Community-based Poverty Reduction Project

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The Community-based Poverty Reduction Project seeks to a) test approaches and mechanisms for delivering poverty reduction interventions to marginalized groups through community nutrition and food security interventions and activities to assist street children, and b) test and build capacity, at national and district levels, for monitoring and evaluating poverty reduction programs. There are four project components. 1) Community based nutrition and food security will test a community-based strategy to strengthen the capacity of communities to achieve, on a sustainable basis, good nutrition, and food security, especially for children under five and pregnant and lactating mothers. 2) Interventions to assist street children will provide grants to nongovernmental organizations already working on street children issues to improve and expand their existing activities. 3) Poverty measurement and monitoring will support three districts to pilot poverty measurement and monitoring systems, aimed at monitoring household/individual as well as community level poverty. 4) Project management will establish various units for project implementation.