Presented By,

Assignment Group “D”

Semester 4/2

Social Work Department

SUST.

Type: Religious non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of California, USA.

Founded: 1950

Founder: Rev. Bob Pierce

Headquarters: Monrovia, California, U.S.A., 800 West Chestnut Avenue (administrative center, World Vision International Board)

Key people: Kevin Jenkins (International President) Josef Stiegler (Chairperson Int'l Board

Area Covered: 97 countries

Focus(es): Well being of all people, especially children.

Method(s): Transformational Development through emergency relief, community development and policy and advocacy

Revenue: US$2.79 billion (2011)

Employees: 44,500 (2011)

Motto: Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

Is a a global organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. (Source: World Vision Website)

National offices, under strong central control by World Vision International, registered in the host country as a branch of the main organization.

Intermediate stage national offices, with their own board, but which seek approval from World Vision International for critical management decisions.

Interdependently national registered offices that are autonomous in internal decision but are expected to coordinate with World Vision International and are bound to the Covenant of Partnership.

In 1970‟s: World Vision became involved in Bangladesh in response to the tidal surge that occurred in the coastal areas of the country, providing relief supplies to the affected disasters victims.

1971: During Bangladesh‟s liberation war, World Vision carried out relief operation in Bangladeshi refugee camps in India.

1972: World Vision began work in greater Mymensingh district (122 km north of Dhaka) to help rebuild the war-torn country.

Following these responses, which concentrated mainly on relief and rehabilitation, World Vision‟s programs soon expanded into child-focused activities to provide direct assistance to needy children of Bangladesh.

Child Focused programmes: work in children‟s education and health, water and sanitation, nutrition and food security, HIV/AIDS, disaster preparedness, child rights and participation and micro-enterprise development.

These programmes, supported through child sponsorship, are long-term (10 to 15 years) allowing World Vision to address poverty issues and build sustainable solutions alongside the community.

In addition, World Vision Bangladesh has a number of special development projects delivered in partnership with international governments and private donors.

They also respond to natural and man-made humanitarian disasters that so badly affect children, their families and communities, by providing emergency aid and assistance.

World Vision in Bangladesh operates through 65 Area Development Programmes (ADPs) in 62 sub-districts, city and town locations in 27 districts throughout the country and serves around 4 million people directly and indirectly with various human development activities.

Children and their rights

Education and skills building

Emergency relief

Food security and economic development

Gender equality

HIV and AIDS

Institutional Development

Maternal and child health and nutrition

World Vision Bangladesh Child Rights Sector seeks to pursue its call and aspiration through three intervention strategies:

Bolstering child survival and development

Ensure the fundamental safety of children

Enable children to actively participate in decision-making

Goal Of Child Right Programme:

To ensure child rights and empower children as agents of change.

52% of children under birth registration during FY „11

115% of children participated in leadership, capacity building and advocacy skills training/ orientation/ workshop

90% of community people attended in training/workshop/seminar on child rights

98% of children attended in the moral, cultural and ethical program organized for registered children

94% of participants attended in child trafficking awareness program

World Vision Bangladesh‟s Education Program has directed only 16% of resources to quality improvement; spending the majority on in-kind support such as school supplies, school fees and educational institutional support. In order to maximize the impact of the investment in education, World Vision Bangladesh education strategy must focus resources and initiatives on improving educational quality and learning environments as well as support for full enrollment and literacy as a basic right.

Objective: To ensure a quality educational experience for all enabling competency acquisition for transformational development.

80% of participants from communities have actively participated in educational awareness building activities

91% of students have received educational supports

95% educational institutes have received educational supports

92% of student attended pre-school

101% of pre-school children enrolled in primary school

104% of targeted people completed Life Skill Based Education course

97% of adult community women & men completed Functional Educational (FE) courses

77% of students attended the non-formal primary education (NFPE)

94% of children received alternative education in Children

Education Development Committee (CEDC) program

81% of ethnic students received educational support to continue their education properly and similarly

99% of physically and mentally challenged as well as orphaned children received different types of inputs.

World Vision Bangladesh‟s Food Security and Economic Development Program addresses the following capacity to respond through agriculture and non-farm activities: Management of agricultural and non-farm programs under

rural Area Development Programs Participation of women in agricultural and non-farm

programs has increased Promotion of organic agricultural practices Successfully promoted Farmer Field Schools(FFS) Successfully established community based agricultural

extension system Developed agricultural extension facilitators These activities continue to target ADPs and other projects as well as new communities where World Vision‟s humanitarian action is required in future in targeting farmers, local producer groups, food insecure households in rural areas and small holders and people with disabilities and the ultra poor.

Goal: To sustain food security and income thereby enhancing livelihood

capacity of poor and extreme poor.

Outcomes: Grow in primary agricultural production through intensifying

crop production and expanding non-crop agriculture. Diversify income sources creating business development

opportunities and providing necessary support for both farm and non-farm micro and small enterprises (MSEs).

