Creating Safer, Stronger and More Sustainable Livelihoods for Marginalized Women
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About the Project
IDO’s ongoing Women Empowerment Project aims to improve the living standards of grassroots women fishers, protect their rights, promote a violence-free environment, and support them in developing peaceful, dignified, and sustainable livelihoods.
The project focuses on organizing women, raising awareness, building skills and leadership capacity, ensuring fair wages, strengthening collective voices, creating market linkages, and promoting alternative economic opportunities.
Key Challenges
Women fishers and workers in the project areas face:
- Limited skills and livelihood opportunities during the lean season
- Wage disparities and lack of fair payment
- Harassment and gender-based violence
- Unsafe and unsanitary working conditions
- Limited access to markets, networks, and financial opportunities
- Lack of leadership, organization, unity, and solidarity
- Limited access to capital and alternative economic opportunities
- Insecure living and working conditions
What IDO Is Doing
To address these challenges, IDO is implementing a range of activities, including:
👩🏫 Skills & Capacity Building
Providing training, refresher courses, orientation sessions, seminars, and workshops to strengthen women’s knowledge and practical skills.
🤝 Organization & Collective Voice
Supporting women to form groups, build solidarity, and collectively raise their voices for their rights and interests.
💰 Economic Empowerment
Creating opportunities for alternative economic activities, financial assistance, market linkages, and improved access to livelihood resources.
🛡️ Rights & Protection
Raising awareness about women’s rights, safety, dignity, and protection from violence and harassment.
👩💼 Leadership Development
Strengthening women’s leadership and participation so they can take a more active role in their communities and decision-making processes.
📊 Monitoring & Follow-up
The project includes beneficiary identification, surveys, supervision, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, review meetings, and regular follow-up to support effective implementation.
Our Goal
The overall goal is to ensure women’s rights and strengthen leadership capacity among marginalized women in fishing communities at the grassroots level in Paikgacha and Koyra Upazilas of Khulna District.
Building a Better Future Together
When women have access to skills, resources, fair economic opportunities, networks, leadership, and collective strength, they can increase their income, become more self-reliant, and stand stronger for their rights. This can contribute to improved socio-economic conditions and a more peaceful and harmonious community.
Empowered Women. Stronger Communities. Sustainable Futures.
IDO is working alongside marginalized women fishers to build dignity, equality, economic resilience, leadership, and sustainable livelihoods—helping create a future where women can live and work with greater security and opportunity.