This document outlines a strategic plan to improve infrastructure, economic development, disaster preparedness, and healthcare in communities affected by natural disasters in Barguna District, Bangladesh. The plan proposes building cyclone-resistant homes, improving water and sanitation infrastructure, diversifying agriculture and providing microloans, training community leaders in disaster response, and establishing primary healthcare services. It includes budgets, timelines, monitoring and evaluation processes, and partnerships with NGOs to implement the plan over 5 years and measurably improve living conditions and resilience to future disasters.

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ASHA PROJECT
(HOPE PROJECT)
Sparkman Global Health
Case Competition
Team 6
Justine Goetzman, Isabella Hincapie Agudelo, Lassane
Kabore, Maya Mukundan, Natalie Wilson

2. Problem Analysis:
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Infrastructure
Vulnerability to
destruction and
flooding
Coastal Location
Remote from Shelters
Inadequate Housing Unsustainable to
& Shelters future disaster
Homes Damaged Transitional materials
(N=191,657) & Methods
Increases expense
Underdeveloped land
tenure & property Scarcity of Land Displacement
rights systems

3. Problem Analysis:
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Economic
Lack of
Diversification
(main source of
Agricultural income)
Destruction
Livestock Loss
Schools
Economic
Devastation Resource (Fully
Depletion Damaged N=
230;
Partial
Damage N
=335)
Injuries
(N=16,310)
Family Loss Loss of Income
Death (N=
1,292)

4. Problem Analysis:
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Disaster Preparedness
Reactive Focus on
Relief and Lack of risk
Rehabilitation reduction
Ineffective Disaster
Plan Approach
Lack of Community
Outdated Program awareness of the
1972 Disaster
Management Plan

5. Problem Analysis:
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Poor Access to Health Resources
Contaminatio
n with
saline, fecal
matter, arsen
ic, & other
Water debris
Destruction
of Latrines
Access to Destruction
Safe of food
Water, Food, supply, crops,
Food
and Health
livestock, stor
age facilities
Lack of
trained
providers
Health Disparity
Cultural
Barriers
Gender

6. Strategic Plan
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Improve the lives of community affected by natural
disasters by providing sustainability through exponential
capacity building & empowerment via implementing a
training program
Economic
Infrastructure Development & Disaster
Health Care
Development Agricultural Preparedness
Diversification

7. Strategic Plan
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Economic
Infrastructure Development & Disaster
Health Care
Development Agriculture Preparedness
Diversification
• Individual • Microcredit • Training • Village Health
Cyclone System Community Leader Training
Resistant • Diversify Crops Leaders • Nurse
Homes • Blanket Making • Disaster Practitioner
• Water Supply & storage Training in Program
• Rainwater • Animal Skin Schools (2/Village)
harvesting Processing for • Community • Primary Care
• Rooftop hide Awareness of • Disaster AID
Catchment the CDMP • First Aid &
areas Protocol Triage
• Sanitation • Development of • Counseling
(Community the CORE
Latrines) Council

8. Scalability
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 Pilot: 100 people from the most affect village
through application process
 Recruitment every month
 50 homes per month
 Expanding to every village
 Model for other disaster areas

9. Budget-Total=20 M US $
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10%
1%
20%
Infrastructures
Economic development
Disaster preparedness
Health care
69.00%

10. DETAILED BUDGET OF PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT IN BARGUNA DISTRICT/TEAM#6
GRAND TOTAL 20000000
10 Objective 1 #items cost per unit %
INFRASTRUCTURES DEVELOPMENT 69.34 13868000
House building 6280 1573.248408 49.4 9880000
Tube wells 1330 1503.759398 10 2000000
Latrines 40000 50 10 2000000
Objective 2 0
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE DIVERSIFICATION 20 4000000
Crops diversification 4000 500 10 2000000
Microcredit 10 2000000
Advocacy for property rights integrated #VALEUR!
13880000
Objective 3
ENHANCING DISASTER PREPARDNESS 0.66 132000
Training community leaders 560 100 0.28 56000
Meetings of the core counsel 560 35.71428571 0.1 20000
Training children in schools 560 100 0.28 56000
Objective 4 0
IMPROVING HEALTH CARE 10 2000000
Training village health leaders 560 1000 560000
Providing primary health care (prevention, promotion) 560 integrated
Training on disaster aid 560 1000 2.8 560000
Acquiring computers for teleconference 560 1000 2.8 560000
Medicines 1.6 320000

11. Partnerships
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 CORE Council
 Coordinationof response and focusing energy
toward sustainability & risk reduction
 Save the Children
 Training Village Health Leaders
 BRAC
 Obtaining new livestock
 CDMP Committee

12. Monitoring & Evaluation
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Monitoring Evaluation
 Data Collection Years 1, 3
 Field Visits  Benchmarks Met?
 Monthly
 Program Evaluation Year
 Supervision 2, 4
 Daily  What is working?
 Monthly Meeting  How do we know?
 Debriefing  Why? Or Why Not?
 Workshops/Retreats  End programs that are not
 Improving Skills effective at Year 3
 Building Community  Sustainability Evaluation at
Year 5

13. Long Term Goals
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 At least 8% of families’ housing needs in Barguna should be met with
a cyclone resistant home
 At least 40000 latrines have to be provided
 At least 1330 tube wells spread over the Barguna district have to be
constructed
 Established partnerships with NGO
 At least 4000 farmers should be given raw material and technology for
diversification of crops
 $2,000,000 USD microcredit dispersed in loans
 1 health leaders trained /village for primary health care
 1 person trained per village on disaster aid
 Established telemedicine program-computer and technology provision
1/ village
 320 000 $-Medicines and health equipment

14. Mid/Short Term Goals
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- Mid term- At least 80 % of long terms goals
have to be met by the end the year 4.
- Short term- At least 40 % of long terms goals
have to be met by the end the year 2.

15. Outcomes Assessment
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 Trainers are community based by Year 2
 Program has trainees from every village
 Microcredit fund established in partnership with
Asian Development Bank
 Children can demonstrate drill procedures of
disaster protocol
 Children describe protocol for severe weather
 All citizens can verbalize what to correctly do in
the event of a natural disaster.
 Decreased infant mortality rates by 10%
 Decreased morbidity by 10%

16. Questions?
“We believe that poverty does not belong to a civilized human society. It belongs to
museums”.
- Muhammed Yunas