Sustainable Livelihood Domain
In line with the thematic premises and strategies this programmatic domain guides all of our livelihood interventions towards sustainability.
The Goal of the Sustainable Livelihood Domain:
Ensure sustainability of the livelihood of the poor and marginalized population through economic empowerment and employment.
For poverty alleviation our livelihood initiatives, focuses in building skills and capacity of the programme participants, boosting income with small and medium scale on farm and off farm enterprises, providing inputs, transferring appropriate technology, equipping with coping and recovery mechanisms from shock/stress, and retaining inputs and assets. All livelihood initiatives contribute to the mission with outcome and impact. Under this domain, we facilitate programmes/projects on savings for capital formation, skills and entrepreneurship development, technology transfer, inclusive finance, micro-finance support, agro-farming, crop diversification, livestock farming, promoting cash crop, micro-enterprise development, agriculture credit, intermediary service development, agro-processing, marketing and value chain development and organizing and grooming women, farmers’, producers’ and traders’ along with their respective organizations.
Strategies for sustainable livelihood Domain:
Facilitate feasible livelihood interventions by providing skills, inputs, technology and finance along with using innovative production process, expanding market base and building organizations.
Programs and Projects under this Domain
Poverty and Hunger Eradication Program
Community Finance Program
WAVE has been implementing microcredit in both rural and urban areas through its branch offices with the financial support from PKSF and commercial banks. The products of microcredit are:
Major Products | Sub Products | |
a) General Microcredit b)Micro Entrepreneurship c)Microcredit for Ultra Poor d) Agriculture Credit | Supplementary Loan Product | Specialized Loan Product |
· Seasonal loan · WASH Loan · Disaster Management loan
| · Black Bengal Goat Rearing loan · Spices Cultivation Loan · Sheep Rearing loan |
- Business Development Skills
- Financing
- Market Linkage
- Finance
- Skills Development Training
- Input Supply and Technology Transfer
- Microfinance Insurance
- Livestock Insurance
- Crop Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Accelerating Sustainable Water and Sanitation Facilities for All- ACCESS Project
- Output Based Aid Sanitation Microfinance Program (OBASMP) Project
Complementary Services
Apart from the program, projects, products and services under Sustainable Livelihood Domains mentioned above, there are few essential complementary services aimed at making the lives and livelihood of the targeted people sustainable. The services are as follow;
Health
This service has been implemented targeting specific group of participants, gradually it will be expanded. The services are as follow;
- Satellite Clinic at the community level
- Static Clinic at the office level
- Door to door service for maternal and neonatal health
- Special Camp on various health issues
Education
This service designed for program participants’ kids. The services are as follow:
- Pre-primary Schooling
- School-supportive Education
- Education Stipend for program participants’ Kids
Agro Biodiversity & Value Chain Program
Bangladesh has resources, techniques, and good examples, but we need integration and patronization of good practices particularly when the negative impact of climate change is evident. Booming the production of particular products would not yield sustainable outcome. Government and NGOs should work hand in hand for a blending of revitalized indigenous agro practices and contemporary agro techniques that are sensitive to agro biodiversity. We should encourage and support farmers to adopt techniques of sustainable agriculture system like mixed farming systems, organic agriculture, integrated pest management, organic fertilizers such as legumes, crop rotation, recycling crop and animal wastes, no-till or minimum tillage agriculture, inter or multi-cropping, cover crops, rejuvenated livestock rearing and value-chain development of potential agro products. WAVE Foundation intends to be a change agent in this journey. To that end, Agro Biodiversity and Value-chain Program is dedicated. There are several Projects under this program as follow:
- BBG Rearing (PACE)Project