clients;

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Dr. Monzur Rahman, Team Leader

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Establishing of Project Office cum Health Service Centre
• Staff orientation & refresher training
• Conducting orientation courses for medical officers and paramedics
• Developing peer educator group
• Monthly sharing meeting with peer educator groups
• Monthly group discussion meeting with sex workers
• Education session with video screening
• Sharing meeting with service delivery institution
• Training for peer educator group
• Training for sex workers on HIV/AIDS prevention
• Developing Communication Materials
• Counseling the clients at the brothel entrance
• Providing health service
• Supply of condoms to the target participants
• Follow-up the Activities

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

Duration of Project (months): 24 months

Name of Funding Agency: CORDAID

Professional Staff provided by your Organization: 01
No. of Staff: 01
No. of Person-months: 72 months

Management Agency: DORP
Start Date [Month/Year] July 2004
Completion Date [Month/Year] June 07

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

It is known that poverty is a major cause of under nutrition and ill health; it contributes to the spread of disease, undermines the effectiveness of health services and slows population control. Morbidity and disability among the poor and disadvantaged groups lead to a vicious spiral of marginalization, to their remaining in poverty, and in turn, to increased ill health.

In Bangladesh, poverty is widely recognized as a multi-dimensional problem involving income, consumption, nutrition, health, education, housing, crisis-coping capacity, insecurity, etc. Poverty refers to all forms of economic, social, and psychological deprivation occurring among people lacking sufficient resources for a minimum required level of living.

Poverty, along with other factors like inadequate information, leading to poor health-related behavior, also underlies a large part of the burden from tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, complications associated with pregnancy and delivery, and childhood illnesses including acute respiratory infections, measles, and diarrhea diseases.

Through this project, Health education is provided to the community people and to the targeted group members through health workers and field workers. It is especially targeted to the women and children of the beneficiary households. The organization has targeted to cover 250 household during project period. GHARONI has been providing health related information among the community people for raising awareness on their rights that is indicated in PRSP. The main objective of the project is to increase awareness about the health related points in PRSP among the community people through establishing a networking committee by all stakeholders from the community and monitor the services providing by the hospitals as well as aware community regarding their health rights.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Ms. Shahana Ahmed, Coordinator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Formation of Upazila Network Committee to strengthening the health service system.
• Visit & Monitor Upazila Health Complex
• Awareness Raising through Arranging Mass-gathering, Rally, Workshop
• Health Village Establishment
• Aware doctors regarding their responsibilities
• Aware hospital management to create proper environment at hospital for the poor community people.

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

Duration of Project (months): 24 months

Name of Funding Agency: CORDAID

Professional Staff provided by your Organization: 01
No. of Staff: 01
No. of Person-months: 48 months

Management Agency: DORP
Start Date [Month/Year] September 2005 Completion Date [Month/Year] August 07

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

Gender-gaps still exist in every sphere of women's lives. Development indicators show that in each and every sphere, women are far behind men. It is observed that women are unequal due to their 'dependent' socio-economic status, lower education, less mobility and above all due to the social, cultural and religious customs. Patriarchy still controls all institutions of the society, the parliament, military establishments, judiciary, education and benevolent organizations etc.

The poor pregnant women are the most neglected members of our society. Though they need rest, sympathy and considered behavior from the family as well as from the society; at that time, they face & suffer from different problems due to unemployment and health condition. They need to take good food for their coming baby. But they have limited scope to take good food due to their poverty. Other family members are not aware about the health & care of pregnant mother. The project has initiated to provide the support for taking good food during the pregnancy period and maternity period. The main objective of the project is to improve the food habit of the pregnant women and mother and take nutritious food.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Ms. Lutfa Akter, Coordnator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Baseline survey
• Beneficiary selection
• Training on health care
• Aware guardians and community people on Health and Nutrition
• Provide allowance
• Follow-up and Monitoring

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Atpara, Modan, Netrakona Sadar, Barhatta, Kendua and Purbadhala of Netrakona district

Duration of Project (months): 16 month

Name of Funding Agency: LGED

Professional Staff provided by your Organization:01 No. of Staff: 1
No. of Person-months: 32 staff months

Management Agency: LGED
Start Date [Month/Year] February 2005 Completion Date [Month/Year] : June 2006

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

Community participation can have a tremendous impact on the effectiveness and sustainability of water supply and sanitation programs. It can also help to minimize many of the potential negative environmental impacts associated with them.

In many cases, proper installation, use, and maintenance of wells, hand pumps, and latrines depends upon the community understanding how they work and viewing them as their property and, hence, their responsibility. For this to occur, the community must participate in the planning, site selection, design, construction, and monitoring of the various facilities.

To accomplish this level of community participation, adequate training in the proper construction, operation, and maintenance of the various facilities should be provided and GHARONI has been playing a significant role undertaking innovative approaches to provide basic health and sanitation to the community people. The main objective of the project is to raise awareness on health and sanitation related issues of the people of working area and establish self-reliant health system for preventing diseases.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Mr. A.S.M Abdullah, Coordinator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Awareness activities
• Meson man Selection
• Entrepreneurship Development
• Ring-slab distribution
• Monitoring

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Dhaka Ctiy, Narsigndi and Netrakona

Duration of assignment (months): 26 months

Name of Funding Agency: Bangladesh Disable Foundation

Professional Staff provided by your Organization:01 No. of Staff: 02
No. of Person-months: 153 staff months

Management Agency: Bangladesh Disable Foundation
Start Date [Month/Year] October 2003 Completion Date [Month/Year] :
December 2007

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

Bangladesh Government completed a sample survey in the year of 1982. It is identified from this survey that a total of 0.7 million people are disabled in different form. The disable people are the part of our society, so they have the right to live in the society with respect. At present some NGOs in Bangladesh are raising awareness among the general mass on disable rights. But, it is also limited in district headquarter level. So, the massages do not reach to the remote areas of this district.

