Although there are many causes of poverty in Bangladesh, some of the main culprits are calamitous weather, weak infrastructure and gender inequality that prevents women from contributing to the economy. One of the factors that generate poverty is the prevalence of natural disasters. As a low-lying country situated on the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to violent weather patterns that regularly destroy crops, homes and lives. Additionally, Bangladesh has the disadvantage of being situated on active tectonic boundaries, making it susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis.
Today the country is a densely populated country of approximately million people. The poverty rate in Bangladesh is reported at Bangladesh only became a country 46 years ago and the transition from being part of a co-existing country to an independent one has not been easy. Bangladesh has made remarkable gains in ensuring access to education in the past two decades. With nearly 9. Improving the quality of education remains the largest challenge for Bangladesh at all levels.
Yet due to drop out rates, around 18 percent of children ages remain out of school — either having never enrolled or dropped out before completing grade 5. The Skills and Training Enhancement Project STEP helped to strengthen and improve the quality of skills training and employability of youth, both at home and abroad. Around, , graduates have completed programs in polytechnic institutions.
The World Bank is supporting the government respond to the COVID impact and build back a better and resilient education system through new and existing operations.
These operations support remote learning, safe school reopening, student learning assessment and remedial education, enhancing digital connectivity and capacity building for better-prepared school teachers and management at local and central levels. In fact, a Bangladeshi born today is more likely to live a quarter of a century more than a child born in Despites of enviable progress made, there remains a significant unfinished agenda with regards to essential maternal, child health and nutritional services.
At the same time, as Bangladesh transitions to a middle-income economy, the country needs to address rapid increase in Non-Communicable Diseases, and, be prepared for emerging infectious diseases such as the ongoing COVID pandemic. The World Bank is aligning financial and technical support to Bangladesh in order to meet these challenges. The access to electricity in Bangladesh reached to IDA support has so far added 2, MW electricity to the national grid, and MW in off-grid areas through installation of solar home systems, solar irrigation pumps, solar mini-grids and installed more than 2.
Another MW capacity will be added to the national grid through ongoing grid-tied solar projects. The World Bank supports promoting power sector policies and institutional capacity building within the Government, power and gas utilities and Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission BERC with the aim to improve the financial health, investment, and service quality.
Despite high population density, decreasing arable land, and frequent natural disasters, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in achieving food security and reducing poverty. Agricultural production value has increased faster than most of the country's regional peers at 3. However, self-sufficiency is continuously threatened by a decrease of arable land by 0. This has contributed to a decline in employment growth and to a slowdown in poverty reduction.
In the agriculture sector, the World Bank supports the government towards climate resilient diversification, value addition for greater job creation, entrepreneurship, safer, and more efficient food systems. The World Bank is helping over 1. Simultaneously, the World Bank supported , households to increase grain reserves to meet their post-disaster needs and is helping the country improve the quality and efficiency of grain storage management. New operations are emphasizing the One Health approach and climate smart agricultural practices to build back better in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Read more about urban poverty in Bangladesh. An overview of our projects Our current project aims to build disaster resilient communities with the capacity to face future disasters in Kaliganj sub-district of…. On top of that we are currently working the most vulnerable households prioritising women-headed households, the elderly and chronically poor in order to: Construct 25 new houses Retrofit 35 disaster resilient houses with low-cost cement plastered bamboo technology, with integrated rainwater harvesting and solar water desalination systems Build 40 disaster resilient latrines for vulnerable people.
Population living below poverty line: Improving living conditions through housing and sanitation. Our team in Bangladesh is working in Dhaka and Gazipur districts as well as in the north to implement integrated housing, and water, sanitation and hygiene WaSH projects. In a partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency KOICA , low income families will receive new houses or repair their houses while 62 permanent latrines will be built and 32 tube wells will be installed.
The wider community in these districts will also receive WaSH training. In the disaster-prone and poverty-stricken district of Satkhira in the southwest, our local operation aims to help 3, people protect their lives and build disaster-resilient housing to help break the cycle of poverty in Bangladesh.
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