Improving market access for farmers and non-farm operators through identifying better links to markets for products in high value and growing demand.

Forging private-NGO-public partnerships to build up national and international collaborations and networking to facilitate improved access to specialized

Goal

To reduce gender gaps and promote gender equality enabling women to experience their full range of rights and freedoms.

Intervention Strategies:

Decreasing the level of violence against women and nurturing its victims.

Reducing discrimination and ensuring equal access to services.

Fostering equality in decision-making.

117% of community people participated in ADP‟s awareness seminars and workshops through Gender and Development Program

113% of target people attended training /orientation on right based issues

A total of 42 (120%) Gender and Development (GAD) taskforce functioning with 480 (100%) members in the GAD task force committee

101% of members attended in the training on GAD and Advocacy & right based programs

In order to reduce and mitigate disaster risks, the Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA) ministry of WV Bangladesh seeks its community resilience call and aspiration through four strategic focus areas:

Effective emergency responses

Community resilience building

Organizational resilience building

Quality, accountability and learning

To focus the areas WV Bangladesh HEA‟s other major objectives and activities as outlined in National Strategy 2009 – 2013 are follows:

1. To Ensure timely and accurate early warning in the event of disaster

2. To Maintain a constant and sufficient level of preparedness

3. To Respond in a timely and effective manner

4. To Enable communities to rehabilitate within 18-24 months of disaster

5. To Transition into long-term sustainable community development

6. To Mitigate community vulnerability to disaster.

86 % (131,680) of program participants targeted through awareness program on early warning, disaster and emergency response and rehabilitation program by HEA ministry

79% (13,205) of people addressed with rehabilitation program

31% (305) people received early warning inputs (radio, TV, hand mike etc.)

12 % (1,757) of people received relief goods

99 % (124,720) of community people including govt. staff, volunteer etc. have received training on disaster management response from ADPs of World Vision Bangladesh

In the HIV and AIDS Program, the major activities include: medical care for STIs, management of other health problems, recreation facilities, peer education, counseling and health education, referral service etc.

The project also does:

Behavior Change Communication (BCC) campaign against HIV and AIDS and STIs

Management and increased care for STIs patients

Advocacy for stigma reduction and discrimination

Networking and collaboration

Anti-retroviral therapy for people living with HIV and AIDS

Programme Goal To reduce HIV and AIDS vulnerability in key populations at high risk, striving towards the Millennium Goal of halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS in concert with the Government of Bangladesh‟s HIV and AIDS National Strategic Plan. World Vision Bangladesh HIV and AIDS Sector accomplish this objective through the following three intervention strategies: Promote positive behavioral change in populations at high

risk Alleviate associated stigma and discrimination Improve the wellbeing of persons living with HIV and AIDS

Goal: To sustain the development process at the community

level by facilitating strong functioning Development Groups that will form interdependent CBOs.

Outcomes: World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) Institutional

Development sector seeks to pursue its call and aspiration through three interventions strategies:

Building capacity in existing and new development groups and CBOs

Ensure Development Groups and CBOs are inclusive Facilitate the creation of new community groups

2,178 Development Group (DG) functioning

101 % of community people received training on different capacity building areas e.g. safe Environment, value transformation, community participation, social empowerment etc.

96% of DG members attended the training on leadership and capacity building group management

63% of CBO members received training on different skill development program that facilitated by ADPs.

Goal:

To improve the health and nutrition status of children and mothers and in doing so lower mortality rates.

Outcomes

WVB has been implementing health and nutrition interventions through ADPs over the past three decades, addressing the following key strategic objectives: 1. Improve child nutrition and health care and prevent sickness

2. Ensure healthy pregnancy and delivery

3. Promote the well being of disabled children and reduce preventable childhood disability

4. Enhance mother and child health care during emergencies and disasters

Neighborhood Based Interventions

City-Wide Strategies: Beirut, Nairobi, Delhi and Dhaka

Urban Project Models- Healthy, Safer, Resilient and Prosperous Cities

Network Model/Alliance Building to Advocate for Policy Reform

Water:

Access to clean water services (Healthy Cities)

Community protection mechanisms (Safer Cities)

Water advocacy coalition with civil society (Resilient Cities)

Water-use education (Prosperous Cities)

Waste

Improved waste collection & disposal services (Healthy Cities)

Children protected from exposure to hazardous waste (Safer Cities)

Build capacity in communities for waste management (Resilient Cities)

Household waste sorting & disposal practices (Prosperous Cities)

Work

Access to health services through improved HH income (Healthy Cities)

Protection from labor exploitation & child labor (Safer Cities)

Enhance social cohesion (Resilient Cities)

Skills training for urban youth (Prosperous Cities)

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Hossain, Shahadat; Urbanization and Poverty in Bangladesh (2011), Retrived on 18 November from http://www.habitatbangladesh.org.