Kurigram Poverty Alleviation Project

This project covers all the five thanas of Kurigram district with an estimated cost of Taka 20 million under the financial assistance of NORAD. The main objectives of the project are to increase additional income of the beneficiaries through creation of production and employment opportunities and to develop & establish organizational co-operation & practices to provide services for continued poverty reduction efforts after end of the project period with a possibility of replication in other areas of Bangladesh.

Upto June 1998 more than 1200 Bittahin groups comprising 26277 members have been formed under this project, 50% of which is female. The members have accoumulated more than 19 million Taka as savings. More than two thousand members were given wide varieties of social /human development and skill development training by the project. The project also invested a sum of Taka 238.59 million, as loan to the target beneficiaries and recovery rate is 94%.

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