Not just training — the tools themselves: 107 Dhaka residents receive the means to earn

Training courses often end the same way: a certificate, a handshake, and then the quiet problem of having no equipment to practise the trade with. In Dhaka, a partnership between UNDP and Bangladesh's Local Government Division closed that gap. At a ceremony on 15 October, 107 residents of low-income communities in Dhaka North received productive assets matched to their own business plans: 36 people received sewing machines for tailoring and home-based businesses, 30 received IT equipment for digital services, and 41 received business carts for small-scale trading. Each recipient had first completed three months of skills training under the Livelihoods Support for Urban Poor Communities project, which works in 16 low-income communities in the capital and across six cities and towns nationally, with a focus on women and young people. 'These assets are not simply equipment; they are opportunities to build sustainable livelihoods,' DNCC administrator Md Safiqul Islam Khan told the recipients. Small numbers, whole livelihoods: a machine, a laptop, a cart — and a way to earn that belongs to the person earning it.

SDG 1 · No poverty — Mechanism: institutional program