Rupantar / Grassroots Women’s Leadership

Project completed

Rupantar is one of the specialised NGOs for the pro-motion of pro-poor and especially women oriented development at grass root level in rural areas. With SDC support, it has developed an innovative institu-tional approach to empowering women and the poor by giving them a voice in community affairs. Women leaders and organisation are thereby enabled to pro-mote service delivery relevant for women. This ap-proach merits to be scaled up further. Moreover, the project is a relevant complement to the LGov portfolio, and to SDC gender equality mainstreaming. It contributes know-how on addressing key factors of women’s discrimination through concrete action at local level.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Bangladesh
Governance
Human rights
Rule of Law - Democracy - Human rights
Decentralisation
Human rights (incl. Women's rights)
01.02.2011 - 30.04.2017
CHF 1'710'000
Directorate/federal office responsible SDC
Credit area Development cooperation
Project partners Contract partner
International or foreign NGO


Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF   1'710'000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF   1'684'727
Project phases

Phase 4 01.02.2011 - 30.04.2017   (Completed)