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CHTDF
Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility
United Nations Development Programme, Bangladesh

Introduction and Overview of CHTDF

HASIBUR RAHMAN

Agricultural Development And Food Security

NURUZ ZAMAN

Health

LOBAN RAHMAN

Health Program in CHT by UNDP

Objective is to improve the health and nutritional status. This includes

Maternal and reproductive health,

Reducing child mortality Reducing the incidence of malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea and other communicable diseases.

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Objective

The overall objective can be achieved by implementing three major strategies

Improving existing health services and initiating Innovative Health Services, Empowering communities to participate in the management and use of health services and Improving the Hill District Councils capacities to manage health services

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Key Activities

Baseline surveys initiated CHSWs trained and recruited Health promotion activities undertaken Medical stores established Referral guideline finalized Orientation workshops were held with staff working in the referral facilities and community leaders in the project area.
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Implementing Strategy
Different

medical training for local

people
Network Linking

of Community Health Services Workers (CHSW)

them to satellite clinics through the use of mobile medical teams
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Challenges in the implementation process

Topography of CHT is the main obstacle to implement any project Cultural barrier Illiteracy Large diversity Income is limited

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Continuity and Mainstreaming

The long term strategy the project seeks to strengthen the government health system in this regard through improving

The physical infrastructure of the existing health, nutrition and population facilities in the CHT, Human resource policy development in the health sector, Delivery of appropriate health service packages and Training for health service providers.

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Exit Strategy
The aim of health program is to strengthen the government health facilities in the CHT. Already they are working as a wing of the total health facility. And their strategy is to be assimilated with the government Health Services because of the local demand.

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Education
SRIJOHN

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Challenges of implementation
One of the greatest challenge in this sector was to strengthen community based schools and link them to government systems Building quality infrastructure Reducing drop-out rates with the course of time Improving management, strengthening knowledge and capacity of regional and district education system

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Mainstreaming
Understanding of key educational issues of the cht among key GOB officials

Making teachers who are members of ethnic communities but fluent in mainstreaming culture
Though its not very easy but to mainstream the projects outcome, Bengali and English language have to be included in the curriculum Multilingual education in pre-primary levels should be more accurate in child development phases

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Exit strategy
Teachers who belong from ethnic minorities, can be trained for teaching and later used as permanent teachers when UNDP leaves the scenario. Increased community ownership may be another contingency plan for the UNDP. Raising community awareness, and mobilizing community resources to promote access to quality education can help in strengthening the exit strategy

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Continuity of the project

Multi lingual education

Including the mainstrea m culture and languages

Following the national curriculu m in all possible phases

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Biasness of the project

There are 51% ethnic people and 41% Bengalese in the Chittagong Hill Tracts But the CHTDF projects are only funding for ethnic children's schools. Bengali people are totally neglected here. Equally well-funded schools for Bengali people would neutralized the situation

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Disaster Preparedness & Management

ANIK

Disaster Preparedness & Management

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Chittagong Hill Tracts is hilly a region located in the South-Eastern part of Bangladesh that faces different kinds of natural hazards like Flash Flood, Fire, Land slides; bamboo flowering and earthquake. the earthquake possesses the enormous threat, which may occur anytime without any signal. It is mainly because of the location of tectonic plates under the ground.

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Management and implementation

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Disaster Preparedness and Management Cluster, CHTDF has been implementing Earthquake Risk Reduction Programme (ERRP) with the aims to strengthen the institutional and community level capacity to plan and implement earthquake risk reduction strategies and recovery preparedness of the region on piloting basis. Initially the project has targeted 3 main municipalities (Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachari) taking into account that within these municipalities there are several thousands brick masonry holdings which are non-engineered structures. Furthermore, CHT road networks are also in high risk as they located in hill sides.
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Management and implementation

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An eventual earthquake will create hazardous situation by road blockage and consequently jeopardizing mobilization of equipments, manpower for search or rescue operation. Though Local Government Institutions of CHTs like Regional Council and Hill District Councils though mandated for disaster management activities are yet to be materialized. ministry of Food & Disaster Management which look up DM nationally, does not have any direct linkage with LGIs like CHTRC, HDCs and even Municipalities.

