World Vision is an international non-profit, Christian humanitarian and development organization that seeks to create long lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty and injustice through development relief and rehabilitation programs around the world. World Vision serves all people regardless of race, religion, caste, creed, ethnicity or gender. Dr. Bob Pierce, an American war correspondent, established the organization in 1950. He was touched by the grim situation of abandoned children in Seoul during the Korean War. After his return at home, he started to help the war afflicted children giving them hope for a better life and future. As the years passed by, World Vision’s work expanded many other countries, and presently works in nearly one hundred countries around the world.
Our Vision Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
Our Mission The mission of World Vision is to work with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation and seek justice.
Our Core Values We are Christian: We seek to follow Jesus Christ in his identification with the poor, the afflicted, the oppressed, the marginalized, in His special concern for children, dignity of women equally with men, challenge to unjust structures and systems, sharing resources with each other; and in His love for all people without discrimination. We are Committed to the Poor: We are called to serve the neediest people, to relieve their sufferings and to promote the transformation of their condition of life. We Value People: We regard all people as created and loved by God. We give respect to all people before money, structures, systems, and other institutional machinery. We act in ways that respect the dignity, rights, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person. We are Stewards: We are faithful for the resources given to us, and use them in a manner that brings maximum benefit to the poor. They are a sacred trust from God gifted through donors on behalf of poor. We are Partners: We are members of an International World Vision Partnership that transcends legal, structural and cultural boundaries. We are Responsive: We are responsive to life-threatening emergencies where our involvement is needed and appropriate. We are willing to take intelligent risks and act accordingly.
Our Objectives Transformational development that is community based, sustainable and focused especially on the needs of children. Emergency relief that assists people distressed by conflict, war and disaster. Promotion of justice that seeks to change unfair structures affecting the poor among whom we work. Development of strategic alliances and initiatives with government, private and non-government organizations. Public awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving and involvement. Witness to the love of God by life, deed, word and sign that encourages people to love, serve, forgive, reconcile, and show dignity to all people.
Involvement in Bangladesh World Vision’s first involvement in Bangladesh was in response to the 1970 tidal surge that occurred in the coastal area of the country. World Vision provided emergency relief supplies to the disaster victims of Bhola. In 1971, World Vision International carried out relief operations in refugee camps in India and following Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan in 1972, it started relief and rehabilitation programs in Birisiri, Netrokona district and now World Vision’s programs and activities are spread across 31 administrative districts in Bangladesh. World Vision works through long-term sustainable community development programs and immediate disaster relief assistance in 80 locations at sub-district level, impacting the lives of around 5 million people with various services.
Funding World Vision’s funds mainly come from individual people known as sponsors from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and USA. Supporters in 15 countries sponsor close to 178,273 children and through them their families and communities through 66 Area Development Programs (ADPs) and 22 Special Projects around Bangladesh. World Vision Bangladesh’s fund also comes through special grant projects from AusAid, USAID etc.
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Our Areas of Impact Maternal Child Health and Nutrition- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene WVB’s integrated MCHN (Maternal Child Health and Nutrition) and WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) programme focuses on improving the health & nutritional status of children under five, pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls with special focus on most vulnerable households. In partnership with government and other stakeholders, WVB works to ensure essential health services, nutrition sensitive & nutrition specific interventions, water and sanitation facilities installation, strengthen governance, policy and public engagement on MCHN & WASH components to ensure a more holistic approach to addressing health and nutrition issues. WVB’s MCHN and WASH program designed in a way that become more responsive to beneficiaries’ needs, more efficient in the delivery of services and more effective in providing key services for vulnerable people. World Vision Bangladesh operates its MCHN and WASH activities in 64 ADP locations in 27 districts across the country to achieve its Strategic Objectives (SOs), thus complementing the government’s efforts for improving health & nutritional status to reduce mortality and malnutrition of mother and children. WVB delivery approaches focus primary health, nutrition and WASH education and behavior change at the household level, empowering caregivers and children to keep themselves healthy and build the capacity of community groups to address and monitor local causes of illness, death, and malnutrition, advocate for quality health & nutrition service delivery and monitor home-based care services. WVB emphasizes partnership with government and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of quality health and nutrition services to the community level, especially to the most vulnerable. To achieve WVB’s child well-being target , MCHN & WASH sector are implementing several health, nutrition and WASH project approaches such as Community Based Growth Monitoring and Promotion (C-GMP), Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices for children aged 0-23 months, PD/Hearth to rehabilitate malnourished children at community level, Safe Motherhood Initiative, Community–Integrated Management of Childhood illness (C-IMCI), Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST), Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and WASH in School (WINS).
Quality of Education and Life Skills: World Vision Bangladesh’s education programming prioritizes children who are the most vulnerable to extreme deprivation, serious discrimination, abusive or exploitative relationships and disasters/catastrophes. In addition, special attention has been given to children with disabilities or with disabled parents, children of ethnic or religious minority families, and children of teenage mothers. Target groups also include teachers, parents, children of pre-school age through primary education, vocational students, and under educated youth. Strategic goal: Improved access and quality of education Strategic objectives: 1. Improved developmental outcomes of children 3-5 through holistic ECCD approach 2. Improved functional literacy and essential life skills for school age children (6-11) 3. Applied life skills developed for 12-18 yrs. Approach Education and life skills (EdLS) is a priority focus for World Vision Bangladesh (WVB), as demonstrated in the recently developed 5-year National Strategy and in the TA for Education 2015. Through the in-depth analysis of education programming and through the Pathway of Change (PoC) process, WB Bangladesh developed a list of key approaches under three specific target age groups, with a focus on the most vulnerable children. This approach has a greater emphasis on quality, measurement of results, and learning outcomes. The following interventions address learning outcomes across the life cycle. Early Child Care and Development: for ages 0 to 5 with an integrated sector approach which supports mental, physical, and social development ; Functional literacy: Literacy Boost is an evidence-based model for improving literacy for young children ; Strengthening Non-Formal Education for the out-of-school children with flexible learning startegies for 12-18 years old children ; Life Skills Based Education (LSBE) through Technical and Vocational Education and Training(TVET) of both 6 to 11 and 12 to 18 year olds.
Children are protected and cared for The first commitment is for World Vision itself to be safe for children. Building on that foundation, World Vision seeks to empower children, families, communities and partners to prevent and respond to exploitation, neglect, abuse and other forms of violence affecting children, especially the most vulnerable. Together with its partners, World Vision supports: preventing exploitation, harmful traditional practices and violence against children in their families and communities protecting children living in vulnerable situations in communities restoring children who have been abused, neglected or exploited. World Vision uses a systems approach to child protection. This approach helps strengthen the protective environment around children, as well as the children themselves, by addressing child protection issues in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. The focus is on strengthening one or more elements of a child protection system according to the context, which include: laws, policies and regulations services and service delivery mechanisms capacities cooperation, coordination and collaboration accountability mechanisms circle of care children’s resilience, life skills and participation.
Community Resilience World Vision (WV) Bangladesh integrates programing in the agriculture, food security, economic development, disaster risk reduction and climate change technical areas to enable parents provide for their families, thus ensuring that their hopes for healthy, well-nourished and educated children are realized. a. Food Security and Economic Development WV Bangladesh operates Food Security and Economic Development (FSED) program to achieve the following Strategic Objective and Outcome defined in its Strategy (2016-2020) thereby complementing the Bangladesh government’s efforts towards poverty reduction. Strategic Objective (SO): Increase community resilience (through increasing economic well-being of households living below poverty line, and community resilience to disasters and climate change in both rural and urban areas). Outcome: Diversify agricultural production, expand non-farm microenterprises and improve market access. Technical Approach and Programs The FSED Technical Approach is developed for the SO: ‘Increase community resilience’, which defines four Technical Programs (TPs). Of the TPs, the following two are prioritized for implementation across WV Bangladesh Area Programs (APs) over the period FY 2016-2020. 1. Household Economic Strengthening (HES) – targets ultra-poor households, particularly those with children under five, pregnant and lactating women, youth and disabled members. The project models adopted in this TP are ultra-poor graduation and savings groups. 2. Market Sustained Livelihoods (MSL) – targets farmers and micro-entrepreneurs, those are graduated from the “ultra-poor” category but are still vulnerable due to the tenuousness of their livelihoods. The project models adopted in this TP include: local value chain development and savings groups. The prioritized TPs seeks to empower target households through integration with health and nutrition, disaster risk reduction and climate change and education sectors to increase their agricultural production, income, assets and access to foods, thus ensuring nutrition for their children and other family members and enhanced capacity to pay for their children’s schooling and health expenses, ultimately contributing to sustained child well-being.
