Income And Livelihood Restoration Program (ILRP)

Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar Railway Project (DCRP} had a provision of design and implementation of the Livelihood and Income Restoration Program (LIRP) to assist those severely affected households and those affected households which are considered as vulnerable households, in order to restore their income and livelihoods at pre-project levels and enable them to improve their livelihoods to better levels than before the project. The Income and Livelihood Restoration Program (ILRP) already has been arranged for one member of each vulnerable household and each severely affected households.

Capacity enhancing assistance had been designed in the project for affected women headed households and vulnerable households that improve the access of women to skills training for off-farm employment such as tailoring and weaving, small goods shops; marketing – buying and selling local produce; processing of locally produced products; ILRP training courses had been launched through a Training Need Assessment (TNA) process for the participants.

Preference on Professional Skill Development Training

To encourage families to send their female participants in livelihood training was emphasized accordingly as the seed grant amount was higher (BDT 35,000.00) than the one offered to men (BD 25,000.00). As it was mentioned previously that an N.G.O (DORP) was selected by the BR to conduct the training effectively and the INGO (DORP) started the ILRP training since 31 of July 2022 and has accomplished the whole livelihood training in June-2024. In total 1200 trainees (Male-308 & Female-892) have received livelihood training on multiple trades. The Seed Grant disbursement process also has been finished accordingly. In total 1200 (Male-308 & Female-892) trainees have received Seed Grant amount through their bank accounts.

An overall statistical calculation on Income & Livelihood Restoration Program (training & seed grant disbursement history) is being stated in the below: