Strategic Objective (SO) 2: Enhance Sustainable WaSH and Menstrual Hygiene Management for the disadvantaged community.

Besides, providing eco-friendly hardware support for WaSH, Vision Bangladesh is supporting the community for their behavior change through awareness programs; school sanitation & MHM initiatives; mass gatherings, and sensitizing the service providers. For a sustainable solution of pure drinking water for the Rohingya refugees. Besides that, Vision Bangladesh also provides lighting to the latrine to make it more user-friendly to women, children, elderly people, and people with disability. As the proper Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) remains a big concern among the underserved locality as well as in the refugee camp, Vision Bangladesh is highly involved in awareness raising through group and peer sessions and MHM kits distribution to ensure better MHM. The following approach will be followed for this strategic objective:

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Strategic Approach for SO-2:

  • • Community awareness and behavior change
  • • Hardware support
  • • School sanitation
  • • Promotion of environment-friendly innovative solutions for safe drinking water
  • • MHM awareness and kits distribution, especially for Refugee and HC
  • • Formation of adolescent groups and running of MHM center at the camp

Strategic Objective (SO) 3: Enhance the nutrition status of the children.

The working and the focal target people are the most underprivileged community of those locality. Besides poverty, malnutrition of the children (under 5 years of age) is one of the chronic problems. The causes of the problem are mainly due to lack of awareness, early pregnancy, and lack of hygienic behavioral practices. The following approach will be followed for this strategic objective:

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Strategic Approach for SO-3:

  • • Reduce the prevalence of underweight children through the BSFP and TSFP programs
  • • Reduce the prevalence of stunting through the detection and referral of SAM and MAM children
  • • Awareness and demonstration of hygienic food preparation for the mothers and caregivers
  • • Promote dietary diversity, including IYCF for optimum nutrition intake
  • • Enhance alternative options at the household level, i.e., homestead gardening and livestock as a source of nutrition.

Strategic Objective (SO) 4: Facilitate quality education and child protection for the underrealized

To reduce the school dropout and reenroll the working children into mainstream education, Vision Bangladesh has started an accelerated education program. For early childhood development, Vision Bangladesh has initiated for undramatic and cognitive child development. Under this strategic objective Vision Bangladesh has started mass communication to reduce the dropout of the girls children and to enroll them in education especially during their adolescent age. Vision Bangladesh has established a solar system in the rural schools to make them multi-functional, where adolescents are getting training for decent enterprise development. Presently, Vision Bangladesh has an MoU with schools in the host community and runs a school-to-community program to address the issues of child protection and education. Besides that, in the refugee camp, Vision Bangladesh is initiating the start of education services based on the Myanmar curriculum. The following approach will be followed for this strategic objective:

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Strategic Approach for SO-4:

  • • Ensure inclusive education for the out-of-school children, children with special needs
  • • Reduce the dropout of girl children due to child marriage and other traditional harmful practices
  • • Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)
  • • Enable digital/apps-based accelerated education to reenroll the dropout children
  • • Multi-functional school facility and establish solar energy for the rural schools.
  • • Enable technical and vocational education facilities for the children who are over 14 years of age for decent jobs

Strategic Objective (SO) 5: Facilitate social protection, GBV (Gender base Violence) and MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support& Services) for the deprived and underprivileged people

Women and children are comparatively most vulnerable in the society in terms of all forms of discrimination. For child protection, Vision Bangladesh has child safeguard policy which enables the rights of children in every aspect of the society. To ensure women's rights, Vision Bangladesh follow its gender policy and to promote women's rights, Vision Bangladesh, through its intervention, always facilitates and promotes the rights of women through awareness, community mobilization, and activating the local authority and duty bearers. The following approach will be followed for this strategic objective:

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Strategic Approach for SO-5:

  • • Overall protection and safeguarding
  • • Reduce GBV (Gender Base Violence) / VAW (Violence Against Women)
  • • Gender mainstreaming
  • • Promote SRHR (Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights)
  • • Support and promotion of MHPSS
  • • Case management and referral

Crosscutting issues:

In all its development interventions, Vision Bangladesh considers Gender, good governance, Environment, and Inclusion as cross-cutting Issues.