Most important subject is that the health service for the disabled people is very limited. This service is available in the divisional level, which is also limited scale. The general hospitals in the upazila and district level have no such health facilities that they can avail. The disabled people need special care and treatment for overcoming the disability. We need to create social awareness among all people of the society to improve this present situation of disable people. The project create the opportunity to provide primary health care services and create mass awareness for social rehabilitation.

The beneficiaries of the project will be 60 disable people and 60 family members of the three selected upazilas. The general mass of the project areas will also be the secondary beneficiaries of the project. The project will cover – general people from 3 upazilas of selected district.

The objectives of the project are:

• Make available the information about the disable people of the project areas;
• Organize disable people and their guardian to inform their roles and responsibility for disable;
• Create awareness among the mass people to increase their sensitivity on disable people;
• Bring the disabled persons in mainstream development process

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Mr. A.S.M Abdullah, Coordinator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Group formation
• Skill Development Training for the disabled
• Aware community people on their roles & responsibilities to the disabled
• Credit support
• Supervision & monitoring

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Madan upazila of Netrokona district.

Duration of assignment (months): 24 months

Name of Funding Agency: The Bangladesh connections, USA
Management Agency: The Bangladesh connections, USA

Professional Staff provided by your Organization:01 No. of Staff: 02
No. of Person-months: 72 staff months

Management Agency: The Bangladesh connections, USA
Start Date [Month/Year] Sept 2000 Completion Date [Month/Year] : Aug. 2002

No. of Strategic Partner, if any: None

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

The program is launched to make intensive use of land resources available in the homestead. After studying (area and scope of production enterprises) the homestead of individual member family, a production plan is made and implemented with the micro- credit support. In the homestead, the production intensity is mainly increased by introducing the system of year round vegetable cultivation, planting fruit and timber yielding plants, through duck and poultry improvement (by changing breed and increase in number) and by improving the traditional crop seed storage devices. A total of 150 families in Netrakona district have developed their homestead for vegetable cultivation under this project. It has been observed that some of the families were able to raise their income more than double of the earlier homestead income.

GHARONI generally works with those poorest of the poor families who are practically untouched by the government agencies. The sustainable cash earning of those have less people can only be ensured by adopting low cost labor -intensive agricultural practices. To achieve this goal the major activities of the program include grow up (?) formation, credit disbursement and demonstration of modern technologies. Increased production of vegetables and in some cases fruits is given importance as the families have limited land resources. To do so GHARONI received fund from different development projects of Bangladesh government and worked in the specified project areas.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Mr. Jahangir Alam, Project Coordinator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Selection of farmers
• Training of farmers
• Input supply
• Setting up demonstration
• Organize field days
• Savings creation
• Supervision & monitoring

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Babugonj upazila of Barisal

Duration of assignment (months): 12 months

Name of Funding Agency: GTZ

Professional Staff provided by your Organization: 02
No. of Staff: 02
No. of Person-months: staff month: 48

Management Agency: GTZ
Start Date [Month/Year] 15 December 06 Completion Date [Month/Year] :
14th December 2007

No. of Strategic Partner, if any:

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

GHARONI has initiate a project named Training of ADRC Leader, UP members and Arbitration Council/Shalish member for Engender Mediation Process by the financial support from German Technical Center-GTZ at Babugonj Upazila of Barisal district.

This project has already proved its great impact to the poor and illiterate women of rural Babugonj. We could trained up local Shalish members and UP members on Salish facilitation, women rights, family laws and gender related issues. We also aware the community people on women rights and gender issues. Local administration and Civil society of Babugonj have appreciated the activities of the project.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Mr. Md. Shamim Ahmed Yousuf, Project Coordinator

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: ? Arrange workshop to analyze present situation of ADRC, Arbitration Council & Village Court.

• Training module development
• Arrange training for UP members, ADRC & Village Court members.
• Aware community people on gender & women rights.
• Prevent early marriage and aware on marriage registration

Name of Implementing Agency: Grassroots Health

Project Location within Country: Kaliakoir Upazila of Gazipur District.

Duration of assignment (months): 12 months

Name of Funding Agency: World Bank

Professional Staff provided by your Organization: 01
No. of Staff: 02
No. of Person-months: staff month: 36

Management Agency: World Bank
Start Date [Month/Year] July 2006
Completion Date [Month/Year] : June 2007

No. of Strategic Partner, if any:

No. of Professional Staff Provided by Strategic Partner: None
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Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

The small grants program 2006 of the World Bank Office Dhaka will support activities on Voice of the youth in the development process. Grassroots Health And Rural Organization for Nutrition Initiative-GHARONI would receive US$ 4500.00 to implement a project that that would support the “voice of the youth in the development process”.

The objectives of the project is to bring disadvantage youth (Community youths of all section) of Kaliakoir upazila under Gazipur District in the mainstream development processes by forming youth group. Mobilize the youth for alleviation of poverty, ending social conflict and development responsible leadership and good governance.

Name of Senior Staff Involved and functions Performed: Ms Ayesha Akter Jahan, Team Leader

Detailed Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

• Formation of community actors group
• Formation of youth groups
• Capacity Building Training
• Skill Development Training
• Awareness Raising
• Day Observation