SWAPNO (Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities), a productive employment and climate adaptive livelihoods-based poverty graduation project and joint initiative of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Co-operatives, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Marico Bangladesh Ltd., has recently reported significant progress in empowering Bangladesh’s ultra-poor rural women.
Marico, a major stakeholder in the SWAPNO project, has significantly contributed to empowering the project’s beneficiaries by ensuring sustainable livelihoods for them.
Highlighted as one of Bangladesh’s flagship social safety net projects (as certified by the Cabinet Division), SWAPNO has worked in five poverty-stricken and climate-vulnerable districts: Satkhira, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Jamalpur, and Gaibandha.
The project has yielded impressive results since its inception, benefiting 588 women-headed households with formal employment (in RMG and leather sectors) and another 393 through local enterprise development projects, namely Bindu, Shunipun, Kallyani, Deshi, Areca, Dhorola etc., fostering significant sustainable economic growth in the targeted regions.
Speaking about SWAPNO’s latest accomplishments, Rajat Diwaker, Managing Director of Marico Bangladesh , said, “Marico’s commitment to the SWAPNO initiative remains firm. Our collaboration with SWAPNO aligns with Marico’s values of fostering inclusive growth and making a meaningful impact in the communities we operate in.”
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