Department of Development Studies

Bangladesh University of Professionals

Course name & Course code – Poverty Alleviation, Programs and Strategies (BDS-3627)

Submitted to:

Manila Khisa
Lecturer
Dept. of Development Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
Submitted by:

Group 02

Mostak Ahmed (18121016)

Al-Amin Choton (18121019)
Soumik Mohammad Ishmam (18121024)
Sayeef Ahmed Mridul (18121030)
Moriom Khatun Rinky (18121039)
Raian Nafiza (18121040)

Dept. of Development Studies

Batch: 03, Session: 2017-18
Bangladesh University of Professionals

Date Of submission: 22nd July, 2020

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 Leading Hope Foundation
Organization

Project Title Empowering people through Conditional Cash Transfer

Implementing
Alochaya
Organization

Place Kurigram

Date Planned Start Date Planned End Date

Jan 2021 Dec 2023

Direct beneficiaries 250 children from class 6-10 of 45 schools of Kurigram district,
Chilmari Upazilla of Bangladesh and 200 parents of those
children as a form of community

Indirect Families and communities through selected kids and communities

by engaging with each other through giving them education and
beneficiaries
basic training to come out of poverty

Donor agencies UNICEF, Action Aid

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 Project on
“Empowering people through Conditional Cash Transfer”

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Table of contents:
Contents Page no
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Title Page

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Title

Background

Objectives

Scope of Work

Work Plan / Activity Plan

Time Frame

Budget

Key Stakeholders

Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

Background:

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Bangladesh is over populated country where extreme poverty and vulnerability is one of the
biggest problems for development. A large number of people are living under the extreme
poverty line and majority of the rest are just above the national poverty line which implies that a
small shock can push a large number of individuals into poverty. The proportion of population
living below the national poverty line is 21.8% (2018). Poverty is the result of a shortage income
and resources. People can not ensure education due to poverty in rural area. Therefore, the
literacy rate of Bangladesh is not up to the mark. Increasing the literacy rate and educational
status is the key development challenge for Bangladesh.

In rural area, most of the people are poor and lead a miserable life. In most of the time poor
parents can not provide education to their children. As a result, the poor people stay in the
vicious cycle of poverty. So our target group for the project is these type of poor family who are
under the poverty line and can not afford education to their children. This project will help the
poor households by giving incentives and conditions. For that, conditional cash transfer program
whose main goal is to increase the income of poor households can ensure the education in rural
area. The ability of the project is to improve financial knowledge, behavior and attitudes among
the poor family who are living under the national poverty line. And it also will able to increase
the number of school going children.

The project will cover 200 families and 250 children in Chilmari upazila in kurigram district
where most of the family are living under the poverty line. Their main source of income is
agriculture that is 70.74%. At present, the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced their family income
and it has a great impact on children education. Besides, the literacy rate of chilmari upazila is
only 33.77%. We have taken those children who are in class six to ten and will not afford to the
basic need of education. The project will be implemented by providing cash transfer to the
households by giving condition that is to send their children to school. The expected duration of
this project is 3 years and will run from 1 January, 2021 to 31 December, 2023. The estimated
budget of this project is around 180000$ and this project will be funded by UNICEF and Action
Aid. The beneficiary group of this project is the poor households.

Objectives:

There has a positive impacts of conditional cash transfers on poverty and education.
Improvements in both poverty and education related outcomes are possible when cash transfers
are conditioned. The first objective of this project is to augment income of the poor households
by providing cash. The households can use that cash in any other activities that will boost their
income. Giving cash will be conditioned. And the condition under the project is they will send
their children to school.

The second objective of this project is to ensure some basic skills of the poor households so that
they can improve financial knowledge, behavior and attitudes. For that, some training session
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will be taken which will build their knowledge to emphasize small business or any financial
activities. Awareness sessions will help to improvise their notion of child education. Besides,
they will able to make decisions, design and implement whatever they want for profit
maximization. Thus, they will spend the profit to benefit their children’s education.

This project is connected with the education. The third objective of this project is to enhance
student’s technological knowledge. For that, we will provide some technological accessories to
the students who are under the project. We will provide some training session for them that will
flourish their ability to use technology so that they can make themselves as a strong candidate in
the competitive job market. That will increase their knowledge about online based education.
Besides, they can gather knowledge about online based business that will make them to be an
entrepreneur.

Providing cash transfers to the households will ensure that the money will spend to benefit the
children’s education as well as it has a great impact on household’s empowerment. We have
enough transparent rules, control systems, accountability mechanisms that will help to ensure the
program credibility.

Scope of Work

1. Problem Statement: The project “Empowering people through Conditional Cash Transfer”
tries to solve the basic nature and structure of education of children by providing them a
monetary help which can be called conditional cash transfer. The target group includes
250 children from class 6-10 of 45 schools of Kurigram district, Chilmari Upazilla of
Bangladesh and 200 parents of those children as a form of community. The lack of proper
education and no access to economic opportunities will directly affect these target groups
since education and financial empowerment is the primary strength to lead a good life.
2. Project Goal: The main goal of this project is to enable children to continue their
education without any hindrance after COVID ends. Moreover, training with money will
be provided to their parents so that they become skilled and come out of poverty.
3. Deliverables: The project will be run for 3 years starting from 1 st January, 2020 up to 31st
December 2023. After the end of this project it is expected that post COVID period will
be much flexible for the targeted group of children to continue their education.

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 4. Administration: Weekly reports need to be given consisting number of students going to
school every week and what are the materials they are lacking off to continue a smooth
education.

Work plan:

Project Summary Indicators Means of Risks/Assumptio

Verification ns

Goal Ensure Financial Numbers of Records of Changed living

stability of the households who households who and education
households regarding send their children have financial standards in post
sending their children to the school capacity to send covid situation.
to school in post covid their children to
situation and reduce school
poverty.
Ensure educational Numbers of Records of Children need
rights and reduce child children getting children getting education for
labor among children proper education proper education their future
and number and records growth and
children not children not financial
getting involved in getting involved in engagement
child labor child labor

Purpose 1 Upgraded Standard of Number of schools Records of Children need

education at secondary upgraded their upgraded school better education
level system education system with proper
and proficiency approach

Output 1 Increase capacity of Number of Records of School

schools to provide students facilitated students facilitated environment
better education to the by these schools by these schools motivates
maximum children for
learning

Activities 1 Allocation for creating Number of schools Records of school Students can
need-based school getting proper getting technical easily capture the
environment and technological and and financial ideas and
technological financial support support understand what

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 infrastructure teachers teach
development them
Purpose 2 Ensure engaging Number of Surveys among Teacher has a
capable teachers for teachers recruited teachers for vital role that is
teaching children at under proper evaluation why they need
secondary level system proper training

Output 2 Enhance teachers’ Number of Survey of how Teachers require

technical skill to teachers getting teacher is additional
communicate with the the technical conducting the qualification
children training program classes technically
run

Activities 2 Budget for arranging Number of Records of Teachers need

technical skill technical skill technical skill technical skill to
development program development development provide better
for teachers program education service
programs run
Purpose 3 Children will find Percentage of Records of Monotonous
learning interesting and children attend in attendance learning does not
be motivated to learn the regular class last long. Sop
learning should
be interactive

Changing psychology Number of Survey among Reduce financial

and attitude among children children regarding tension among
children because of participate in the attitude and parents
practical work. They practical work practical work
will prepare their
mindset to help
financially in their
household’s
betterment.
Output 3 Children will be Number of Surveys among Different learning
completing their children who children process should be
regular studies and able completed their participated applied. And
to adopt learning of studies and eagerly regularly children pass their
different digital participate in leisure time with
mediums. classes. education and
skill
improvement.

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 Increase of children Percentage of Records of Children
engagement with children engaged children participation and
learning tools such as with learning tools participated in engagement are
different platforms, learning with tools needed for
where they can study effective
from the internet. education

Activities 3 Allocation for Number of Audio/Visual & Children will find

providing audio/Visual audio/Visual& printed content learning
& printed content printed content providing records interesting in
provided these digital ways

Allocation for Number of kits Kits distribution Home practice

distributing education distribution records creates impact on
kits for practice at changing
home behavior of
households

Budget for conducting Number of games Records of games Children will

competitive practical & other & other learn team work,
team activities session competitive competitive leadership field
practical activities practical activities activities by
session run session which they will
be able to earn in
future.
Purpose 4 Increasing the Statistics of Comparison with Poor parents need
opportunities for parents work previous income economic support
parents’ income and performance and rate and living to send their kids
skill improvement so income standard rate to the school
that they can reduce
poverty.
Outcome 4 Parents getting training Number of parents Survey among Parent’s skill
on different skills doing the training parents regarding improvement to
which can improve the sessions properly vocational training improve the
income condition condition of the
household.

Parents’ can earn by Number of parents Records of Parents financial

engaging financial employed employment improvement is
activities among parents important for

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 motivating them
to send their
children to the
school
Activities 4 Allocation for parents’ Number of Parents Parents vocational Parents need
vocational training vocational training training program training to
program run records improve skills for
engaging with
economic
activities
Budget for parents’ Number of Engagement Parents need
financial engagement engagements campaigns records financial support
campaign campaigns run and engagement
by which they can
earn & motivate
to send their
children to school

Time Frame:

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 Year 1 Year
Description
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Orientation
Providing Cash
Awareness Session
Training Session for parents
Skill improvement for children session
Computer Club
giving them technological accessories
Integrated monitoring system
Public workshop on result

Budget:

Expenditure
Amount($ Quantit Total($ Balance($
Description Date
) y ) )
Project Orientation workshop 1/1/2021 300 1 300 600
Providing Cash 1/2/2021 300 200 60000 60600
15-03-
Awareness session 200 6 1200 61800
2021
Training session for parents 1/5/2021 500 3 1500 63300
20-07-
Computer Club 2000 3 6000 69300
2021
15-09-
Technological Accessories 300 30 9000 78300
2021
20-12-
Salary of Trainer 2000 4 80000 158300
2023
20-12-
Salary of Trainer Assistant 1000 2 2000 160300
2023
Transportation Cost 1/1/2021 400 3 1200 161500
Food and Snacks 10/3/2021 2000 3 6000 167500

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 30-12-
Accommodation 1000 3 3000 170500
2023
Total $170,500

Income
Descriptio Amount( Quantit Total($ Balance(
Date
n $) y ) $)
20-12-
UNICEF 2020 100000 1 100000 100000
15-01-
Action Aid 2021 80000 1 80000 180000
Total $180,000

Total Income $180000

Total Expenditure $170500

Total Balance $9500

Key Stakeholders:
Key stakeholders are those who have a direct interest in our project. Without them we will not be
able to implementation our project. Key stakeholders have an important role to play to achieve
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the anticipated outcomes in our project .The key stakeholders in our project have been identified
as Student, Poor households, Trainer, Implementing organization, monitoring Organization,
UNICEF and Action aid. All identified stakeholders have roles and responsibilities for
implementation our project.

 Students: They will attend school regularly and participate training session for
enhancing their technological knowledge.
 Poor households: They will participate training session and send their children in
school.
 Trainer: Trainer will give training on some basic skills of the poor households so that
they can improve financial knowledge, behavior, attitudes and will motivated Parents so
that they send their children in school. Trainer will also give training on poor
households students to enhance their technological knowledge. So that poor households
students can make themselves as a strong candidate in the competitive job market.
 Implementing organization : . Alochaya is very important in the success of this project
as all activities will take place within this organization guidelines. Members of this
organization such as the president of this organization, vice-presidents, directors,
division managers, the corporate operating committee, and project managers are an
important stakeholders in this project. All activities of this project will be implemented
through them.
 UNICEF and Action Aid : UNICEF and Action aid funding organization will play an
important role for project continuity, sustainability and implementation. These funding
organization will provide all money to implementation this project.
 Development Alliance Bangladesh (DAB): This organization will monitor our project.

Other stakeholders

As the programme proceeds, more stakeholders such as, local community, politicians and
respected members of the community will be identified and assigned activities
accordingly. Local community, politicians and respected members of the community are
the secondary stakeholders.

Monitoring and Evaluation Plan:

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Monitoring and Evaluation Development Alliance Bangladesh (DAB) is always looking for
sustainable work and patron client relationship is the prime concern for us. DAB believes that
that the achievement depends on planning, management and supervision skill of project
leader/managers. The below or substandard skills of project leader/managers sometime hamper
the project performance. So that enhancing quality management skill is imperative for field level
managers that would be really supportive for senior management.

Considering the situation DAB has developed its approach through following monitoring line up
by the central monitoring section; the project will be reviewed at least quarterly basis using
specific designed format, performance and managerial skill will be monitored periodically of
project leader, fortnightly movement and activities are also followed up as post facto where
output effectiveness would be assessed. The distance monitoring mechanism will be conducted
for assessing performance for the project by the monitoring section. It will support the
management in future for effective planning and redesigning the resources achieving expected
goal in all spheres of the proposed project activities. Coordinator-Monitoring and Evaluation will
monitor the program regularly. Central M&E will pay monitoring visit quarterly on the programs
and s/he will give reports to Program Head, Focal Point, Director and Executive Director for
further improvement.

Before starting the implementation, a baseline survey will be conducted and after phasing out
the project an impact study will be conducted. After the completion of one and half year project
period a mid-term review will be conducted. These three studies will be by an external individual
or an institution and also the participation of all stakeholders of the project and staff. The donor
representatives will also be invited to participate in this process. The monthly and quarterly
technical and financial reports will be submitted to principal office and also to donor agencies.
The transparency should be ensured in every sectors of this project.

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