Tanisha

TanishaIncreasing Incomes and Advancing Social

Identities of Rural Adolescent Girls

Funded by: DFID/SHIREEProject Life : January 2011 – December 2013

Program Areas & BeneficiariesProgram Areas & Beneficiaries

Selection Criteria• Owned ≤ 4 decimals of homestead and/or agricultural land including garden and/or pond

• Income - generating productive assets worth < 5,000tk*

• Household income ≤ 4,000tk/month

• No access to, or member of, financial network, no outstanding formal credit from any MFI (exception of consumption loans for food and medical emergencies, not a member of MFI, for SCF)*

• Consumed no more than 4 meals last week that included fish/meat

• Household comprises at least 1 girl aged 12 – 19 (1/6/2011)

Selection Criteria (from Shiree )Selection Criteria (from Shiree )

* Essential

OutputsOutputsOutputs

StrategiesStrategiesStrategies

• Community Mobilization

• Peer Education• Asset Transfer

Create Assets to Alleviate PovertyCreate Assets to Alleviate Poverty

Girls’ EmpowermentGirls’ Empowerment

Equipping girls to participate in decisions that affect their lives

Assets TransferAssets Transfer

• Peer support

• Successfully navigate with challenges of puberty

• Improve health and nutrition skills

• Learn how to run a business or manage money

Girls’ Interest Girls’ Interest

Barriers

• Jealousy within the community (not all girls get IGA inputs)

• Family does not permit her attendance

• Chores prevent attendance

• School activities or exams interfere

• Less attractive session topics

Barriers Barriers

• Community Community misperceptions about misperceptions about Save the Children’s Save the Children’s activitiesactivities

• Mostly remote working Mostly remote working place and isolated place and isolated beneficiaries beneficiaries

• Enlisting participants Enlisting participants from extremely poor from extremely poor familiesfamilies

• Drop outs Drop outs

ChallengesChallenges

Success FactorsSuccess Factors

LearningsLearnings

Questions?Questions?