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Infographic: Quantitative & Qualitative Achievement of ACLAB's HIV/AIDS & Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Experience since 1995 in Bangladesh

ACLAB Experience on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) since 1995 in Bangladesh Infographic

ACLAB's LIST OF PROJECTS ON HIV/AIDS/SRHR:

1. Link-UP Project among 30,000 Young People & MSM vulnerable on HIV/AIDS in 11 districts in Chittagong division supported by Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Netherlands consortium with HASAB, Marie Stopes Bangladesh and Population Council since 2014,

2. Expanding HIV/Prevention Service with MSM & Transgender in Sathkhira district supported by GFATM, ICDDR, through Light House since 2014,

3. Influencing policy people for positioning the sexual and reproductive health and rights in Cox’s Bazar district & National level supported by IPPF since 2014,

4. Community action Sexual Reproductive Health and Right Policies in Asia in Dhaka Metropolitan City & Mymensingh district supported by HASAB since 2012,

5. Expanding HIV Prevention for MSM and Hijra in Bangladesh in Satkhira district among MSM and Hijra consortium with Light House in 2010,

6. HIV/AIDS Intervention Services (HAIS) Package#11 in Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Teknaf Upazila of Cox's Bazar district, and Dhaka district among 1050 Street Based Sex Workers supported by World Bank, through NASP and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2004 to 2010,

7. HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (HAPP): Procurement of NGO Services (PNS) for Street Based Sex Workers Package in Teknaf, Noakhali and Cox’s Bazar among 600 Street Based Sex Workers supported by World Bank, DFID and UNICEF in 2004 - 2007 and extended re-titled as HIV/AIDS Targeted Intervention (HATI) to 2009,

8. Capacity Building project for women and Children in Brothels (CBP) among 650 Sex workers and their children in Jessore, Khulna, and Cox’s Bazar districts supported by Community Contribution, CDF & ACLAB’s own funding in 2007,

9. Piloting Managed Health Care for Sex Workers in Jessore brothel among 600 Commercial Sex Workers supported by Development Market Place, Washington DC; and World Bank in 2004,

10. Prevention and Control Program on STD/HIV/AIDS in Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat among 2000 Truckers, Labours and transport workers supported by ACLAB’s own fund in 2002,

11. Capacity Building, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihood of Socially Disadvantaged Women and Their Children living in brothels in Jessore Brothel among 650 Sex Workers Children supported by Department of Social Service (DSS) and UNDP in 2000, expanded in 2002 - 2007,

12. Awareness Raising on Health Care and Control and Prevention of STDs/HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health for the garments workers in Mirpur 1 in Dhaka Metropolitan among the 300 garments workers Supported by Directorate of Family Planning (DFP) of Bangladesh Government and ACLAB’s own in 2002,

13. Survey on the Socially Disadvantaged Women (Commercial Sex Workers) and their children living in brothel in Narayanganj, Mymensing, Jesssore and Rajbari district among 4460 Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) supported by Ministry of Social Welfare (MSW) of Bangladesh Government in 1999,

14. Prevention and Control of STD/AIDS through Education and Promotion of Condom Use in Kandu Patti Brothels in Dhaka among 500 Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) Supported by CIDA Canada in 1995,

15. Need Assessment of the Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) in Jessore Brothels among 490 Commercial Sex Workers Supported by HASAB in 1995,

16. Intervention Program on MCH, FP, and reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Education in Mirpur and Mohammadpur in Dhaka City among 600 slum dwellers, richshapullers and laborers supported by Directorate of Family Planning in 1992,

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Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers Project of ACLAB with BRAC, JSDF and World Bank

Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers Project has been implementing by Alliance for Cooperating and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB) in Pekua Upazila under Cox’s Bazar District partnership BRAC and financial support by Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) through BRAC and Managed by World Bank. The targeted beneficiaries of this project are Pre-migrant, Migrant, Returnee people, and their family.

