Shiree was a program in Bangladesh that tested approaches to alleviating poverty through household improvements and economic empowerment. It supported beneficiaries through scale projects replicating existing models, innovation projects testing new ideas, and programs tailored to specific challenges like urban poverty, flooding, cyclones, or seasonal hunger. The document highlights various Shiree projects providing vocational training, livestock, assistance with markets, education for girls, and opportunities for youth to break intergenerational poverty cycles. It concludes that challenging goals are possible through collaborative efforts.

1. Introducing shiree in frame
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!
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