This promising practice document captures the key interventions, lessons learned, and recommendations from three projects in Bangladesh.

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World Vision Lanka recently launched a project funded by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Programme (ANCP) in collaboration with World Vision Australia to support around 15,000 individuals with aquaculture in Vaharai and Muthur (East Sri Lanka).

This article highlights how, following several months of interruption caused by the suspension of USAID funding, the GAINS project, dedicated to nutrition, food security, and sustainable development, is resuming operations in the Kasaï province. This restart marks a moment of relief for field teams and beneficiary communities, who rely heavily on the programme to improve child health and local resilience. However, the article also underlines the severe consequences of budget cuts on vulnerable families, issuing a pressing call to the international community for more sustainable financial engagement. Without this, the progress achieved so far risks being undone, to the detriment of the most fragile populations.

Discover how the Able to Thrive project is transforming education for children with albinism in Malawi through inclusive tools and empowered teaching.

Empowering Bangladeshi students with climate-smart farming skills to fight food insecurity, boost nutrition, and build community resilience.

More than 19,000 people will benefit from the BORDER Project, launched by World Vision Ghana. The project aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities living near the border in northern Ghana and promote sustainable development.

This story highlights the transformative impact of a malnutrition prevention initiative in Luiza, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It tells the personal story of Oscar, a three-year-old boy diagnosed with acute malnutrition during a community screening, and how his father, Stéphane, found hope and help through the project. Struggling with poverty and despair, Stéphane was guided by community health workers to the Tutanter Health Center, where Oscar received free treatment, including Plumpy’Nut, a therapeutic food. Alongside the medical support, the family also received seeds, baby rabbits, and farming tools from World Vision, enabling Stéphane to start a small farming operation. This support helped restore Oscar’s health and improved the family’s food security and income. Now a community advocate, Stéphane shares his experience to encourage others to adopt better nutrition and farming practices.

This document presents promising practices on the integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in the Creating Off-farm Rwandan Enterprises (CORE) Project that was implemented in Rwanda from 2015 through 2021. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in partnership with World Vision, the Project was designed to respond to the challenges of limited access to market information and financial services for women and youth. The overall goal of the CORE Project was to significantly increase household off-farm income for women and youth in the districts of Rusizi and Nyamasheke. The project primarily targeted women and youth with interventions designed to address market failures and improve business competitiveness. Key interventions included capacity development targeting youths and women to equip them with vocational skills, strengthening of women and youth cooperatives. The CORE Project also improved access to finance by establishing, supporting, training, and empowering savings and loans groups and working with banks to provide loans to target groups.

Across Bangladesh’s poverty pockets, a quiet transformation is underway led not by handouts, but by empowerment. At the heart of this change lies World Vision Bangladesh’s innovative use of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) within its Ultra Poor Graduation (UPG) programme—a bold shift away from traditional asset transfers towards a community-driven, dignity-affirming model of livelihood development.