Our Development Project

1. Project Name: Accessing Learning Opportunities to the Young, Adolescents and Livelihood Options for Women (ALOY-ALOW).

Funded by: Child Fund Korea.

Technical Support by: Educo-Bangladesh.

Project Area: Komalgonj, Moulvibazar.

Duration: 2019-2024

Project Overview: Prochesta believes that all parts of society will get equal opportunity. The organization wants to ensure the right to food, right to clothing, right to shelter, right to education, and right to Health in the project areas. We know that there some bypassed community people in every country and or location. With a view to improving their educational facilities in the Tea garden areas. Prochesta is working in 8 Tea gardens under Komolgonj Upazila in Moulvibazar district.

Project Goals: Contribute to ensure rights to education and dignity of life of children following an integrated development program approach in the hard to reach areas of Moulvibazar district in Bangladesh.

Major Activities of the Project:

1. ECD Center establishing in the Tea Garden Areas.
2. Establishing preschools in the project action areas.
3. To ensure quality education, the project supports to improve the schools infrastructure.
4. Provide Tube-well and hygiene facilities in the ECD centers and primary schools.
5. Provide training on Nutritions food as well as food for needy families.
6. Day Care Centres establishing in tea garden areas.
7. Awareness building to schools and respective communities on disaster risk reduction.
8. Youth and adolescents training on life skills
9. Organizing national-level advocacy.

2.Project Name: Promotion of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh (PHRPBD) Project.

Funded by: Australian Aid (Aus-aid) & Christian Blind Mission (CBM)

Technical Support by: Center for Disability in Development (CDD)

Project Area: Kulaura, Moulvibazar.

Duration: 2010-2021.

Project Overview: The project has been implementing in Sylhet basin to improve the condition of Disable People with financial support from the Centre for Disability in Bangladesh and CBM. The project started in March 2010 and will be ended in December 2023. Now Ongoing Project 4rd Phase duration 2019-2021.

Project Goals: Established human rights of disable people.

Major Activities of the Project:

• SHG formation and Apex Body formation
• Conduct meeting/orientation and work plan for SHG
• Conduct awareness initiatives with CSO, LGI, and Institution etc.
• Conduct Advocacy on different issues
• Advocacy workshop at local and divisional level
• Different Day observation
• Organize cultural program involving disable people
• Provide primary rehabilitation therapy exercise
• Provide need based support

3.Project Name: Disability Inclusion through Mutual Learning Project.

Funded by: Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC)

Project Area: Kulaura, Moulvibazar & Gokarneshwor-05, NayaBasti, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Duration: 2019-2022

Project Overview: The goal of the project is to develop a person with disability (PwD) livelihood, education, social acceptance, a job opportunity in both countries through virtual learning of staff members along with a working approach. The Prochesta has been promoting disability-inclusive education and self-help group’s formation of PwDs to establish their rights, advocacy program for establishing disabled people’s rights, ensuring alternative livelihood options in the inclusive society which intends to learn by the DHRC. Contrastingly, DHRC has been advocating for disability inclusion through media coverage and radio program that will learn by the Prochesta. Through mutual learning and knowledge sharing, both organizations will be augmented new approaches that will help to make a disability-inclusive society.

Major Activities of the Project:

• Conduct hands on capacity building training to Prochesta staffs on disability voice radio programme.
• Develop a training module on the radio programme and magazine publication on disability.
• Mobilize associated privet sector actors to aim to ensure better services for PwDs.
• Facilitate community orientation on PwDs health, rights and legal aid services.
• Community mobilization and group formation of PwDs aim to raise voice for rights and entitlements
• Facilitate capacity building training of PwDs for better health, livelihood, rights, and privilege.
• Develop capacity building training module on health, rights and better livelihood of PwDs.
• Facilitate PwDs monthly group meetings with the field visit. 
• Design and conduct awareness initiatives through CSO, LGIs, and health and educational Institution etc.
• Advocacy on disability rights issues through the workshop, meeting with duty bearers and policymakers aim to create a positive environment for PwDs.
• Conduct community mobilizing activities to create positive environment/attitude for PwDs aim to ensure social inclusion.
• Mobilize associated privet sector actors to aim to ensure better services for PwDs.
• Information, education and communication (IEC) materials development and dissemination to create mass awareness on comprehensive disability rights, management, and rehabilitation.

4.Project Name: Developing model of Inclusive Education in Bangladesh.

Funded by: Plan International Bangladesh.

Project Area: Kulaura Moulvibazar.

Duration: 2014-2019.

Project Overview: Considering the challenges, barriers and problems identified in different areas of access, quality and governance of the primary education system, a comprehensive, unified acceptable and inclusive primary education model is vital for a country like Bangladesh. To address the above problems and to support the primary education system in achieving quality primary education for ALL, Plan Bangladesh will strive to develop an effective, innovative, participatory and inclusive primary education implementation model that will cover access, governance and quality based on the government’s initiatives (l PEDPII, IE strategy, PEDPIII etc.). As a priority to address issues for the most marginalized and disadvantaged groups of children, especially children with disabilities, Plan Bangladesh will initiate a project for developing a practical inclusive education model in close collaboration with UNICEF and the government of Bangladesh which will complement PEDP III initiatives on Inclusive education and at the same time develop a demonstrative model of inclusive education for potential adoption and scale-up.  

Project Goals: An efficient inclusive and equitable primary education system is in place that delivers effective and relevant child-friendly learning to ALL children.

Major Activities of the Project:

• Support to ensure Accessibility
• Provide need-based Training
• Operate Shishu Bikash Kendra
• Support to school make colorful & enjoyable
• Orientation to Community