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Desired outputs for continuity of the project

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The development of standard seismic hazard and vulnerability maps for three major Municipalities of Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) districts. Institutional and community capacity building for earthquake resistant construction, preparedness and mitigation strengthened.

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Desired outputs for continuity of the project

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Public awareness campaign organized and selected communities in the three hill districts are better equipped to cope with earthquake hazards. Seismic safety survey of the existing vital structures in the three hill districts conducted, identification of the most vulnerable public buildings identified and documentary

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Community Empowerment AMINUL

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Community Empowerment
Through community empowerment: Livelihoods can be improved and diversified. Collective actions can be taken to manage development affairs. Provide opportunities to work together for sustainable engagements in the CHT. There are 3257 PDCs and 1685 PNDGs. Members implement their projects through: holding monthly meetings, participatory decisions making etc.
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Community Empowerment

Achievements: PDCs has empowered its members to step forward and play a larger role in their communities. Cumulative savings mobilized by the community in three hill districts has increased. Target communities have increased their capacity to deal with financial institutions independently(86% increase). Capacities to plan, implement and monitor development activities have increased:85% have developed fund management rules.
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Knowledge Management

MAHBUB E RABBANI BIPLOP

SCOPE AND COVERAGE

The objective of the knowledge management is to raise awareness and build knowledge on the CHT area and CHTDF activities. For this purpose, CHTDF develops and disseminates knowledge products comprising of advocacy, training, communications and education materials.

ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTS

Organizational Development Module: A training module on organizational development for PDCs was developed and used during Training of Trainers provided to project staff who in turn trained PDC members.

CHTDF Newsletter Dissemination: The newsletter, The Thursday Letter, was prepared weekly and contained updates on CHTDF activities undertaken each week with results. This newsletter was distributed electronically every Thursday to all project staff, UNDP Country Office senior management, other project managers, and to key CHTDF donors. There were 48 issues published during 2011.

ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTS

Websites Developed Restructured and Updated: CHTDF widely disseminated information on its activities and results on the websites of UNDP Country Office and CHTDF. Relevant updated information about CHTDF and CHT were uploaded, which included events, activities, CHT development issues, case studies, jobs and procurement opportunities. The website also contained a photo gallery, photo stories and relevant web links. Photo database: Photographs are an important component of CHTDFs visibility activities. In 2011, the internal CHTDF photo database was restructured to provide easy access to photos and images to be used in various promotional items and reports.

Challenges and Mainstreaming

There is no such exit plan to mainstream the Knowledge management Programme, and it seems that, after the project is over, this part of the project might stop.

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Economic Development

LAMEYA LABIBA

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Economic Development
Challenges of Implementing: Limited access of communication and information sharing within the CHT and between CHT and other areas of Bangladesh Rapid destruction of harvests and food stores by unusually high rodent populations Degradation of forest and natural resources Difficulties in accessing markets and other local services during the dry season

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Projects

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Skills training provided in Income Generating Activities (IGA) Weaver Groups Formed Market Outlet Centres established

CHT Award of Excellence launched

Study on Bamboo Rattan and Non Timber Forest Products initiated
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Mainstreaming Projects

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Entrepreneurship training was provided to 72 traditional weavers and 150 Para Development Committee (PDC) members to improve their business skills and give them the confidence to establish and expand their own businesses 18 weaver groups were formed in Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati. Market outlet centres were established in each of the three districts. A total of 308 producers participated in the event and out of 602 products, 20 were short listed for best quality and 5 received Awards of Excellence. A scoping study on Bamboo, Rattan and Non-Timber Forest Thursday, April Products (NTFPs) was initiated by the International Network for 17, 2014 Bamboo and Ratan (INBAR), with funding from the project.

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Criticism
These projects mostly focus on the development of the indigenous people of CHT The Bengali settlers are not much benefitted from the projects People from remote areas do not have easy access to these projects

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Capacity Development

NISHAT FARZANA

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Gender Equity NIPA GHOSH

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Conclusion and Evaluation

TANUSREE DEB NATH