1. Introducing shiree
shiree – Bangla word for steps
(stimulating household improvements resulting in economic empowerment)

2. scaling up tried & tested models
shiree beneficiaries cultivating land in to generate income –
Scale fund project - Uttaran

3. testing new approaches to poverty alleviation
shiree beneficiaries working on floating gardens –
Innovation Fund project Shushilan

4. urban extreme poverty poses different challenges
shiree beneficiaries at Korail slum
– use cash stipends to start up
businesses –
Scale Fund project DSK –

5. shiree project in the north east –
haors – prone to flooding

6. shiree project in the south – prone to cyclones

7. shiree project in north west – monga - prone to seasonal hunger
growing pumpkins in previously uncultivated river sandbars
during the dry season - PAB

8. building skills and links with the private sector,
vocational training to help landless women secure jobs - GUK

9. artificially inseminated cow gives birth,
livestock transfers as a way out of extreme poverty - MJSKS

10. making markets work for adivasi women in the hills - HKI

11. focus on youth to break the intergenerational transfer of poverty,
keeping adolescent girls in school – Save the Children

12. Challenging but not impossible,
if we work together!
Thank you