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Table 2. Description of other NGO activities in surveyed BRAC working
regions
BRAC working
Region
Surve
yed
Thana
s
No. of
NGOs
working
Av.
prog.
MF
Percentage of NGOs having provision for
Inc.
gen.
Edun Health Train. Social
devt.
Other
activ.
Faridpur 8 28 3.9 96 36 57 54 75 36 39
Madaripur 7 40 3.6
/Barishal
95 40 55 48 57 25 38
Gaibandha 6 37 3.7 95 62 49 46 54 35 32
Rangpur 8 24 3.5 100 63 54 29 46 21 38
Shariatpur 6 28 2.8 64 32 29 57 61 29 11
Nilphamari 6 14 3.6 93 50 50 43 57 36 36
Gopalgonj 5 32 3.4 91 34 50 59 44 19 44
Jamalpur 6 32 3.8 84 31 50 50 66 50 50
Thakurgaon 10 38 2.9 84 45 50 32 26 29 29
Rajbari 4 28 2.4 89 43 29 21 39 14 7
Kurigram 14 42 3.9
/Lalmonirhat
81 60 57 57 69 36 29
Shirajgonj 9 52 3.9 94 56 67 52 58 31 33
Kishoregonj 11 39 3.0 85 49 28 41 54 21 26
Sherpur 6 31 2.8 94 39 35 52 39 10 16
Total 106 383 3.4 89 46 48 47 53 28 31
NGOs working with the Ultra Poor
Only 72 of the 383 NGOs had some provision for the ultra poor and these NGOs were spread over
79 out of 106 Thanas surveyed (Table 3). In Shariatpur and Thakurgaon districts we could not
identify any NGO programmes (out of the total 66 NGOs functioning in these two districts)
targeted at the ultra poor only. Proportionately higher percentage of the NGOs functioning in
Gaibandha, Jamalpur and Rangpur, the most economically distressed areas with high level of income
poverty, had programmes for the ultra poor. 1
1 According to Bangladesh Human Development Report 2000, Gaibandha, Jamalpur and Rangpur are among the 10
poorest districts where more than 50% of the population lives below the income poverty line (Bangladesh Institute
of Development Studies (2001), ‘Fighting Human Poverty: Bangladesh Human Development Report 2000’,Dhaka).