article / October 3, 2023
Girls married off to reduce financial burden
In Bangladesh, approximately 51% of girls are married before their 18th birthday and 22% are married before the age of 15. Child marriage is more common in rural areas where 60% of girls are married before age 18, compared to 55% in urban areas. The minimum legal age for marriage in Bangladesh is 18 years for girls; however, the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 includes a loophole where a court can allow child marriage in ‘special cases’.
publication / December 1, 2021
Closure Report- Hathazari Area Programme, World Vision Bangladesh
This closure report is a summary of the interventions taken by World Vision Bangladesh during its 32 years of operations in Hathazari, Chattogram.
publication / November 28, 2021
Closure Report- Bhaluka Area Programme (AP), World Vision Bangladesh
World Vision Bangladesh inaugurated the Bhaluka AP through a sponsorship programme in 2004. Three major areas of interventions were: Health, Nutrition and WASH, Livelihoods, and Child Sponsorship.
publication / April 7, 2022
Learning from Child Activism: Stopping Child Marriages in Bangladesh & Ghana
Children and young people are standing up to make a change. They are not waiting to be invited by adults to participate in policy debate, but are making and claiming these spaces.
publication / October 13, 2021
Evaluation Results of CVA Nobo Jatra WV Bangladesh
This document provides a summary of results of the evaluation of World Vision’s (WVI) Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) project component to their “Nobo Jatra” (“New Beginning”) Program (NJP) in Bangladesh.
publication / October 12, 2023
Not Enough: Global Perceptions on Child Hunger and Malnutrition
Our world has enough of everything to provide a life of plenty for every child, yet every day more children go hungry.
The findings of this survey highlight the stark reality for families around the world. Almost all people believe that having enough food to eat is a basic human right – 91%, but 21% of children are going to bed hungry and 30% of parents does not knowwhere their next meal will come from.
publication / January 4, 2022
Case study: Urban innovation - Dhaka, Bangladesh
Download this two-page case study to learn more about World Vision’s work in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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publication / May 11, 2022
Citizen Voice and Action Effectiveness Study Report 2022- World Vision Bangladesh
This is a comparative research on the effectiveness of World Vision’s Social Accountability Approach (such as Citizen Voice and Action) in strengthening Child Protection services at Local Police Stations.
publication / May 8, 2021
WV Bangladesh Annual Report 2020
In Bangladesh, 2020 was a year of twofold crisis. Along with the rest of the world, we dealt with the novel challenges of a pandemic, but we also experienced a disaster within this disaster with cyclone AMPHAN.
publication / March 30, 2023
Livelihood Programme Capacity Statement 2023
This capacity statement describes World Vision Bangladesh's Livelihood Technical Programme's work and resources in the country over the 2022-2023 fiscal year.