International Development Grant
Promotion of Development and Confidence Building in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Project Number: CA-3-A033816001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $15,000,000.00
Start Date: March 31, 2008
End Date: May 11, 2011
Duration: 3.1 years
Project Description
This project provides funding to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility (CHTDF). CHTDF is a multi-sector confidence-building and economic development program designed to support the provisions of the 1997 peace accord in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region a poor multi-ethnic post-conflict region. The project consists of four components: (i) Economic development and education including a quality indigenous-language educational program rural employment creation and the development of marketing opportunities and infrastructure. (ii) A quick-impact fund for small grants to support increased self-reliance at the community level notably small-scale economic activities beyond subsistence farming. (iii) Building confidence to solve long-standing constraints on development and peace. Confidence-building measures target issues at the root of ongoing tensions. (iv) Reinforcing key local governance institutions by improving their human resource management and building their technical and logistical capacities.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2012) include: (i) delivering pre-primary and primary education to 10 072 boys and 9 016 girls; (ii) building 120 new schools and renovating 276 schools; (iii) training 600 teachers on child-centered teaching methods; (iv) providing skills development training to 134 youth trainees in tailoring dress making automobile mechanics mobile phone technician and motor driving resulting in 37% of the trainees finding a job or becoming self-employed; and (v) transferring 150 ethnic police who were deployed outside of the Chittagong Hill Tracts back to 25 police stations within the Chittagong Hill Tracts. These results have contributed to improving the socio-economic development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in line with the principles of self-reliance decentralization and sustained peace.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
OGM Indo-Pacific
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Basket funds/pooled funding
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP