Profile

of

 Ramjannagar Union

Upazila: Shyamnagar, District: Satkhira

December 2014

Map of Ramjannagar Union

Contents

1. Background, Socio-economic conditions, Disaster Vulnerabilities. 5

1.1 Background. 5

1.2 Socio-economic condition:5

1.3 Geography:5

1.4 Disaster and Vulnerabilities:5

1.5. Hard-to-Reach Areas:6

2. Population Profile:6

2.1 Population in general6

3. Health and Nutrition. 8

3.1 Situation of Children and Women in the Union. 8

3.2 Facilities and services available in the Union. 8

3.3 Status of Human Resource:8

3.3.1 Department of Health. 8

3.3.2 Department of Family Planning. 8

4. Situation of Birth Registration, Disability, Child Marriage and Child Labour. 9

4.1 Birth Registration. 9

4.2 Children with Disability:9

4.3 Child Marriage. 9

4.4 Children detached from families. 9

4.5 Status of HR of UP. 9

4.6 Child Labour. 9

5. Education: Pre Primary, Primary and Secondary Education. 9

5.1 Coverage of Education. 9

5.2 Available Facilities. 10

5.3 HR status in the Education Sector. 10

6. Water and Sanitation. 10

6.1 Safe Water Facility. 10

6.2 Sanitation coverage. 10

Status of HR. 11

7. Services by NGOs:11

8. Functional Statusof Union Parishad. 11

Table 1.1: Sex disaggregated Population data. 13

Table 1.2: Age specific child population. 14

Table 2.1 Number of Children Fully immunized or left out. 15

Table 2.2: Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake. 16

Table 2.3: Available Facilities for Health and Family Planning. 17

Table 2.4: HR Status of Health Services. 17

Table 2.5: HR Status of Family Planning Services. 17

Table 3.1: Situation of Birth Registration, Child Labour, Disability. 18

Table 4.1: Pre-primary Education Coverage. 19

Table 4.2: Primary Education Coverage(cÖv_wgK wkÿv). 20

Table 4.3: Secondary Education Coverage. 20

Table 4.4: Number of Educational Institutions. 21

Table 4.5.: HR status in Primary and Secondary education in the union. 21

Table 5.1: Sources of safe water. 22

Table 5.2: Sanitation coverage. 23

Table 5.4:  Department of Public Health:23

6.0 Mapping of NGO programs:24

7. Civil society: List of Key Influential peoples and their contact no.24

8. Chairpersons of Standing Committees:25

11. Union E Learning centre:25

12.Important Mobile number of Union Parisad:25

1. Background, Socio-economic conditions, Disaster Vulnerabilities

1.1 Background

Ramjannagaris a Union of Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district. The union was established in 1950 by the East Pakistan Government. It is about 15 Km from Upazila head quarter and 70 km from Satkhira district head quarter. The present UP Chairman Mr. Akbar Ali was elected by direct peoples vote and took charge in May 2011.  The UP complex is located at Ramjannagar village. Total area of the union is 39 sq. Km. The Malonchi River separated the union from Sundarban.  

1.2 Socio-economic condition:

Like other rural areas of this district about 70% per cent (approx.) people are living below poverty line. Main occupations of the population are agriculture, fishing, day labor, van/auto bike puller and small trades. The main crops are paddy and buttlenut (cash crops). There are lots of forests cultivated by the government and private farmers. Fishing is considered as major livelihood, children are engaged in fishing boats resulted deprivation of their rights which is capital concern of education. Total literacy rate in the union is 50.10%, of which male 57.1% and female 43.7% (Census 2011). There is no government and private Bank in this union but it has 3-4 medium size village markets. However, there are NGO, Asa, BRAC, SUS who are involved in micro–credit/financing programme. World Vision, Rupantor are works on good governance.  Cow and buffalo milk is available here and about 22 families are involved with milk collection and production of card, sweets etc. and these products export to other districts.

1.3 Geography:

The union is located in Shyamnagar Upazila and surrounded by Munshigong union in the North and east, Isshawripur union in the west and Malonchi River and Sundarbanin the South.  The Malonchi River separated the union from Sundarban.

