47 JUNE
25, 2020
Bangladesh has the largest United Nations Volunteers programme in the world, with 20 international and 213 national members! We are followed by Kenya, Columbia and South Sudan in terms of the scale of UNV programme. The UNV Bangladesh newsletter, with a focus on UNV’s response at Rohingya camps, was released recently.
Anondomela is an online marketplace, patroned by UNDP, which gives small and medium entrepreneurs a chance to take their business online. They have full freedom to set up their shop in the platform, and they attended a two-day training programme to familiarise themselves with the platform.
On a week of wholesome events, Sudipto da paid a Zoom visit to a group of children from Australian International School. The children, who are working on a project focusing on SDG-15 (Life on Land), said in thankyou note, “We are pleased to know that Mr Mukerjee appreciated our work! He made us feel comfortable like we are friends from the start and inspired us to be more responsible about the environment.”
UNYSAB organised a live online dialogue titled COVID-19 Crisis: Youth Budget and Women Empowerment on Wednesday, moderated by our very own Sharmin Islam. Sudipto da was part of this ensemble panel, which included Shaheen Anam, Zuena Aziz, Nahim Razzaq, and Shammy Wadud. Watch it here.
UNDP COVID19 Response Coverage Report 18 June 2020 Key Highlights:
The following information reflects the summary of COVID response of different projects of UNDP as of 18 June 2020. The report contains the progress of the following projects: HRP, PTIB, a2i, EALG, SFLP, DRRF, SID-CHT, NUPRP, ICBAAR, SWAPNO, LOGIC and Cox’s Sub-office.
Beneficiary Coverage:
A total of 14.09 million people already reached with different support initiatives e.g. awareness, hygiene kits and facilities. The beneficiary coverage is almost 125% of the target. The beneficiary coverage includes more than 67 thousand persons with disability and more than 59 thousands of LNOB (such as minority, ethnic).
District Coverage:
While a2i and PTIB’s covers nationwide; ten other projects have the coverage in 19 districts.
Support to Subsistence/ Livelihoods:
HRP, SWAPNO and NUPRP have provided food baskets as part of the emergency support. A total of 23,693 (i.e. around 19% of the target) food baskets have been distributed among the most vulnerable people including dalits, ethnic minorities, trans-gender, and other vulnerable and marginal communities. In-cash support has been provided to 84,089 beneficiaries by SWAPNO, SFLP, ICBAAR and COX’s Bazar Sub-office project- the coverage is only 77% of the total targeted beneficiary.
Support through disseminating Preventive Materials Many preventive materials, as given in the following table, have been distributed by a2i, EALG, Cox’s Sub-office, DRRF, SWAPNO, NUPRP and DRRF. Number of Preventive materials Provided
Number of Soap Distributed
Number of Sanitizer Distributed
Number of Masks Distributed
Number of PPE (package) Distributed
Number of Gloves Distributed
Target: 2,757,954 Achievement : 2,612,479
Target: 2,880,790 Achievement : 2,615,027
Target: 283,092 Achievement : 268,869
Target: 36,024 Achievement : 30,027
Target: 22,040 Achievement : 22,651
Target: 60,269 Achievement : 66,244
Number of Safety Gumboot Distributed
Number of Eye Protection Glass Distributed
Target: 3,151 Achievement : 3,151
Target: 7,781 Achievement : 7,781
Moreover, a total of 5,980 hand washing facility/corner has been installed/constructed by NUPRP and Cox’s Sub-office projects.
Support for Raising Awareness Development and sharing of contents by different projects (e.g. a2i, PTIB, SWAPNO, LOGIC, Cox’s Sub-office, EALG etc.) for awareness raising are given below:
Number of Awareness Content Developed: 1,292
Number of Awareness Raising Materials Distributed: 569,960
Number of Posts shared to Social Media: 3,030
Service Provided by Web portal 4,266 Doctors
20.76 million calls
4,266 volunteer Doctors mobilized in the Doctors Pool Mobile App who are responding to the calls coming from citizens on nCOVID-19
8.76 million citizens reached out for public services through www.corona.gov.bd
20.76 million calls received from citizen regarding COVID-19 related inquiries through 333 Call Center
Online Courses Around 0.34 million learners enrolled in the Online Courses on nCOVID-19 through the support of a2i and LOGIC project
Number of graduates of Coronavirus related course: 2,466,781
Number of learners covered from Pre-primary and Primary level on COVID-19 digital contents: 21,514,385
1,315 online classes (220% of the target) taken for the class VI- X engaging 44.41 million students and 1040 teachers ( more than 260% of the target) through the support of a2i project
Other Support:
DRRF and other projects are providing necessary support to Government for policy directives and planning for nCOVID19 response. DRRF is providing support in dead body management of COVID deceased.
Thanks to the efforts of Khurshid Bhai and his team, we now have access to weekly reports that detail on COVID activity updates every week. Read it here.
Swapner Daak, an online concert for fundraising, took off last Saturday in different parts of the world, including Bangladesh, Europe, Australia and North America. More than million people watched the concert LIVE from UNDP Bangladesh Facebook page. With brilliant musical performances from Arka Mukherjee, Bappa Mazumder, Partha Barua, Shafin Ahmed and more renowned artists, this concert, organised by Asiatic EXP and LISTEN FOR INC will disburse the funds through UNDP’s COVID-19 response activities on the field to help people below poverty. The platform remains open for donation: https://swapner-daak.org/.
If you have any queries or feedback let us know at communications.bgd@undp.org