Bangladesh

Projects

Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS)

The Building Youth Employability through Skills (BYETS) project will empower Bangladeshi youth with improved technical, employability and entrepreneurial skills, and connect them to income generating opportunities: jobs and self-employment. BYETS will partner with Training Service Providers (TSPs), government, industry, and employers to create a conducive environment for the targeted youth that would facilitate employment opportunities for them.

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Promoting Green Growth in the Ready-Made Garments Sector Through Skills (PROGRESS)

Promoting Green Growth in the Ready-Made Garments Sector Through Skills (PROGRESS) project envisions contributing to the development of an inclusive, environmentally responsible, and competitive RMG sector in Bangladesh that can offer productive, well paid, secured, and decent job opportunities to workers, mostly women, and at the same time, adapt to the evolving needs of the global market in terms of technological advancement and ESG standards.

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Sarathi

Bangladesh is the world’s second largest garment exporter, with the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector accounting for over 83% of the country’s exports and contributing approximately 16% to the GDP. The garment industry consists of more than 4,000 RMG factories and employs between four to five million workers of which almost 60% are women. Even though RMG the sector plays such a pivotal role in the economy of Bangladesh, only 34% of it was included in the formal financial system in 2016 when Swisscontact started to work towards the financial inclusion of RMG workers and their community members.

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Uttoron – Skills for better life

Uttoron strives to create easy access to training through effective Public Private Partnerships (PPP), bring innovation to the national skills sector and develop technical skills of disadvantaged youth through vocational training to ensure their well-being.

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Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Project

The Phase I of BMMDP aims at improving farmers’ well-being, specifically smallholders, through enhanced agricultural productivity and resilience to natural disasters.Smallholder farmers in Bangladesh are extremely vulnerable to weather related risks, the intensity of which increases because of climate change issues. Due to their limited savings...

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22.11.2022

LNOB Community of Tea Garden Workers is being served by Community Paramedics
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Leave No One Behind (LNOB) is the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, focusing on the poorest of the poor and society's most vulnerable populations. Community Paramedics (CPs) in Sylhet district are actively working to provide door-to-door services to the LNOB communities of the tea garden areas.

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20.11.2022

Diversifying Flower Farming in Bangladesh – A Testament to Sustainability Promised

Sustainability is key to market systems development and the flower cluster in Godkhali and Jashore of Bangladesh is the result of sustainability.

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25.10.2022

Swisscontact’s “Meet & Greet” event with the private sector

In 2021, Swisscontact has partnered with over 1,150 national and international companies across the globe. Swisscontact in Bangladesh hosted a "Meet & Greet” event with over 40 business leaders to acknowledge and highlight the role of the private sector in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Swisscontact in Bangladesh

Besides, Swisscontact incorporates gender equality and social inclusion, environmental responsibility, and good governance across all its projects as sustainability criteria. The organisation operates from a country office based in Dhaka with five additional field offices and employs over 90 long-term national and international staff.

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Katalyst

Improving Business, Improving Lives.

Between 2000 and 2017, Katalyst has benefitted 4.69 million SMEs and farmers with an income increase in USD 689 million. It is the largest market development project in South Asia.

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