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ActionAid works with vulnerable communities and helps them to identify the risks they face, their vulnerabilities to natural disasters, and understand their capacities to cope better.

Core Areas Include:
• Building community resilience through defending commons, diversified and adaptive livelihoods and making institutions responsive and accountable in rural and urban spaces
• Strengthen leadership of women and young people to lead humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness that contributes to resilience.
• Facilitate social justice movements for environmental justice, including climate justice at all levels.

Background

ActionAid works with vulnerable communities and helps them to identify the risks they face, their vulnerabilities to natural disasters, and understand their capacities to cope better.

Core Areas Include:
• Building community resilience through defending commons, diversified and adaptive livelihoods and making institutions responsive and accountable in rural and urban spaces
• Strengthen leadership of women and young people to lead humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness that contributes to resilience.
• Facilitate social justice movements for environmental justice, including climate justice at all levels.

This year Rana Plaza tragedy marked 6th year of the largest industrial accident in the country’s history taking place. Bangladesh RMG sector saw comprehensive reforms and improvements in different areas such as workplace safety, occupational safety and health, law and policy reforms etc following this tragic incident. Considerable efforts have been made by the government, non-government organisations, local manufacturers, international fashion brands and individual stakeholders to ensure compensation, rehabilitation and reintegration of the affected people and workplace safety.


The collective effort of the stakeholders has driven institutional changes, legal and policy reforms and structural modifications to address the challenges appeared in the RMG sector following the tragic incident.

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Growing a Sustainable Future for Children: Spice Tree Sapling Distribution in Thanchi's Hilly Areas

On the date of on May 30, 2023, ActionAid Bangladesh and its partner organization promote ecological balance and climate sustainability in Thanchi's hilly area by distributing spice tree saplings to empower 68 children and young women for a greener future. Planting these saplings restores biodiversity, balances ecosystems, and educates the community about the importance of planting.
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Rising Stars

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Amplifying Youth and Children's Voices: Mobilizing Children for Climate Action in Bangladesh

In May 2023, a training session was conducted for partner organizations, including all LRPs staff, to effectively engage children in climate justice activities.
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Empowering Children and Parents through Psychosocial Counseling and Positive Parenting

Samiul (18), one of the participants, expressed his enthusiasm for the initiative, stating, "The training provided us with valuable insights that benefit both adults and children. The session on Depression, Stress, and Suicide particularly resonated with me, as many of our peers experience depression, sometimes leading to thoughts of self-harm. We identified the underlying causes and devised a six-month action plan. I will share what I've learned with children and parents in our community to promote a healthy life and environment for every child." " Anisa (35) expressed her transformative experience with the training, stating, "I was unfamiliar with the term 'positive parenting' until now. This training completely changed my perspective on effective parenting. I am committed to sharing this knowledge with other parents in our community. Personally, I will implement these techniques with my younger daughter in sixth grade. I will prioritize spending quality time with her and strive to be her closest confidante, ensuring her emotional development. I am grateful to ActionAid for granting me the opportunity to participate in the Psychosocial Counseling and Positive Parenting ToT."
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Introducing Sahakom Mobile App: Empowering Child Sponsorship Communication through Training of Trainers

ActionAid Bangladesh is thrilled to announce the launch of the Sahakom Mobile App, a groundbreaking technology designed to revolutionize the way we communicate and connect with child sponsors.
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Introducing Sahakom Mobile App: Empowering Child Sponsorship Communication through Training of Trainers

ActionAid Bangladesh is thrilled to announce the launch of the Sahakom Mobile App, a groundbreaking technology designed to revolutionize the way we communicate and connect with child sponsors.
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News

Growing a Sustainable Future for Children: Spice Tree Sapling Distribution in Thanchi's Hilly Areas

On the date of on May 30, 2023, ActionAid Bangladesh and its partner organization promote ecological balance and climate sustainability in Thanchi's hilly area by distributing spice tree saplings to empower 68 children and young women for a greener future. Planting these saplings restores biodiversity, balances ecosystems, and educates the community about the importance of planting.
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News

Amplifying Youth and Children's Voices: Mobilizing Children for Climate Action in Bangladesh

In May 2023, a training session was conducted for partner organizations, including all LRPs staff, to effectively engage children in climate justice activities.
Read More

News

Empowering Children and Parents through Psychosocial Counseling and Positive Parenting

Samiul (18), one of the participants, expressed his enthusiasm for the initiative, stating, "The training provided us with valuable insights that benefit both adults and children. The session on Depression, Stress, and Suicide particularly resonated with me, as many of our peers experience depression, sometimes leading to thoughts of self-harm. We identified the underlying causes and devised a six-month action plan. I will share what I've learned with children and parents in our community to promote a healthy life and environment for every child." " Anisa (35) expressed her transformative experience with the training, stating, "I was unfamiliar with the term 'positive parenting' until now. This training completely changed my perspective on effective parenting. I am committed to sharing this knowledge with other parents in our community. Personally, I will implement these techniques with my younger daughter in sixth grade. I will prioritize spending quality time with her and strive to be her closest confidante, ensuring her emotional development. I am grateful to ActionAid for granting me the opportunity to participate in the Psychosocial Counseling and Positive Parenting ToT."
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Blog, News

