SDG Target

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 with the objective of producing a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges that facing our world. The SDGs replaced by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which started a global effort in 2000 to tackle the indignity of poverty. On September 25th 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), known as “Transforming our world by 2030” to achieve a better future with a set of seventeen aspirational “Global Goals” of Sustainable Development” Bangladesh has earned many international accolades for the achievements in MDGs. Bangladesh has incorporated priorities of SDGs in all her development policies. While embarking on the journey to implement the SDGs, Bangladesh has translated SDG vision at the highest political level, by formulating an actionable Perspective Plan (2010-2021) and two Five Year Plans (FYPs) associated with this. The Government has adopted “Whole of Society” approach to ensure wider participation of NGOs, development partners, private sector, media and CSOs in the process of formulation of the Action Plan and implementation of the SDGs. Good Neighbors Bangladesh, a child centered organization is continuously further its effort to achieve SDGs and strengthen partnership with the global civil society. GNB has been working in Bangladesh since 1996 with the objective of improving lives of poor people, especially children through education, income generating activities, health services, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), child protection, advocacy, network building, and disaster risk reduction. The SDGs are unique in that they cover issues that affect all of us. Moreover, it is a commitment to end poverty, permanently, every where to build a more sustainable, safer, more prosperous planet for all humanity and making sure that no one is left behind. As per GNB’s mission statement and organizational values GNB settle up the 3-years plan (2018-2020) based on the following SDGs.

GOAL 2 : ZERO HUNGER +

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

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GNB Intervention in goal 2 – 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round Nutrition supplementation: To distribute nutritious food to malnourished children by standard health check-up. 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons Nutrition supplementation: To distribute nutritious food to malnourished children by standard health check-up.

GOAL 3 : GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING +

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

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GNB Health Strategy [ 2017-2020] GNB

health program aimed at providing an essential health service package for women, children and the poor, reaching the underprivileged and deprived community GNB’s front line community health service provides door to door service to the community people. Health has universally recognized an important aspect of human development. Without the development of health, overall development is not possible.T he highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental right of every human being. Keeping that in mind GNB has implemented different health programs such as nutrition supplementation, health checkup, prevention (vaccine and disease control), general treatment, special case studies, community health worker mobilization, reproductive health care and the health service advocacy.  To implement the health service, GNB Health has reached the destitute community through community health workers (CHWs) who provide and ensure door to door health service by facilities guardian, promote MNH services, do a home visit, cluster meeting and awareness session in the community. To provide the highest level of healthcare services to all of its beneficiaries, GNB is committed to cover majority by improving the equity and quality of services, especially to reach the rural poor and the disadvantaged, who have limited access to healthcare information and services. Health program of good neighbors Bangladesh wants to increase accessibility and quality of the primary health care and nutrition services to the most marginalized communities so that the interventions can focus on the children, pregnant, women, and lactating mothers of the community. In 2016 GNB facilitates 150,083 beneficiaries through our health program.



GOAL 1 : NO POVERTY +

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

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GNB is targeting underprivileged community who have income of $1.25 per day.



For increasing the income of the families GNB has helped them in two ways: A. Formation of co-co-operative: We are working in 14 parts of Bangladesh in 9 Districts of Bangladesh where we have 14 co-operatives consists of 14301 Co-operative members. [Co-operatives are autonomous body having Govt. registration. GNB is playing supportive role here.  To create savings habit To encourage small and medium enterprises Future Target:Within next 3 years GNB wants to achieve 3929 more members under the mentioned 14 co-operatives [as per FD6 2018-2020]. B. Formation of Income Generation Groups: By the end of November 2017 GNB has contributed in formation of 66 Income Generation Groups [Agriculture:2, Livestock and fisheries: 37, SME:27] having 1342 Members. To engage community people in business in group approach. To encourage women to be entrepreneur removing primary market barriers Where they will produce profitable and feasible items using their skills, appropriate techniques, raw materials & natural available resources And earn money by sell these items to the market. Example of our achievement: Bangle Sewing IG Group- is one of the successful IG Groups of Siragjanj CDP. It consists of 40 members whereas baseline income of the members was $00.95 per day at the beginning [in 2015]. But now their average income is $ 1.57 per day. And we have the target to take their income more than $ 5 per day in the upcoming years. Future Target: Within next 3 years GNB wants to form 60 more Income Generation Groups and achieve 1200 more members [as per FD6 2018-2020].



For increasing the income of the families GNB has helped them in two ways: A. Formation of co-co-operative: We are working in 14 parts of Bangladesh in 9 Districts of Bangladesh where we have 14 co-operatives consists of 14301 Co-operative members. [Co-operatives are autonomous body having Govt. registration. GNB is playing supportive role here.  To create savings habit To encourage small and medium enterprises Future Target:Within next 3 years GNB wants to achieve 3929 more members under the mentioned 14 co-operatives [as per FD6 2018-2020]. B. Formation of Income Generation Groups: By the end of November 2017 GNB has contributed in formation of 66 Income Generation Groups [Agriculture:2, Livestock and fisheries: 37, SME:27] having 1342 Members. To engage community people in business in group approach. To encourage women to be entrepreneur removing primary market barriers Where they will produce profitable and feasible items using their skills, appropriate techniques, raw materials & natural available resources And earn money by sell these items to the market. Example of our achievement: Bangle Sewing IG Group- is one of the successful IG Groups of Siragjanj CDP. It consists of 40 members whereas baseline income of the members was $00.95 per day at the beginning [in 2015]. But now their average income is $ 1.57 per day. And we have the target to take their income more than $ 5 per day in the upcoming years. Future Target: Within next 3 years GNB wants to form 60 more Income Generation Groups and achieve 1200 more members [as per FD6 2018-2020].



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