Synopsis:
Project Name: Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers Project;
Implement by: Alliance for Cooperating and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB);
Partner: Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC);
Financed: Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) managed by World Bank;
Establishment: Skill Development Training Centre;
Trade(s): Computer and ICT; Tailoring; Electrical Wiring and Equipment Installation; Plumbing and Pipe Fitting; House Keeping;
Beneficiaries: Pre-migrant, Migrant, Returnee people, and their family;
Number of Trainees: 50 Youth Completed Training and 50 ongoing;
Project Status: Active!

ACLAB also founded Skill Development Training Centre in Pekua Upazila in Cox’s Bazar to provide Training on different trades. Already 50 Youth are received training successfully and 50 are receiving training on 1. Computer and ICT; 2. Tailoring; 3. Electrical Wiring and Equipment Installation; 4. Plumbing and Pipe Fitting; 5. House Keeping; — with 50% male and 50% female gender equality of young trainees including persons are disable.

The Safe Migration Project of ACLAB is aiming to reduce vulnerability of migrant workers and their families through (i) better access to accurate and timely information and services for safe migration for both male and female migrants; and (ii) reducing dependency of migrants on middlemen by establishing and strengthening community-based organizations.

The following services are being provided in the project: • Provide skill development training on 5 trades such as Tailoring, Housekeeping, Electrical Wiring installment, Computer & ICT, and Plumbing • Provide pre-departure and entrepreneurship training • Formation female groups with potential, returnee migrants and their family members at Union level • Open Safe Migration Information Corner at Union Parisad • Organize advocacy meeting with local government • Organize community level meeting and Upazilla and District level sharing meeting with different stakeholders. • Regular Coordinate with SMFC & CBO; • Coordination with local level stake holder, local club and journalist; • Data Collection on migration related; • Involvement all activity which is provide from BRAC as like support all types of training, field activity and other’s related activity; • Prepared referral format & Referral directory • Organize street drama, video show, court yard and community meeting; • Arrange pre-decision orientation • Organize orientation workshop for CBOs & NGOs; • Organize workshop on legal aid affair for migrants; • Provide accurate and timely information and services (Government initiatives, training, passport and visa processing, migration cost, travel documents); • Establish linkage with service provider organizations; • Provide information regarding the usage of remittance; • Observance the World Migration Day.

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ACLAB Developed 5 Years Strategic Plan for 2016 to 2020

In consideration of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Seventh Five Year Plan of Bangladesh Government, Alliance for Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB) has been developed a 5 Years Strategic Plan for 2016 to 2020.

ACLAB Strategic Plan 2016 to 2020 covered following subjects under the five years organizational plan; Background of the Organization, Legal Status, General Information, Mission, Vision, Value, Goals & Objectives, Focused Areas, Target Beneficiaries, Working Areas and Population Coverage, Current Project, Survey and Study & Research, Human Resource Development, Documentation and Reporting & Dissemination, Monitoring and Evaluation (ME), Participation, Staff Appraisal and Auditing, Finance, Outcomes, Risk Management, Observance of National and International Days, Priority of Projects, Women’s Empowerment, Partnership and Networking, Management and Development Approach, Implementation Strategy, Gender and Child Policy, Plan View, Future Plan.

The 5 Years Strategic Plan of ACLAB is organized according to organization’s core strategies (i.e.: Community Development with Health, Education, Food, Human Rights, Access to Information, Climate Change and Disaster Management; youth Development; Community Radio Program Development and Broadcast with the Participation of Community People; and Sustainable Development Goals) that make up the organization’s five-year plan, and then outlines priorities and policy positions under each core strategy. It also outlines how ACLAB will address each.