1.4 Disaster and Vulnerabilities:

The union is situated on the bank of Malonchi River which separated the union from Sundarban. The total area is coastal belt so Cyclone, heavy rainfall, and tidal wave hits almost every year and affects the people, damages their houses and crops, increase their sufferings which make them poor/ultra-poor. Poverty is persistent due to natural disaster and low income growth in the union. In the rainy season paddy, vegetable and other crops usually suffered by water logging. Fish farmer’s loss their fishes due to overflow of water. There are11 Cyclone Shelter at the union & location at villages of Sora, Vetkhali, Ramjannagar, Sonakhali & others villages. The Union Disaster Management Committee (UDMC) has assessed the disaster vulnerabilities and developed disaster preparedness and response plan in the last year with the support of LCBCE - UNICEF.

1.5. Hard-to-Reach Areas:

There is hard to reach areas in this union as internal communication. Some Carpeting, solling and earthen road linked with almost all villages. Motor cycle and van are usually used within the union for communication. People do not face much difficulty to have access to social service facilities. Distance and communication mood are given below.

2. Population Profile:

2.1 Population in general

According to population Census 2011 The Union has a total population 21931 in 5045 houses hold and population density is 1074 per Sq Km. But there is a variation on the number of house hold and population of the Union as “the holding assessment 2013” which was conducted by union parishad, itself, and enumerated the total population 25039 and the number of households         5483. The Union Parishad claimed that the holding assessment is updated and correct. Around 71.47% population of this union are Muslim and 28.53% are from Hindu religion.

The details are shown in the Table 1.1 in the Annex I. 

2.2 Child Population:

According to the Census 2011, total child population in the union from 0 to 19 years are 8731 which is 39.8% of total population (0-4 is 1952, 5-9 is 2500, 10-14 is 2434 and 15-19 is 1842.  Community data provides more age specific information than census data and the total child population from 0 to 18 years are 7242, 0-1 year is 423, 1 to 2 years 508, 5 to 6 years 582 and 6 to 10 years 2388 and 11-18 is 3341. This gives an increased population number than Census as usual.

Table 1.2 shows the details.

The following chapters describe the sector wise facilities and situation of children and women in the Union. The following table gives a snapshot of the situation of children and women in the union:

Table 1: Snapshot of Situation of children and women in the union

*administrative data, **community data ***BRIS data as of January 2014

The union has 358 pregnant women and as of November 2014 354 have visited the health center at least one for ANC checkup and received IFA tablet. Only 288 Pregnant Women have completed 4 ANC visits and 70 pregnant women not receive the full package of service. None of the health centers in the union have any facility for deliver so no administrative data is available on this indicator. The table above shows that all (1362) children have full coverage of vaccination. Data are not available on nutritional status of children in any form. Community do not have much idea on this however, they identify healthy (fatty) and unhealthy (thin) children and think that most of the children are healthy. Health centers do not record the height or weight of the children. The table above shows that 347 children of 1 year do not have birth certificate out of 423 children (Community data). Birth registration within 45 days do not made till today but overall birth registration status of Ramjan Nagar union is good. 131 children are not enrolled in PPE class, and 164 children of school going age at primary level are not enrolled in the school (community data). Some of children are out of secondary education but there are no record in anywhere. Child marriage is occurred but it is not recorded as the age is recorded above 18 years in the register during marriage.

3. Health and Nutrition

3.1 Situation of Children and Women in the Union

According to the community 482 children have received vaccines out of 589 children of 1 year age. This figure widely varies with the data provided by health sector which is 1362 and all are fully immunized. Though community think that every child is vaccinated however, there might be a few left out children which are not counted or recorded.

Table 2.1 shows the Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake in Annex II.

Community data says that the Union has 268 pregnant women as of September 2014. During September 102 pregnant women have completed 4 ANC visits and 129 have consumed 100 IFA tablets during last six months (Source: WDC as of September 2014). This data varies with the administrative data i.e. Family Planning Office enlisted 358 pregnant women out of which 288 have completed 4 ANC visits, 354 have received IFA tablets and all (354) have consumed 100 IFA during last six months up to November 2014.

Table 2.2 shows the Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake in Annex II.

Few institutional delivery takes place in the upazila level. Institutional delivery is very low and it is assumed by the community that 20 to 25 delivery take place in upazila health center. These deliveries mostly occur in case of complicacy or in the case of women from well off families or who are very aware.

3.2 Facilities and services available in the Union: The Union has a Family Welfare Center (FWC), 4 functional Community Clinics (CC), 8 Satellite Clinics and 24 EPI sites. There are health services in the Union provided by NGOs which are mainly community awareness.

Table 3.3 in annex II shows the available facilities in the Union.

3.3 Status of Human Resource:

3.3.1 Department of Health: The Union is served by 1 SACMO, 1 Assistant Health Inspector (AHI), 4 CHCP and 5 Health Assistants. One MO post is currently vacant. Though the MO and SACMO is posted in the union but they rarely provide services to the people.