b. Enhancing Urban Resilience In Bangladesh, 28% of the population lives in urban areas, out of which 38% live in slums. It is projected that half of the country’s population will live in urban areas by 2030. In recent years, World Vision Bangladesh has considerably extended its urban programs in all the major cities of the country with 33% of total coverage and investments. Currently World Vision Bangladesh has urban programs in all the major cities of the country. The organization has long history of urban programs with the implementation of an internationally awarded project called Integrated Child Survival project in 80’s. Currently, World Vision Bangladesh implements urban programs in major cities of the country. Among many others, the urban programming covers Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Bogra, Mymensingh, Sherpur, Barisal, Satkhira, Pirojpur, etc. In these cities, WVB has urban interventions in 161wards of 5 City Corporations and 12 municipalities. World Vision Bangladesh has 22 Area Development Programs (ADPs) in urban areas. Along with these, the organization implements more than 16 projects mostly focusing on the needs and vulnerability of marginalized children. More, WVB reached 71,449 children in 16 urban districts.
c. Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs seeks to prepare communities to respond to disasters and provide technical knowhow as to mitigate effects of disasters. It is done through integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Mitigation, Response and Rehabilitation programmes into Area Development Programs (ADPs), as well as addressing disaster risks by involving community-based disaster risk management processes. WVB focuses on building the capacity of organizations and communities engaging in all three phases of disasters such as before, during and after a disaster. For reducing vulnerabilities of targeted communities, especially children, the organization gives emphasis on building community resilience which is accomplished in partnership with Government, community based organizations and national-international organizations by strengthening local structures, developing early warning systems, and sharing coping mechanisms. Strategy Objectives: 1. Engage in timely and effective disaster response 2. Improve community-based disaster management and risk reduction 3. Increased community and household resilience to shocks and disasters including adaptation to climate change
Advocacy: WVB’s advocacy initiatives are implement country wide, striving for impact at the local, regional, and national level. The focus is on the most vulnerable children including children facing various child rights violations; protection issues such as child labour, child trafficking, child marriage, inclusive education; malnutrition and preventable disease; along with children belong to the indigenous communities, children with disability, most vulnerable women and the victims of climate change such as urban slum dwellers. Strategic Objectives: 1. Strengthen voices of the most vulnerable children to ensure they are being heard by the policy makers; 2. Create space for empowered communities to have dialogue with government officials to improve government accountability; 3. Scale up evidence related to Child well being (CWB) issues by networking and partnering with key stakeholders including, but not limited to, civil society and governments at all levels; 4. Strengthen institutional capacity to ensure WV grows in influence and is an authoritative voice at all levels driving change. WVB is working through three principle approaches: (a) Public advocacy through a campaign model (b) Citizen mobilization model expressed in the Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) model and (c) Policy influence model, based on successful WVB programs for national government uptake and implementation, known as TD+. WVB also is embedding advocacy approach into programs and operations. The embedding approach would allow systematically leverage field evidence to influence policies and policy practice. World Vision Bangladesh also prioritizing key issues for national level policy influence and will strengthen institutional capacity in evidence building, policy analysis, representation and dialogue around national level advocacy priority. This prioritization was based on existing resources, expertise and WV’s global and regional priorities.
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