Introducing Sahakom Mobile App: Empowering Child Sponsorship Communication through Training of Trainers

ActionAid Bangladesh is thrilled to announce the launch of the Sahakom Mobile App, a groundbreaking technology designed to revolutionize the way we communicate and connect with child sponsors.
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Being trained in leadership, the children of Kurigram are already planning to work on climate change and justice.

Child leadership refers to developing leadership skills in children, while cultural movement refers to the promotion & preservation of cultural values & practices.
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Children participated in the 'Walk for Water' campaign to show respect and value for water

The idea of “Walk for Water', was a new concept for me and so I was eager to take part in ActionAid's events for water. Participating in the awareness sessions and other events organized by ActionAid made me rethink the importance of water in our lives. I am more committed to conserving water and making its responsible use in my daily life. We have to save water with efficient use and harvest rainwater.”, uttered Baishakhi (18 years old) from Ghoraghat, who attended the awareness sessions on the importance of water as a part of observing World Water Day 2023.
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Capacity-building training on child journalism has motivated children to pursue their dreams:

The objective of the child journalism training is to provide children (trainee journalists) with the concepts and the information that will help them to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children's rights.
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Drama and child competition have an effective power of expression

A child from the drama group Meem (15) said, “while developing the drama script, we were not aware of but after finishing we realized every character of the community has a role to prevent child marriage and we can effectively fit the roles. Along with the parents and community leader, neighbor the role I played has a great responsibility and can positively or negatively tackle child marriage situations.”
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Celebration of Child Rights week 2022 in Social Change

“We girls don't get many opportunities to play sports in our community, especially in public places. But this time on Child Rights Week, a friendly football match competition was organized by ActionAid and BNKS. Where I participate as a team leader. Before the start of the game, my team members and I practiced football in our area for a few days. And this practice was the first-time played football in our life. Playing sports refreshes our minds and increases our social participation. Participating in sports also keeps us physically healthy. Participating in a football match has taught me to think that girls can participate in all social activities, it is our right”, shared by D Hola Wang Marma (16 years adolescent child)
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Children from Sunamganj created awareness among community people during Child Rights Week:

One of the performers, Tamanna (15-year-old) said, “We tried to aware others of the alarming issue of our community. Children are engaging themselves in stone lifting work. After flood, the rate has been increased. It is really alarming as they are dropping out from school. To keep this in mind, we, the cultural team planned to aware others through a street drama, and we did it during Child Rights Week. People from different areas enjoyed the drama, someone even cried. I hope this would be helpful to stop child labor at our community.”
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Children of Ghoraghat are moving towards cultural movement:

This year, Children of Ghoraghat celebrated Child Rights Week through different activities. This time, they focused on street drama presentation as through this, the image of the society can be beautifully displayed. As easily as drama leaves a mark on people's minds, no medium can. So, they decided to portray the image & problems of their area through a street drama.
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An Amusing Picnic Day for Children

Jim (05), a young girl, reading in class two, was very happy to take part in the picnic and shared, “We are very happy that ActionAid Bangladesh arranged this picnic for us. Me and my friends participate in the games. We enjoy a lot. On behalf of all I would cordially thanks to ActionAid to gift us an enjoyable day”.
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Blog, News

Introducing Sahakom Mobile App: Empowering Child Sponsorship Communication through Training of Trainers

ActionAid Bangladesh is thrilled to announce the launch of the Sahakom Mobile App, a groundbreaking technology designed to revolutionize the way we communicate and connect with child sponsors.
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Blog

ClimateInjustice #WaterCrisis

I joined my ActionAid Bangladesh colleagues and volunteers engaged in the preparedness initiatives to mitigate the impact of #cycloneMocha.
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Being trained in leadership, the children of Kurigram are already planning to work on climate change and justice.

Child leadership refers to developing leadership skills in children, while cultural movement refers to the promotion & preservation of cultural values & practices.
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MAKING MARKET WORK FOR WOMEN

In Bangladesh, nutrition and SRH care are interlinked problems: poor food intake causes malnourishment, which leads to poor health and poor SRH perpetuates the inter-generational cycle of undernourishment. Deficiencies in nutrition and SRH care result in poor labor productivity and market performance. One of the key factors leading to (women’s) intake of poor nutritional food at home, poor reproductive, maternal and sexual health stems from lack of life skills (on SRH). Thus, poor reproductive health conditions adversely affect women’s ability to participate in activities outside of the home, which in turn manifests itself as their inability to participate in and shape the market.
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