Table 2.4 in annex II shows the HR status of Health and Family Welfare services in the Union.

3.3.2 Department of Family Planning: The Union is served by 1 SACMO, 1 Family Welfare Visitor (FWV), 1 Family Planning Inspector (FPI) and 6 Family Welfare Assistants. No vacant position in Family Planning department.   

Table 2.5 in annex II shows the HR status of Health and Family Welfare services in the Union.

4. Situation of Birth Registration, Disability, Child Marriage and Child Labour

4.1 Birth Registration: A significant number of children of one year old do not have birth certificate. Community data shows that only 76 children have birth certificates out of 423 children. Till September 2014, no child birth registered under 45 days (BRIS data) but overall birth registration status of this union is good. The Union Parishad is well equipped for providing services for ensuring birth registration of children. It is served by a Secretary, and two UISC Entrepreneurs. This progress happened with the support of the District, Upazila administration, UNICEF and NGOs joint efforts. The UP is providing free services to the children of below two years.

4.2 Children with Disability:There are 317 children with disability in the union. Few of them are attending school and many of them do not have opportunity to attend school as the school does not have physical structure or friendly environment that encourages them to stay. Data are not available neither with the community or the government department on how many children are attending schools and how many do not attend.

4.3 Child Marriage: Though child marriage occurs, no data available on child marriage.

4.4 Children detached from families:Some children are detached from their family. However, the community do not have information on whether these children are all orphan or where they are engaged. The UP is trying to collect the real information and accordingly make a plan for their survival.

4.5 Status of HR of UP: The Union has one Secretary who is responsible for all the activities in the UP including birth registration. According to the UP Act 2009, the UP should have at least another staff who will look after the accounts and other administrative issues. However, the UISC Entrepreneurs are providing support in birth registration. The Union is also served by a government social worker.

4.6 Child Labour:According to the community the Union has 171 children who are engaged with informal labour force. Children are mainly engaged in agricultural works, fishing and non-formal sector like in the tea stall and small hotels and restaurants. And these children are out of schools. Though some of the children are getting stipends from the EEOSCP project (ABAL) supported by UNICEF, it is not able to cover all of the children out of school.

5. Education: Pre Primary, Primary and Secondary Education

5.1 Coverage of Education: According the survey conducted by the DPE, the Union has a total of 443 pre-school aged children and all are enrolled in pre-primary class run by government and non-government schools. The total number of children of aged 5 to 6 differs with the data provided by community which is 1143 and 131 not enrolled in PPE class. NGOs do not conduct any survey on how many eligible children are in the Union rather they use the departmental data and enrol children within the surrounding of the school. According to the community people, there are many children who do not attend pre-primary class because of lack of early learning centres or school within their reach (within a kilo meter) and for poor road communications.

At primary level there are 1883 children of 6-10 years old and out of them 1842 are enrolled in the primary schools run by Government and NGOs. According to this data, there are 41 children who are not enrolled in the primary schools in the Union. Many children are attending Madrassa for their education both at primary and secondary level and data are not available. Community data of this age group differs with the administrative data.

At secondary level, there are 2423 children are enrolled in four secondary schools and three secondary level Madrasa (Girls: 1339 & boys: 1084). There are many children out of secondary school but no record found in anywhere. If we consider the child population data (Census 2011), the secondary school going children are about 2556 or more and the school enrolment is only 1832 which means that a large number of children (724) are not enrolled or do not attend in or dropped out from secondary education.

Table 5.2 shows the data on facilities in Annex IV.

5.2 Available Facilities: The Union has 14 Government Primary Schools (GPS), 3 NGO schools run by different NGOs to coverage PPE and primary education coverage. Out of these BRAC run 4 PPE Centre and cover 108 students and JCF run 11 ABAL school and cover 177 drop out children. All village has at least one primary school either GPS or NGO School.  The Union has 3 secondary schools and 3 secondary level Madrasa to cover the children of the whole Union. Table 5.1 shows the data on facilities in Annex IV.

5.3 HR status in the Education Sector: There are 14 posts for head teachers and 46 posts for assistant teacher sanctioned in 14 GPS and 2 assistant teacher posts are vacant. According to the Government policy standard, the teacher student ratio for PPE is 1:30 and for primary class the ratio is 1:45. The data in table 5.2 shows that there are 1842 children enrolled in 14. Few schools do not follow this standard and the average class size of these schools is more than 30 PPE children /teacher. Discussion with different school teachers and community, it is found that a few of the schools are overcrowded and more than 50 children are enrolled in one class. This overcrowds hampers the learning process of the children.

