Poverty and Development

On December 12, 2020, a webinar was organized by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) to share the progress that has been achieved during the inception phase of a multidimensional extreme poverty reduction program titled “Pathways to Prosperity for Extremely Poor People”. This project is jointly funded by FCDO and EU with active support from the Government of Bangladesh. It is being implemented by PKSF and its selected Partner Organizations (POs). The working areas of this program are in selected poverty-stricken areas of the country. If people are poor or extreme poor, it is because they lack choices, and PKSF is working towards diversifying their choices and lifting them out of poverty, it was categorically mentioned by PKSF’s Chairman and Renown Economist of the country Dr, Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad. On that webinar, Senior Secretary of the Finance Division under the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Abdur Rouf Talukder was present as the Chief Guest while Mr. Arijit Chowdhury, Additional

From PKSF, we participated in the Virtual GCF-IEU Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment (LORTA) Workshop from September 28 to November 16, 2020, organized by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Over 65 people from 16 different countries from Asia, Africa, and South America, representing 16 GCF projects, attended the workshop. As per IEU’s feedback report, the feedback from participants has been overwhelmingly positive and many have asked for more of these capacity-building workshops to be held in the future. GCF-funded PKSF’s project  “SAP008: Extended Community Climate Change Project-Flood (ECCCP-Flood) ” contributed well to the LORTA program.