WDP's Vision: People's development in peoples hand. WDP's Goal: Empowerment of the rural disadvantaged women towards self-reliance WDP's Objectives: 1) Institution building for rural disadvantaged women and to empower them for self-help oriented development. 2) Promotion of community movement by obtaining spontaneous and active participation for successful implementation of compulsory primary education. 3) Promotion of community based health action approach to materialize the idea of “people's health in peoples hand”. 4) To improve health care service specially women and children through ICS dissemination. 5) Creation of employment opportunities and development of income generating activities for women for their economic upliftment. 6) Promotion of community/mass movement to ensure active participation towards sustainable environmental development.
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WDP emphasizes improved kitchen management to keep well the environment as well. For this reason, the organization always gives different ideas and ways about improved ways of cooking. WDP has implemented the following activities to balance the environment. Session on kitchen development management, 500 sessions, 9000 women/household beneficiaries this program. 22 person ICS manufacturer work now.Our target group is Women, Children, Young people, CBO,
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Rural Bangladesh, women are responsible for collecting and using of fuel energy. So women play a key role in decision-making for type of fuel energy and how to use it. The decisions about type of fuel energy use, however, are influenced by many factors such as tradition, convenience, and availability of resource, accessibility to technologies, household income and role of women in decision-making process of household expenditure. Households having greater flexible family income use cleaner fuel energy such as kerosene as opposed to wood because it is a measure of affluence and prestige. Poorer households use biomass as the main fuel due to the cost of other fuels.
Our ICS market development is two stretegy. 1. Direct implementation 2. Partnership with CBO and individual
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WDP mainly focuses on cook stove users especially mother and child health. Currently WDP as part of its mandate is undertaking investigation and compliance monitoring of indoor air pollution. However indoor air pollution exposure levels and health monitoring in vulnerable groups like children and women is yet to be conducted. These areas are of interest to WDP as no significant study has been done in this area. The situation could be alarming since the majority of Bangladesh's rural inhabitants use poorly constructed stoves, firewood and agricultural residue as energy sources.
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Our Contribution to the Partnership
Information sharing through meeting, seminar, workshops, reporting