6. Water and Sanitation

6.1 Safe Water Facility:DPHE does not have record on total number of tube wells, Rain water harvesting, PSF and pipe line supply water points in the union. They have record only GoB supplied water options. According to the Census 2011, only 50 HH used tap water, 987 households have tube wells. This figure widely varies with the community data. Community data shows that the Union has 93 tube wells, 29 RWHS and 57 PSF water points out of these few are not functional. A total of 2754 households do not have access to safe water out of 5,483 households. According to the Government Policy, every 5 households should have one safe water points.  

6.2 Sanitation coverage: Sanitation coverage in the Union is almost good. The union has 5045 (Census 2011) households where 1014 households (20.1%) have hygienic latrines, 3925 households have unhygienic latrines and 106 households do not have any latrines. Community data widely varies with this data. Table 5.2 in Annex V shows that 4465 households have hygiene latrines, 358 households use unhygienic latrines and 59 households do not have any latrines out of 5483 households

Status of HR: The Union is served by 0.50 (one for two union) tube well mechanic who is responsible only for the DPHE provided water points. There is a Sub-Assistant Engineer in upazila.

7. Services by NGOs:

There are six to seven NGOs including BRAC, JCF, Rupantar, World vision, Shushilon, Care-Bangladesh, Muslim Aid are  working in the Union on health, education, child protection, water and sanitation etc. BRAC, JCF, Rupantar and Care-Bangladesh are implementing education, C4D and nutrition projects with support from UNICEF.

 8. Functional Statusof Union Parishad

The Union Parishad is functioning with the Chairman, 12 members and a Secretary. The UP holds coordination meeting in every months regularly. All the standing committees have been formed and most of the committees are functioning and hold meeting to discuss the relevant issues.

Ward Shova: Ward Shovas were held in all the Wards in two times in a year one is December and another is March and April in each year. Children issues were discussed in all Ward Shovas. Members proposed specific needs of children related to education, child rights, safe water and sanitation to incorporate in the UP plan. Last year UP budgeted Taka 23,127,100to implement its annual plan for 2013-2014 fiscal year. This budget largely was distributed in road constructions, infrastructures etc. Only Tk.1, 85,000 was allocated for children to address the children issues.

Detailed data on the profile are presented in the next pages as annex.

