eventeen 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.

 

 

 

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

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].