In Dhaka’s Mirpur, CVA empowers youth to engage police, creating child-friendly help desks and driving policy change for safer, inclusive urban communities.

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

Social accountability is reshaping cities like Dhaka and Bamako—empowering communities to demand better services and build more inclusive urban futures.

Celebrate the Youth Empowered Project's incredible impact! Explore inspiring stories and photos from our photobook unveiling event. Discover youth empowerment.

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

Discover how World Vision Bangladesh empowered communities, strengthened systems, and transformed lives in 2024. Read our Annual Report 2024

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.

In Bamako, CVA mobilises citizens to improve health, education, and sanitation—boosting civic engagement and service delivery in dense urban areas.

Andrea Galante shares what the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World #SOFI2025  report tell us about the urgent need to rethink food aid, power, and people-centred solutions.

This document provides a summary of the 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.