Name of the project: Empowering CHT Communities through Sustainable Livelihoods.
Project Goal
Improved the economic stability of vulnerable communities by creating sustainable livelihood opportunities and enhancing their capacity to generate income and secure essential resources.
Outcome 1
Households engage in sustainable livelihood options.
Outcome 2
Improved nutrition and hygiene practice amongst caregivers of children U5, PLW, and adolescent girls through health, nutrition and WASH promotion.
Indicator of success
Proportion of households where one or more adults earning an income.
Prevalence of underweight decreased by 3% from the baseline in children under five years of age.
Proportion of caregivers of children U5 practicing proper handwashing (at 5 critical points).
Proportion of households with minimum food consumption frequency (2 or more meals per day).
80% of households with a secondary source of income.
80 % of households with increase in the value of assets transferred by at least 25% from the initial value. Same question as above.
70% of households with the means to save money using a bank and savings group.
Major Activities
Baseline survey.
Capacity building for program participants on farm production.
Transfer farm assets to program participants.
Capacity building of program participants on non-farm productions.
Transfer non-farm assets to program participants.
Organize confidence building session with program participants.
Financial inclusion through Savings Group.
Regular monitoring & follow up ultra-poor HHs.
Working area: Selected 03 Local Development Centers (Langdu BD0520, Belaichari BD0513 and BD0522) of Rangamati districts.
Project Duration: 3 years (July 2025-June 2028)
Financial and technical support: Compassion International Bangladesh (CIB)
Strategic Partner: AGAPE
Implementing Partner: Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)
Total program participants: 897
Name of the project: Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (PVAWG-CHT) project information.
The Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (PVAWG-CHT) project is implemented by Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) with the support of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF). The project aims to prevent violence against Indigenous women and girls and to strengthen community-based mechanisms for protection, access to justice, and gender equality in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh.
Indigenous women and girls in the CHT face intersecting forms of discrimination due to gender, ethnicity, geography, poverty, and limited access to services. Harmful social norms, weak institutional responses, and low awareness of legal rights further increase their vulnerability to gender-based violence. The PVAWG-CHT project addresses these challenges through a holistic, rights-based, and community-centred approach.
The project focuses on empowering Indigenous adolescent girls and young women, strengthening community leadership and accountability, and improving coordination with local service providers and duty bearers. Key interventions include the establishment of Community Learning Centres (CLCs) as safe spaces, awareness-raising on women’s rights and violence prevention, capacity building of community leaders and frontline actors, and support for survivor-centred referral pathways.
By engaging women, men, youth, traditional leaders, and institutions, the project promotes positive social norm change and fosters collective responsibility to prevent violence. The PVAWG-CHT project contributes to national and global commitments on gender equality, human rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals, while ensuring that Indigenous women and girls in the CHT are at the centre of solutions that affect their lives.