The proposed Disability and Children-at-Risk Project (DCRP) is also intended to improve health, education and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, including raising mass awareness for their empowerment.

The proposed DCRP will focus on three areas, disability services, awareness and capacity building, children-at-risk services and capacity building of the Ministry of Social Welfare.

National Foundation for the Development of Disabled People (NFDDP) is expected to transform the agency into a centre of excellence for disability services. NFDDP is likely to replicate model management structure and operational processes of the Social Development Fund (SDF) and the Palli Karma Sangsthan Foundation (PKSF).

NGOs with a disability focus are expected to undertake awareness activities through area-based performance contracting, training and support to partner organisations, and innovation grants, to be approved by the NFDDP Board.

Under children at risk services component, services for vulnerable children and adolescents, primarily in urban and metropolitan areas, will be scaled up with the help of experienced NGOs. It envisages supporting awareness campaign, including shelters for street children, drug abuse prevention and counseling, orphanages, foster care, campaigns against child abuse and hazardous forms of child labour.

The capacity of the Ministry of Social Welfare will be increased by undertaking activities such as surveys, censuses, and needs assessments of PWDs and very vulnerable children; training for ministry staff and its social workers.

It will also provide technical assistance for medium to long-term implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, which Bangladesh has signed recently.