Table 1.1: Sex disaggregated Population data

Table 1.2: Age specific child population

IqvW© bs/	MÖvg/ Village	# of Children age structure according to Census 2011					wkï msL¨v /Age specific number of children according to the community
		Total Popula-tion	0-4	5-9	10-14	15-19	<1	1-2	0-5	5-6	6-10	10-18
01	Patrakhola	2118	189	241	235	178	35	36		70	205	353
02	Sonakhali	1626	145	185	180	137	30	43		80	220	164
03	Bhairabnagor	1234	110	Amount অনুমানিক ৫০,০০০০০/= টাকা label.Details.title Profile of  Ramjannagar Union                   Upazila: Shyamnagar, District: Satkhira December 2014       Map of Ramjannagar Union                                                   Contents 1. Background, Socio-economic conditions, Disaster Vulnerabilities. 5 1.1 Background. 5 1.2 Socio-economic condition:5 1.3 Geography:5 1.4 Disaster and Vulnerabilities:5 1.5. Hard-to-Reach Areas:6 2. Population Profile:6 2.1 Population in general6 3. Health and Nutrition. 8 3.1 Situation of Children and Women in the Union. 8 3.2 Facilities and services available in the Union. 8 3.3 Status of Human Resource:8 3.3.1 Department of Health. 8 3.3.2 Department of Family Planning. 8 4. Situation of Birth Registration, Disability, Child Marriage and Child Labour. 9 4.1 Birth Registration. 9 4.2 Children with Disability:9 4.3 Child Marriage. 9 4.4 Children detached from families. 9 4.5 Status of HR of UP. 9 4.6 Child Labour. 9 5. Education: Pre Primary, Primary and Secondary Education. 9 5.1 Coverage of Education. 9 5.2 Available Facilities. 10 5.3 HR status in the Education Sector. 10 6. Water and Sanitation. 10 6.1 Safe Water Facility. 10 6.2 Sanitation coverage. 10 Status of HR. 11 7. Services by NGOs:11 8. Functional Statusof Union Parishad. 11 Table 1.1: Sex disaggregated Population data. 13 Table 1.2: Age specific child population. 14 Table 2.1 Number of Children Fully immunized or left out. 15 Table 2.2: Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake. 16 Table 2.3: Available Facilities for Health and Family Planning. 17 Table 2.4: HR Status of Health Services. 17 Table 2.5: HR Status of Family Planning Services. 17 Table 3.1: Situation of Birth Registration, Child Labour, Disability. 18 Table 4.1: Pre-primary Education Coverage. 19 Table 4.2: Primary Education Coverage(cÖv_wgK wkÿv). 20 Table 4.3: Secondary Education Coverage. 20 Table 4.4: Number of Educational Institutions. 21 Table 4.5.: HR status in Primary and Secondary education in the union. 21 Table 5.1: Sources of safe water. 22 Table 5.2: Sanitation coverage. 23 Table 5.4:  Department of Public Health:23 6.0 Mapping of NGO programs:24 7. Civil society: List of Key Influential peoples and their contact no.24 8. Chairpersons of Standing Committees:25 11. Union E Learning centre:25 12.Important Mobile number of Union Parisad:25   Part A: General Information     1. Background, Socio-economic conditions, Disaster Vulnerabilities 1.1 Background Ramjannagaris a Union of Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district. The union was established in 1950 by the East Pakistan Government. It is about 15 Km from Upazila head quarter and 70 km from Satkhira district head quarter. The present UP Chairman Mr. Akbar Ali was elected by direct peoples vote and took charge in May 2011.  The UP complex is located at Ramjannagar village. Total area of the union is 39 sq. Km. The Malonchi River separated the union from Sundarban.     1.2 Socio-economic condition: Like other rural areas of this district about 70% per cent (approx.) people are living below poverty line. Main occupations of the population are agriculture, fishing, day labor, van/auto bike puller and small trades. The main crops are paddy and buttlenut (cash crops). There are lots of forests cultivated by the government and private farmers. Fishing is considered as major livelihood, children are engaged in fishing boats resulted deprivation of their rights which is capital concern of education. Total literacy rate in the union is 50.10%, of which male 57.1% and female 43.7% (Census 2011). There is no government and private Bank in this union but it has 3-4 medium size village markets. However, there are NGO, Asa, BRAC, SUS who are involved in micro–credit/financing programme. World Vision, Rupantor are works on good governance.  Cow and buffalo milk is available here and about 22 families are involved with milk collection and production of card, sweets etc. and these products export to other districts.   1.3 Geography: The union is located in Shyamnagar Upazila and surrounded by Munshigong union in the North and east, Isshawripur union in the west and Malonchi River and Sundarbanin the South.  The Malonchi River separated the union from Sundarban. 1.4 Disaster and Vulnerabilities: The union is situated on the bank of Malonchi River which separated the union from Sundarban. The total area is coastal belt so Cyclone, heavy rainfall, and tidal wave hits almost every year and affects the people, damages their houses and crops, increase their sufferings which make them poor/ultra-poor. Poverty is persistent due to natural disaster and low income growth in the union. In the rainy season paddy, vegetable and other crops usually suffered by water logging. Fish farmer’s loss their fishes due to overflow of water. There are11 Cyclone Shelter at the union & location at villages of Sora, Vetkhali, Ramjannagar, Sonakhali & others villages. The Union Disaster Management Committee (UDMC) has assessed the disaster vulnerabilities and developed disaster preparedness and response plan in the last year with the support of LCBCE - UNICEF. 