Because a Strategic Plan of an organization is the core master plans for organizational working policy for the years have to come a long while that how an organization will take action, and implement project and entire activities. Strategic Plan also include with future plan and long time budget review, income and expenditure outline including define the course of livelihood of all beneficiaries. ACLAB developed Strategic Plan with few specific needs based planning:

Time bound planning to proceed in achieving organization’s vision,
Steps towards attainment of organization’s goal,
Setting mechanisms/techniques towards achieving objectives,
Copping up ACLAB with others as well as with changed situations of the changing society,
Collective efforts through set channel towards definite destination.

Under the developed strategic plan review, ACLAB has been working among Hard Core Poor People; Vulnerable Women; Commercial Sex Workers; Street Children, Working Children; Disabled Children and Adolescents; Transport, Factory & Migrant Workers and Laborers, Women Farmers, Fishermen, and Farmers; Tobacco Users and Tobacco Cultivators; Slum Dwellers and Internal Migrant People; MSM, Hijra and IDUs, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Right; Ethnic Community and Youths; Farmers and Fishermen to development of their livelihood, ensure their all rights, and empower them that they can play role as active citizen in the country.

ACLAB prioritized Seventh Five Year Plan of Government of Bangladesh and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of United Nations, ACLAB focused on the following areas to address Government Plans and SDGs Global Goals:

Education- pre-formal, formal and non-formal,
Population, HIV/Malaria/TB and WATSAN,
Legal Support, Care Protection and Rehabilitation,
Health, Food, Water, Nutrition, Sanitation, Human Rights,
Community Radio Program, and Different Community Initiative,
Environment, Sound Pollution, Climate Change and Disaster Management,
Youth Development, Capacity Building and Skill-up,
Right to Food, Food Security and Safety, and Nutrition,
Good Governance and Human Rights,
Create Social Harmony, and Buildup Unified Social Justice,
Reduce Social Vulnerability, Unrest, Any form of Social Violence.

ACLAB is implementing its activities in 26 districts under 5 divisions of the country. The services are being provided through 20 Offices located at the project areas. ACLAB has covered a total number of 10,11,790 beneficiaries through its various projects. So, according the Strategic Plan, ACLAB will expand its organizational project coverage around the Bangladesh upto Upazila, Union and Village level too.

Currently ACLAB is implementing 17 numbers of Projects with support of different national and international donors and partner organization.

