Targeting Extreme Poverty: Components

Training

This is designed to deliver enterprise development training to the Specially Targeted Ultra Poor, and OTUP members for their preferred economic activities. This is part of BRAC’s strategy to 'push down' in order to reach the poorest among the rural population and equip them with skills that will allow them to participate in mainstream development activities. This training on how to operate an IGA (Income Generating Activity) efficiently will transfer basic entrepreneurship skills to the targeted group to enable them to sustain certain economic activities.

Asset Transfer

This is intended to create a source of sustainable income for the participating specially targeted ultra poor (STUP) with a view that following this support they will be able to join a mainstream development programme. These activities are probe to be selected by each beneficiary for which they are provided with assets so that they can carry forward their selected activity.


Social Empowerment

This is aimed at building human and socio- political assets as well as changing structures and processes- through institution building, social awareness raising training, social action and advocacy. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the rural poor, especially women, to build, secure and use their assets to improve their well being, reduce vulnerabilities, take advantage of new opportunities, exercise their rights, and play a more active role in public life.

Health

Based on the basic philosophy and components of primary health care approach, BRAC Health Programme provides an integrated package of preventive, promotive and basic curative care and referral services, all aimed at improving the health and nutritional status of the poor and ultra poor, particularly women and children. In this respect, BRAC's health sector envisions to ensure more access by the poor to government health care services by raising public awareness about the available services.

Efforts are also being made to address the ultra poor and poor women's health problems and advocate government and other health care service providers to ensure service that reaches the target population. The health issues that BRAC gives priority to are: health care for women and children, communicable and infectious diseases, illness due to environmental hazards.