1.5. Hard-to-Reach Areas: There is hard to reach areas in this union as internal communication. Some Carpeting, solling and earthen road linked with almost all villages. Motor cycle and van are usually used within the union for communication. People do not face much difficulty to have access to social service facilities. Distance and communication mood are given below. Sl# Name of Village Distance from Union Parishad Mood of Communication 1 Patrakhola 6 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 2 Sonakhali 5 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 3 Vhairavnagar 3 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 4 Ramjannagar 1.5 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 5 Mashik Khali 1 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 6 Sora 4 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle 7 Vetkhal 6 km Van, Cycle,Motor cycle   2. Population Profile: 2.1 Population in general According to population Census 2011 The Union has a total population 21931 in 5045 houses hold and population density is 1074 per Sq Km. But there is a variation on the number of house hold and population of the Union as “the holding assessment 2013” which was conducted by union parishad, itself, and enumerated the total population 25039 and the number of households         5483. The Union Parishad claimed that the holding assessment is updated and correct. Around 71.47% population of this union are Muslim and 28.53% are from Hindu religion.   The details are shown in the Table 1.1 in the Annex I.  2.2 Child Population: According to the Census 2011, total child population in the union from 0 to 19 years are 8731 which is 39.8% of total population (0-4 is 1952, 5-9 is 2500, 10-14 is 2434 and 15-19 is 1842.  Community data provides more age specific information than census data and the total child population from 0 to 18 years are 7242, 0-1 year is 423, 1 to 2 years 508, 5 to 6 years 582 and 6 to 10 years 2388 and 11-18 is 3341. This gives an increased population number than Census as usual. Table 1.2 shows the details. Part B: Situation of Children and Women The following chapters describe the sector wise facilities and situation of children and women in the Union. The following table gives a snapshot of the situation of children and women in the union: Table 1: Snapshot of Situation of children and women in the union Indicators Total Received Not Received Number of pregnant women who have received / not received IFA tablets 358* 354* 4* No of pregnant mothers who have completed 4 ANC visits 358* 288* 70* No of delivery take place in health centers (institutional delivery)     No data in union level No of 1 year old children having / not having birth certificates 423** 76** 347** No of birth registration within 45 days of birth 00**     No of 1 year old children who have completed all the vaccines and left out 1362* 1362* 0* No. of children <5 with / without recommended weight and height     No data in union level No. of children in PPE/ out of PPE 443* 443*   No. of children in / out of school ( Primary) 1883* 1842* 41* No. of children in / out of school (Secondary)   2423*   No of children engaged in labor   171**   Children with disabilities   317**   No. of children not living with families     No data No of children below 18 who are married     No data No of households with / without access to safe water sources 5483** 2729** 2754** No of households with / without sanitary latrines 5483** 3066** 2417** No of female headed households     No data   *administrative data, **community data ***BRIS data as of January 2014 The union has 358 pregnant women and as of November 2014 354 have visited the health center at least one for ANC checkup and received IFA tablet. Only 288 Pregnant Women have completed 4 ANC visits and 70 pregnant women not receive the full package of service. None of the health centers in the union have any facility for deliver so no administrative data is available on this indicator. The table above shows that all (1362) children have full coverage of vaccination. Data are not available on nutritional status of children in any form. Community do not have much idea on this however, they identify healthy (fatty) and unhealthy (thin) children and think that most of the children are healthy. Health centers do not record the height or weight of the children. The table above shows that 347 children of 1 year do not have birth certificate out of 423 children (Community data). Birth registration within 45 days do not made till today but overall birth registration status of Ramjan Nagar union is good. 131 children are not enrolled in PPE class, and 164 children of school going age at primary level are not enrolled in the school (community data). Some of children are out of secondary education but there are no record in anywhere. Child marriage is occurred but it is not recorded as the age is recorded above 18 years in the register during marriage. 3. Health and Nutrition 3.1 Situation of Children and Women in the Union According to the community 482 children have received vaccines out of 589 children of 1 year age. This figure widely varies with the data provided by health sector which is 1362 and all are fully immunized. Though community think that every child is vaccinated however, there might be a few left out children which are not counted or recorded. Table 2.1 shows the Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake in Annex II. Community data says that the Union has 268 pregnant women as of September 2014. During September 102 pregnant women have completed 4 ANC visits and 129 have consumed 100 IFA tablets during last six months (Source: WDC as of September 2014). This data varies with the administrative data i.e. Family Planning Office enlisted 358 pregnant women out of which 288 have completed 4 ANC visits, 354 have received IFA tablets and all (354) have consumed 100 IFA during last six months up to November 2014. Table 2.2 shows the Number of Pregnant women with status of IFA intake in Annex II. Few institutional delivery takes place in the upazila level. Institutional delivery is very low and it is assumed by the community that 20 to 25 delivery take place in upazila health center. These deliveries mostly occur in case of complicacy or in the case of women from well off families or who are very aware. 3.2 Facilities and services available in the Union: The Union has a Family Welfare Center (FWC), 4 functional Community Clinics (CC), 8 Satellite Clinics and 24 EPI sites. There are health services in the Union provided by NGOs which are mainly community awareness. Table 3.3 in annex II shows the available facilities in the Union. 3.3 Status of Human Resource: 3.3.1 Department of Health: The Union is served by 1 SACMO, 1 Assistant Health Inspector (AHI), 4 CHCP and 5 Health Assistants. One MO post is currently vacant. Though the MO and SACMO is posted in the union but they rarely provide services to the people. Table 2.4 in annex II shows the HR status of Health and Family Welfare services in the Union. 3.3.2 Department of Family Planning: The Union is served by 1 SACMO, 1 Family Welfare Visitor (FWV), 1 Family Planning Inspector (FPI) and 6 Family Welfare Assistants. No vacant position in Family Planning department.    Table 2.5 in annex II shows the HR status of Health and Family Welfare services in the Union. 4. Situation of Birth Registration, Disability, Child Marriage and Child Labour 4.1 Birth Registration: A significant number of children of one year old do not have birth certificate. Community data shows that only 76 children have birth certificates out of 423 children. Till September 2014, no child birth registered under 45 days (BRIS data) but overall birth registration status of this union is good. The Union Parishad is well equipped for providing services for ensuring birth registration of children. It is served by a Secretary, and two UISC Entrepreneurs. This progress happened with the support of the District, Upazila administration, UNICEF and NGOs joint efforts. The UP is providing free services to the children of below two years. 4.2 Children with Disability:There are 317 children with disability in the union. Few of them are attending school and many of them do not have opportunity to attend school as the school does not have physical structure or friendly environment that encourages them to stay. Data are not available neither with the community or the government department on how many children are attending schools and how many do not attend. 4.3 Child Marriage: Though child marriage occurs, no data available on child marriage. 4.4 Children detached from families:Some children are detached from their family. However, the community do not have information on whether these children are all orphan or where they are engaged. The UP is trying to collect the real information and accordingly make a plan for their survival. 4.5 Status of HR of UP: The Union has one Secretary who is responsible for all the activities in the UP including birth registration. According to the UP Act 2009, the UP should have at least another staff who will look after the accounts and other administrative issues. However, the UISC Entrepreneurs are providing support in birth registration. The Union is also served by a government social worker. 4.6 Child Labour:According to the community the Union has 171 children who are engaged with informal labour force. Children are mainly engaged in agricultural works, fishing and non-formal sector like in the tea stall and small hotels and restaurants. And these children are out of schools. Though some of the children are getting stipends from the EEOSCP project (ABAL) supported by UNICEF, it is not able to cover all of the children out of school. 5. Education: Pre Primary, Primary and Secondary Education 5.1 Coverage of Education: According the survey conducted by the DPE, the Union has a total of 443 pre-school aged children and all are enrolled in pre-primary class run by government and non-government schools. The total number of children of aged 5 to 6 differs with the data provided by community which is 1143 and 131 not enrolled in PPE class. NGOs do not conduct any survey on how many eligible children are in the Union rather they use the departmental data and enrol children within the surrounding of the school. According to the community people, there are many children who do not attend pre-primary class because of lack of early learning centres or school within their reach (within a kilo meter) and for poor road communications. At primary level there are 1883 children of 6-10 years old and out of them 1842 are enrolled in the primary schools run by Government and NGOs. According to this data, there are 41 children who are not enrolled in the primary schools in the Union. Many children are attending Madrassa for their education both at primary and secondary level and data are not available. Community data of this age group differs with the administrative data. At secondary level, there are 2423 children are enrolled in four secondary schools and three secondary level Madrasa (Girls: 1339 & boys: 1084). There are many children out of secondary school but no record found in anywhere. If we consider the child population data (Census 2011), the secondary school going children are about 2556 or more and the school enrolment is only 1832 which means that a large number of children (724) are not enrolled or do not attend in or dropped out from secondary education. Table 5.2 shows the data on facilities in Annex IV. 5.2 Available Facilities: The Union has 14 Government Primary Schools (GPS), 3 NGO schools run by different NGOs to coverage PPE and primary education coverage. Out of these BRAC run 4 PPE Centre and cover 108 students and JCF run 11 ABAL school and cover 177 drop out children. All village has at least one primary school either GPS or NGO School.  