SL#	Project Name	Donor	Cumulative Fund (BDT & USD)	Project Area	Duration
1.	Malaria Control Program	GFATM through Govt & BRAC	5,44,64,904 (US$ 7,07,336)	Chakaria & Pekua Upazila, Cox’s Bazar	2007-continuing
2.	Tobacco Control Program (TCP)	Bloomberg Philanthropies & The Union	3,99,16,476 (US$ 5,18,395)	Barisal Division & 6 Districts of Dhaka Division	2009-continuing
3.	Link-UP Project	HASAB & Government of Netherlands	50,00000/-	Cox’s Bazar & Chittagong Districts	2014- continuing
4.	Vulnerable Group Development-VGD	Directory of Women Affairs, Government of Bangladesh	15, 52,419 (US$ 20,161)	Pekua and Kutubdia Upazilas, of Cox’s Bazar	2013- continuing
5.	Non- Formal Education	BRAC	8,78,776 (US$ 11,412)	Teknaf & Pekua Upazila of Cox’s Bazar District	2009-continuing
6.	Scaling Up Nutrition	CSA for SUN, Bangladesh	3,00000 (US$ 3,896)	Rangamati, Chittagong, & Cox’s Bazar Districts	2014- continuing
7.	Community Radio	A2I- Prime Minister Officer & ACLAB	15,00000 (US$ 19,480)	Teknaf Upazila of Cox’s Bazar District	2012 - continuing
8.	Eradication of Hazardous Child Labour in Bangladesh	Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of Bangladesh, GoB	43,31,250/- (US$ 55,530)	Savar Upazila, of Dhaka district	2013- 2014
9.	Income Generating Activities through Microcredit	ACLAB	92,00000/- (US$ 117900)	Jessore & Jhenaidah Districts	2004- continuing
10.	Expanding HIV/Prevention Service with (MSM & Transgender) in Bangladesh	GFATM, ICDDR, B through Light House	27,75,940 (US$ 36,051)	Satkhira District
11.	Community Legal Service	BLAST & ACLAB	40,000 (US$ 519)	Dhaka & Gazipur Districts	2014-continuing
12.	Influencing policy people for positioning the sexual and reproductive health and rights.	International Planned Parenthood Federation-IPPF	7,31,500 (US$ 9,500)	Cox’s Bazar District & National Level	2014- continuing
13	Bio-gas planting and improved stove uses to reduce carbon emissions and development of alternate fuel resource	Institute of Fuel Research and Development (IFRD) and Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) of Bangladesh Government	5400000/- (US$ 69,230)	Barisal district	2014- Continuing
14.	Innovation Project under Safe Migration for Bangladeshi Workers	Japan Social Development Fund & World Bank through BRAC	2274000/- (US$ 29,155)	Pekua Upazilla of Cox’s bazaar District	2014- Continuing
15.	International Professional Exchange Program	FK Norway	760,032/- (US$ 9744)	Bangladesh, Myanmar, India & Nepal	2015- Continuing
16.	Community Legal Service (CLS) Program	Maxwell Stamp PLC, UK AID, British Council through BLAST		Mohammadpur and Savar in Dhaka district
17.	Youth Development Program	GoB, BNNRC, FK Norway, BRAC, OXFAM, WACC, AMARC, UNESCO, UNDP, ADB, BLAST, IPPF, Wolrd Bank, Alliance, JSDF, Press Unlimited and Radio Naf 99.2 FM		ACLAB’s working areas	Continuing

Since inception, ACLAB conducting project implementation and activities with the participation others stakeholders, partners, donors, representative of the Government, local government, local NGOs and CBOs, CSOs, Community People, to ensure proper project implementation and batter’s outcomes. In future ACLAB will ensure participation of all types of stakeholders into all processes of project design, planning, implementation and development. ACLAB attaches paramount importance on different national and international days like World AIDS Day, World Health Day, Immunization Day, Human Rights Day, Child Rights Week, Female Child Day, Disaster Day, Hand washing Day, Women Repression Resistance Day, etc. and observes those days in a befitting manner.

ACLAB has established working partnership with Ministry of Education, Health & Family Welfare, Social Welfare, Women and Child Affairs, Labor and Manpower, Local Government, Information and Communication, Bangladesh Bank, World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, SDC, JSDF, NGO Foundation, BRAC, BNNRC, PIACT Bangladesh, DORP, Aparajeyo Bangladesh, HASAB, Bloomberg Philanthropies and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). In implementing development projects, ACLAB focuses on building networking & linkage with GoB, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs and private sector. Good relationship is maintained with the local Government bodies, officials from law enforcers and other Government departments, local informal leaders, journalists, religious leaders, civil society representatives and community people.

ACLAB planned to strengthen relationship with existing networking and membership will strengthen. On the others hand we will our membership and networking on the basis of organization’s goals and objectives.

ACLAB highlight Gender Policy and Child Policy in the 5 years Strategic Plan for 2016 – 2020. So that all future plan, project and activities should be prioritize child and women rights and protection.

ACLAB strongly desires to expand its projects/programs in the following manners so that it can achieve its coveted goals and objectives within a reasonable period these are explore new fields of project implementation and strengthening existing project implementation.

Strategic Plan, 2016 — 2020! has been compliance and prepared by Syed Tarikul Islam, Executive Director of ACLAB and Md. Hasanuzzaman Talukdar, Program Officer; including program dept. and finance department official are closely cooperate and contributed to finish this great task for the next 5 years plan-programming for Alliance for Cooperation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB).

Download here Strategic Plan 2016 — 2020 of ACLAB!

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