Introducing shiree in frame

shiree – Bangla word for steps (stimulating household improvements resulting in economic empowerment)

shiree beneficiaries cultivating land in to generate income – Scale fund project - Uttaran

scaling up tried & tested models

shiree beneficiaries working on floating gardens – Innovation Fund project Shushilan

testing new approaches to poverty alleviation

shiree beneficiaries at Korail slum – use cash stipends to start up

businesses – Scale Fund project DSK –

urban extreme poverty poses different challenges

shiree project in the north east – haors – prone to flooding

shiree project in the south – prone to cyclones

shiree project in north west – monga - prone to seasonal hungergrowing pumpkins in previously uncultivated river sandbars

during the dry season - PAB

building skills and links with the private sector,vocational training to help landless women secure jobs - GUK

artificially inseminated cow gives birth, livestock transfers as a way out of extreme poverty - MJSKS

making markets work for adivasi women in the hills - HKI

focus on youth to break the intergenerational transfer of poverty, keeping adolescent girls in school – Save the Children

Challenging but not impossible,if we work together!

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