The Union has 3 secondary schools and 3 secondary level Madrasa to cover the children of the whole Union. Table 5.1 shows the data on facilities in Annex IV. 5.3 HR status in the Education Sector: There are 14 posts for head teachers and 46 posts for assistant teacher sanctioned in 14 GPS and 2 assistant teacher posts are vacant. According to the Government policy standard, the teacher student ratio for PPE is 1:30 and for primary class the ratio is 1:45. The data in table 5.2 shows that there are 1842 children enrolled in 14. Few schools do not follow this standard and the average class size of these schools is more than 30 PPE children /teacher. Discussion with different school teachers and community, it is found that a few of the schools are overcrowded and more than 50 children are enrolled in one class. This overcrowds hampers the learning process of the children. 6. Water and Sanitation 6.1 Safe Water Facility:DPHE does not have record on total number of tube wells, Rain water harvesting, PSF and pipe line supply water points in the union. They have record only GoB supplied water options. According to the Census 2011, only 50 HH used tap water, 987 households have tube wells. This figure widely varies with the community data. Community data shows that the Union has 93 tube wells, 29 RWHS and 57 PSF water points out of these few are not functional. A total of 2754 households do not have access to safe water out of 5,483 households. According to the Government Policy, every 5 households should have one safe water points.   6.2 Sanitation coverage: Sanitation coverage in the Union is almost good. The union has 5045 (Census 2011) households where 1014 households (20.1%) have hygienic latrines, 3925 households have unhygienic latrines and 106 households do not have any latrines. Community data widely varies with this data. Table 5.2 in Annex V shows that 4465 households have hygiene latrines, 358 households use unhygienic latrines and 59 households do not have any latrines out of 5483 households Status of HR: The Union is served by 0.50 (one for two union) tube well mechanic who is responsible only for the DPHE provided water points. There is a Sub-Assistant Engineer in upazila. 7. Services by NGOs: There are six to seven NGOs including BRAC, JCF, Rupantar, World vision, Shushilon, Care-Bangladesh, Muslim Aid are  working in the Union on health, education, child protection, water and sanitation etc. BRAC, JCF, Rupantar and Care-Bangladesh are implementing education, C4D and nutrition projects with support from UNICEF.  8. Functional Statusof Union Parishad The Union Parishad is functioning with the Chairman, 12 members and a Secretary. The UP holds coordination meeting in every months regularly. All the standing committees have been formed and most of the committees are functioning and hold meeting to discuss the relevant issues. Ward Shova: Ward Shovas were held in all the Wards in two times in a year one is December and another is March and April in each year. Children issues were discussed in all Ward Shovas. Members proposed specific needs of children related to education, child rights, safe water and sanitation to incorporate in the UP plan. Last year UP budgeted Taka 23,127,100to implement its annual plan for 2013-2014 fiscal year. This budget largely was distributed in road constructions, infrastructures etc. Only Tk.1, 85,000 was allocated for children to address the children issues. Detailed data on the profile are presented in the next pages as annex.                       Annex I Table 1.1: Sex disaggregated Population data IqvW© bs MÖv‡gi bvg Name of village Population and Housing Census 2011 Population according to Community/ RbmsL¨v   Ward # Lvbvi msL¨v No. of HH ‡gvU Total Cyiæl male bvix female Lvbvi msL¨v No. of House holds ‡gvU Total cyiæl male bvix female 01 Patrakhola 525 2118 1041 1077 581 2402 1228 1174 02 Sonakhali 350 1626 804 822 402 2432 1209 1223     03 Bhairabnagor 262 1234 617 617 272 1380 685 695 Chand Khali 262 1184 601 583 385 1523 861 662 04 RamjanNagor 739 3266 1582 1684 755 3465 1755 1710   05 Manik Khali 332 1429 723 706 378 1574 795 779 Tarnipur 208 914 442 472 236 1051 530 521 06 Sora 472 2027 1001 1026 507 2602 1271 1331     07 Vetkhali 892 1961 969 992 505 2080 1030 1050 1734 823 911 332 1580 890 690 08 Tangrakhali 470 2069 953 1116 489 2240 1110 1130 09 Kalinchi 456 2072 1005 1067 528 2250 1145 1105 Golakhali 77 297 139 158 113 460 235 225 Total   5045 21931 10700 11231 5483 25039 12744 12295                                       Table 1.2: Age specific child population IqvW© bs/   MÖvg/ Village # of Children age structure according to Census 2011 wkï msL¨v /Age specific number of children according to the community Total Popula-tion 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 <1 1-2 0-5 5-6 6-10 10-18 01 Patrakhola 2118 189 241 235 178 35 36   70 205 353 02 Sonakhali 1626 145 185 180 137 30 43   80 220 164 03 Bhairabnagor 1234 110 Job description সচেতনতা বৃদ্ধি ও উন্নয়ন Attachments কনটেন্টটি শেয়ার করতে ক্লিক করুন পোলিং মতামত দিন   Site was last updated: 2023-12-21 16:32:41 Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division,  A2I,  BCC,  DoICT and  BASIS Technical Assistance: Developed By: